{"resolved":true,"match_type":"uuid","source_type":"original_book","book_id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title":"Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780226196473","requested_by":"printed_page","book":{"source_type":"original_book","book_id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","uuid":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title":"Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism","normalized_title":"pressedfortimetheaccelerationoflifeindigitalcapitalism","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780226196473","isbns":["9780226196473","9780226196503"],"parsed":true,"ai_readable":true,"document_type":"book","page_count":228,"navigation_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/title/Pressed%20for%20Time%20The%20Acceleration%20of%20Life%20in%20Digital%20Capitalism","fixed_page_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page/{printed_page}","path_api_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page/{printed_page}","read_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","page_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page","search_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/search"},"page":{"printed_page":4,"pdf_page":16,"physical_index":16,"physical_index_base":0,"printed_page_status":"recognized","page_sha256":"b4b89902db238039536a927961f06d9f9811f53a7aff031e65f70cfd98d8419d"},"chapter":"Pressed for Time","content":"My interest throughout, then, is in exploring the mutual shaping or coevolution of new technologies and temporal rhythms. Broadly speaking, the book takes a social shaping approach to technology, regarding technological change as open-ended and unpredictable, but shaped by a range of social, economic, and political forces.5 Much work in this vein has investigated the design or materiality of specific technologies, but this book has a rather diferent focus. While recognizing that devices are designed with particular capacities or afordances, I argue that there is nothing inevitable about the way they evolve and are used. Their relation to time depends on how artifacts enter and become embedded in our institutions and the quotidian patterns of daily life—this goes for organizations, user cultures, in production and consumption, family, leisure, and work.\n\nFeeling Harried\n\nWhy is there such intense cultural concern with the relationship between digital technologies and the speed of life? That people’s subjective sense of time pressure has become urgent is illustrated by the fact that a rising proportion of the population report feeling short of time. Numerous surveys indicate that Americans, as one example, feel more rushed, harried, anxious, and pressed for time than ever before.6 Psychological and psychiatric diagnoses associated with time strain are also growing. This evidence about the subjective experience of time suggests a widespread perception of everyday life as “time squeezed” and “harried.” Leisure time too seems intensified and scarcer.\n\nThe objective facts of the matter are, however, far from clear. Indeed, attempts to measure if and how time use has changed over the last few decades have uncovered an intriguing conundrum. The consensus among time-use researchers is that leisure time has, if anything, increased. While Americans complain ever more stridently that they are overworked, estimated average weekly employment hours changed minimally between the 1970s and the 2010s. And if you aggregate the total amount of work time (paid and unpaid), the figure of five hundred minutes a day, or just over eight hours, has remained more or less stable over the last fifty years.7 Add to this the fact that we are on average living longer, so have more years at our disposal, and this mismatch between objective and subjective time becomes even more intriguing.\n\nIntroduction\n\n4","previous_page":3,"next_page":5}