MDSB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Legal Tender, Fundamentalism, European Payments Council
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Networks, globalization and the experience of time and space: globalization is essentially a cultural experience. However, they are not just ideas, they are experiences: for example, the time to travel across a space (toronto to london, england) No: the relationship between time and space. They are historically connected: some key ideas regarding time and space: Time-space compression (david harvey: refers to processes that revolutionize the objective qualities of space and time (240) Time-space distanciation (anthony giddens: a concept developed in an attempt to get at the processes by which societies are stretched" over shorter or longer spans of time and space. " (giddens 90) Space-biased media contribute to societies that are more spatially dynamic. Social structures tend towards centralization: time biased media are media that do not move through time easily, architecture/buildings as a form of communication. Space biased are media that move across space quite easily/effectively: paper.
