Media, Information and Technoculture 3216F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Knowledge Worker, Class Conflict, Wage Labour
9 Nov 2016
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Ma k davi , (cid:858)hu ied live : dialectic of time and technology in liquid mode nity(cid:859) Communications technology helps to facilitate this liquid modernity. The function of communications technology as a means of connecting has actually resulted in the opposite: disconnection. Approximately half of our time spent awake is spent on some form of technology. Co(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)atio(cid:374)s te(cid:272)h(cid:374)ologies (cid:862)allo(cid:449) us to do things more swiftly, and to allow us to circumnavigate the allegedly tedious, awkward and time-consuming business of having to e(cid:374)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)te(cid:396) othe(cid:396) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:271)ei(cid:374)gs i(cid:374) thei(cid:396) ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)al p(cid:396)o(cid:454)i(cid:373)it(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1013)(cid:895) The absence of face-to-face interactions in our daily lives has important implications that we must recognize. Although there are real political, economic, and social benefits to technology, there are equally real dangers. Social relationships are under threat in our liquid modern life. Through our pursuits of consumption, we are ignoring the need to spend time with one another. We become absent in real life as we enter the online world.
