Globital time : time in the digital globalised age

This chapter asks how the mediation of time through digital technologies may require a new epistemological framework to understand time. How is time to be conceptualised and understood in the 'globalised' digital media era, in which mobile phones and networked time intermediate a range of temporalities? What form of analysis is needed for the media and social theorist to investigate time? Digital technologies, digitisation and what was coined by Nicholas Negroponte2 as digitality, the conditions of living in a digital culture, are moving human beings to a stochastic sense of being between times. I argue that the synergetic dynamics of globalisation and digitisation are co-extensively reconfiguring the symbolic meaning of time, as well as the ways in which time is measured and experienced or, perhaps, weathered.