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ICTS AND THE DECOUPLING OF EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES, SPACE AND TIME: INTRODUCTION
Author(s) -
SCHWANEN TIM,
DIJST MARTIN,
KWAN MEIPO
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2008.00489.x
Subject(s) - decoupling (probability) , everyday life , modalities , icts , space (punctuation) , fragmentation (computing) , sociology , computer science , set (abstract data type) , epistemology , information and communications technology , social science , engineering , world wide web , programming language , philosophy , control engineering , operating system
This article is an introduction to and reflection on the papers about ICTs and everyday life in this issue. It outlines the motivations for the focus on the decoupling of activities, physical space and chronological time and characterises this process and three of its modalities: activity fragmentation; multi‐tasking; and personalised networking. The piece concludes by singling out some common elements that run through the set of papers and by identifying four avenues for future research.