[Sci-tech-public] Reminder: STS Circle, March 26th - Judy Wajcman - (Please RSVP)

[STS]

 *STS Circle at Harvard*
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*Judy Wajcman
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*LSE, Sociology*
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*Life in the Fast Lane? Towards a Sociology of Technology and Time*

Monday, March 26th
12:15-2:00 p.m.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106

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Lunch is provided if you RSVP.
Please RSVP to sts
<sts at hks.harvard.edu>@hks.harvard.edu<sts at hks.harvard.edu>by 5pm
Thursday, March 22nd.
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*Abstract:* The subject of time has become a major preoccupation in
academic and popular writing because people feel short of it. It is now
conventional wisdom to think that more and more aspects of our lives are
speeding up. While many factors are contributing to this phenomenon,
information and communication technologies are seen as the main drivers. Images
of technologically tethered, blackberry-addicted workers abound. This talk
considers the way social theorists analyse concepts of time and
acceleration and then examines how these claims might be assessed in the
light of empirical research. Such research shows that time compression has
multiple dimensions, and that the effect of digital devices like the mobile
phone is not simply one of acceleration. In particular, I suggest that the
social studies of technology offers a richer analysis of the reciprocal
relationship between technological innovation and changing time practices.

*Biography*: Professor Judy Wajcman is in the Sociology Department at the
London School of Economics. She is an Associate Fellow of Oxford Internet
Institute and is a past President of the Society for the Social Studies of
Science. Her books include *Feminism Confronts Technology*, *Managing Like
A Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management*, *TechnoFeminism*, *The
Politics of Working Life* and the *Social Shaping of Technology* (with
MacKenzie). She is one of the editors of *The* *Handbook of Science and
Technology Studies.* Her work has been translated into French, German,
Greek, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.


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