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The Time-Space Dimensions and Geometrical Spaces of Electronic Media Technologies  

Lee Hee-Sang (Geography Department, Durham University)
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Journal of the Korean Geographical Society / v.41, no.2, 2006 , pp. 227-243 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper reviews how electronic media technologies involve and produce time-space dimensions in geometrical spaces, focusing on four theoretical perspectives: van Dijk's dual structure of networks as scale extension and reduction; Latour's actor-networks as fluid and hybrid networks; Virilio's dromospherical time as global media vectors; and Castells' timeless time as non-sequential flows. In these four theoretical perspectives, we can see that electronic media technologies involve different and multiple time-space dimensions in geometrical media spaces: from the two-dimensional spaces (surfaces) of concentric circles, through the one-dimensional spaces (lines) of actor-networks to the zero-dimensional spaces (points) of dromospherical time and finally to the multi-dimensional spaces (hypertexts) of timeless time. The paper concludes by suggesting that we need to explain electronic media spaces not only in terms of geometrical media spaces but also in terms of geographical media spaces in order to understand the ways in which electronic media spaces are dis/embedded in geographical spaces.
Keywords
electronic media; geometrical spaces; dual structure of networks; actor-networks; dromospherical time; timeless time;
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