Re: Time and the internet Well I'd want to know a great deal about time first, then time on the internet. Here's a classic: Rifkin, J. 1987. Time wars: The primary conflict in human history. New York: Henry Holt & Company. It's out of print I believe but *highly* recommended. It will "set the scene" for the changing use of time, particularly in the industrial world. I believe he has endnotes to academic sources. These ideas are later explored in: Gleick, J. 2000. Faster, faster, faster. But I think Rifkin is the far better book, well worth searching for. Phil Agre noted some problems in this paper: Agre, P. 2002. The limits of cyberspce. Science as Culture, 11(2). Eriksen, T. H. 2001. Stalking the tyranny of the moment: Fast and slow time in the information age. I'm sure someone has mentioned this one in relationship to search engines: Wouters, P., Hellsten, I., & Leydesdorff, L. 2004. Internet time and the reliability of search engines. First Monday, 9(10), [online]. Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, PhD thesis submitted, School of Environ. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tuesdays: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 or Mobile 0438 23 33 44 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/ Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com