Time constructs

Design ideology and a future internet

Bibliographic Data

ID4355902
AuthorsBritt Paris (0000-0003-1527-7953, Rutgers University, NJ, USA, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume30
Issue1
Pages126-149
Publication date2021-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x20985316
OpenAlexW3123798254
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited46

This article engages the politics of technology as it examines how a discourse of time is framed by engineers and project principals in the course of the development of three future internet architecture projects: named data networking, eXpressive Internet Architecture, and Mobility First. This framing reveals categories of a discourse of time that include articulations of efficiency, speed, time as a technical resource, and notions of the future manifest in each project. The discursive categories fit into a time constructs model that exposes how these projects were built with regard to concepts of speed and how different notions of time are expressed as a design ideology intertwined with other ideologies. This time constructs framework represents a tool that can be used to expose the social and political values of technological development that are often hidden or are difficult to communicate in cross-disciplinary contexts

Discipline · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Caching and Content Delivery · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks · Social Media and Politics · Architecture

Tools

Open DOI