About the Author

Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, the author of TechnoFeminism, and the coauthor of The Social Shaping of Technology and The Politics of Working Life.

Reviews

"Across her books, Wajcman has chosen issues and problematics that needed to be addressed, examined, and re-interpreted. All her books share an intense engagement with major conditions that affect many of us. In this book she gives us her kind of analysis of time--its presences and absences, its visible and invisible vectors."
--Saskia Sassen, author of Expulsions

"Occasionally a book comes around that you feel certain will make a difference to how social scientists think about the age we live in and its impact on our daily lives. Not necessarily because of its theoretical depth, or the solidity of its evidence base, or even its originality, but because of the way its author so ably pulls together a set of focused questions in need of better researched answers if we are to advance our understanding of contemporary life. Pressed for Time--Judy Wajcman's clearly, interestingly and highly accessibly written investigation into the many facets of the acceleration of time in our increasingly digital society--is just such a book."-- "Times Higher Education"

"Wajcman delivers one sharp tap after another at the calcified interpretations that surround [technological] changes. It leaves the reader with a clear sense that the paradox of becoming trapped by devices that promise to free us follows, not from the technology itself, but from habits and attitudes that go unchallenged. . . . Pressed for Time helps elucidate how things shaped up as they have. It seems less paradoxical than pathological, but Wajcman suggests, rather quietly, that it doesn't have to be this way."--Scott McLemee "Inside Higher Ed"

"More, better, faster. So many of us take these as unproblematic goods. Judith Wajcman's Pressed for Time--written in elegant, clear, accessible language--will make you take a new look at this kind of thinking. Armed with her analysis of the co-construction of technology, social practice, and our sense of what matters, 'more, better, faster, ' and our modern culture of time is made problematic, insecure, and interesting. A must-read not only for a range of social scientists and humanists, but for everyone who wants to understand how we have remade time and remade ourselves in digital culture."--Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other