[ISEA2004] Paper: Jill Walker – Timestamps

Abstract

Time decides the order in which posts are displayed on blogs and the standard permanent link. The precision of a timestamp declares that which is stamped an archived document potentially permanent, also emphasising its transcience: this time is past. Why this obsession with punctuality?

  •  Jill Walker (AU/NO) is an associate professor at the Department of Humanstic Informatics at the University of Bergen. She is the leader of ELINOR, a new network for Electronic  Literature in the Nordic countries, researches networked writing and distributed fiction, and is an avid blogger.

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