ABSTRACT
Technological innovations and information and communications technology (ICT) have many complex implications for social life. Time is popularly identified with famine, squeeze and accelerated ICT use. Wajcman and Bittman state that the contemporary view of increased time pressure may have more to do with the fragmentation of time than with any measurable reduction in primary leisure time. Hence, hurriedness appears as a result of more fragmented time. It is also justified to ask if there are practices of time management and control that are used to resist time contamination that inevitably cause feelings of hurriedness. In addition to their constraining and time-fragmenting nature, ICTs may also have a time saving, controlling and coordinating role. One central element of everyday life is the coordination of various activities and time frames. This chapter draws from research concerned with how various forms of ICTs change the relation of time and implications for social relationships.
