ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that one of the most pressing questions in the analysis of relationship between web technologies and democratic processes is the often neglected question of the temporality of the internet. It also examines the negative effects of immediacy on political activism by looking at activist's everyday practices. In doing so, its aim is to challenge political economic approaches, which do not take into account how people negotiate with the temporality of web technologies. In contrast to these approaches, it also focuses on everyday internet practices of activist's and draws on anthropology of time to explore how these practices continually reproduce and resist the hegemonic temporality of immediacy. The chapter also analyses that web technologies are creating a temporal context that is based on the notion of immediacy. This is because immediacy implied that images and information spread at an incredible pace creating the ground for the establishment of networks of solidarity and affinity.
