Robert Hassan

Analogue ontology and digital disruption

R Hassan

Journal article  |  2021  |  Educational Philosophy and Theory

Pervasive digitality reveals us as analogue creatures that are unprepared for a world and a logic generated increasingly through a..

Digitality, Virtual Reality and The ‘Empathy Machine’

R Hassan

Journal article  |  2019  |  Digital Journalism

The essay critiques an aspect of the so-called post-mobile wave of technological change that claims, through the vector of virtual..

Uncontained Digital Disconnection and the Experience of Time

Robert Hassan

Book  |  2019

A year or so ago, my teenage daughter Camille had a mild obsession with the 2007 film Into the Wild. Based upon Jon Krakauer’s 199..

Sources of resilience in political Islam: Sacred time, earthly pragmatism, and digital media

R Hassan

Journal article  |  2018  |  Arab Media and Society

Digital, ethical, political: Network time and common responsibility

R Hassan

Journal article  |  2018  |  New Media and Society

The essay argues that a proper ethical foundation for the political processes underlying liberal democracy is unattainable in a gl..

There Isn’t an App for That: Analogue and Digital Politics in the Age of Platform Capitalism

R Hassan

Journal article  |  2018  |  Media Theory

The move toward digitality and its individual-level spread through computer applications (apps) is transforming how we communicate..

The worldly space: the digital university in network time

Robert Hassan

Journal article  |  2017  |  British Journal of Sociology of Education

This article considers the effect of information technology upon teaching, learning and research in the ‘digital university’. In l..

Philosophy of Media A Short History of Ideas and Innovations from Socrates to Social Media

R Hassan, T Sutherland

Book  |  2017

In Philosophy of Media, Hassan and Sutherland explore the philosophical and technological trajectory of media from Classical Greec..

Time and Sovereignty in the Neoliberal Hegemony

R HASSAN

Book Chapter  |  2017

This edited volume focuses on the intersection of time and globalization, as manifested across a variety of economic, political, c..

Analogue time, analogue people and the digital eclipsing of modern political time

R HASSAN

Book Chapter  |  2016

Today, a small but emerging strand of literature has emerged to meet questions concerning time and temporality and its relationshi..