Tilman Santarius
ABSTRACT
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) greatly facilitate the way we communicate, do shopping, organize our schedules, research information and so on. Hence, ICT help us 'save time', or more specifically, increase the time efficiency of doing things, including consumption. There is a realm of research on time use and social acceleration [e.g., 32 and many others]. Yet, only few articles have so far investigated the influence of ICT on time use [6,22,42,44]. This article reviews these findings and presents genuine own results from a representative consumer survey in the German population in order to address the following key questions: Does the use of ICT correlate with an increase of the pace of life? Do time efficiency improvements due to ICT lead to time rebound effects? The theory of the rebound effect postulates that efficiency improvements generally lead to an increase in consumer demand [see, e.g., 37]. However, only few articles have analyzed the rebound effect in relation to time, which means that time efficiency improvements may result in more things been done in a given period of time [e.g., 5,8,17]. This article brings together research on ICT, time use, social acceleration and time rebound effects.
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- Does the Use of ICT speed up the Pace of Life?
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