The Sociology of Speed: Digital, Organizational, and Social Temporalities

Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was previously Professor of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Her scholarship has focused on the sociology of work and organizations, science and technology studies, and gender theory. Her books include: TechnoFeminism, The Politics of Working Life, and most recently Pressed forTime: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism (University of Chicago Press 2015). Nigel Dodd is a Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Sociology. Nigel's main interests are in the sociology of money, economic sociology and classical and contemporary social thought. He is author of The Sociology of Money and Social Theory and Modernity (both published by Polity Press). His latest book, The Social Life of Money, was published by Princeton University Press in 2014. Nigel is alsoco-editor (with Patrik Aspers) of Re-Imagining Economic Sociology (Oxford University Press, 2015).