1st Edition
Intimacy at Work How Digital Media Bring Private Life to the Workplace
By Stefana Broadbent
Copyright 2016
117 Pages
by
Routledge
118 Pages
by
Routledge
117 Pages
by
Routledge
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According to some social critics, the digital age involves a retreat into the isolation of intelligent machines. Acclaimed scholar Stefana Broadbent takes another view, that digital technologies allow people to bring their private lives into the often alienating world of work. Through ethnographic evidence and data gathered from large samples in Europe and the U.S., Intimacy at Work looks at a... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Some Characteristics of Digital Communication; Chapter 2 How Digital Channels Are Supporting Intimacy; Chapter 3 Intimacy at Work; Chapter 4 Communication, Productivity, and Trust; Chapter 5 Accidents, Distraction, and Private Communication; Chapter 6 Conclusions: Communication and Attention;
Biography
Stefana Broadbent
"Intimacy at Work serves as a pithy introduction to the subject matter, and provides a useful departure point for practitioners and students seeking to comprehend the sociocultural consequences of private mobile communication at the workplace."— Sze Ming Loh, Mobile Media & Communication
