Intimacy at work [electronic resource] : how digital media bring private life to the workplace / Stefana Broadbent.
Broadbent, Stefana, author.
2016
HF5549.5.P39 B7613 2016eb
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Title Intimacy at work [electronic resource] : how digital media bring private life to the workplace / Stefana Broadbent.
Author Broadbent, Stefana, author.
Uniform Title Intimité au travail. English
ISBN 9781629580968 (electronic book)
9781629580944
9781629580951
Published Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (116 pages).
Call Number HF5549.5.P39 B7613 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 302.3/5
Summary "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 paradox in modern life: Although human beings today spend so much of their waking hours working, they remain increasingly connected to family and friends-because of digital and social media. This book -shows how portable communications sustain personal networks offering a sense of identity, comfort, support, and enjoyment in the workplace; -demonstrates through numerous case studies that digital technologies provide a kind of "safety net" in times of economic crisis, softening the precariousness of existence; -is a revised edition of a volume published in French (L'intimité au travail, 2011), which won the prestigious AFCI Prize for books on business communications"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Anthropology and business (Left Coast Press (Walnut Creek, Calif.)) ; Volume 2.
Available in Other Form Intimacy at work.
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Introduction
Chapter 1. Some characteristics of digital communication
Chapter 2. Channels for relationships
Chapter 3. Intimacy at work
Chapter 4. Communication, productivity, and trust
Chapter 5. Accidents, distraction, and private communication
Chapter 6. Conclusions: communication and attention.

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