Intimacy at Work
How Digital Media Bring Private Life to the Workplace
Published on 1. July 2016
117 pages
978-1-315-42612-9 (ISBN)
Description
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'Intimite au Travail, 2011), which won the prestigious AFCI Prize for books on business communications.
Reviews / Votes
"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 & CommunicationMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
1,82 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-315-42612-9 (9781315426129)
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Person
Stefana Broadbent
Content
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;
