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Intimacy at Work: How Digital Media Bring Private Life to the Workplace Paperback - 2015

Name: Intimacy at Work (Anthropology & Business) (Volume 2)
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Author: Broadbent, Stefana
ISBN: 9781629580951

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From the publisher

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'Intimit au Travail, 2011), which won the prestigious AFCI Prize for books on business communications.

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Title Intimacy at Work: How Digital Media Bring Private Life to the Workplace
Author Stefana Broadbent
Binding Paperback
Pages 117
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Routledge
Publication date 2015
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9781629580951 / 1629580953
Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 0.5 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 1.27 cm)
Category Archaeology / Anthropology
Library of Congress subjects Work environment, Information technology - Social aspects
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015026293
Dewey Decimal Code 302.35

About the author

Stefana Broadbent earned a Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of Edinburgh and contributed to The Onlife Manifesto (Springer, 2015) and Digital Anthropology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012). Editions of Intimacy at Work have been published in French (L'Intimit au Travail, FYP Editions, 2011) and Italian (Internet lavoro e vita private, Il Mulino, 2013). For the last 20 years Broadbent has studied the social, cultural, and cognitive aspects involved in the use of technology at work and at home. She is currently Head of Collective Intelligence at Nesta, an independent charitable organization in the UK, where she does research into how networked groups find new ways to collaborate with one another. Previously she was a lecturer in digital anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at University College, London.