Intimacy at Work

Name: Intimacy at Work
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781629580951
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How Digital Media Bring Private Life to the Workplace

By Stefana Broadbent

Series: Anthropology & Business

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Intimacy at Work by Stefana Broadbent challenges the idea that the digital age causes isolation by showing how technology helps people stay connected to their private lives even while at work. Using ethnographic research and data from Europe and the U.S., the book reveals how portable communications maintain personal networks that provide identity, comfort, and support in often alienating workplace environments. It includes case studies demonstrating how digital contact offers a "safety net" during economic difficulties, easing life’s uncertainties.
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This insightful analysis will appeal to readers interested in the intersections of technology, sociology, and workplace culture, including students, academics, and professionals exploring digital communication's social impact.

Intimacy at Work shows how portable, digital media allow people to bring their private lives into the workplace, thus softening and humanizing what is often a hard, isolating business world.

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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 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781629580951

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 October 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 204g

Pages: 117

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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'Intimite 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, UK.