[CITASA] New (and old) media at work

BW
Barry Wellman
Fri, Oct 2, 2009 10:31 PM

For a book that I am co-authoring, Wenhong Chen, Anna Brady and I are
gathering research literature (and good lit reviews) about the use of new
media (ICTs, cellphones) at work. SOme comparisons to old media -- face to
face, landline phone, letters -- would be useful too.

This is not my area of expertise, so I apologize if you know the obvious
and I don't.

We're interested in three categories:

a. communication within an organization (such as Anabel Quan-Haase and I
did in our hyperconnected networks paper). Including distributed work (and
yes we know about the Bailey, etc book)

b. communication between organizations

c. communication while at work with friends, family, etc. (probably the
hardest to find).

To save space, could you send all responses to my associate Anna Brady
( anna.brady@utoronto.ca ). We'll collate and post in a few weeks.

For this, much thanks.

Barry Wellman


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For a book that I am co-authoring, Wenhong Chen, Anna Brady and I are gathering research literature (and good lit reviews) about the use of new media (ICTs, cellphones) at work. SOme comparisons to old media -- face to face, landline phone, letters -- would be useful too. This is not my area of expertise, so I apologize if you know the obvious and I don't. We're interested in three categories: a. communication within an organization (such as Anabel Quan-Haase and I did in our hyperconnected networks paper). Including distributed work (and yes we know about the Bailey, etc book) b. communication between organizations c. communication while at work with friends, family, etc. (probably the hardest to find). To save space, could you send all responses to my associate Anna Brady ( anna.brady@utoronto.ca ). We'll collate and post in a few weeks. For this, much thanks. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________