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Search results for "private" (12)
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The role of private communication in accidents
The two accidents we analyse...
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Analysing accidents : when an air traffic controller chats with a friend
On the 8th of...
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The democratisation of intimacy
Workplace, school, battlefield, foreign country, were until recently all settings in which people were removed for short or long periods of time from their closest ties, family or friends. Clocking in, meant leaving behind the family and ...
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How many people publish, read or contribute to blogs? 2.0
Yesterday, while I was updating a previous post on blog usages as new results had been published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, I recalled an International Herald Tribune article I came across at the end of last year: ...
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Introduction : subverting the relationship between individuals and institutions
In the last 10 years one billion people have gleefully ad...
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The small size of our communication network
From 2004 to 2008 Researchers at Swisscom have asked more than 500 people, from all age groups, life stages, professional, linguistic, and regional backgrounds, to keep a record of all...
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Only 2% of work related calls intrude on private time
Professor Bittman and co-researcher Judith Brown, from the University of New England, and Judy Wajcman, from the London School of Economics, are conducting an ongoing study into how mobile phones have affected human interactions and phone etiquette. ...
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The origin of the work/home divide
For the last 150 years we can say that the relationship between work and home has been essentially oppositional : while a few professions allowed a partial integration of the two, most workers had to keep them well separated. The most wid...
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Blurring the lines between work and leisure
The extent of private communication from the workplace is well captured in some PEW statistics: more than half of employees who have access to email at work use it for personal messages on a daily basis. When it comes to personal devices such...
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Why private communication from the office upsets colleagues
Private mobile phones are increasingly being discussed in workplaces as a threat to security to health and safety, and a major productivity issue. While recognised as an important element of workers' right to being accessible in case of em...
