Intimacy at Work

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.

• 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;

"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 & Communication