Do you put family photos on your desk at work? Are your home and work keys on the same chain? Do you keep one all-purpose calendar for listing home and work events? Do you have separate telephone books for colleagues and friends? In "Home and Work, " Christena Nippert-Eng examines the intricacies and implications of how we draw the line between home and work. Arguing that relationships between the two realms range from those that are highly "integrating" to those that are highly "segmenting," Nippert-Eng examines the ways people sculpt the boundaries between home and work. With remarkable...
Do you put family photos on your desk at work? Are your home and work keys on the same chain? Do you keep one all-purpose calendar for listing home an...
Everyone worries about privacy these days. As corporations and governments devise increasingly sophisticated data gatheringtools and joining Facebook verges on obligatory, concerns over the use and abuse of personalinformation are undeniable. But the way privacy functions on the virtual frontier of the Internet is only a subset of the fascinating ways we work to achieve it throughout our everyday lives. In "Islands of Privacy," Christena Nippert-Eng pries open the blinds, giving us an intimate view into the full range of ordinary people s sometimes extraordinary efforts to preserve the...
Everyone worries about privacy these days. As corporations and governments devise increasingly sophisticated data gatheringtools and joining Facebo...
