The product of availability: Understanding the economicunderpinnings of constant connectivity

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 763-772

  Mazmanian, Melissa ^a   Erickson, Ingrid ^b  

^a 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic constraints; Knowledge work; Markets of availability; Mobile technology; Service work; Time and temporality

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

ECONOMIC CONSTRAINTS; KNOWLEDGE WORK; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; SERVICE WORK; TIME AND TEMPORALITY;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84900456546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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