[Air-l] Re: research on distinctions between personal/work email

[Matzat, U.]

Dear Catherine,
 
On 8 Dec 2004 at 11:01, air-l-aoir.org-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote:

> Hello all,

> 

> phones). One of the things we're interested in is whether people make

> distinctions between using their device for personal or for

> work/professional usage. At the moment, we've got a specific interest

> in email usage, but would also be interested in knowing about similar

> distinctions being made for web surfing, IM or mobile phone calls.

> 

> I haven't had much luck finding anything on this topic in the 

> communications databases in our library. I do expect that there is

> some work out there on this topic, and am hoping that someone on the

> list may be able to point us in the right direction.

 

You might want to have a look at a paper of Sonja Utz: Strategic 

Email Use. 

It addresses exactly the distinction between private and professional 

usage of email. The abstract is available at

http://www.dgof.de/gor02/index_en_4.html

(You have to scroll down somewhat.)
 
 
Regards,
 
Uwe Matzat
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Uwe Matzat

Sociology Section

Department of Technology Management

Eindhoven University of Technology

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The Netherlands

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