[Air-l] Perspective: It's my Internet--I can do what I want

[Ellis Godard]

Employees roaming is interesting. Employers watching is worrisome. An
increasing number of colleagues (at my institution and elsewhere) have
expressed concerns that their chairs, deans, and/or provosts have gotten
access to their campus-based mail accounts, including citing specific
phrases that they believed they had used only in private communications.
Anyone have a sense of how likely (or common) that is (in academia or
anywhere)?

-eg

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> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Hunsinger
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:39 AM
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> Subject: [Air-l] Perspective: It's my Internet--I can do what I want
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> 
> Employees are roaming free on the Internet for their own 
> personal use  
> while at work, according to a recent survey of more than 10,000  
> employees by Burstek, a provider of employee Internet management  
> solutions.
> 
> http://news.com.com/2010-1022_3-6055146.html? 
> part=rss&tag=6055146&subj=news
> 
> 
> This is a pretty poor news article, imho, has anyone seen the actual  
> study?  I'm wondering how they actually operationalize some of their  
> concepts because it seems to me that if employees use the internet  
> for self-improvement, which to my mind includes discussing things  
> with others, and reading, that might not be a direct form of  
> efficiency, but i think that it probably increases the overall  
> efficiency of the workplace by creating a more informed workforce.
> 
> 
> Jeremy Hunsinger
> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
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