Men at Work and at Home: Managing Emotion in Telework

Managing perceptions of distress at work: Reframing emotion as passion

Expressing distress at work can have negative consequences for employees: observers perceive employees who express distress as less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an appropriate source (passion) can shape perceptions of, and decisions about, the person w...

Internet Privacy: At Home and At Work

This article is a tutorial on Internet privacy. The objective of the tutorial is to inform users of the Internet how and why their use of the Internet can be monitored. The focus of the tutorial is Internet privacy at home and in the work place. The tutorial has three major sections: Technical Background, Privacy At Home, and Privacy At Work. The At Home section is concerned with personal priva...

Flexibility and Gender in the E-Society: Marxist Theory Applied to At-Home Telework

Our understanding of the e-society should incorporate the case of at-home teleworking because of its implications for the use of ubiquitous ICTs in the home environment, work relations and gender issues. Rhetoric surrounding the benefits of telework impinge on promises of increased freedom, reduced burden, and ‘flexibility’ from an employees perspective. In order to establish the validity of su...

In the Future: Learning Will Reshape Our World at Work, at Home, and at School

Men at work: the StackOverflow case

Online communities are flourishing as social meeting web-spaces for users and peer community members. Different online communities require different levels of competence for participants to join, and scattered evidence suggests that the female gender and minorities can be under-represented. Here we focus on the popular programming-related Q&A website StackOverflow. StackOverflow is based on ear...