An Office on the Go: Professional Workers, Smartphones and the Return of Place

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Author(s): Mats Edenius (Uppsala University, Sweden)and Hans Rämö (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 20
Source title: User Perception and Influencing Factors of Technology in Everyday Life
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Anabela Mesquita (ISCAP/IPP and Algoritmi Centre, University of Minho, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1954-8.ch012

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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In this paper, the authors examine how senior managers, as professional workers, in a leading ICT company use smartphones, according to new configurations of time and space. Of special interest is how smartphones act as comforting handheld consoles without being rooted in physical location. Three non-physical places, as spatial nodes, are presented: pause in the temporal current, place as a function of the intensity of communication, and place in terms of becoming rooted by felt value. The authors argue that highlighting non-physical places as structures emanating from the use of smartphones is an important variable to account for when studying how professionals use smartphones, both in instrumental and non-instrumental terms.

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