Working from home: New media technology, workplace culture and the changing nature of domesticity

新媒体技术通常被宣传为将人们从工作场所解放出来，为履行工作义务提供了灵活性。尤其是通信技术使在家工作变得越来越可能：笔记本电脑、移动电话和PDA使任何空间都成为受雇劳动力的潜在场所。这项研究研究了新媒体技术对工作如何进行、在哪里进行以及由谁进行的影响，以更广泛地衡量它们对社区的影响。它还询问，这些新的工作关系是否会改变人们对男女在家中和家外从事工作的传统态度。

New media technologies are often marketed as liberating people from the workplace, providing flexibility in meeting work obligations. Communication technologies in particular make working from home increasingly possible: laptops, mobile phones and PDAs make any space a potential site for paid labour. This research studies the effect of new media technologies on how work is performed, where and by whom, to gauge their impact on the community more broadly. It also asks whether these new relationships to work raise the prospect of changing traditional attitudes to the work performed in and outside the home by men and women.