Families without Borders
Mobile Phones, Connectedness and Work-Home Divisions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2321824 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judy Wajcman (Australian National University), Michael Bittman (0000-0001-9137-5542, University of New England), Judith E Brown (University of New England), Judith Brown (0000-0003-4092-9685, University of New England) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 635-652 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038038508091620 |
| OpenAlex | W2086269261 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 91 |
| References cited | 39 |
This article examines the widespread proposition that the mobile phone dissolves the boundaries that separate work and home, extending the reach of work. It analyses data derived from a purpose-designed survey to study social practices surrounding mobile phone use.The key components of the survey investigated here are a questionnaire and a log of phone calls retrieved from respondents' handsets. Rather than being primarily a tool of work extension, or even a tool that facilitates greater work-family balance, we show that the main purpose of mobile phone calls is to maintain continuing connections with family and friends. Our findings suggest that individuals exert control over the extent to which calls invade their personal time, actively encouraging deeper contacts with intimates
Computer security · Control (management) · Internet privacy · Key (lock) · Mobile phone · Phone · Proposition · Social connectedness · Sociology · Survey data collection · Telecommunications · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
The 'digital glimpse' as imagining home
Technology Use and Employee Assessments of Work Effectiveness, Workload, and Pace of Life
Global boundary work tactics
Parenting for a Digital Future
Time Pressure
All wired, all tired? Work-related ICT-use outside work hours and work-to-home conflict
Constant Connectivity
Voluntary Work‐related Technology Use during Non‐work Time
Managing collapsed boundaries in global work
The Moderating Effect of Scheduling Autonomy on Smartphone Use and Stress Among Older Workers
Digital Asymmetries in Transnational Communication
The Virgin Mary With a Mobile Phone
The impact of the physical and social embodiment of voice user interfaces on user distraction
The Digital Lives of Student Mothers
Private smartphone use during worktime
Social Media, Work and Nonwork Interface
Boundary communication
Use of smartphone applications and its impacts on urban life
Internet mediation and the family gap
Mummy is in a Call”
A typology of mobile messaging’s disconnective affordances
Influence of professional mobile device usage on Work/Family Border Theory
Tethered compliance
Moving on the connectivity continuum
Digital Comparative Mobilities in Platform Economies
Who's Controlling Who? Personal Communication Devices and Work
Moving Time and Juggling Spheres
Women's Emotions Towards The Mobile Phone
Parents’ mobile relational maintenance in resource-constrained contexts
Digital Communication in work and family life in Europe
Gender and the Politics of Time
Smartphone usage among young Israeli adults
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Strategies of control
Synchronicity matters
From “Perpetual Contact” to Contextualized Mobility
(Im)mobile Homes
Immaterial intimacy
Internet Impacts on Parent–Child Communication in Vietnamese Urban Families
Staying connected
From Connection to Optimization
Everyday Life and Spatial Mobility of Young People in Prague
E-mail's Use and Perceived Effect on Family Relationship Quality
A paradox of perception
Further reflections on the sociology of technology and time
Developing a typology of mobile phone usage in social care
Falling Out of Time
Flexible Turtles and Elastic Octopi
Three generations of Telework
Introduction for special themed section
A double‐edged sword
Performing projects with constant connectivity
Managing work–life boundaries with information and communication technologies
Business travellers' connections to home
Interdisciplinarity and communication across research employing different methods under the loupe
The technology mismatch paradox of mobile e-mail access
Living in the Mediatope
Present whilst absent
Building family connectedness—A new practice tool for social workers
The Importance of Type, Amount, and Timing of Internet Use for Understanding Psychological Distress
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Embracing or embattled by converged mobile devices? Users’ experiences with a contemporary connectivity technology
Crafting a balance between work and home
The extensification of managerial work in the digital age
Beyond time-binds
IFamily
The Digital Divide among Parents and Their Emerging Adult Children
Co-ordinating Passages
Pointless Mobilities
Mobile Music, Coded Objects and Everyday Spaces
The Mere Presence of a Cell Phone May be Distracting
Bajo las riendas del teléfono móvil? Control social, normalización y resistencia
Mobile phones and the experience of time
A multitude of natural, social and individual time
Ambient co-presence
Changes in professional human care work
Affect and the lifeworld
The Impact of Feminism on Sociology
Meaning and Structure in the Work and Family Interface
Location and Unlocation
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Access denied
The mobile phone, perpetual contact and time pressure
When Family Calls
Parent-Adolescent Communication Via Mobile Devices
Temporal Flexibility and its Limits
Surf 's Up
Technology, Work, and Family
To negotiate or not negotiate
Looking at spillover from both sides
Mobile Communication and Society
Cell Phone Culture
Capitalism, the Family, and Personal Life
‘High‐performance’ Management Practices, Working Hours and Work–Life Balance
Changing Places of Work
Modernity and Self-Identity
The Transformation of Intimacy
Wireless World
Work-Lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century
Changing Times
Perpetual Contact
Employment and the Family
Restructuring workplace cultures
Family Friendly’ Employment Policies
On the Move
The gendered use of the telephone
The Family and Industrial Society
Work-family strains and gains among two-earner couples
Gender on the Line
The Division of Labour in Society
Life in the fast lane? Towards a sociology of technology and time
Employment, flexible working and the family
Time and the Negotiation of Work-Family Boundaries
Connected' Presence
Time Use and the Impact of Technology
Mobile Communication and Society
Mobile Transformations of 'Public' and 'Private' Life
Analysing the Temporal Organization of Daily Life
Shadow Times
Blurring Boundaries? Linking Technology Use, Spillover, Individual Distress, and Family Satisfaction
| Unique citing works | 91 |
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| Citations per year | 5,35 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 88 |