Work's Intimacy

Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Work's intimacy: Performing professionalism online and on the job PART ONE THE CONNECTIVITY IMPERATIVE: BUSINESS RESPONSES TO NEW MEDIA 1. Selling the flexible workplace: The creative economy and new media fetishism 2. Working from home: The mobile office and the seduction of convenience 3. Part-time precarity: Discount labour and contract careers PART TWO GETTING INTIMATE: ONLINE CULTURE AND THE RISE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING 4. To CC: or not to CC: Teamwork in office culture 5. Facebook friends: Security blankets and career mobility 6. Know your product: Online branding and the evacuation of friendship PART THREE LOOKING FOR LOVE IN THE NETWORKED HOUSEHOLD 7. Home offices and remote parents: Family dynamics in online households 8. Long hours, high bandwidth: Domesticity at a distance 9. On call Conclusion Labour politics in an online workplace: The lovers vs. the loveless