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100	1	0	_aLicoppe, Christian _eauthor
245	0	0	_aInnovation, Communication, and Multi-Tasking in the Workplace
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520			_aThe paper calls on two different models to describe the increasing fragmentation of activities in the workplace. One is based on successive switches from one focused commitment to another (“occupational zapping”), while the other is based on the relevance at any one moment of multiple tasks demanding a greater or lesser degree of concentration (“multi-tasking”). We show how the present-day logic of innovation and design in communication technologies tends, on the one hand, to permanently establish demands on people’s attention within the working environment in ways that requires only minimal attentiveness and commitment, and on the other hand, to favor sequential tasking. A case study on the uses of instant messaging in the workplace provides empirical evidence on how the persistent mediated cues signaling the incursion of others into a working environment, together with the sequential order they demand, combine to make the preoccupation shared between a subject and his or her technical environment actually visible: homo communicans thus turns out to be a “multi-tasking” subject and the hub of multiple commitments.
690			_ainstant messaging
690			_amulti-tasking
690			_aconcern
690			_aecology
690			_adistributed cognition
690			_atechnology
690			_acommunication
690			_awork
786	0		_nHermès, La Revue | o 50 | 1 | 2008-04-01 | p. 171-178 | 0767-9513
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-hermes-la-revue-2008-1-page-171?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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