Comments on: Social networks: The demise of gender? http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2007/12/14/social-networks-the-demise-of-gender/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:03:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: melgregg http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2007/12/14/social-networks-the-demise-of-gender/#comment-63878 melgregg Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:18:59 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2007/12/14/social-networks-the-demise-of-gender/#comment-63878 Mel, do you have a link for the article? You will be pleased to know ABC employees are part of my study of workplace culture ;-) Mel, do you have a link for the article?

You will be pleased to know ABC employees are part of my study of workplace culture ;-)

]]> By: Mel http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2007/12/14/social-networks-the-demise-of-gender/#comment-63797 Mel Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:09:18 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2007/12/14/social-networks-the-demise-of-gender/#comment-63797 Yesterday I read a New York Times article about "presence bleed", only they called it "white space" and couched it as a really positive (read: productive) development. I prefer "presence bleed". I think what you need to concentrate on is the emphasis on efficiency and consolidation that these gadgets and social networks place. It's about making you into, as you say, a kind of technology yourself - you feel like you have to STEP UP to the pace the technology allows/implies. In some ways this is similar to compulsory workplace sociality, where you feel like you have to STEP UP to the participatory demands/affective disposition of the workplace. Yesterday I read a New York Times article about “presence bleed”, only they called it “white space” and couched it as a really positive (read: productive) development. I prefer “presence bleed”.

I think what you need to concentrate on is the emphasis on efficiency and consolidation that these gadgets and social networks place. It’s about making you into, as you say, a kind of technology yourself - you feel like you have to STEP UP to the pace the technology allows/implies.

In some ways this is similar to compulsory workplace sociality, where you feel like you have to STEP UP to the participatory demands/affective disposition of the workplace.

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