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Awareness of Presence - Good or Bad Thing in a Working Tool?

2/12/2004

I know, I know, there will be readers who say that "Working with an open instant messenger window is like working while riding a roller coaster." To them I say, "If that excites you, cool, at least as long as you get your work done. You ride the roller coaster and I'll IM!"

http://www.scup.org/knowledge/gustafson04.pdf
Gustafson, Kimberly 2004 "The Impact of Technologies on Learning," Planning for Higher Education, 32:2, December 2003-February 2004, pp. 37-43.

http://interruptions.net/literature/Rennecker-Sprouts03.pdf
Rennecker, Julie and Lindsey Godwin 2003 "Theorizing the Unintended Consequences of Instant Messaging for Worker Productivity," Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Environments. Systems and organizations, Vol. 3, Summer.


About the author: Terry Calhoun is Director of Communications and Publications for the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP). You can contact him through CT's IT Trends forum by clicking here. View more articles by Terry Calhoun.

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