[LINK] items from APO 23 Nov 2006

[Jan Whitaker]

culled from APO Weekly Briefing, 23 November 2006

>NEW REPORTS ----------------------------------------------------
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>READY, GET SET, GO DIGITAL
>Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
>The federal government's digital action plan for 
>Australia, released today by the communications 
>minister, Helen Coonan. Posted 23-11-2006
>http://www.apo.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=116785

>RING, RING
 WHY DON'T YOU LEAVE ME ALONE? THE 
>IMPACT OF THE WORK MOBILE PHONE ON THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE
>Diannah Lowry and Megan Moskos / National Institute of Labour Studies
>This paper looks at how the mobile phone may 
>shape the boundaries between the public (work) 
>and private (home) domains, and on how these 
>boundaries are negotiated or navigated. Positive 
>and negative impacts of the mobile phone appear 
>to be dependant on occupation, economic and 
>market forces, contextual factors associated 
>with bureaucratic structures, and the reported 
>degree of instrumental agency in mobile phone usage. Posted 22-11-2006
>http://www.apo.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=116633






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