I'm really excited about the graduate seminar I'm teaching this spring, because it combines two area where I do research.  I'd also love to get a few more students enrolled in what I think will be an exciting class. So, if you are looking for coursework related to organizational and/or mediated communication, or have interests in issues such as privacy/surveillance or virtual work, or are seeking an opportunity to do a data-based research project, please consider joining the class.  It is the special topics seminar on Work and Technology (16:194:672 and 17:194:502) offered this spring.

This new seminar will examine several workplace issues and challenges that are problematized by communication and information technologies.  For example, we will be examining issues of privacy and surveillance in the workplace and the role of technology in exacerbating and addressing such concerns; we will look at issues of work/life balance and the ways in which new media have complicated that tension; and we will examine mobility and virtual forms of work as they relate to the use of new technologies. The class will also involve research project options where students will select a work and technology challenge of interest to them and then analyze existing organizational or community policies and guidelines related to that challenge (e.g., organizational privacy policies, acceptable use policies for information technology, telework guidelines, leave regulations, etc.). The final seminar paper will be either a scholarly research paper (doctoral) or more of an applied best practices report (masters).

This special topics course meets Mondays 12:10-2:50.  For more information contact  met at crscott@rutgers.edu.

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