"Information Technologies in Everyday Life..." - Melissa Mazmanian, UC Irvine
Channel: UCIBrenICS
Date: 2017-11-04

Melissa Mazmanian
Associate Professor
Department of Informatics, UC Irvine

"Information Technologies in Everyday Life: Perpetuating & Intensifying the Myth of What It Is to Be an Ideal Worker, Perfect Parent & Ultimate Self"

Friday, Nov. 3 2017

Bio: Melissa Mazmanian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Melissa’s interests revolve around the use of communication technologies in personal and organizational contexts, specifically in relation to experience of work, communication patterns, and the nature of personal and professional time in the digital age. She is currently writing a book based on ethnographic research examining how busy professionals and their families balance work and life and negotiate communication technologies during ‘personal' time. Melissa has published in the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, MIS Quarterly, and the ACM conferences on Computer Human Interaction and Computer Supported Cooperative Work. She earned a PhD in Organization Studies from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Masters in Information Economics, Management and Policy from the University of Michigan, School of Information.