Powers of Division: "Smart" Spaces as Controlling Workplace Activity Fragmentation.
In this article we argue that "smart" work spaces are created through access to wireless networks and mobile cloud computing collaboration software. Yet the power relations embedded in these overlapping physical and cyberspaces function to control the spatial and temporal fragmentation of related wo...
| Publicado en: | Annals of the American Association of Geographers Vol. 110; no. 2; pp. 371 - 382 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2020
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