Social Science Space

Gina Neff doesn’t approach smart devices as a Luddite or even that much of an alarmist; she bought first-generation Fitbit when they were brand new and virtually unknown (all of five years ago!). She approaches them as a sociologist, “looking at the practices of people who use digital devices to monitor, map and measure different aspects of their life.”

This piece was originally posted on SAGE’s Management Ink Blog here and is re-posted here with the kind permission of Management Ink editors. *** […]

A quick internet search of “smartphone etiquette in class” will give you a fairly straightforward answer: don’t use your phone. […]