Jeffrey Boase
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Talk recording
In this talk Professor Jeffrey Boase explores the social implications of constant connectivity for family, work, and friendship. Drawing on a comprehensive empirical study, he shows how complex technological and social arrangements explain why individuals often draw on a multitude of apps and devices to stay connected. This study further reveals three common practices of connection: media situatedness, the division of media, and temporal boundaries. These practices help individuals manage the challenges and opportunities of constant connectivity, while at the same time deeply binding the digital to the social. By combining historical context, theoretical insights, and rigorous empirical research, Boase provides a comprehensive account of how the apps and devices that we use to navigate contemporary social life have become embedded into our lives and our relationships.
About the speaker
Professor Jeffrey Boase is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. As a PhD student he spent a year at the Harvard Kennedy School on a predoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Digital Government. After completing his Ph.D., he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social Psychology at The University of Tokyo.
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