A New Social Order: Mechanisms for Social Network Site Boundary Regulation

Social Network Site (SNS) use has become ubiquitous, with hundreds of millions of users sharing and interacting online. Yet,constant, unbounded sharing and interacting with others can cause social crowding and emotional harm (Altman 1975). Weexplore interpersonal boundary regulation on Social Network Sites to understand these tradeoffs and examine how toimprove the social experiences of users. In this paper, we present a taxonomy of five categories of interpersonal boundarymechanisms relevant to SNSs and the specific interface controls that sites provide for managing these boundaries. Wequalitatively research how SNS users employ these mechanisms and the boundary issues that arise while interacting onlinewith others. These results present a first step towards a model of SNS interpersonal boundary regulation

Technology Overload: Gender-based Perceptions of Knowledge Worker Performance

Gender studies show numerous differences between genders in regard to technology, and emphasize that women areunderrepresented in IT-related academic programs and careers. Because technology is so prevalent in our workforce,it is important to study how technology usage affects white-collared working women. We explore the relationshipbetween three dimensions of technology overload and knowledge worker job performance (stratified by gender)through a quantitative analysis. Our results show that female knowledge workers perceive a more significant andnegative relationship than men between technology overload and job performance even when they do not relyheavily on technology in the workplace. Addressing technology overload may thus positively impact women’scareer development