Better data about the working conditions and actual practices of users can assist understanding of the capacity of electronic networking and computer technologies. The author points to information presented at two symposia as evidence of the ripeness and relevance of these issues, the complexity of social science research on them, and the fallacies of many popular assumptions about how networks are used.
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