Re-imagining E-mail: Academics in The Castle
从卡夫卡小说《城堡》出发，探讨电子邮件这一社会数字产物对学者生活世界的影响，揭示其如何塑造工作日、加速工作处理，并带来逃离组织边界的虚幻承诺。
Starting out from Franz Kafka’s novel, The Castle , we meander through an exploration of the impact of that seminal socio-digital artefact—e-mail—on the academic lifeworld. In the process, we illustrate not only how e-mail is ‘experienced’, facilitates instantaneity, deludes us with speed, shapes the working day and accelerates work processing but also the ultimately illusory promise of the ‘wired’ world to empower us to escape organizational boundaries. Paradoxically, the Castle is always one step behind but it never comes second.