Digital Overwhelm
eBook - ePub

Digital Overwhelm

A Mid-Career Guide to Coping at Work

  1. 234 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Digital Overwhelm

A Mid-Career Guide to Coping at Work

About this book

Why does doing your job feel so flooded and so pointless at the same time? Nobody knows better than millennial and Gen Z professionals how rapid technological development has inundated post-pandemic work. Organizational researcher Craig Mattson listens to their stories and builds a framework for coping with digital overwhelm at work. This book won't tell you to declutter your digital life or to end capitalism now. But what you can do, suggests Professor Mattson, is change how you attend to zones where technological disruption meets emotional pressure. Calling these zones modes of communication, this book urges you to practice mode-switching. Addressed to millennial and Gen Z professionals, Digital Overwhelm draws on biblical wisdom literature to offer a primer on organizational communication. Each chapter is followed by a short Mode Switch Workshop addressing questions such as how to survive the Zoom room, how to write an email that sounds like you, how to get unstuck when tools break down, and how to get people to do things--so you can, too. Even technologically disrupted organizations are more navigable than they feel--if you know how to switch up your modes of communication.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Digiwhelm, an Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: Switching Things
  5. Chapter 1.5: How To Tell Your Digiwhelm Story
  6. Chapter 2: Emailing Things
  7. Chapter 2.5: How to Write an Email Like You Talk
  8. Chapter 3: Saying Things
  9. Chapter 3.5: How to Make a Podcast
  10. Chapter 4: Meaning Things
  11. Chapter 4.5: How to Work Like You Mean It
  12. Chapter 5: Fixing Things
  13. Chapter 5.5: How to Get Unstuck from Technical Difficulties
  14. Chapter 6: Signaling Things
  15. Chapter 6.5: How to Survive Video Chat
  16. Chapter 7: Advocating Things
  17. Chapter 7.5: How to Get People to Do Things
  18. Afterword
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Bibliography