Speakers: Laura Lükemann and Anja-Kristin Abendroth-Sohl, University of Bielefeld
Abstract
A new report that analyses European Social Survey (ESS) data measuring the use of digital communication will be launched at this online event.
The report - Topline Findings issue 12: Digital social contacts in work and family life - will be discussed by two of its authors: Anja-Kristin Abendroth-Sohl and Laura Lükemann (University of Bielefeld).
The authors will present initial conclusions from the rotating module that measured digital communication in the work and family lives of respondents.
30 questions on the topic were included in Round 10 (2020-22) of the survey for the first time, and early findings will be presented at this webinar.
The report’s analysis focuses on data from 31 countries measuring the frequency of speaking to, or communicating digitally with, colleagues, managers, children and parents.
Attitudes on whether online communication interrupts work and family life or makes it easier to coordinate activities will also be explored.
As part of the launch event, attendees will be the first people to receive a copy of the report.
The report was written by all members of the questionnaire design team who successfully applied for the questions to be included.
Other authors were Francesco Billari (Bocconi University), Eszter Hargittai (University of Zurich), Judith Treas (University of California) and Tanja Van der Lippe (Utrecht University).
The ESS, headquartered at City, University of London, is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe since 2002/03.
Every two years, face-to-face interviews are conducted with newly selected, cross-sectional samples, representative of the national population in each country.
Due to national measures to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus, nine countries conducted Round 10 fieldwork using self-completion methods.
The event will be chaired by ESS Deputy Director, Dr. Eric Harrison.
About the speakers
Laura Lükemann is a post-doctoral researcher in the project “Flexibility in Digitalized Working Worlds: Use and implications of telework and digital work communication across European countries” funded by the German Science Foundation as part of the collaboration unit SPP 2267.
Her research interests are flexible work arrangements, digital work communication, organisations, and gender inequalities in the labour market.
Anja-Kristin Abendroth is a Junior-Professor for Technical and Social Change at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University.
Since 2020 she has been the project leader of “Flexibility in Digitalized Working Worlds: Use and implications of telework and digital work communication across European countries” funded by the German Science Foundation as part of the collaboration unit SPP 2267.
Her research interests include the digitalisation of work, interdependencies between work and personal life, and gender inequalities.
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