TY - BOOK AU - Bailey, Diane E. AU - Diane E. Bailey and Paul M. Leonardi TI - Technology choices: why occupations differ in their embrace SN - 9780262028424 U1 - 331.256 PY - 2015/// PB - The MIT Press N1 - Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different technology choices in the workplace? An automotive design engineer working in India, for example, finds advanced information and communication technologies essential, allowing him to work with far-flung colleagues; a structural engineer in California relies more on paper-based technologies for her everyday work; and a software engineer in Silicon Valley operates on multiple digital levels simultaneously all day, continuing after hours on a company-supplied home computer and network connection. In Technology Choices, Diane Bailey and Paul Leonardi argue that occupational factors -- rather than personal preference or purely technological concerns -- strongly shape workers' technology choices ER -