Managing Technostress in UK Libraries: A Realistic Guide

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Stephen Harper analyses in detail a familiar disease.

Defining Stress

"Stress" has become the defining malaise of modernity. Until around twenty years ago, the term was used exclusively to refer to the "fight or flight" mechanism in a specific medical context. Today, however, the word has undergone radical semantic widening. Like "nerves" in the nineteenth century, "stress" is now used by individuals to explain a huge number of maladies and by journalists, advertisers and cultural pundits as a convenient hook upon which to hang any number of social ills. In short, the enemy is everywhere.

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Managing Technostress in UK Libraries: A Realistic Guide

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