Ep 170. Christine Beckman: Living, Working and Parenting in the Digital Age
Christine Beckman is The Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor of Public Policy at the Price Center for Social Innovation in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, and the author of Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working and Parenting in the Digital Age. Before joining the Price School in 2018, she was a Professor in the Department of Management and Organization at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. She also taught at UC Irvine. Christine is a widely-known and highly visible scholar in the field of Management and Organization. She is a native Californian and received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University. In this episode, Stew and Christine talk about the pluses and minuses of technology for working families, especially during these pandemic times, when so many are working from home for the first time and when parents are attempting to manage remote school work for their children. They discuss the ills and potential benefits of social media and strategies for harnessing technology as a force for good. And they address the ways both social policy and individual initiative can strength the social support, or scaffolding, working families need now more than ever. Here’s an invitation, a challenge, for you, once you’ve listened to the conversation. Choose a person in your life who provides support that enables you to be the person you want to be and thank them for what they provide, and let them know how by their helping you they are enabling you to make things better for others. What do you discover? Write to Stew Friedman to let him know, at friedman@wharton.upenn.edu, or connect with him on LinkedIn. While you’re at it, share your thoughts with Stew on this episode and ideas for future shows. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.