Blackberry Boundaries

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Does it feel like you never leave the office, even when you're home? Do you ever scroll through e-mails on your Blackberry while having a conversation with your child? Acclaimed sociologist Dalton Conley looks at how technology has erased the boundary between public and private space, work an leisure in his book Elsewhere, U.S.A..

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