ABSTRACT
The story on TV gave the author initial idea to focus on telework, and to do fieldwork in the particular village of Fibsted. This chapter introduces the general outline of a theoretical framework suitable for analyzing change, and considers the phenomenon of telework from the perspective. The chapter considers the village setting a sample of civilization, yielding access to a complex range of diversity and difference. The main objective of the questionnaire was to acquire a broader picture of the extent to which computer and internet usage was employed for work purposes in people's homes. It is critical therefore, to include human agents in a model of the processes through which this pattern emerges, however diverse their practices of telework may be. It explains Fredrik Barth's approach allowing for minutiae and diversity at the level of daily practice that is the empirical stable of anthropology.
