Health and wellness but at what cost? Technology media justifications for wearable technology use in organizations
分析了150篇媒体文章,揭示技术媒体如何用新自由主义理由为组织采用可穿戴技术辩护,忽视隐私、数据安全等伦理问题,对关注技术伦理的学者和管理者有用。
Wearable technology (WT) use in organizations is accelerating despite ethical concerns about personal privacy, data security, and stress from increased surveillance. Technology media, a key producer of meanings about WT, gives some attention to these issues but they also routinely promote WT as if they are a panacea for employee wellness. We critically analyze 150 media articles to understand how they justify the adoption of WT into organizational life. We contribute by extending previous work on surveillance technology to show how and why WT media discourses use neo-liberal justifications to justify WT implementation. We explore implications including competing health and wellness discourses and make suggestions for further research.