Christel Backman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 285103 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christel Backman |
| PRENOMES | Christel |
| SOBRENOME | Backman |
| ASSINATURA | BACKMAN C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9848-7157 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Private surveillance in public spaces
This article examines how the deployment of private security officers to patrol public spaces, and their use of body-worn cameras (BWCs), has become possible in Sweden where public video surveillance was long considered unthinkable and where the protection of privacy remains strong. We ask how the expansion of private security officers into public spaces can be understood, and how the use of BWCs by these officers has affected the nature and scop…
Employees’ Use of Professional Talk to Handle Workplace Surveillance
Although workplace surveillance is often conceptualized as a simplified dichotomy of control vs. care or resistance vs. compliance, it can be understood as something that employees enact and in which they take an active part. However, surveillance creates a paradox for those who wish to enact professionalism in their work roles. Whereas being transparent and welcoming scrutiny is considered professional, the visibility that comes with surveillanc…
The Role of Information in the Street‐Level Bureaucrat–Client Relationship
This paper focuses on how street‐level bureaucrats understand and manage information in their interactions with clients in the context of so‐called open‐book services, where digital tools make it possible for clients to easily access documentation conventionally viewed as internal work material for professionals' eyes only. Through a qualitative interview study of Swedish doctors regarding the national Patient Accessible Electronic Health Record,…
Professional talk on cybervetting
Even though recruiters' practise of searching for information online during recruitment and selection has been a contested practise, owing to the risk of discrimination and privacy intrusions as well as poor evidence for its ability to predict work performance, it is used in recruitment. In this article, our aim is to understand how 'professional talk' is used as a discursive resource to legitimize contested practises such as the practise of cybe…
Organizational legitimation of body-worn camera use in the Swedish private security industry
Purpose The authors set out to show how key private security industry actors in Sweden establish body-worn cameras (BWCs) as a tool to protect private security officers from the public the officers police and to improve the work environment of the officers. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with key personnel involved in the implementation of BWCs. The authors' analysis focused on delineating…
Patient-accessible online health records
With patients' increasing online access to medical information traditionally contained within healthcare institutions, researchers have argued that the spaces of medicine are increasingly becoming blurred, allowing patients to sidestep their doctors and challenge their prior information dominance. In this context, Sweden has recently been spotlighted as it allows its inhabitants to continually access medical record content online. Based on an int…
Control or protection? Work environment implications of police body‐worn cameras
This review paper critically examines the work environment implications of the use of body‐worn camera (BWC) technology reported in research. We found that published peer‐review studies (90 articles) pay very little attention to the work environment of BWC users – police officers. Departing from the notion of the two faces of surveillance and of BWC technology as a surveillance tool with uncertain implications – control or protection of officers …
Off the record
In this article, we draw on Michael Lipsky's work on street-level bureaucrats and discretion to analyse a real case setting comprising an interview study of 30 Swedish doctors regarding their experiences of changes in clinical work following patients being given access to medical records information online. We introduce the notion ofinvisibilityworkto capture how doctors exercise discretion topreservethe invisibility of their work, in contrast to…
Acting on a hunch
The process of recruiting new employees involves the risk of hiring the ‘wrong’ person. Systematic and extensive information gathering is therefore used to support objective and rational decisions. Today, the use of cybervetting is part of the recruitment process, but prior research shows that emotions, contrary to the ideals of ‘objectivity’, are essential for sorting and selection decisions. Based on interviews with 37 Swedish recruiters, this …
Online privacy in job recruitment processes? Boundary work among cybervetting recruiters
This article addresses various ways that cybervetting recruiters (re)construct boundaries around the public–private division. Based on interviews with 37 recruiters in Sweden, we show how the practice of cybervetting is legitimised by the recruiters’ descriptions and accounts in relation to various notions of privacy and norms of information flow. We present this as a boundary work aided by especially two ways of framing information: the repertoi…
Explaining the Data Double
The practice of cybervetting—i.e., online background checks of a jobseeker’s ‘data double’—is considered to be a valuable tool in the recruitment process by an increasing amount of employers. As a consequence, jobseekers lose some control over what aspects of their past, personal interests or private life they will share with the employer. Moreover, jobseekers are expected to confess, explain and contextualize unfavorable information about them i…
Föreställningar om klass och kön i Arbetsförmedlingens yrkesbeskrivningar
Notions of Class and Gender in the Employment Service Job DescriptionsThis article examines whether job descriptions emphasize different characteristics and competences depending on the occupations’ social class and gender relations. The study is partly a replication of a similar analysis conducted by Gesser in the 1970s. The purpose is to examine the prevalence of stereotypes in occupational descriptions provided by the Swedish state, and if the…
Introduction
Mandatory Criminal Record Checks in Sweden
Over the last decade, more and more Swedish employers have become obliged to check jobseekers’ criminal records beforemaking their hiring decisions. The use of criminal records for mandatory checks of job candidates and staff outside areasinvolving national security represents an entirely novel use of the criminal record database, marking a significant breach withprevious regulations regarding the database and creating a new potential for its uti…
Vocabularies of motive among employers conducting criminal background checks
The use of criminal records in the recruitment process has increased dramatically in Sweden over the past decade. The article analyses the various vocabularies of motive used to account for the practice in order to examine how it is justified and legitimized by those resorting to it: employers, representatives of employers' organizations and union representatives in the business sector who endorse criminal background checks as part of the employe…
Vocabularies of motive among employers conducting criminal background checks
The use of criminal records in the recruitment process has increased dramatically in Sweden over the past decade. The article analyses the various vocabularies of motive used to account for the practice in order to examine how it is justified and legitimized by those resorting to it: employers, representatives of employers' organizations and union representatives in the business sector who endorse criminal background checks as part of the employe…
Mandatory Criminal Record Checks in Sweden
Over the last decade, more and more Swedish employers have become obliged to check jobseekers’ criminal records beforemaking their hiring decisions. The use of criminal records for mandatory checks of job candidates and staff outside areasinvolving national security represents an entirely novel use of the criminal record database, marking a significant breach withprevious regulations regarding the database and creating a new potential for its uti…
Off the record
In this article, we draw on Michael Lipsky's work on street-level bureaucrats and discretion to analyse a real case setting comprising an interview study of 30 Swedish doctors regarding their experiences of changes in clinical work following patients being given access to medical records information online. We introduce the notion ofinvisibilityworkto capture how doctors exercise discretion topreservethe invisibility of their work, in contrast to…
Acting on a hunch
The process of recruiting new employees involves the risk of hiring the ‘wrong’ person. Systematic and extensive information gathering is therefore used to support objective and rational decisions. Today, the use of cybervetting is part of the recruitment process, but prior research shows that emotions, contrary to the ideals of ‘objectivity’, are essential for sorting and selection decisions. Based on interviews with 37 Swedish recruiters, this …
Online privacy in job recruitment processes? Boundary work among cybervetting recruiters
This article addresses various ways that cybervetting recruiters (re)construct boundaries around the public–private division. Based on interviews with 37 recruiters in Sweden, we show how the practice of cybervetting is legitimised by the recruiters’ descriptions and accounts in relation to various notions of privacy and norms of information flow. We present this as a boundary work aided by especially two ways of framing information: the repertoi…
Explaining the Data Double
The practice of cybervetting—i.e., online background checks of a jobseeker’s ‘data double’—is considered to be a valuable tool in the recruitment process by an increasing amount of employers. As a consequence, jobseekers lose some control over what aspects of their past, personal interests or private life they will share with the employer. Moreover, jobseekers are expected to confess, explain and contextualize unfavorable information about them i…
Patient-accessible online health records
With patients' increasing online access to medical information traditionally contained within healthcare institutions, researchers have argued that the spaces of medicine are increasingly becoming blurred, allowing patients to sidestep their doctors and challenge their prior information dominance. In this context, Sweden has recently been spotlighted as it allows its inhabitants to continually access medical record content online. Based on an int…
Vocabularies of motive among employers conducting criminal background checks
The use of criminal records in the recruitment process has increased dramatically in Sweden over the past decade. The article analyses the various vocabularies of motive used to account for the practice in order to examine how it is justified and legitimized by those resorting to it: employers, representatives of employers' organizations and union representatives in the business sector who endorse criminal background checks as part of the employe…
Mandatory Criminal Record Checks in Sweden
Over the last decade, more and more Swedish employers have become obliged to check jobseekers’ criminal records beforemaking their hiring decisions. The use of criminal records for mandatory checks of job candidates and staff outside areasinvolving national security represents an entirely novel use of the criminal record database, marking a significant breach withprevious regulations regarding the database and creating a new potential for its uti…
Introduction
Föreställningar om klass och kön i Arbetsförmedlingens yrkesbeskrivningar
Notions of Class and Gender in the Employment Service Job DescriptionsThis article examines whether job descriptions emphasize different characteristics and competences depending on the occupations’ social class and gender relations. The study is partly a replication of a similar analysis conducted by Gesser in the 1970s. The purpose is to examine the prevalence of stereotypes in occupational descriptions provided by the Swedish state, and if the…
Explaining the Data Double
The practice of cybervetting—i.e., online background checks of a jobseeker’s ‘data double’—is considered to be a valuable tool in the recruitment process by an increasing amount of employers. As a consequence, jobseekers lose some control over what aspects of their past, personal interests or private life they will share with the employer. Moreover, jobseekers are expected to confess, explain and contextualize unfavorable information about them i…
Online privacy in job recruitment processes? Boundary work among cybervetting recruiters
This article addresses various ways that cybervetting recruiters (re)construct boundaries around the public–private division. Based on interviews with 37 recruiters in Sweden, we show how the practice of cybervetting is legitimised by the recruiters’ descriptions and accounts in relation to various notions of privacy and norms of information flow. We present this as a boundary work aided by especially two ways of framing information: the repertoi…
Acting on a hunch
The process of recruiting new employees involves the risk of hiring the ‘wrong’ person. Systematic and extensive information gathering is therefore used to support objective and rational decisions. Today, the use of cybervetting is part of the recruitment process, but prior research shows that emotions, contrary to the ideals of ‘objectivity’, are essential for sorting and selection decisions. Based on interviews with 37 Swedish recruiters, this …
Control or protection? Work environment implications of police body‐worn cameras
This review paper critically examines the work environment implications of the use of body‐worn camera (BWC) technology reported in research. We found that published peer‐review studies (90 articles) pay very little attention to the work environment of BWC users – police officers. Departing from the notion of the two faces of surveillance and of BWC technology as a surveillance tool with uncertain implications – control or protection of officers …
Off the record
In this article, we draw on Michael Lipsky's work on street-level bureaucrats and discretion to analyse a real case setting comprising an interview study of 30 Swedish doctors regarding their experiences of changes in clinical work following patients being given access to medical records information online. We introduce the notion ofinvisibilityworkto capture how doctors exercise discretion topreservethe invisibility of their work, in contrast to…
Organizational legitimation of body-worn camera use in the Swedish private security industry
Purpose The authors set out to show how key private security industry actors in Sweden establish body-worn cameras (BWCs) as a tool to protect private security officers from the public the officers police and to improve the work environment of the officers. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with key personnel involved in the implementation of BWCs. The authors' analysis focused on delineating…
Patient-accessible online health records
With patients' increasing online access to medical information traditionally contained within healthcare institutions, researchers have argued that the spaces of medicine are increasingly becoming blurred, allowing patients to sidestep their doctors and challenge their prior information dominance. In this context, Sweden has recently been spotlighted as it allows its inhabitants to continually access medical record content online. Based on an int…
Professional talk on cybervetting
Even though recruiters' practise of searching for information online during recruitment and selection has been a contested practise, owing to the risk of discrimination and privacy intrusions as well as poor evidence for its ability to predict work performance, it is used in recruitment. In this article, our aim is to understand how 'professional talk' is used as a discursive resource to legitimize contested practises such as the practise of cybe…
Employees’ Use of Professional Talk to Handle Workplace Surveillance
Although workplace surveillance is often conceptualized as a simplified dichotomy of control vs. care or resistance vs. compliance, it can be understood as something that employees enact and in which they take an active part. However, surveillance creates a paradox for those who wish to enact professionalism in their work roles. Whereas being transparent and welcoming scrutiny is considered professional, the visibility that comes with surveillanc…
The Role of Information in the Street‐Level Bureaucrat–Client Relationship
This paper focuses on how street‐level bureaucrats understand and manage information in their interactions with clients in the context of so‐called open‐book services, where digital tools make it possible for clients to easily access documentation conventionally viewed as internal work material for professionals' eyes only. Through a qualitative interview study of Swedish doctors regarding the national Patient Accessible Electronic Health Record,…
Private surveillance in public spaces
This article examines how the deployment of private security officers to patrol public spaces, and their use of body-worn cameras (BWCs), has become possible in Sweden where public video surveillance was long considered unthinkable and where the protection of privacy remains strong. We ask how the expansion of private security officers into public spaces can be understood, and how the use of BWCs by these officers has affected the nature and scop…
Political science (11 obras) · Public relations (10 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (5 obras) · Business (4 obras) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 obras)