Technology Implementation in Elderly Care
Subject Positioning in Times of Transformation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11444871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beata Segercrantz (0000-0002-2430-3060, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, corresponding author), Maria Forss (Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 5-6 |
| Pages | 628-649 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-927X • E-ISSN: 1552-6526 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0261927x19830445 |
| OpenAlex | W2920010759 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 47 |
Innovation is often celebrated as a solution to various challenges in care work. Thus, a growing number of care workers are likely to experience innovations in their daily work. This article examines how care workers and project workers in elderly care are affected by contemporary transformations by exploring: (1) how they construct meanings around innovation implementation and (2) are subject positioned in relation to these meanings. Drawing on discourse analysis, we conduct a case study and analyze semistructured interviews, observations, and organizational documents. We illustrate how innovation is constructed in terms of optimism, and also as a source for struggle, with specific effects on care workers’ subject positioning. The findings thus contribute to new insights into the contemporary dominating discourse of innovation and its implications at the level of practice and subjectivity
Care work · Construct (python library · Epistemology · Health care · Optimism · Political science · Public relations · Relation (database · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Work (physics · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovation, Technology, and Society · Psychology · Social Psychology
Innovation
Social Constructionism
Theorizing the Micro-politics of Resistance
Risk and Innovation
Identities and Identity Work in Organizations
Place, Space and Time
The New Public Governance? 1
Managerial Fads and Fashions
User Acceptance of Information Technology
Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology
The `Neo-Bureaucratic' State
Innovation Contested
Consumption and Identity at Work
Politeness in institutional elderly care in Japan
Biography, time and local history-making
Sustaining Low Pay in Aged Care Work
New Technology in Home Help Services — A Tool for Support or an Instrument of Subordination
A Stain on the White Uniform — The Discursive Construction of Nurses' Industrial Action in the Media
Nursing a Grievance? The Role of Healthcare Assistants in a Modernized National Health Service
The Care–tech Link
The routinization of innovation research
The diffusion of innovations
How places matter
Who is ‘the middle manager’
Making sense of professional identities
International and European policy on work and retirement
Positioning
Stretching out and expanding work practices in time and space
Social psychology as history
Identity Matters
Playing' Doctors and Nurses? Competing Discourses of Gender, Power and Identity in the British National Health Service
Interpretation of Care Guidelines for Obese Women in Labor
Student Identity and Aversions to Science
Accountable Preferences? Discourse, Identity, and the Anti-Prejudice Norm
Impact of Identity on Support for New Roles in Health Care
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |