Transparency, openness and privacy among software professionals
Discourses and practices surrounding use of the digital calendar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12449469 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vanessa Ciccone (0000-0002-6767-876X, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) , London, UK, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Nancy Baym, Nicole Ellison |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1083-6101 • E-ISSN: 1083-6101 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jcmc/zmad015 |
| OpenAlex | W4382776040 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
Research on the groupware calendar system (GCS) has sought to understand its situated use in workplace contexts, revealing insights around design, culture, and self-understanding. A critical look at how knowledge workers use the GCS, and conceptualize of this use, reveals often overlooked sociotechnical values that figure prominently in workers’ lives. At a time when the public–private entanglement has become top-of-mind, this article adds to research on the GCS and professional subjectivity. It shows how organizational values circulate through use of the GCS and explores how hierarchy is negotiated on it, in part through design. It finds that senior-level workers are afforded opportunities to make their calendars private, while nonsenior workers are met with frustration when doing so. The article draws from a multi-sited ethnography, focusing on interviews with software workers in Canada. Findings suggest that the logistical functions of the GCS shape the affective dimensions related to its use
Computer security · Epistemology · Ethnography · Knowledge management · Openness to experience · Political science · Public relations · Situated · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Subjectivity · Transparency (behavior · Computer Science · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |