Week 7 – Self-Tracking & Sousveillance at Work: Insights from

Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing 2020/21

Week 7 – Self-Tracking & Sousveillance at Work: Insights from Human-Computer Interaction & Social Science

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By Cecchinato, Gould and Pitts. This article is about telemtry-based workplace tracking and its implications for the wellbeing of workers. It reviews previous literature from sociological and HCI traditions and ends with thoughts on how workers might be able to collectively bargain over data collection in a way that evens the power imbalance common in workplace 'bossware'.

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