Material Mediations Complicate Communication Privacy Management: The Case of Wilma in Finnish High Schools.
Increasingly, school settings are implementing digital technologies to coordinate teachers’ work. This article examines the role of these technologies in teachers’ boundary regulation processes through the lens of communication privacy management theory, and it provides empirical insight into the re...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Communication (19328036) Vol. 13; pp. 5752 - 5771 |
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University of Southern California, USC Annenberg Press
2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=149867433&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 149867433 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 19328036 3836 jtl: International Journal of Communication (19328036) issn: 19328036 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2019 vid: 13 pid: 16336 pub: University of Southern California, USC Annenberg Press artinfo: ui: 149867433 ppf: 5752 ppct: 19 formats: tig: atl: Material Mediations Complicate Communication Privacy Management: The Case of Wilma in Finnish High Schools. aug: au: LEHMUSKALLIO, ASKO LAMPINEN, AIRI affil: Tampere University, Finland. Stockholm University, Sweden. keyword: boundary regulation boundary turbulence communication privacy management education formalization high school rules social media surveillance boundary regulation boundary turbulence communication privacy management education formalization high school rules social media surveillance ab: Increasingly, school settings are implementing digital technologies to coordinate teachers’ work. This article examines the role of these technologies in teachers’ boundary regulation processes through the lens of communication privacy management theory, and it provides empirical insight into the renegotiation of being a teacher in the presence of rules formalized in software code. The case of Finnish high school teachers exposed to the use of Wilma, a distributed computing system used to store, process, and transmit student data, revealed experiences of a need to renegotiate formalized and trackable work processes, faster and more colloquial communication, and intensified day-to-day work. These influence modes of accountability and the need to negotiate visibility, along with understandings of rules as a central coordination mechanism for interpersonal boundary regulation. The authors suggest in addition that these technologies inure various social stakeholders to constant technical monitoring and regular accounting, thereby advancing the normalization of surveillance practices. This creates good reason to pay closer attention to how rules of engagement may be coordinated. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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