Management Faculty Publications and Presentations
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-15-2021
Abstract
Platform organizations bring renewed attention to power disparities and risks in the rise of surveillance capitalism. However; such critical accounts provide a partial understanding of the complexity of surveillance phenomena in such shifting socio-technical and digital environments.The findings from a netnographic investigation of a healthcare platform organization, PatientsLikeMe, unravel how platforms become the locus where multi-level flows of surveillance converge, thereby constituting what we identify as a surveillant assemblage. We develop a comprehensive approach for understanding how platforms constitute a dynamic crossroads of micro-, meso- and macro-surveillance phenomena within and beyond the online communities they create.This study highlights this surveillant assemblage's emerging practices and potentially empowering outcomes that enable multi-stakeholder involvement in big data and knowledge generation in healthcare. Broader implications of multi-level surveillance in and through platforms are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Vicdan, H., Perezts, M., Firat, A.F., 2021. License to Heal: Understanding a Healthcare Platform Organization as a Multi-Level Surveillant Assemblage. Management 24, 18–35. https://doi.org/10.37725/mgmt.v24.4586
Creative Commons License
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Publication Title
Management
DOI
10.37725/mgmt.v24.4586
Comments
© 2021 Vicdan et al.