Between Technological Utopia and Dystopia: Online Expression of Compulsory Use of Surveillance Technology.
Contact tracing
Structural topic modelling
Surveillance technology
Technological dystopia
Technological pragmatism
Technological utopia
Journal
Science and engineering ethics
ISSN: 1471-5546
Titre abrégé: Sci Eng Ethics
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9516228
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 May 2024
15 May 2024
Historique:
received:
30
07
2023
accepted:
20
04
2024
medline:
15
5
2024
pubmed:
15
5
2024
entrez:
15
5
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
This study investigated people's ethical concerns of surveillance technology. By adopting the spectrum of technological utopian and dystopian narratives, how people perceive a society constructed through the compulsory use of surveillance technology was explored. This study empirically examined the anonymous online expression of attitudes toward the society-wide, compulsory adoption of a contact tracing app that affected almost every aspect of all people's everyday lives at a societal level. By applying the structural topic modeling approach to analyze comments on four Hong Kong anonymous discussion forums, topics concerning the technological utopian, dystopian, and pragmatic views on the surveillance app were discovered. The findings showed that people with a technological utopian view on this app believed that the implementation of compulsory app use can facilitate social good and maintain social order. In contrast, individuals who had a technological dystopian view expressed privacy concerns and distrust of this surveillance technology. Techno-pragmatists took a balanced approach and evaluated its implementation practically.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38748085
doi: 10.1007/s11948-024-00483-3
pii: 10.1007/s11948-024-00483-3
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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Pagination
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