Transparency, openness and privacy among software
professionals: discourses and practices surrounding use
of the digital calendar
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Title
Transparency, openness and privacy among software
professionals: discourses and practices surrounding use
of the digital calendar
professionals: discourses and practices surrounding use
of the digital calendar
Subject
groupware calendar systems, workplace calendar use, transparency, privacy, digital calendar
Description
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.
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.
Creator
Vanessa Ciccone
Source
https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad015
Date
3 April 2023
Contributor
PERI IRAWAN
Format
PDF
Language
ENGLISH
Type
TEXT
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Collection
Citation
Vanessa Ciccone, “Transparency, openness and privacy among software
professionals: discourses and practices surrounding use
of the digital calendar,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed May 22, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/8686.
professionals: discourses and practices surrounding use
of the digital calendar,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed May 22, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/8686.