Between Technological Utopia and Dystopia: Online Expression of Compulsory Use of Surveillance Technology
Yu-Leung Ng,
Zhihuai Lin
Abstract: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 st… Show more
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