“Free”-to-play game: Governing the everyday life of digital popular culture

Lassila, Erkki M.

doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2022.102434

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“…These studies highlight that these digital technologies are predicated on constructed spaces of calculability that seek to collect, quantify, measure and evaluate social phenomena, organisations and actors for particular ends (Miller and Power, 2013; Stark and Pais, 2020). Despite these investigations, we still “know fairly little about the role and influence of calculative technologies in the complex webs and associations in digital space” (Lassila, 2022, p. 1), and there remains ample scope to interrogate digital technologies in a calculative era.…”

Section: State Of Play In Accounting: Digital Technologies In a Calcu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…1-2). While the Australian Government was eager to see uptake as part of its programme to control COVID, the positive effects touted by the government were not followed by a lifting of “the curtain to see the things left out of the algorithmic calculations” (Lassila, 2022, p. 20), or indeed the people left out of calculative mechanisms. Therefore, the data collected was contestable, partial and could not adequately represent the spread and management of COVID.…”

Section: Covidsafe: An Interdisciplinary Reflectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, given the inescapable presence of technological systems in our daily lives, “whether positive or not” (Lassila, 2022, p. 2), wicked problems inherently involve socio-technical dimensions. Coupled with this is the notion that we live in a “calculative era”, where “the nuts and bolts of accounting [have] become pervasive in governing our lives and shaping our behaviours” (Tsahuridu and Carnegie, 2018).…”

Section: State Of Play In Accounting: Digital Technologies In a Calcu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This transforms the app into an “efficient environment transforming actions into stable, mobile, combinable, and therefore calculable [formats] […]. enabling action at a distance” (Lassila, 2022, pp. 1-2).…”

Section: Covidsafe: An Interdisciplinary Reflectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A socio-technical perspective is particularly important in the post-COVID world, characterised by pervasive technological systems infiltrating many facets of our lives in what has been deemed the "calculative era" (Carnegie, 2019(Carnegie, , p. 2204Lassila, 2022). These systems range from applications used by individuals on personal devices to other technologies or AIS used in an organisational context, through to large-scale societal systems implemented as part of a public health/government response.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Broadening the boundaries of accounting: a call for interdisciplinarity in the calculative era

Twyford

2022

MEDAR

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Purpose This paper aims to present a preliminary exploration of the intersections between the accounting and information systems (IS) disciplines. Using the illustrative example of the COVIDSafe app, released by the Australian federal government in response to the “wicked problem” of COVID-19, we demonstrate the value of interdisciplinarity to broaden the boundaries of accounting beyond a technical orientation to encompass social and moral considerations. Design/methodology/approach We apply a high-level view of socio-technical theory derived from the IS discipline by using a close-reading method of publicly available media and federal government sources related to the COVIDSafe app collected between April 2020 and April 2021. This theoretical lens allows for an enhanced understanding of the technical, environmental/regulatory, and social subsystems relating to accounting and accountability while supporting interdisciplinary reflection. Findings Addressing complex and wicked problems in accounting requires interdisciplinary approaches, whereby the accounting discipline must move beyond its technical origins. Dialogue between the accounting and IS disciplines is necessary to gain a deeper appreciation of the social, technical and moral implications of accounting in context. Research limitations/implications Viewing accounting beyond a technical practice through collaboration between accounting and IS offers a theorisation to consider the multi-dimensional nature of complex societal challenges. This theorisation can support the advancement of our practice and research meaningfully toward a view of accounting that centres on ideas of the public interest and the betterment of society. There remains much scope for progressing this dialogue, and we commend other scholars to engage in interdisciplinary work on the boundaries of accounting. Originality/value This study illustrates opportunities for accounting and IS approaches to solving “grand challenges”. Further, the study answers multiple calls for interdisciplinary discourse in accounting scholarship by contributing a socio-technical framing toward addressing complex challenges in our calculative era by initiating a dialogue that moves beyond accounting's traditional technical practice or the “accounting information systems” context.

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Section: State Of Play In Accounting: Digital Technologies In a Calcu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Covidsafe: An Interdisciplinary Reflectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: State Of Play In Accounting: Digital Technologies In a Calcu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Covidsafe: An Interdisciplinary Reflectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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