Critical Analysis Of Fitbits For Bosses By Lynn Stuart Parramore

In the article, Fitbits for Bosses, Lynn Stuart Parramore wrote about the concept of employees wearing arm bands that will record your psychological and physical data, such as blood pressure or heart rate, while working to collect and examine. The authors argument is strongly yielded to the invasion of privacy this source of technology can cause among the mass. This article is well based but the method that the author used to present this argument is demanding and untrustworthy; nevertheless the authors persuasion techniques can be corrected. Parramore lacks ethos and and trust that comes with it along with the emotional connection to the debasement of human body functions being studied like lab projects. Lynn S. Parramore’s article presents the concerning idea of biosurveillance, which is a concept that is usually only used to study diseases or activities that may cause harm to nature, animals, or humanity. She makes an argument that this is very invasive techniques to put a staff under and should not be allowed. There is even a mocking comment made on how the public should put congressmen under this technology …show more content…
A strong feeling of disgust and shock is subtly incited in her text. The comparison of biosurveillance technology to a dystopian film is a foreboding feeling, like before someone dies in a horror film or watching a car crash in slow motion. As the author makes these subtle insults to MIT Tech labs and throwing the Supreme Court under the bus by using an example of a law that was passed yet goes against the Amendment IV, the right to privacy. She is making the audience feel distrust towards this concept of “people analytics” and sympathetic towards those that must undergo this crime, such as bank employees or even sports customers like NFL teams (Parramore). Parramore’s conception of emotional influence is vast and she creates a very persuasive