At the same time, this can allow schools and employers to watch over their students and employees in order to guarantee a professional setting (Student Presentation). With respect to sporting activities, athletes are routinely checked to make certain that they are not taking any form of drugs that could enhance their performance and create an unfair advantage (Student Presentation). This is problematic as all athletes have to endure testing, which inevitably assumes everyone is guilty of taking performance-enhancing drugs until proven innocent from systems like the Athlete Biological Passport (Lippert Lecture; Student Presentation). This hinders an athletes freedom of choice as those who want to continue to be athletes must go through with
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2). In doing so, we are in charge of our sleep, food and liquid intake as well as our physical activity (Hill, 2011, p. 2). This can become overwhelming as individuals may feel that they have to take care of themselves if they want live a happy, healthy, fulfilling lifestyle (Goodyear, Kerner, & Quennerstedt, 2017, p. 2). Taking this into account, we are self-disciplining ourselves in order to avoid any unwanted gazes that could result in us self-doubting not only our bodies, but also ourselves (Lippert Lecture; Dee, 2013, p. 276). This can be a very demeaning process as we are using our gadget to determine if we are worthy enough to fit in with those in society and if we are not we are essentially saying we have to change if we want to be accepted. It is important to note, that the data compiled from one’s Fitbit is not confidential as it is transferred to the companies app to determine an answer on how the individual can fix their sleep schedule, calorie intake, and health (Limb, 2014, p. …show more content…
With that being said, these five identifiers are built into surveillance technologies since humans with fixed mindsets created these tools in order to sort people as “desirable” or “undesirable” (Lippert Lecture). With regards to salaries, those who are are struggling to make a decent living are watched far more often than those who are wealthy (Dee, 2013, p. 274). For example, in Australia they use a specific welfare surveillance technology called the BasicsCard (Dee, 2013, p. 273). This card watches every purchase that is made to ensure that the card holder is not buying anything that the Australian Government deems inappropriate or unhealthy (Dee, 2013, p. 273). Items that are permitted include: Food, clothing, gasoline, cleaning products, and housing amenities and utilities; whereas, alcohol, tobacco, pornography, and gambling are forbidden (Dee, 2013, p. 273). Although, the Australian Government has good intentions it is unfair to control how one allocates their money as those who are well-off are allowed to spend their money on essential needs as well as their desires (Dee, 2013, p. 273). Therefore, those on welfare do not have a choice and are flagged when they decide to disobey the rules. This is unjust as many individuals in need of this card are seen and treated as irresponsible and deviant in their community (Dee, 2013, p. 272). These individuals are not given
2). In doing so, we are in charge of our sleep, food and liquid intake as well as our physical activity (Hill, 2011, p. 2). This can become overwhelming as individuals may feel that they have to take care of themselves if they want live a happy, healthy, fulfilling lifestyle (Goodyear, Kerner, & Quennerstedt, 2017, p. 2). Taking this into account, we are self-disciplining ourselves in order to avoid any unwanted gazes that could result in us self-doubting not only our bodies, but also ourselves (Lippert Lecture; Dee, 2013, p. 276). This can be a very demeaning process as we are using our gadget to determine if we are worthy enough to fit in with those in society and if we are not we are essentially saying we have to change if we want to be accepted. It is important to note, that the data compiled from one’s Fitbit is not confidential as it is transferred to the companies app to determine an answer on how the individual can fix their sleep schedule, calorie intake, and health (Limb, 2014, p. …show more content…
With that being said, these five identifiers are built into surveillance technologies since humans with fixed mindsets created these tools in order to sort people as “desirable” or “undesirable” (Lippert Lecture). With regards to salaries, those who are are struggling to make a decent living are watched far more often than those who are wealthy (Dee, 2013, p. 274). For example, in Australia they use a specific welfare surveillance technology called the BasicsCard (Dee, 2013, p. 273). This card watches every purchase that is made to ensure that the card holder is not buying anything that the Australian Government deems inappropriate or unhealthy (Dee, 2013, p. 273). Items that are permitted include: Food, clothing, gasoline, cleaning products, and housing amenities and utilities; whereas, alcohol, tobacco, pornography, and gambling are forbidden (Dee, 2013, p. 273). Although, the Australian Government has good intentions it is unfair to control how one allocates their money as those who are well-off are allowed to spend their money on essential needs as well as their desires (Dee, 2013, p. 273). Therefore, those on welfare do not have a choice and are flagged when they decide to disobey the rules. This is unjust as many individuals in need of this card are seen and treated as irresponsible and deviant in their community (Dee, 2013, p. 272). These individuals are not given