Technology Legitimation and User Resistance: The NHS COVID-19 App

Carlos Ferreira; Maureen Meadows; Evronia Azer

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15342-6_32

Technology Legitimation and User Resistance: The NHS COVID-19 App

Carlos Ferreira
, Maureen Meadows
, Evronia Azer

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Abstract

Innovative technologies often face acceptance challenges. This is especially true when they constitute disruptive innovations. Disruptive innovations can forcefully alter the way things are done in the economy and society and have differential impacts for social groups. Legitimacy – the fit between an innovation, and society at large – is an important explanatory factor of the success of disruptive technologies. The micro-judgements of legitimacy that individuals make with regards to a technology, can help understand why some innovations succeed or fail. Likewise, users’ actions when using said innovations may indicate how acceptable the technology is to users. This paper analyses how users judge, and use, the NHS COVID-19 Test & Trace app. Preliminary findings suggest that individuals’ micro-legitimacy judgements are strongly related to the decision to use the app or not, and that users have adopted a number of workaround behaviours to resist or compensate for the app’s functionality.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Role of Digital Technologies in Shaping the Post-Pandemic World
Editors	Savvas Papagiannidis, Eleftherios Alamanos, Suraksha Gupta, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Matti Mäntymäki, Ilias O. Pappas
Publisher	Springer
Pages	416-421
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-15342-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-15341-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15342-6_32
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society - Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Sept 2022 → 14 Sept 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Volume	13454
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

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Conference	Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Newcastle Upon Tyne
Period	13/09/22 → 14/09/22

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Keywords

Legitimacy
Legitimation
Technology acceptance

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Ferreira, C., Meadows, M., & Azer, E. (2022). Technology Legitimation and User Resistance: The NHS COVID-19 App. In S. Papagiannidis, E. Alamanos, S. Gupta, Y. K. Dwivedi, M. Mäntymäki, & I. O. Pappas (Eds.), The Role of Digital Technologies in Shaping the Post-Pandemic World (pp. 416-421). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13454). Springer . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15342-6_32

Technology Legitimation and User Resistance: The NHS COVID-19 App. / Ferreira, Carlos; Meadows, Maureen; Azer, Evronia.
The Role of Digital Technologies in Shaping the Post-Pandemic World. ed. / Savvas Papagiannidis; Eleftherios Alamanos; Suraksha Gupta; Yogesh K. Dwivedi; Matti Mäntymäki; Ilias O. Pappas. Springer , 2022. p. 416-421 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13454).

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Ferreira, C, Meadows, M & Azer, E 2022, Technology Legitimation and User Resistance: The NHS COVID-19 App. in S Papagiannidis, E Alamanos, S Gupta, YK Dwivedi, M Mäntymäki & IO Pappas (eds), The Role of Digital Technologies in Shaping the Post-Pandemic World. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13454, Springer , pp. 416-421, Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 13/09/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15342-6_32

Ferreira C, Meadows M, Azer E. Technology Legitimation and User Resistance: The NHS COVID-19 App. In Papagiannidis S, Alamanos E, Gupta S, Dwivedi YK, Mäntymäki M, Pappas IO, editors, The Role of Digital Technologies in Shaping the Post-Pandemic World. Springer . 2022. p. 416-421. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Epub 2022 Sept 6. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-15342-6_32

Ferreira, Carlos ; Meadows, Maureen ; Azer, Evronia. / Technology Legitimation and User Resistance : The NHS COVID-19 App. The Role of Digital Technologies in Shaping the Post-Pandemic World. editor / Savvas Papagiannidis ; Eleftherios Alamanos ; Suraksha Gupta ; Yogesh K. Dwivedi ; Matti Mäntymäki ; Ilias O. Pappas. Springer , 2022. pp. 416-421 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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