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Record W4386741886 · doi:10.5206/uwomj.v90i1.14058

Emergence of Surveillance Capitalism in Medicine

2023· article· en· W4386741886 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Andrea Kassay

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Western Ontario Medical Journal · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial Media in Health Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCapitalismCommodificationSocial mediaPublic healthBig dataPublic relationsBusinessSociologyEconomicsPolitical scienceMarket economyMedicineLawComputer science

Abstract

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Surveillance capitalism is defined by Dr. Zuboff, Harvard professor of social psychology, as the “commodification of reality and its transformation into behavioural data for analysis and sales” which is invading our modern world. Surveillance capitalism can occur through the use of social media and search engines; these platforms provide third party companies with large amounts of data that allows them to predict how we, the consumer, will behave. As a result of using their platforms, these companies learn how to modify our behaviour through the use of this complex behavioural psychology, and we put ourselves at risk of manipulation without even knowing it. Surveillance capitalism is a new force that is emerging in medicine and consequently becoming a new public health concern. This commentary will discuss the way surveillance capitalism affects public health through the use of Google, social media, and apps. Surveillance capitalism is on the rise in our society, and it is hard to stop it from invading our personal and private lives. Steps towards resolving this emerging public health problem involve better systems in place to protect consumer data, encouraging consumers to think critically about the information they see online, and funding more research to understand the ethical implications of these platforms in use.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.016
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.026
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.995
Threshold uncertainty score0.093

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0160.026
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.046
Scholarly communication0.0100.008
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0090.013
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.087
GPT teacher head0.361
Teacher spread0.275 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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