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It focuses on what people actually say about mobile technology but also aims to pay attention to what they do not talk about, what is found in the silence, especially with new technology when much can be taken for granted. This latter is, according to Foucault, even more important to understand.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>The research draws on empirical research through 11 semi\u2010structured interviews and interviews with five focus groups, comprising between four and eight care assistants in each group. The interviews were with three women and three men between 25\u201070 years old, five female public sector middle managers and care assistants from five focus groups at social services departments in the north of Sweden. A Foucauldian approach is adopted to interpret the findings and explore how their locations within the circuits of socio\u2010technical networks engender uncertainty with mobile technology. The present spread of IT reinforces a belief that people are integrated into the circuits of socio\u2010technical networks.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The findings suggest, on the one hand, that new technologies like mobile communication can be used to organise our everyday lives, whilst, on the other, there are risks with the new technologies, which can discipline discourses.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>These issues are discussed from a sociological and informatics perspective.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/09593840510633310","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,1,15]],"date-time":"2007-01-15T17:58:44Z","timestamp":1168883924000},"page":"343-358","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Emphasizing technology: socio\u2010technical implications"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Elisabeth","family":"Berg","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Christina","family":"M\u00f6rtberg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Maria","family":"Jansson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2021010620342392700_b1","unstructured":"Barret, M. 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