ABSTRACT
This chapter explores algoactivism in the workplace, understood as a set of practices through which workers, along with other actors, engage with stochastic technologies. In doing so, they contribute to shaping their use and organising processes that incorporate them. Grounded in a theoretical framework that integrates perspectives of appropriation and enactment, this contribution examines the algoactivism of workers involved in a health promotion programme. In this programme, technology is intended to reshape their daily lives by following clinical guidelines on nutrition and physical activity. Drawing on qualitative interviews with both workers and professionals involved in the programme, the chapter demonstrates, on the one hand, how workers use the mobile app – that is, by aligning it with their needs, living conditions, and belief systems, thereby deriving benefits from its use. On the other hand, it highlights how workers, in collaboration with professionals, shape the programme – that is, by connecting the use of the mobile app with the professional work they conduct.
