Digital Story Annotated Bibliography

Lindsay Georger

November 16, 2013

Digital Story Annotated Bibliography

Lucas, Kristen. "Workplace Dignity in a Total Institution: Examining the Experiences of Foxconn's                                    

                Migrant Workforce." Journal of Business Ethics 114.1 (2013): 91-106.

On top of my research of the horrible conditions that Foxconn employees endure, a source in this essay says that the factories work under mismanagement and abuse. Employees have expressed their dissatisfaction with their place of employment. One worker even states that the factory employees are not human beings but treated more as machines. This evidence backs up the portion of my digital story that states that Foxconn’s employees are not treated fairly.

Rasmussen, R. "Another Bad PR Month for Foxconn." SMT Surface Mount Technology             

               Magazine Apr. 2012: Print.

This article that comes from a magazine argues that even though it may seem like the media is targeting Foxconn, they are the ones putting a target on their own back. The CEO of Foxconn was just caught referring to his employees as animals. This caused much controversy and brought Foxconn into the spotlight even though they are trying to lay low. Why would they try to lay low? It is because they are not doing anything to fix their working conditions. The people at Foxconn are essentially just hoping that this blows over instead of facing the problems head on. My goal with my digital story is to bring the problem back to light and think of some simple yet effective solutions.

Q, Cheng. "The Foxconn Suicides and Their Media Prominence: Is the Werther Effect          

            Applicable in China?" BMC Public Health 11 (2011): 841. Print.

This article refers to the suicides that occurred at Foxconn as a temporal cluster of suicides. It also talks about how the media contributed to the controversy. The article says that if people had not killed themselves, no one would have known or cared about the conditions at Foxconn. It also states that if the media had not talked about it so much then it would have seemed like a coincidence. We have talked about the media being involved in everything we do and in this case, it is good that the media was involved. My goal with this article is to relate it to inquiring how we can use media to spread the message even more and I intend to use my digital story to do so.

Xu, Kaibin, and Wenqing Li. "An Ethical Stakeholder Approach to Crisis

            Communication: A Case Study of Foxconn's 2010 Employee Suicide Crisis."Journal of    

           Business Ethics 117.2 (2013): 371-86.

This article focuses on the efforts made by Foxconn as a result of the suicides that I describe in my digital story. The authors of the article say that the executives at Foxconn reached out to the valuable stockholders who were bringing in a lot of money for their company to answer their questions and addressing their concerns instead of worrying about the other workers. Foxconn neglected to realize their employees as important stockholders as well and they would not take responsibility for the suicides. This article supports my idea that Foxconn is not doing enough for their employees to prevent future suicides from happening.