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The effect of the pandemic on European narratives on smart cities and surveillance

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dc.abstract.enThis article presents an analysis of European smart city narratives and how they evolved under the pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic. We start with Joss et al.’s observation that the smart-city discourse is presently in flux, engaged in intensive boundary-work and struggling to gain wider support. We approach this process from the critical perspective of surveillance capitalism, as proposed by Zuboff, to highlight the growing privacy concerns related to technological development. Our results are based on analysing 184 articles regarding smart-city solutions, published on social media by five European journals between 2017 and 2021. We adopted both human and machine coding processes for qualitative and quantitative analysis of our data. As a result, we identified the main actors and four dominant narratives: regulation of artificial intelligence and facial recognition, technological fight with the climate emergency, contact tracing apps and the potential of 5G technology to boost the digitalisation processes. Our analysis shows the growing number of positive narratives underlining the importance of technology in fighting the pandemic and mitigating the climate emergency, but the latter is often mentioned in a tokenistic fashion. Right to privacy considerations are central for two out of four discovered topics. We found that the main rationale for the development of surveillance technologies relates to the competitiveness of the EU in the global technological rivalry, while ambitions like increasing societal well-being or safeguarding the transparency of new policies are nearly non-existent.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorNowak, Andrzej
dc.contributor.authorRoszczyńska-Kurasińska, Magdalena
dc.contributor.authorDomaradzka-Widła, Anna
dc.contributor.authorBiesaga, Mikołaj
dc.contributor.authorTalaga, Szymon
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-26T10:11:43Z
dc.date.available2024-01-26T10:11:43Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.accesstimeAT_PUBLICATION
dc.description.financeŚrodki finansowe, o których mowa w art. 365 pkt. 2 ustawy
dc.description.number10
dc.description.versionFINAL_PUBLISHED
dc.description.volume60
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/00420980221138317
dc.identifier.issn0042-0980
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/122217
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221138317
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationsociology
dc.relation.ispartofUrban Studies
dc.relation.pages1894-1914
dc.rightsCC-BY
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dc.titleThe effect of the pandemic on European narratives on smart cities and surveillance
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication