Contact tracing apps, nationalism, and users with disability in the Global South

The faith in state and collective objective

Bibliographic Data

ID13012127
AuthorsAbdul Rohman (0000-0001-9826-903X, RMIT Vietnam, corresponding author), Dyah Pitaloka (0000-0002-5603-1290, Monash University Malaysia)
Year2023
Volume11
Issue2
Pages230-247
Publication date2023-02-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMobile Media & Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2050-1579 • E-ISSN: 2050-1587
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/20501579231158908
OpenAlexW4323267590
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited22

Contact tracing apps have magnified the potential usefulness of mobile media and communication technologies for responding to disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Their efficacy and ethical debates have become the focus of recent studies in the Global North. Reasons for using contact tracing apps among users with disability living in the Global South, however, seem to be understudied. Through cases from Indonesia and Vietnam, this study found that nationalistic values were among the reasons for using contact tracing apps as reflected in the users’ faith in the state and inclination to support its collective objective to control the pandemic. The users believed the state would be accountable in managing the personal and mobility data the contact tracing apps collected. Using contact tracing apps represented the users’ sense of capabilities to individually partake in the existing efforts to control the pandemic

Contact tracing · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Faith · Internet privacy · Nationalism · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Tracing · Computer Science · COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing · Immune responses and vaccinations · Law · Medicine