Accounting for "the social" in contact tracing applications
The paradox between public health governance and mistrust of government's data use
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5260964 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Y T Li (0000-0002-4897-3616, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Big Data & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-9517 • E-ISSN: 2053-9517 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/20539517211054277 |
| OpenAlex | W3213787129 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 13 |
This essay adopts three accounts (sociological, neoliberal, and cybernetic) of "the social" to get a clearer picture of why there is a barrier faced by the government when implementing contact tracing mobile applications. In Hong Kong's context, the paradox involves declining trust of the government's protection of data privacy and growing concern about data surveillance since the 2019 social unrest I argue that exploring the idea of sociality is valuable in that it re-reconfigures the datafication of pandemic control by revealing different sets of social relations, particularly the asymmetrical power relation between the government and its people. The refusal to download or use the mobile app also shows that the public has a faith in human agency and human resistance in data-saturated cities
Corporate governance · Economics · Governmentality · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing · Law · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Public Administration
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Social data governance
The Alternative Epistemologies of Data Activism
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A tale of two city-states
State surveillance and the Covid-19 crisis
Policymaking in a low-trust state
CityPsyche—Hong Kong
Actually-existing sociality in a smart city
Mediatisation and datafication in the global Covid-19 pandemic
Making sense of algorithms
From data politics to the contentious politics of data
Techno-solutionism and the standard human in the making of the Covid-19 pandemic
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |