Delineating privacy aspects of COVID tracing applications embedded with proximity measurement technologies & digital technologies

T Saheb, E Sabour, F Qanbary, T Saheb - Technology in Society, 2022 - Elsevier
As the COVID-19 pandemic expanded over the globe, governments implemented a series of
technological measures to prevent the disease's spread. The development of the COVID …

Pandemic nationalism: use of government social media for political information and belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories in China

A Chen, Y Lu, K Chen, AY Ng - The International Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic unleashed a torrent of conspiracy theories across different social
media platforms. Parallel to this conspiracy wave was a heightened sense of nationalism …

Crisis management, surveillance, and digital ethics in the COVID‐19 era

K Boersma, M Büscher, C Fonio - Journal of Contingencies and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this special issue, we reflect on the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) crisis
and the containment measures put in place by formal authorities, combining both …

Social data governance: Towards a definition and model

J Liu - Big Data & Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
With the surge in the number of data and datafied governance initiatives, arrangements, and
practices across the globe, understanding various types of such initiatives, arrangements …

Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing

M Mann, P Mitchell, M Foth - New media & society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we examine the rise of contact-tracing apps during the first 2 years of the
COVID-19 pandemic as a new form of technological solutionism–a technological or techno …

[HTML][HTML] 'Barely keeping the wheels on the trolley': A qualitative study of the New Zealand COVID Tracer App

P Elers, S Derrett, T Emery, T Chambers - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Digital contact tracing apps were developed to help control the spread of COVID-19 but
research exploring these apps has underrepresented both 'at-risk'communities and contact …

Where horizontal and vertical surveillances meet: Sense-making of US COVID-19 contact-tracing apps during a health crisis

J Baik, E Jang - Mobile media & communication, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Analyzing user reviews of seven US digital contact-tracing apps for COVID-19, this article
unpacks how the new form of surveillance technology is understood and experienced by …

Maintainers of Stability: The Labor of China's Data-Driven Governance and Dynamic Zero-COVID

Y Chen, Y Sun, S Lindtner - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This paper examines the social, technological, and emotional labor of maintaining China's
data-driven governance broadly, and dynamic zero-COVID management in particular …

'China'as a 'Black Box?'Rethinking methods through a sociotechnical perspective

Y Chen, AJ Lu, AX Wu - Information, Communication & Society, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Amid the ongoing pandemic and the so-called 'New Cold War,'physical mobility dwindles
and political paranoia surges. China has been increasingly portrayed as a 'black box'in …

Techno-biopolitics under a tentative “state of exception”: the institutional logic of the digital governance of inbound travelers during the COVID-19 pandemic in China

Y Li, Q He - Chinese Journal of Communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic propelled many countries into a “state of exception,” under which
several regular governance norms were suspended and emergency regulations were …