Pandemic techno-politics in the global South

Brazil has been standing out as one of the worst places on Earth to be during a global health crisis, especially for those whose struggle for basic humanitarian rights is already routine. How do the political environment and historical inequalities in countries like Brazil affect the ways in which public policy and technologies are framed as responses for the pandemic crisis? In this paper we aim to present the sequence of actions and omissions in the fight against sars-cov2 in Brazil, concentrating on measures based on the use of digital technologies and the sociotechnical arrangements unfolding in materialities that give shape to such measures. We will also discuss possible repercussions of the widespread adoption of surveillance technologies as a quick fix to the effects of the pandemic. Our focus is to explain how the materiality of the virus and its political as well as territorial effects are combined with digital technologies as responses (or lack of them) in the fields of healthcare, education, communication and labour in the context of the global South. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Information Polity: The International Journal of Government & Democracy in the Information Age is the property of IOS Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Communication 2.0 in professional soccer in Ecuador

This research aimed to analyze the use of cybermarketing in the political campaign of Andrés Arauz during the 2021 presidential elections, in contrast to that of Lenín Moreno in 2017, to identify the change in strategies in the COVID-19 pandemic. A quantitative and qualitative methodology was proposed with an exploratory approach that allows the objective to be met. For the design, techniques such as interviews with experts in political communication and surveys of young centennials and millennials between 21 and 29 years old in various provinces of Ecuador were used. It is determined that the youth electorate is vulnerable to cybermarketing and neuromarketing, and that only certain ATL media such as radio and television, as well as other traditional activities, continued to be used in the two campaigns. Young people represent a relevant percentage in the electoral register. Cyberpolitics starts from cyberactivism and Ecuador does not have a political culture, but political marketing is advancing with referents such as Jaime Durán Barba, who has starred in some electoral victories. © 2022, Associacao Iberica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informacao. All rights reserved.

Data-Driven Citizenship Regimes in Contemporary Urban Scenarios: An Introduction

This Special Issue presents new perspectives on the idea of digital citizenship by delving into the nexus between its emerging concepts, the consequences of the global pandemic crisis, and the urban environment. It does so by addressing a wide range of case studies from three continents and developing two main hypotheses. First, the COVID-19 outbreak has expanded the impact of digital technologies on citizens' everyday life. Second, the urban realm is the environment where new citizenship regimes are emerging through platformization, datafication, and the rescaling of the state. To introduce the Special Issue, this article: (i) examines recent scholarship about the effects of the pandemic on digital citizenship;(ii) discusses and expands concepts of digital citizenship through case studies;and (iii) assesses how emerging forms of digital citizenship are fostered by uneven ‘pandemic citizenship' regimes worldwide.

Digital Citizenship: Beyond Big Data, Technical Skills, Industry 4.0, and COVID-19.

Big data and data deluge are topics that are well known in the field of systems science. Digital transformation of big data and omics fields is also underway at present. These changes are impacting life sciences broadly, and high-throughput omics inquiries specifically. On the other hand, digital transformation also calls for rethinking citizenship and moving toward critically informed digital citizenship. Past approaches to digital citizenship have tended to frame the digital health issues narrowly, around technocracy, digital literacy, and technical competence in deployment and use of digital technologies. However, digital citizenship also calls for questioning the means and ends of digital transformation, the frames in which knowledge is produced in the current era. In this context, Industry 4.0 has been one of the innovation frameworks for automation through big data, and embedded sensors connected by wireless communication. Industry 4.0 and the attendant "smart" technologies relate to various automation approaches deployed as part of the public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic as well. This article argues that there is a growing need to steer digital transformation toward critically informed digital citizenship, so that the provenance of digital data and knowledge is held to account from scientific design to implementation science, whether they concern academic or Industry 4.0 paradigms of innovation. There are enormous potentials and expectations from digital transformation in an era of COVID-19 and digital health. For this potential to materialize in ways that are efficient, democratic, and socially just, critical digital citizenship offers new ways forward. Systems science scholarship stands to benefit from a broadening of the focus on high-throughput omics technologies to a realm of critical digital citizenship, so the digital health innovations are well situated in their societal and political contexts.

Data-Driven Citizenship Regimes in Contemporary Urban Scenarios: An Introduction

This Special Issue presents new perspectives on the idea of digital citizenship by delving into the nexus between its emerging concepts, the consequences of the global pandemic crisis, and the urban environment. It does so by addressing a wide range of case studies from three continents and developing two main hypotheses. First, the COVID-19 outbreak has expanded the impact of digital technologies on citizens’ everyday life. Second, the urban realm is the environment where new citizenship regimes are emerging through platformization, datafication, and the rescaling of the state. To introduce the Special Issue, this article: (i) examines recent scholarship about the effects of the pandemic on digital citizenship;(ii) discusses and expands concepts of digital citizenship through case studies;and (iii) assesses how emerging forms of digital citizenship are fostered by uneven ‘pandemic citizenship’ regimes worldwide. [ FROM AUTHOR]

Between Surveillance and Freedom: Techno-Politics in South Korea during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The South Korean response to the COVID-19 pandemic was mainly characterized—whether positively or negatively—as the efficient implementation of surveillance supported by the extensive deployment of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Yet, the fact that the South Korean management of the pandemic was also maintained by citizens’ voluntary participation in stringent quarantine policies has received little critical attention. Through the lens of techno-politics, this essay examines the distinctive interplay of digital monitoring systems and civic engagement in South Korea during the pandemic, with particular reference to data surveillance, horizontal collectivism, and a networked multitude. In capturing the essential features of South Korean pandemic politics as reflecting key components of techno-populism, this essay draws out some social theoretical implications of reconsidering the increasingly close relationship between technology and democracy in the pandemic period. © Pacific Affairs:.