Digitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic
environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the …

The Snowden leaks provided unprecedented insights into the operations of state-corporate
surveillance and highlighted the indiscriminate nature of largescale data collection across …

The widespread collection and use of data has been the subject of much public and
scholarly interest in recent years. Data justice has emerged as a significant framework for …

The pervasive use of the Internet and technology has its impact on citizens' civic
participation. There are growing numbers of research which explore digital citizenship (DC) …

When digital technologies become a part of everyday life in most parts of society, it changes
the way we work, organize, communicate, and make relations. It also changes the …

Through an array of technological solutions and awareness-raising initiatives, civil society
mobilizes against an onslaught of surveillance threats. What alternative values, practices …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to explore how China uses a social credit
system as part of its “data-driven authoritarianism” policy; and second, to investigate how …

ABSTRACT 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 …

It is now widely accepted that data are oiling the twenty-first century (Toonders 2014). Data
gathering and tracking are practically universal, and datafication (the quantification of …

This article sought to develop a critical account of the ever-increasing role of ICTs in cities
and urban governance discourses, captured by a growing interest to 'smarten up'our cities …