Why distance matters: The relatedness between technology development and its appropriation in smart cities

Rama Kummitha

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120087

Why distance matters: The relatedness between technology development and its appropriation in smart cities

Rama Kummitha

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Abstract

How does the distance between the development and adoption of technology determine its affordance? By referring to the sociomateriality literature, I discuss why the corporate-driven push of technologies into smart cities can lead to ineffective outcomes. This review paper then argues that technologies should be locally built, with a stronger connect between the humans in cities and the technologies being developed and implemented, in order to achieve technological affordance. Finally, I identify a number of research avenues to understand technology-human connect in smart cities.

Original language	English
Article number	120087
Number of pages	8
Journal	Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Volume	157
Early online date	7 May 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120087
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2020

Keywords

Human agency
Smart city
Sociomateriality
Structuration
Technology

UN SDGs

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