| Title |
Why distance matters: The relatedness between technology development and its appropriation in smart cities |
| ID_Doc |
43247 |
| Authors |
Kummitha, RKR |
| Title |
Why distance matters: The relatedness between technology development and its appropriation in smart cities |
| Year |
2020 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120087 |
| 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. |
| Author Keywords |
Technology; Smart city; Sociomateriality; Structuration; Human agency |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000540275500019 |
| WoS Category |
Business; Regional & Urban Planning |
| Research Area |
Business & Economics; Public Administration |
| PDF |
http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/44352/1/14%20April%202020_Final.pdf
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