Kummitha, Rama (2020) Why distance matters: The relatedness between technology development and its appropriation in smart cities. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 157. p. 120087. ISSN 0040-1625
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Technology, Smart city, Sociomateriality, Structuration, Human agency |
| Subjects: | J900 Others in Technology K400 Planning (Urban, Rural and Regional) L900 Others in Social studies N900 Others in Business and Administrative studies |
| Department: | Faculties > Business and Law > Newcastle Business School |
| Depositing User: | Elena Carlaw |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Sep 2020 10:43 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2021 03:30 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/44352 |
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