TraceTogether: Pandemic Response, Democracy, and Technology
TraceTogether: Pandemic Response, Democracy, and Technology
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DOI：
10.1215/18752160-8698301
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发表时间：
2020-09-01
影响因子：
0.8
通讯作者：
Haines, Monamie Bhadra
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作者：
Stevens, Hallam;Haines, Monamie Bhadra
2020年3月20日，在COVID-19疫情期间，新加坡政府发布了一款名为TraceTogether的新应用程序。该应用程序由卫生部、SG United和GovTech新加坡开发，它利用智能手机的蓝牙功能来存储与你的智能手机非常接近的其他智能手机的信息。这些数据促进了政府的“接触者追踪”过程，通过该过程，他们追踪那些可能接触过病毒的人，并将他们隔离。本文试图了解这种技术可能会产生什么样的公民和公民行为。通过详细研究TraceTogether应用程序的工作原理和启示，作者认为其点对点和开源技术功能调动了公民科学和民主参与的知识和理想。然而，通过在集中数据的环境中部署这些应用程序，该应用程序将异议和抗议所产生的理想转化为他们的头脑，利用它们来建立信任，而不是在社区内部，而是在政府权力和控制中。TraceTogether没有建立社会信任，而是成为了一种技术替代品。TraceTogether的重大公众支持显示了公民科学在不那么自由的政治背景和环境中的可能性和局限性。
On 20 March 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Singapore government released a new app called TraceTogether. Developed by the Ministry of Health, SG United, and GovTech Singapore, the app uses the Bluetooth capability of smartphones to store information about other smartphones that have come into close proximity with your own. These data facilitate the government's process of "contact tracing" through which they track those who have potentially come into contact with the virus and place them in quarantine. This essay attempts to understand what kinds of citizens and civic behavior might be brought into being by this technology. By examining the workings and affordances of the TraceTogether app in detail, the authors argue that its peer-to-peer and open-source technology features mobilize the rhetorics and ideals of citizens science and democratic participation. However, by deploying these within a context that centralizes data, the app turns ideals born of dissent and protest on their head, using them to build trust not within a community but rather in government power and control. Rather than building social trust, TraceTogether becomes a technological substitute for it. The significant public support for TraceTogether shows both the possibilities and limitations of citizen science in less liberal political contexts and circumstances.