CityPsyche—Hong Kong

Chen, Hung-Ying; Barber, Lachlan B.

doi:10.1080/13604813.2020.1739431

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“…Such concerns have pointed to the paradox between “data-first” (out of public interest—public health governance) and “privacy-first” (concerns about surveillance and government's misuse of data as a way of controlling its citizens) (Fahey and Hino, 2020). Research has also discussed the Chinese state's surveillance that operates behind Hong Kong's city-wide fear (Chen and Barber, 2020), along with the public's mistrust of the government's top-down surveillance of social unrest (including the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement). Using the contact tracing mobile app “LeaveHomeSafe” in Hong Kong as an example, this essay argues that concern about data privacy is proceeded and escalated.…”

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Accounting for “the social” in contact tracing applications: The paradox between public health governance and mistrust of government's data use

2021

Big Data & Society

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This essay adopts three accounts (sociological, neoliberal, and cybernetic) of “the social” to get a clearer picture of why there is a barrier faced by the government when implementing contact tracing mobile applications. In Hong Kong's context, the paradox involves declining trust of the government's protection of data privacy and growing concern about data surveillance since the 2019 social unrest I argue that exploring the idea of sociality is valuable in that it re-reconfigures the datafication of pandemic control by revealing different sets of social relations, particularly the asymmetrical power relation between the government and its people. The refusal to download or use the mobile app also shows that the public has a faith in human agency and human resistance in data-saturated cities.

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Accounting for “the social” in contact tracing applications: The paradox between public health governance and mistrust of government's data use

2021

Big Data & Society

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“…On the one hand, a few studies pointed out that the duration of a lockdown matters more than its strictness (Guan et al, 2020). Cities have generally been robust to short-term shocks (Glaeser, 2021) but may be negatively affected by long-term restrictions (Chen et al, 2022;Fezzi and Fanghella, 2021). Scholars argued that disruptions caused by the pandemic would have a longer-term effect on mobility than the duration of the emergency (Christidis et al, 2021).…”

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Structural Changes in Human Mobility Under the Zero-COVID Strategy in China

Zhang

Yeh

et al. 2023

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Over the past two years, China has wrested domestic control of the COVID-19 pandemic through non-pharmaceutical interventions. However, the extent to which the pandemic has changed people’s travel behavior in the new normal under the zero-COVID policy is not yet clear. This study investigates the profound effects of the zero-COVID strategy on human mobility in 365 Chinese cities over time. Our results suggest the following: (1) Even between city pairs with no local cases, intercity mobility decreased by an average of 16%, whereas intra-city mobility increased by 9% compared with the pre-pandemic baseline. Long-distance travel decreased substantially, while trips below 100 km increased slightly. These new trends indicate a localized pattern which is presumably caused by the wide adoption of teleworking and virtual classes, as well as concerns about the safety and availability of public transportation. (2) Containment measures caused a considerably acute decline in intercity short-distance trips but exerted a markedly lasting effect on long-distance trips. (3) Cities with lower levels of urbanization, smaller population sizes, less labor force, and lower GDP and GDP per capita experienced greater reductions in mobility, which may be due to their insufficient management capabilities. (4) The Chinese government has adopted adaptive measures to contain outbreaks. Stricter and more timely responses led to faster recoveries in the second half of 2021 compared with the first half. Inter- and intra-city mobility decreased by 41% and 26%, respectively, within the first 2 weeks of an outbreak, and it took 6-7 weeks to return to pre-outbreak levels.

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“…In this article, we characterize and address the above challenges by revisiting the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB hereafter) movement, an impactful socio-political movement in Hong Kong, from the transportation resilience angle. There have been quite a few articles on the Anti-ELAB movement in realms such as political science, sociology, and arts (9)(10)(11)(12). We hope to advance related scholarship and practice concerning transportation resilience, which is defined as a system's capability to return to an equilibrium between the demand and supply after a disturbance.…”

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Public Transportation and Social Movements: Learning from the Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests

Chan

Zhou

2021

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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In this article, we address the public transportation system’s resilience in social movements, which has been under-explored in transportation scholarship. On the one hand, public transportation enables mass mobilization of people and materials and large-scale public engagement in political/social events in transit-reliant cities like Hong Kong. On the other hand, public transportation can be an instrument for both the government and event participants—the former interferes with the public transportation service provision to manage and mitigate the adverse impacts of social movements it perceives on society, whereas the latter disrupt public transportation services or vandalize and damage related facilities to express their discontent and to put pressure on the former. The dynamic resilience of the public transportation system against the above backdrop warrants more in-depth exploration. We incorporate both supply and demand shocks to theorize resilience as a public transportation system’s capability to return to a new equilibrium between the supply and demand after a disturbance. The theoretical approach is illustrated using empirical data and publicly available materials concerning the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill movement in Hong Kong.

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CityPsyche—Hong Kong

Cited by 12 publications

References 8 publications

Accounting for “the social” in contact tracing applications: The paradox between public health governance and mistrust of government's data use

Accounting for “the social” in contact tracing applications: The paradox between public health governance and mistrust of government's data use

Structural Changes in Human Mobility Under the Zero-COVID Strategy in China

Public Transportation and Social Movements: Learning from the Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests

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