"Smittestopp": If you want your freedom back, download now. Issue 2 (July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sandvik, Kristin B
• Is Part Of: Big data & society. Volume 7:Issue 2(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-07
• Subjects: Covid-19 -- human rights -- Norway -- pandemic -- public health -- surveillance -- technological utopianism -- tracing app -- trust; Big data -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Data mining -- Periodicals; 300.28557
• DOI: 10.1177/2053951720939985
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2053-9517

Abstract

The intervention attempts to engage critically with the Smittestopp app as a specifically Norwegian technofix. Culturally and politically, much of the Covid-19 response and the success of social distancing rules have been organized around the widespread trust in the government and public health authorities, and a focus on the citizens' duty to contribute to the dugnaðr. The intervention argues that Smittestopp has been co-created by the mobilization of trust and dugnaðr, resulting in the launch of an incomplete and poorly defined data-hoarding product with significant vulnerabilities.