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    Covid-19 and the digital revolution

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    Publication date
    2020
    End of Embargo
    2022-05-01
    Author
    Hantrais, L.
    Allin, P.
    Kritikos, M.
    Sogomonjan, M.
    Anand, Prathivadi B.
    Livingstone, S.
    Williams, M.
    Innes, M.
    Keyword
    Covid-19
    Official statistics
    Ethics of AI
    e-mental health
    Smart cities
    Children online
    Social media policing
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    © 2020 Taylor & Francis. This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Contemporary Social Science on 30 Oct 2020 available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2020.1833234.
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    Abstract
    Since the 1980s, the digital revolution has been both a negative and positive force. Within a few weeks of the Covid-19 outbreak, lockdown accelerated the adoption of digital solutions at an unprecedented pace, creating unforeseen opportunities for scaling up alternative approaches to social and economic life. But it also brought digital risks and threats that placed new demands on policymakers. This article assembles evidence from different areas of social science expertise about the impacts of Covid-19 in digitised societies and policy responses. The authors show how the pandemic supported changes in data collection techniques and dissemination practices for official statistics, and how seemingly insuperable obstacles to the implementation of e-health treatments were largely overcome. They demonstrate how the ethics of artificial intelligence became a primary concern for government legislation at national and international levels, and how the features enabling smart cities to act as drivers of productivity did not necessarily give them an advantage during the pandemic. At the micro-level, families are shown to have become ‘digital by default’, as children were exposed to online risks and opportunities. Globally, the spread of the pandemic provided a fertile ground for cybercrime, while digital disinformation and influencing risked becoming normalised and domesticated.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/18161
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    Accepted manuscript
    Citation
    Hantrais L, Allin P, Kritikos M et al (2020) Covid-19 and the digital revolution. Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences. Accepted for Publication.
    Link to publisher’s version
    https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2020.1833234
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    Article
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    The full-text of this article will be released for public view at the end of the publisher embargo on 01 May 2022.
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