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Title	Covid-19 Sentiments In Smart Cities: The Role Of Technology Anxiety Before And During The Pandemic
ID_Doc	16425
Authors	Troisi, O; Fenza, G; Grimaldi, M; Loia, F
Year	2022
Published	COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR, 126
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106986
Abstract	The spread of Covid-19 profoundly changed citizens' daily lives due to the introduction of new modes of work and access to services based on smart technologies. Although the relevance of new technologies as strategic levers for crisis resolution has been widely debated before the pandemic, especially in the smart cities' context, how individuals have agreed to include the technological changes dictated by the pandemic in their daily interactions remains an open question. This paper aims at detecting citizens' sentiment toward technology before and after the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic using Fuzzy Formal Concept Analysis (FFCA) to analyze a large corpus of tweets. Specifically, citizens' attitudes in five cities (Berlin, Dublin, London, Milan, and Madrid) were explored to extract and classify the key topics related to the degree of confidence, familiarity and approval of new technologies. The results shed light on the complex technology acceptance process and help managers identify the potential negative effects of smart technologies. In this way, the study enhances scholars' and practitioners' understanding of the strategies for enabling the use of technology within smart cities to manage the transformations introduced by the health emergency and guide citizens' behaviour.
Author Keywords	Covid-19; Smart cities; Pandemic; Citizen behaviour; Technology anxiety; Fuzzy formal concept analysis

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