Abstract

VILLAMIZAR ESCOBAR, Juan Diego  and  SORZANO RODRIGUEZ, Deisy Milena. Social Mobilization in the Face of Digital Transformation of the Mobile Network in Urban Spaces in A Period of Health Emergency by COVID-19. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2023, vol.32, n.2, pp.366-381.  Epub Mar 19, 2024. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v32n2.107258.

The research aimed to critically examine the technological risks and social mobilization that resulted from the installation of 4.5G mobile phone antenna technologies in Comuna 6, northeast Colombia, during the COVID-19 health emergency. The citizens' views on the dangers of the technology to their health were taken into consideration. The findings, which were based on a qualitative technique, showed that the citizens linked the antennas with the generation of negative external forces, as inevitable evils, and with only benefit generators from a more technical determinism standpoint. The debate on technological coupling in society took the form of a reflective discourse that laid the foundation for absorbing uncertainty that resulted from misinformation and post-truth views regarding the relationship between COVID-19 and the new 5G cell phone network.

Keywords : antenna; COVID-19; social mobilization; technological risk; urban risk.

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