The rise of cybernetic citizenship

The global COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how states and companies mobilise new sociotechnical systems to track, trace, evaluate, modulate the behaviour of citizens. This development illustrates an already-existing transformation citizenship governance, which this article captures as move ‘cybernetic citizenship’. First, explores concept cybernetic citizenship, providing overview concepts ‘cybernetic’ ‘citizenship’ synthesising these in a discussion modulation citizenship. Second, it presents rise urban realm, zooming on case Chinese social credit system way affects civic life realm. Third, turns into normative implications arguing that confronts idea citizens equal, free, vigilant. It challenges equality by turning rights ends, freedom status process, virtue excellence effectiveness.