Dr Jun Zhang

The general focus of my research relates to unravelling the social-technical nature of IS innovations and emerging technologies, with attention paid to the power relations between various actors, including citizens, businesses, local governments, and the state. Beyond IS research at the individual and organizational levels, I concentrate on how it is shaped in urban and regional settings. I am particularly interested in understanding and analysing radical innovations through a critical lens. This has included work on critical appraisals of prevailing smart city innovations, such as surveillance, anticipatory governance and urban artificial intelligence, which are primarily focused on what communities and citizens gain from them. Recently, I have begun researching robotic urbanism, exploring citizens' digital rights and skills when facing robotics and autonomous systems.

In light of my research interests, I am particularly interested in supervising PhD candidates in the following areas:

• Socio-technical transitions of ICT-enabled societies
• Digital inequality, digital rights, digital citizenship
• Power dynamics in smart city governance
• Citizen participation and engagement
• Robotic urbanism

I am a member of the Information Systems Research Group.

I am an associate member of Urban Automation and Robotics at University of Sheffield Urban Institute.