Smartphone resilience: ICT in Ukrainian civic response to the Russian full-scale invasion

Author:

Zarembo Kateryna12ORCID,Knodt Michèle1,Kachel Jannis1

Affiliation:

1. Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

2. New Europe Center, Kyiv, Ukraine

Abstract

In modern warfare, digitalization has blurred the line where civilian ends and military begins. Embedded in the participative warfare theoretical paradigm, this article looks into how the information and communication technologies (ICT) enable civic resilience under the conditions of the foreign armed aggression. Specifically, the authors explore how smartphones and smartphone applications empowered the Ukrainian civil society in the aftermath of the Russian full-scale invasion of 2022. Based on an online survey and semi-structured interviews, the article highlights how the device and its features not only allowed civilians to adapt to living in conditions of a constant threat, but also to respond and support the defence from the rear. The authors conclude that, while the smartphone becomes an ‘online resilience hub’, acquiring many new functions like a mobile office, an online volunteer (frontline logistics and procurement) hub, an air-threat warner, a first-hand news source and so on, its security provision functions are not unconditional and may turn to the opposite, depending on the physical circumstances on the ground as well as the virtual information battlefield.

Funder

LOEWE initiative (Hesse, Germany) within the emergenCITY center at Technical University Darmstadt.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

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