ABSTRACT
Digital technology’ use has left behavioral imprints on its users. Collectively, these digital trails show how cities are doing at any one time, and technology users turn into smart sensors that can gather and use data. Individuals and technology work together to develop each person into a cyborg. Cities that are traversed by cyborgs acquire reason. Cybernetics has been used in this study as a framework for analyzing the ramifications of this phenomenon. Twitter data is used as an example to show how complicated cyborg identities may be. One sort of the various digital footprints, Twitter data, has been used to provide light on spatiotemporal activity, although it is difficult to determine who produced it. Cybernetics is used to codify the relationships between cities and their residents as feedback loops and channels for communication. The use of second-order cybernetics allows for a critical analysis of smart city technology.
