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As technological developments are based upon political decisions, which impact people\u2019s everyday lives, and from which not everyone benefits or suffers equally, we argue that \u2018the smart city\u2019 should be part of continuous public debate; that it should be considered and treated as a social problem. Through nine focus groups, we invited respondents to explore and discuss instances and dilemmas of the smart city. We investigated which interpretative repertoires they used to frame the smart city as a social and actionable problem. Following Blumer's and Gamson's theories on the social construction of problems and on collective action frames, we assessed respondents\u2019 discursive interpretations and their subjective construction of their senses of injustice, agency and identity regarding this subject. We find that \u2013 in the context of the city of Rotterdam in The Netherlands \u2013 citizens do not experience and consider the smart city as a social and actionable problem. Although they do associate the technological development of smart cities with potential threats, this does not change or constrain their sense of \u2018actionability\u2019, nor their behaviour, as they consider themselves to be powerless individuals regarding what, in their eyes, is a complex, elusive and inevitable situation they are confronted with. 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