Parasitic Fiction

Burn, Stephen J.

doi:10.1353/abr.2006.0177

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“…When they categorise and label people, these categories and labels are perceived as expert knowledge. Therefore, experts have the power to create or make up 'kinds of people' (Hacking 2006). In Living Lab Stratumseind it is the technologists, computer programmers, data analysts and urban planners who are perceived as experts.…”

Section: The 'Smart' As a Potential Amplifier Of Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Underneath the Promise of Safety and Security in a ‘Smart City’

Doorman

Pali

2021

JEA

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In this article, we explore the promises of security that are embedded in the smart city technologies and algorithms and their potential implications for creating social inequality and discrimination. Our ethnographic case study is the Living Lab Stratumseind, a popular nightlife street in Eindhoven where smart technologies and algorithms are being tested with the aim of increasing security in the street. First, we introduce the context in which the Living Lab Stratumseind was developed and trace this development and the multiple forms of governance that characterise it and highlight the main ‘smart technologies’ that can be found there. Second, we focus our attention on the ways in which smart technologies and algorithms promise to enhance public security by directly and uncritically translating technological rationales and discourses into social domains. Third, we argue that the smart city technologies and algorithms risk to create, reproduce and reinforce social inequalities and discrimination, and that it is unclear who is responsible for these unanticipated consequences.

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Section: The 'Smart' As a Potential Amplifier Of Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%