Exploitation as innovation: research ethics and the governance of experimentation in the urban living lab

Linnet Taylor

Regional Studies, 2021, vol. 55, issue 12, 1902-1912

Abstract: As data technologies become the medium of experiment for living labs, they become less a collaboration between citizen and researcher and more a test of how commercial actors can influence the public. Two new practices suggest we should apply research ethics rules: first, that the experimentation taking place does not aim to test technology using people, but to test people using technology; and second, that such experimentation is explicitly designed to understand how the population outside the lab can be influenced and manipulated, and therefore has a political character that research ethics can give us some leverage over.

Date: 2021
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