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

Year: 2020

Type: article

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.

Source: Regional Studies

DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2020.1826421

Author: Linnet Taylor

Institution: Tilburg University

Language: English

Topic: Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Horizon 2020

Award: G8197607506