Exploitation as innovation: research ethics and the governance of experimentation in the urban living lab. Issue 12 (2nd December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Taylor, Linnet
• Is Part Of: Regional studies. Volume 55:Issue 12(2021)
• Page Start: 1902
• Page End: 1912
• Publication Date: 2021-12-02
• Subjects: big data -- experimentation -- research ethics -- urban development -- living labs; K39 -- L50; Regional planning -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 307.14
• DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2020.1826421
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-3404

Abstract

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.