Jathan Sadowski's research while affiliated with University of Vic and other places

... Research within critical data studies has also talked of the 'right to the datafied city' or the 'digital rights to the city' (Shaw and Graham 2017;de Lange 2019;see Kitchin et al. 2019: 15). Specifically, Kitchin et al. (2019) have written about the right to the city in reference to the development of smart cities, where smart cities continue to reproduce inequalities and special segregation though the ongoing advancement of capitalist, neoliberal, colonial and nationalistic interests (p. ...

... They suggest that the seamless and friction-free experience of the ideal Amazon delivery should be the model for how cities deliver services to their citizens. The image of Amazon-like governance of cities, and this reframing of citizens as consumers of public services, may bring quite different connotations to critical urban scholars (see Graham et al., 2019), and actually illustrate the profound justice implications of how logistics networks are managed. This phenomenon may also illustrate how the concentration of transactions through singular platforms enable an enormous extraction of control and wealth. ...

... Another theme is one of methodological experimentation, which could include literary or artistic approaches, such as "speculative fabulation" (Veel and Wellendorf 2022) or "ghost methodology" of tracing hidden violence (Glasbeek 2022), or it could include innovations to empirically study-and theorize-secretive policing and security apparatuses or algorithmic processes (Brayne 2022). 10 A final theme is that of maintaining a critical focus on issues of power, inequality, domination, and violence, particularly as the technological and institutional landscapes shift (Andrejevic 2022;Ball 2022;Crooks 2022;Fussey 2022;Orr and Magnet 2022;Marwick 2022;Sadowski 2022), authoritarianisms resurge (Akbari 2022), and environmental and health crises grow (Browne, Klauser, and Murakami Wood 2022;Sung 2022). ...

... One tool commonly used in the domain of smart cities is urban dashboards. Dashboards in general aggregate multiple data sets into a single view (Sadowski 2021). To monitor urban systems, and to provide an overview of the municipality at a glance, urban dashboards incorporate a variety of urban indicators (Few 2013;Farmanbar and Rong 2020) to address the interests of diverse stakeholders (Kitchin et al. 2015). ...

... (Anderson et al., 2016) Recently, AVs have expanded their forms and functions from passenger to freight and cargo transport. (Jones et al., 2023) The ground types of AVs are classified based on the road infrastructures they use. (Li, J. et al., 2021) One is the Autonomous Driving Car (ADC), which utilizes carriageways, and the other is the Autonomous Driving Robot (ADR), which utilizes sidewalks. ...

... However, this was accompanied by psychological problems due to a significant reduction in socialization and negative physiological effects due to the indoor environment and ergonomics (Ekpanyaskul & Padungtod, 2021). Related technology requirements continued to proliferate, such as the development of virtual services and improvement of digital technology (Strengers et al., 2022). At the same time, the problem of information leakage and network fraud was also on the table, and it became urgent to improve information security (Furnell & Shah, 2020). ...

... A prominent trend we observe is that government institutions and energy providers push residents to adopt retrofit smart solutions in order to reduce their energy consumption. Where smart technologies are often presented under the promises of convenience, control and choice [4], the use of smart services and systems in the context of energy management is itself Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. ...

... necessarily understanding the implications of doing so. 7 In the extreme, a few individuals controlling superhuman AIs would accrue a level of power never before seen in human history, a blatant contradiction with the very principle of democracy and a major threat to it. ...

... Mechlenborg and Gram-Hanssen [41] have called for the inclusion of gender perspectives with more nuanced understandings of gender when conducting energy research, considering how the energy practices and household technologies are shaped. Sadowski et al. [49] argue that the smart home can be understood as a 'Big Mother' which can be understood as 'a system that seeks to enact a commodifiable digital surveillance of the home under the guise of maternal care' [49], and connect that to the development of new markets of data. Companies like Amazon and Google are also deploying smart home technologies, in an attempt at shaping consumer behaviour through the use of data with an offer of convenience, which Huberman [25] perceives as an example of Surveillance Capitalism [62]. ...

... This perspective thus circumvents issues of the lack of consensus and social norms on what should be defined as harm in social VR, which are currently hindering efforts to address said harm [6,18,35,36,65]. Second, the conceptualization of consent is most often attributed to research work on offline sexual practices [26,28,43,54]. Such an offline-world inspiration can be seen in prior works seeking to innovate designs for safe and equitable social computing systems via consent mechanics (i.e. ...