Burcu Baykurt studies digital technologies in the built environment, with a focus on how digital infrastructures reconstitute racialized inequities. Using ethnographic methods, she examines technologies of statecraft from tech nationalism to smart cities/borders to the use of automated decision systems in public agencies.
Keywords: algorithms, ethnography, critical data studies, political economy
Recent work-in-progress:
Smart as a City: The Politics of Test-Bed Urbanism
Gov-Tech: The Moral Economy of Capturing Public Information