Burcu Baykurt

Research Lead

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
  • Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?