Grounding the digital: a comparison of Waze 'avoid dangerous areas' feature in Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro and the US

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dc.contributor.authorCarraro, Valentina
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T23:56:29Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T23:56:29Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents a comparative study of the Waze avoid areas (WADA) feature in Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro, and the US. I argue that, through comparative approaches, geographers can 'ground' the digital, developing situated accounts of how emerging technologies work at different sites. Taking as a starting point the controversies raised by WADA, I address the following research questions: How does the feature work in the three research sites? What political problems does it raise? What are its effects? Drawing on 124 news articles, blog posts and forum threads in English, Arabic, Hebrew and Portuguese, the analysis complicates existing characterisations of similar apps as emblematic of the smart city's most oppressive characteristics, pointing at three themes: the relevance of local settings in the enactment of WADA, the interplay of different logics in its definition of danger, and the heterogeneity of public reactions to the app. More broadly, the study demonstrates that grounded comparative studies can decentre and enrich the scholarship on digital geographies, underscoring the contingency and ambivalence of digital technologies.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10708-019-10117-y
dc.identifier.eissn1572-9893
dc.identifier.issn0343-2521
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-019-10117-y
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/95157
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000500480400001
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final1139
dc.pagina.inicio1121
dc.revistaGeojournal
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectDigital geographies
dc.subjectComparative urbanism
dc.subjectWaze
dc.subjectRisk
dc.subjectJerusalem
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.subjectUnited States
dc.subject.ods11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
dc.subject.odspa11 Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
dc.titleGrounding the digital: a comparison of Waze 'avoid dangerous areas' feature in Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro and the US
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen86
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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