“Graffiti or street art? Negotiating the moral geographies of the creative city”

McAuliffe, Cameron

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“…Notwithstanding, in extending Jarvis and Dickie (), this should not necessarily mean that such spaces are off‐limits. By examining the politics of place (McAuliffe, ) present in research encounters, we advocate recognising participants’ material and symbolic ownership of their technologies as influenced by the moral boundaries that they may erect and/or dismantle and how this contributes towards shaping, and reshaping, the social positioning of researchers and subjects during research encounters.…”

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“…Useful to extending this debate is McAuliffe's () suggestion that moral geographies are concerned with how environments may be used and misused and how this encourages debates that question the appropriateness of particular/different behaviour[s] as well as the power dynamics that operate within spaces. Matless (, 1997), among others, employs Foucault's () “three senses of morality” to help disentangle people's ethical relationships to certain behaviours.…”

Section: Moral Geographiesmentioning

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“…Yet while this positionality was unintentionally performed, it is crucial to recognise that these power dynamics have consequences when using participants’ personal devices in research. In developing this we acknowledge McAuliffe's (, p. 203) suggestion to recognise a “politics of place” when appropriating space, particularly in terms of how we might interpret different behaviours that are expressed using digital devices. We therefore identify the value in balancing engagement with research with being sensitive to the ownership of other private spaces within personal technologies that help produce behaviours that fit within how participants (and researchers) perceive acceptable behaviours and assumed moral rules.…”

Section: [Re]appropriating Technologies As “Research” Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The final theme is concerned with the subtle forms of resistance, disengagement and disruption that were evident in our research. McAuliffe (, p. 191) draws on Cresswell's work on transgressive people, behaviours and practices that are deemed “out of place” in mainstream society, arguing that:

Moral geographies reflect the normative expectations of the use and misuse of particular environments, and as such can form the basis of inclusion and exclusion as the transgression of normal ways of being in a place are policed in order to ensure the maintenance of the common good.…”

Section: Resistance Disengagement and Disruptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“You don't want to peer over people's shoulders, it feels too rude!” The moral geographies of using participants’ personal smartphones in research

Holton

Harmer

2018

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This paper examines the moralities of using participants' personal mobile technologies in research. While smartphones bring novel benefits to research in terms of their labour-saving, innovative, intuitive and low-cost virtues, they also raise unique spatial, ethical and moral issues that can have implications for how research is conducted. Using morality as a conceptual tool, this paper explores the smartphone as a geographical space that is simultaneously private/public, personal/shared and material/imagined. By examining the observations made during a study which tested a mobile walking tour app, this paper questions the moral implications for, and the consequences of, researching using participants' personal technologies and how researchers might access and interpret behaviours within these private digital "spaces." This paper advocates the importance of recognising the complexities of moving into participants' private digital spaces and how a diverse range of behaviours may become part of the research encounter through the ways in which participants form interactions with technologies, the environment and with each other. Finally, this paper contributes to discussions of moral geographies by examining the asymmetric power relations that are evident when examining moral behaviours that are performed simultaneously in digital and geographical spaces, and questions whether these may be functions of hegemonic systems of "acceptable" behaviour. K E Y W O R D S methods, moral geographies, practice, qualitative research, smartphones, virtual space | INTRODUCTIONThere has been a recent drive to adopt emergent mobile technologies, such as smartphones and tablets, into contemporary geographical research practice (DeLyser & Sui, 2013;Gorman, 2017), both in terms of self-directed research (Neff & Nafus, 2016) and research[ing] with others (Brown et al., 2013;Laurier et al., 2016). Yet while advocates argue for the benefits of mobile technologies in generating understandings of, among other things, how people relate to technology, how technology might affect relationships with places and how researchers might capture "new" data in real time, the ethics and moralities of adopting technologies into research remain unclear. While technologies add unique spatial dimensions to the qualitative methodological canon, this paper will demonstrate how technologies bring equally unique spatial, ethical and moral issues to research practice in ways that can seem innocuous at first but may have implications for how research ---

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“You don't want to peer over people's shoulders, it feels too rude!” The moral geographies of using participants’ personal smartphones in research

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2018

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“…It can be categorized as artistic drawings or tagging and whereas graffiti drawing is an artistic expression and as such, requires talent and practice, most of the times graffiti tagging represents an unauthorized act that people convey messages or show their names (see Figure 1). The discussion whether graffiti is an art is extensively explored [1], [2]. In 2017 a Brooklyn based company was fined 6.7 million dollars for whitewashing the murals containing famous graffiti 1 .…”

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Quantifying the Presence of Graffiti in Urban Environments

Tokuda

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Silva

2019

2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp)

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Graffiti is a common phenomenon in urban scenarios. Differently from urban art, graffiti tagging is a vandalism act and many local governments are putting great effort to combat it. The graffiti map of a region can be a very useful resource because it may allow one to potentially combat vandalism in locations with high level of graffiti and also to cleanup saturated regions to discourage future acts. There is currently no automatic way of obtaining a graffiti map of a region and it is obtained by manual inspection by the police or by popular participation. In this sense, we describe an ongoing work where we propose an automatic way of obtaining a graffiti map of a neighbourhood. It consists of the systematic collection of street view images followed by the identification of graffiti tags in the collected dataset and finally, in the calculation of the proposed graffiti level of that location. We validate the proposed method by evaluating the geographical distribution of graffiti in a city known to have high concentration of graffiti -São Paulo, Brazil.

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Sense of place attitudes and quality of life outcomes among African residents in a multicultural Australian society

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2018

Journal Community Psychology

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The study examines the association between sense of place (SOP) attitudes (e.g., place attachment, place identity, and place dependence) and health-related quality of life (HQOL) in a sample of 261 African residents in New South Wales (Australia). Participants completed measures of the Sense of Place Scale, the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF questionnaire, and demographic variables. Study findings are as follows: (a) levels of SOP and place attachment are positively associated with all outcomes of HQOL; (b) place identity is also positively related to HQOL in terms of better environmental health, psychological health, and physical health, but not statistically significant for social relationship and general QOL; (c) place dependence is statistically associated with outcomes of HQOL, except for general QOL which remained insignificant in both the unadjusted and adjusted models. Further ad hoc analyses suggest that African residents from Eastern Africa are more likely to develop the "aussie" place identity than those from Central Africa; and (e) African migrants who have been residents of Australia for more than 5 years, and those who are less educated are more likely to have a stronger SOP and to develop place attachment and behavioral place commitments compared with newly arrived and educated migrants, respectively. Study limitations and implications are carefully discussed.

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“Graffiti or street art? Negotiating the moral geographies of the creative city”

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“You don't want to peer over people's shoulders, it feels too rude!” The moral geographies of using participants’ personal smartphones in research

“You don't want to peer over people's shoulders, it feels too rude!” The moral geographies of using participants’ personal smartphones in research

Quantifying the Presence of Graffiti in Urban Environments

Sense of place attitudes and quality of life outcomes among African residents in a multicultural Australian society

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