research

Active Property protocols and digital real estate technologies

How do spatial data standardization practices impact housing markets? How does digitization in the real estate industry change the design and enforcement of these standards? Who benefits?

» This research was supported by: Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF #2147833), Carville Earle Research Award, Barnhart Withington Research Award

Active Transparency, assetization, and digital data brokers

How do actors in the financial world—and particularly in the data broker industry—view the concept of transparency?

» This research was supported by: Cryptocurrencies and New Spaces of Finance (NSF #1853718)

Paused Sweat sensing and the geopolitics of perspiration

How have medical sciences observed, quantified, and analyzed perspiration over the last 400 years? More importantly, to what ends?

Paused Short-term rentals and the platforming of emotional labor

How do short-term housing rental platforms (like Airbnb) change people’s relationships to the places they live? How do these platforms enroll people into value capture processes?

» This research was supported by: Barnhart Withingon Research Award