James GrimmelmannMay 13, 2024

I'm happy to be fifth (!) author on this thoughtful paper at CHI by Madiha Zahrah Choksi and Marianne Aubin Le Quéré on how Nextdoor users surveil their neighborhoods. (Spoiler alert: there's a lot of anxiety about petty crimes, and it's related to gentrification.) Some very clever research methods and some very interesting findings.

Under the (Neighbor)hood: Hyperlocal Surveillance on Nextdoor
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3641967

Under the (neighbor)hood: Hyperlocal Surveillance on Nextdoor | Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Show threadLuis VillaMay 13, 2024
@jtlg am I missing it, or does the paper not define gentrification?
Show threadJames GrimmelmannMay 13, 2024
@luis_in_brief It uses the Urban Displacement Project’s gentrification index dataset, so that's the definition and metric.
Show threadLuis VillaMay 13, 2024
@jtlg given that the term is so heavily contested in the relevant literature, and so central to the entire thesis, it isn’t a great look to just use it by reference, without context or analysis.
Show threadLuis Villa
@jtlg I am sensitive to this because the term is so badly abused in so many policy-making environments, usually leading to communication that actively works against good decision-making. So to see it used here without being interrogated (or even just contextualized) is disappointing.
May 13, 2024 at 6:41pmWeb