Alex Gekker (he/him)Fresh #OpenAccess paper! Sam Hind, Gabriel Pereira, Fernando van der Vlist & me in Information, Communication & Society.
'Orchestrating scalability: how patents render cloud imaginaries in CAV innovation.'
We analysed 69,421 patents on connected & autonomous vehicles. The cloud emerges as a 'technology of orchestration' — even patents trying to reduce cloud dependence end up reinforcing its centrality.
Part of a SI edited by Devika Narayan & Jean-Christophe Plantin.