Hijacking Banksy : using a contemporary art mystery to increase academic readership
Författare
Summary, in English
In this article I examine the methodological and ethical rigor of a geographic profiling study and resulting article, published in 2016 in "Journal of Spatial Science", which identifies by name a candidate for being the artist known as Banksy.
I demonstrate that the article is characterized by a number of methodological flaws which fundamentally undermine the researchers’ basis for determining Banksy’s identity.
On this background I argue that the researchers’ decision to include a specific name in the article is ethically problematic.
I demonstrate that the article is characterized by a number of methodological flaws which fundamentally undermine the researchers’ basis for determining Banksy’s identity.
On this background I argue that the researchers’ decision to include a specific name in the article is ethically problematic.
Publiceringsår
2016-12
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
60-66
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Street Art & Urban Creativity Scientific Journal
Volym
2
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Urban Creativity
Ämne
- Art History
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- street art
- street art world
- graffiti
- Banksy
- street art studies
- research ethics
- geographic profiling
- criminology
- gadekunst
- art
- art history
- gatukonst
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2183-3869