Tjerk Timan

Biographic Data

ID1520744
NAMETjerk Timan
GIVEN NAMESTjerk
FAMILY NAMETiman
SIGNATURETIMAN T
AFFILIATIONSTilburg University
ORCID0000-0003-0630-3160
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS34
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • We need better images of AI and better conversations about AI

    Open AccessMarc Steen, Tjerk Timan et al.ARTICLEAI & Society2025

    In this article, we critique the ways in which the people involved in the development and application of AI systems often visualize and talk about AI systems. Often, they visualize such systems as shiny humanoid robots or as free-floating electronic brains. Such images convey misleading messages; as if AI works independently of people and can reason in ways superior to people. Instead, we propose to visualize AI systems as parts of larger, sociot…

  • Surveillance, Privacy and Public Space

    Olga Kudina, Melis Bas et al.EDITORBOOKSurveillance, Privacy and Public…2018

    The introduction of Google Glass in 2013 attracted much public attention and initiated a race for the commercial development of mixed reality goggles. Google Glass (hereafter Glass) is a head-mounted display in the shape of eyeglasses with camera that can overlay and augment physical world with virtual information. The device is always present in the user’s field of sight and demands close attention during each interaction. Glass enables online s…

  • Surveillance Theory and its Implications for Law

    Tjerk Timan, Maša Galič et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Law,…2017

    This chapter provides an overview of key surveillance theories and their implications for law and regulation. It presents three stages of theories that characterize changes in thinking about surveillance in society and the disciplining, controlling, and entertaining functions of surveillance. Beginning with Bentham’s Panopticons and Foucault’s panopticism to discipline surveillees, surveillance theory then develops accounts of surveillant assembl…

  • Bentham, Deleuze and Beyond

    Open AccessMaša Galič, Tjerk Timan et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy & Technology2017

    This paper aims to provide an overview of surveillance theories and concepts that can help to understand and debate surveillance in its many forms. As scholars from an increasingly wide range of disciplines are discussing surveillance, this literature review can offer much-needed common ground for the debate. We structure surveillance theory in three roughly chronological/thematic phases. The first two conceptualise surveillance through comprehen…

  • The Body-worn Camera as a Transitional Technology

    Open AccessTjerk TimanARTICLESurveillance & Society2016Cited by: 3References: 3

  • Mobile cameras as new technologies of surveillance? How citizens experience the use of mobile cameras in public nightscapes

    Open AccessTjerk Timan, Nelly OudshoornARTICLESurveillance & Society2012Cited by: 6References: 2

    In surveillance studies the terms “sousveillance” and “inverse surveillance” describe forms of surveillance that have a bottom-up and democratic character. However, in this paper this democratic notion is questioned by looking into practices and experiences with both Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) and mobile cameras by Dutch citizens. By intervening in the nightlife district of the Rotterdami city centre, data has been gathered on both mobile- …

  • Rhythms of the Night

    Open AccessTim Schwanen, Irina Van Aalst et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2012Cited by: 25References: 25

    The authors seek to extend the literature on inequalities and exclusion in the nighttime economy through a rhythmic analysis of visitor presence in public space in nightlife districts in the city centres of the Dutch cities of Groningen, Utrecht, and Rotterdam. Substantial inequalities in visitor presence, based on race/ethnicity and gender, are demonstrated. In the cities considered, racial/ethnic inequalities vary more in spatial terms, and gen…