Harrison Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harrison Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harrison |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8144-5754 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The metaverse-industrial complex
This paper explores the role that Nvidia is playing in shaping the Metaverse for industrial applications in simulation and automation. As the world's largest manufacturer of Graphics Processing Units for computationally intensive tasks and one of the largest corporations by market capitalization, Nvidia has remained relatively overlooked within critical discussions of ‘Big Tech', the Metaverse, and Artificial Intelligence. This paper draws on new…
From cryptocurrencies to cryptocourts
This paper contributes to emerging discussions of blockchain governance through an analysis of dispute resolution platforms that reimagine justice. We focus specifically on Kleros, a blockchain-enabled dispute resolution platform, that promises to secure, authenticate, and democratize access to justice for the twenty-first century. We advance the concept of cryptocourts whereby jurors, incentivized by accumulating cryptocurrency, rapidly mobilize…
Surveillance, trust, and policing at music festivals
Music festivals are often the highlight of summertime, but they are also spaces increasingly policed for drugs, pickpockets, sexual assault, and terrorist attacks. The pop‐up nature of festival spaces creates a tension between organizers ensuring safe environments and festival‐goers seeking community and fun. We conducted an online survey of festival‐goers to determine their safety concerns and feelings about security measures. The biggest safety…
Software, Sovereignty and the Post-Neoliberal Politics of Exit
This paper examines the impact of neoreactionary (NRx) thinking - that of Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, Peter Thiel and Patri Friedman in particular - on contemporary political debates manifest in 'architectures of exit'. We specifically focus on Urbit, as an NRx digital architecture that captures how post-neoliberal politics imagines notions of freedom and sovereignty through a micro-fracturing of nation-states into 'gov-corps'. We trace the develop…
Data Quirks and Impressions
David Beer is a Professor of Sociology at the University of York. He is the author of seven books and dozens of articles that encompass the culture and politics of new media, data, and technology. His most recent works have focused specifically on the implications of data analytics industries and the social power of metrics to govern everyday life. David sits on the editorial boards of several key journals in these fields, including Theory, Cultu…
Smart Festivals? Security and Freedom for Well-Being in Urban Smart Spaces
In this article we use the natural lab of music festivals to examine behavioral change in response to the rapid introduction of smart surveillance technology into formerly unpoliced spaces. Festivals are liminal spaces, free from the governance of everyday social norms and regulations, permitting participants to assert a desired self. Due to a number of recent festival deaths, drug confiscations, pickpockets, and a terroristic mass shooting, fest…
The locative imaginary
The location analytics industry has the potential to stimulate critical sociological discussions concerning the credibility of data analytics to enact new spatial classifications and metrics of socio-economic phenomena. Key debates in the sociology of geodemographics are revisited in this article in light of recent developments in algorithmic culture to understand how location analytics impacts the structural contexts of classification and releva…
Metrics, locations, and lift
This article examines the relationship between location data and geodemographic knowledge by focusing on the role of the third-party mobile location analytics companies that passively capture location data from mobile advertising exchanges to develop new approaches to audience measurement. It argues that in addition to segmentation, a key objective is to calculate the performativity of algorithmically targeted advertising by measuring its capacit…
People-based marketing and the cultural economies of attribution metrics
This article examines People-Based Marketing (PBM) to theorize the cultural economies of attribution metrics. Through an analysis of marketing discourses, acquisition patterns, and marketing collaborations, it examines how platform capitalism is increasingly directed towards developing cross-device identity standards that consolidate performance metrics across digital markets. PBM extends the processes of platform capitalization across media prop…
Doing Surveillance Studies (Part II)
In the “Service” of Migrants
Since 1993, the Canadian government has used biometric screening to identify migrants crossing in and out of Canadian territory. Recently, however, the government has sought to enhance the scope of biometric screening through a number of proposed acts and programs. Of particular interest is the 2013 Temporary Resident Biometrics Project. The Project will require that foreign nationals provide enhanced biometric details, including fingerprints and…
Software, Sovereignty and the Post-Neoliberal Politics of Exit
This paper examines the impact of neoreactionary (NRx) thinking - that of Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, Peter Thiel and Patri Friedman in particular - on contemporary political debates manifest in 'architectures of exit'. We specifically focus on Urbit, as an NRx digital architecture that captures how post-neoliberal politics imagines notions of freedom and sovereignty through a micro-fracturing of nation-states into 'gov-corps'. We trace the develop…
People-based marketing and the cultural economies of attribution metrics
This article examines People-Based Marketing (PBM) to theorize the cultural economies of attribution metrics. Through an analysis of marketing discourses, acquisition patterns, and marketing collaborations, it examines how platform capitalism is increasingly directed towards developing cross-device identity standards that consolidate performance metrics across digital markets. PBM extends the processes of platform capitalization across media prop…
Smart Festivals? Security and Freedom for Well-Being in Urban Smart Spaces
In this article we use the natural lab of music festivals to examine behavioral change in response to the rapid introduction of smart surveillance technology into formerly unpoliced spaces. Festivals are liminal spaces, free from the governance of everyday social norms and regulations, permitting participants to assert a desired self. Due to a number of recent festival deaths, drug confiscations, pickpockets, and a terroristic mass shooting, fest…
Surveillance, trust, and policing at music festivals
Music festivals are often the highlight of summertime, but they are also spaces increasingly policed for drugs, pickpockets, sexual assault, and terrorist attacks. The pop‐up nature of festival spaces creates a tension between organizers ensuring safe environments and festival‐goers seeking community and fun. We conducted an online survey of festival‐goers to determine their safety concerns and feelings about security measures. The biggest safety…
The locative imaginary
The location analytics industry has the potential to stimulate critical sociological discussions concerning the credibility of data analytics to enact new spatial classifications and metrics of socio-economic phenomena. Key debates in the sociology of geodemographics are revisited in this article in light of recent developments in algorithmic culture to understand how location analytics impacts the structural contexts of classification and releva…
Doing Surveillance Studies (Part II)
In the “Service” of Migrants
Since 1993, the Canadian government has used biometric screening to identify migrants crossing in and out of Canadian territory. Recently, however, the government has sought to enhance the scope of biometric screening through a number of proposed acts and programs. Of particular interest is the 2013 Temporary Resident Biometrics Project. The Project will require that foreign nationals provide enhanced biometric details, including fingerprints and…
In the “Service” of Migrants
Since 1993, the Canadian government has used biometric screening to identify migrants crossing in and out of Canadian territory. Recently, however, the government has sought to enhance the scope of biometric screening through a number of proposed acts and programs. Of particular interest is the 2013 Temporary Resident Biometrics Project. The Project will require that foreign nationals provide enhanced biometric details, including fingerprints and…
Doing Surveillance Studies (Part II)
Metrics, locations, and lift
This article examines the relationship between location data and geodemographic knowledge by focusing on the role of the third-party mobile location analytics companies that passively capture location data from mobile advertising exchanges to develop new approaches to audience measurement. It argues that in addition to segmentation, a key objective is to calculate the performativity of algorithmically targeted advertising by measuring its capacit…
People-based marketing and the cultural economies of attribution metrics
This article examines People-Based Marketing (PBM) to theorize the cultural economies of attribution metrics. Through an analysis of marketing discourses, acquisition patterns, and marketing collaborations, it examines how platform capitalism is increasingly directed towards developing cross-device identity standards that consolidate performance metrics across digital markets. PBM extends the processes of platform capitalization across media prop…
Data Quirks and Impressions
David Beer is a Professor of Sociology at the University of York. He is the author of seven books and dozens of articles that encompass the culture and politics of new media, data, and technology. His most recent works have focused specifically on the implications of data analytics industries and the social power of metrics to govern everyday life. David sits on the editorial boards of several key journals in these fields, including Theory, Cultu…
Smart Festivals? Security and Freedom for Well-Being in Urban Smart Spaces
In this article we use the natural lab of music festivals to examine behavioral change in response to the rapid introduction of smart surveillance technology into formerly unpoliced spaces. Festivals are liminal spaces, free from the governance of everyday social norms and regulations, permitting participants to assert a desired self. Due to a number of recent festival deaths, drug confiscations, pickpockets, and a terroristic mass shooting, fest…
The locative imaginary
The location analytics industry has the potential to stimulate critical sociological discussions concerning the credibility of data analytics to enact new spatial classifications and metrics of socio-economic phenomena. Key debates in the sociology of geodemographics are revisited in this article in light of recent developments in algorithmic culture to understand how location analytics impacts the structural contexts of classification and releva…
Software, Sovereignty and the Post-Neoliberal Politics of Exit
This paper examines the impact of neoreactionary (NRx) thinking - that of Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, Peter Thiel and Patri Friedman in particular - on contemporary political debates manifest in 'architectures of exit'. We specifically focus on Urbit, as an NRx digital architecture that captures how post-neoliberal politics imagines notions of freedom and sovereignty through a micro-fracturing of nation-states into 'gov-corps'. We trace the develop…
Surveillance, trust, and policing at music festivals
Music festivals are often the highlight of summertime, but they are also spaces increasingly policed for drugs, pickpockets, sexual assault, and terrorist attacks. The pop‐up nature of festival spaces creates a tension between organizers ensuring safe environments and festival‐goers seeking community and fun. We conducted an online survey of festival‐goers to determine their safety concerns and feelings about security measures. The biggest safety…
From cryptocurrencies to cryptocourts
This paper contributes to emerging discussions of blockchain governance through an analysis of dispute resolution platforms that reimagine justice. We focus specifically on Kleros, a blockchain-enabled dispute resolution platform, that promises to secure, authenticate, and democratize access to justice for the twenty-first century. We advance the concept of cryptocourts whereby jurors, incentivized by accumulating cryptocurrency, rapidly mobilize…
The metaverse-industrial complex
This paper explores the role that Nvidia is playing in shaping the Metaverse for industrial applications in simulation and automation. As the world's largest manufacturer of Graphics Processing Units for computationally intensive tasks and one of the largest corporations by market capitalization, Nvidia has remained relatively overlooked within critical discussions of ‘Big Tech', the Metaverse, and Artificial Intelligence. This paper draws on new…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer security (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Analytics (3 works) · Data science (3 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 works)