Hijacking Banksy : using a contemporary art mystery to increase academic readership
(2016) In Street Art & Urban Creativity Scientific Journal 2(1). p.60-66- Abstract
- 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.
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- author
- Bengtsen, Peter LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016-12
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- street art, street art world, graffiti, Banksy, street art studies, research ethics, geographic profiling, criminology, gadekunst, art, art history, gatukonst
- in
- Street Art & Urban Creativity Scientific Journal
- volume
- 2
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 7 pages
- publisher
- Urban Creativity
- ISSN
- 2183-3869
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 22bb6799-0a42-4bee-ae37-202ed0883b4f
- alternative location
- https://www.academia.edu/27428691
- date added to LUP
- 2016-08-03 10:57:11
- date last changed
- 2018-11-21 21:25:04
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