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2025· reference-entry· en· W4414254592 on OpenAlexaff
Barbara Jenkins

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication · 2025
Typereference-entry
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSmart Cities and Technologies
Canadian institutionsWilfrid Laurier University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSmart cityDemocracyControl (management)SovereigntyRaising (metalworking)Emerging technologiesPublic policy

Abstract

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Abstract Cities around the world have declared their intention to become “smart.” Being a smart city involves adopting widespread urban technologies that enable the collection of data from citizens to monitor and control infrastructural issues such as public utilities, transportation, communication, waste disposal, and traffic management. There are numerous advantages associated with these urban technologies, such as the ability to improve environmental sustainability, control traffic, provide mobility options, and allow for more democratic participation by citizens. There are also disadvantages associated with smart city systems. Critics argue that these technologies are central to surveillance capitalism, raising issues of privacy and data protection. Others argue that smart city strategies simply reflect the economic imperatives of platform capitalism and serve the needs of large corporations rather than citizens. In response to these critiques, many cities have moved to improve the technological sovereignty of their citizens via strategies that encourage public participation, protect privacy, and serve the needs of the public as well as corporations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.232
Threshold uncertainty score0.777

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0080.006
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.2320.140

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.315
Teacher spread0.270 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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