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Ryan Burns

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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Calgary

I am Associate Professor in University of Calgary’s Department of Geography, a Fellow with the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation's National AI Research Institutes. My research interests are in the social, institutional, and urban transformations of big and open data, smart cities, digital humanitarianism, and related digital spatial phenomena. My research program interrogates the social and institutional struggles around knowledge production emerging in the context of these new spatial-technological developments.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Associate Professor, University of Calgary
  • 2016–2022
    Assistant Professor, University of Calgary
  • 2015–2016
    Assistant Professor of Instruction, Temple University
  • 2012–2015
    Instructor, University of Washington

Education

  • 2015 
    University of Washington, PhD, Geography
  • 2009 
    San Diego State University, MS, Geographic Information Science
  • 2006 
    Eastern Kentucky University, BA, Geography (Magna Cum Laude, Honors)

Publications

  • 2023
    Toward the Democratization of Geospatial Data: Evaluating Data Decisioning Practices, The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technology and Society
  • 2023
    A River of Data Runs through It: Examining Urban Circulations in the Digital Age, Association of Internet Researchers 2023 Conference proceedings
  • 2023
    Digital Transformations of the Urban – Carbon – Labor Nexus: A Research Agenda, Digital Geography & Society
  • 2023
    More Queer, More than Human: A Framework for Digital Justice for Smart Cities, Digital (In)justice in the Smart City
  • 2023
    Digital (In)justice in the Smart City, University of Toronto Press
  • 2023
    Interstitiality in the smart city: More than top-down and bottom-up smartness, Urban Studies
  • 2022
    Toward Intimate Data: Re-thinking digital, social, political relations, Association of Internet Researchers 2022 Conference proceedings
  • 2022
    “Make Our Communities Better through Data”: The Moral Economy of Smart City Labor, Big Data & Society
  • 2021
    Moral Economies of Open Data Platforms, Association of Internet Researchers 2020 Conference proceedings
  • 2021
    (Digital) Neo-colonialism and the Smart City, Regional Studies
  • 2021
    Worlding and Provincialising Smart Cities: From Individual Case Studies to a Global Comparative Research Agenda, Urban Studies
  • 2020
    Smart Cities: Who Cares?, Environment & Planning A

Honours

Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society