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Hijacking Banksy : using a contemporary art mystery to increase academic readership

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Summary, in English

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.

Publishing year

2016-12

Language

English

Pages

60-66

Publication/Series

Street Art & Urban Creativity Scientific Journal

Volume

2

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Urban Creativity

Topic

  • Art History
  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • street art
  • street art world
  • graffiti
  • Banksy
  • street art studies
  • research ethics
  • geographic profiling
  • criminology
  • gadekunst
  • art
  • art history
  • gatukonst

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2183-3869