Will B. Payne
¤ I am Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.
¤ I use qualitative and quantitative methods to study the relationship between geospatial technologies and urban inequality.
¤ I also make open-source tools for spatial data visualization and computational research.
¤ Email me at will dot b dot payne at rutgers dot edu.
¤ You can also find me on Google Scholar, GitHub, and the Bloustein School homepage.
Writing
Refereed Journal Articles
- Stehlin, John and Will B. Payne. "Ephemeral Infrastructures: 'Micromobility' Platforms and the Political Economy of Transport Disruption in Austin, Texas." Urban Studies, in press (2022).
- Payne, Will B. "Powering the Local Review Engine at Yelp and Google: Intensive and Extensive Approaches to Crowdsourcing Spatial Data," Regional Studies (2021).
- Stehlin, John and Will B. Payne. "Meso-scale Infrastructures and Uneven Development: Bicycle Sharing Systems in the United States as “Already-Splintered” Urbanism," Annals of the American Association of Geographers (2021).
- Payne, Will, Sarah Knuth, and Dillon Mahmoudi. "Urban Real Estate Technologies: Genealogies, Frontiers, & Critiques," Urban Geography (2020).
- Payne, Will B. and and David O’Sullivan. "Exploding the Phone Book: Spatial Data Arbitrage in the 1990s Internet Boom," Annals of the American Association of Geographers (2019).
- Payne, Will. “Welcome to the Polygon: Contested Digital Neighborhoods and Spatialized Segregation on Nextdoor.”Computational Culture (2017).
- Co-authored with Thatcher et al. “Revisiting Critical GIS: Reflections from Friday Harbor” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space (2016).
Book Chapters
- Payne, Will B. "The Zagat Survey, the Professional Class, and Quantified Lifestyles in 1980s New York" in The Performance Complex: Competitions and Valuations in Everyday Life, ed. David Stark (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Other Publications
- Payne, Will. "Piedmont-Oakland Border." in Rachel Brahinsky and Alex Tarr (eds.), A People's Guide to the Bay Area. University of California Press, 2020.
- Payne, Will. "Crawling the City." Logic, Vol. 4: Scale (2018).
- Payne, Will. "Book Review: Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA, by Robert Ji-Song Ku." Graduate Journal of Food Studies (2018).
- Payne, Will. “Book Review: Location-based Social Media: Space, Time and Identity, by Leighton Evans and Michael Saker.” Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science (2018).
- Payne, Will and John Elrick. “Model City: Rule of Innovation.” 2015. Essay accompanying Robby Herbst’s New New Games exhibit, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
- Payne, Will. “From Bricks to Bus Stops: Protesting San Francisco’s Tech Boom” and “Black Cloud: Data and Empowerment.” 2014. UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative Blog.
Press Interviews
- Mantle, Larry. "NextDoor Promised Changes To Make Its App Less Discriminatory. Has The App’s Culture Improved?" Air Talk, KPCC 89.3FM, March 16, 2021.
- Heilweil, Rebecca. "How the Covid-19 Pandemic Broke Nextdoor." Recode, February 9, 2021.
- Payne, Will B. "Using Crowdsourcing Applications to Interpret and Build More Equitable Cities." EJB Talks Podcast. October 27, 2020.
- Heilweil, Rebecca. "The Messy Politics of Nextdoor." Recode, October 26, 2020.
- Charles, J. Brian. "Are Smartphones Speeding Up Gentrification?" Governing, August 1, 2018.
- Parthasarathy, Padmini. "Technology Takeover: How Does GPS Affect Our Spatial Memory?" North Gate Radio, KALX 90.7FM, March 15, 2018.