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Books by Finn Brunton






Digital Cash
The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
by Finn Brunton
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2019 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17949-0, ISBN: 0-691-17949-2

"The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators―from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrenciesBitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has larg ..."






Communication(1st Edition)
(In Search of Media)
by Paula Bialski, Finn Brunton, Mercedes Bunz
Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2018 by Univ Of Minnesota Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-0647-4, ISBN: 1-5179-0647-4

"On contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman formsContemporary communication puts us not only in conversation with one another but also with our machinery. Machine communication—to communicate not just via but also with machines—is therefore the focus of this volume. Diving into digital communications history, Finn Brunton brings to the fore the alienness of computational communication by looking at network timekeepin ..."






Obfuscation(Reprint)
A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest (The MIT Press)
by Finn Brunton, Professor Helen Nissenbaum
Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2016 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52986-0, ISBN: 0-262-52986-6

"How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less -- and why we should.With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance -- the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolk ..."






Spam(Reprint)
A Shadow History of the Internet (Infrastructures)
by Finn Brunton, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Paul N. Edwards
Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2015 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52757-6, ISBN: 0-262-52757-X

"The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send cash overseas. Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box. Where does it come from? As Finn Brunton explains in Spam, it is produced and shaped by many ..."






Digital Cash
The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency (Paperback)
by Finn Brunton
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2020 by Princeton University Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20916-6, ISBN: 0-691-20916-2

"The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory ..."






Obfuscation
A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest (The MIT Press)
by Finn Brunton, Professor Helen Nissenbaum
Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2015 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-02973-5, ISBN: 0-262-02973-1

"With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance -- the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding ..."






Spam
A Shadow History of the Internet (Infrastructures)
by Finn Brunton
Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2013 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01887-6, ISBN: 0-262-01887-X

"The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send cash overseas. Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box. Where does it come from? As Finn Brunton explains in Spam, it is produced and shaped by many ..."






Digital Cash
by Finn Brunton
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20120-7, ISBN: 0-691-20120-X






Obfuscation(Unabridged)
A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest
by Finn Brunton, Professor Helen Nissenbaum, Dana Hickox
Cd, 1 Pages, Published 2015 by Gildan Media
Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged
ISBN-13: 978-1-4690-0415-0, ISBN: 1-4690-0415-1

"[Read by Dana Hickox]With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance -- the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguo ..."






Infrastructures Ser.
Spam : A Shadow History of the Internet
by Finn Brunton
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-31394-0, ISBN: 0-262-31394-4






Gaming the Metrics
Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research (Infrastructures)
by Alexandra Lippman, Mario Biagioli, Alex Csiszar, Yves Gingras, Michael Power, Paul Wouters, James R. Griesemer, Barbara M. Kehm, Sarah De Rijcke, Tereza Stöckelová, Daniele Fanelli, Sergio Sismondo, Ivan Oransky, Boris Barbour, Brandon Stell, Catherine Guaspare, Emmanuel Didier, Paul S. Brookes, Ike Antkare, Burkhard Morgenstern, Jennifer Lin, Elizabeth Wager, Finn Brunton, Marie-Andrée Jacob, Alessandro Delfanti
Paperback, 306 Pages, Published 2020 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53793-3, ISBN: 0-262-53793-1

"How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct.The traditional academic imperative to “publish or perish” is increasingly coupled with the newer necessity of “impact or perish”―the requirement that a publication have “impact,” as measured by a variety of metrics, including citations, views, and downloads. Gaming the Metrics examines how the increasing rel ..."






Digital Cash
The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
by Finn Brunton
Published 2019 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18566-8, ISBN: 0-691-18566-2

"The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory ..."






Communication
by Paula Bialski, Finn Brunton, Mercedes Bunz
136 Pages, Published 2019 by U Of Minnesota Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4529-5929-0, ISBN: 1-4529-5929-3

"The question and discussion session during that event was invaluable. This piece was informed throughout by the work and conversation of Mercedes Bunz and Sara Dean. My thanks in particular to Boris Traue for a thoughtful, informed, and ..."






The MIT Press Ser.
Obfuscation : A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest
by Finn Brunton, Helen Nissenbaum
136 Pages, Published 2015 by Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-33132-6, ISBN: 0-262-33132-2

"In particular we would like to thank Julia Angwin, Solon Barocas, danah boyd, Claudia Diaz, Cynthia Dwork, Cathy Dwyer ... Mireille Hildebrandt, Ari Juels, Nick Montfort, Deirdre Mulligan, Arvind Narayanan, Martijn van Otterloo, Ira Rubinstein , ..."






Infrastructures Ser.
Spam: a Shadow History of the Internet
by Finn Brunton
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-299-45772-0, ISBN: 1-299-45772-X






Spam
A Shadow History of the Internet
by Finn Brunton
296 Pages, Published 2013 by Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-31395-7, ISBN: 0-262-31395-2

"Out in the corner described by legitimate and for-hire is Laura Betterly. An accountant who wanted to work from home with her children and started a “bulk email” business, Betterly claims to have never done a cam- paign on behalf of adult services or disguised the message source and subject. She speaks at marketing industry events. Her company charged something on the order of $1,000 for the first million messages, less for more, w ..."






Paid(Reprint)
Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (Infrastructures)
by Bill Maurer, Lana Swartz, Bruce Sterling, Lisa Servon, Lynn Gamble, Scott Mainwaring, Dave Stearns, Taylor Nelms, Sarah Jeong, Gary Urton, Alexandra Lippman, David Graeber, Maria Bezaitis, Whitney Trettien, Julien Mailland, Jane Guyer, Keith Hart, Michael Palm, Rachel O'dwyer, Finn Brunton, Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Paul N. Edwards, The Mit Press
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53521-2, ISBN: 0-262-53521-1

"Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.Museums are full of the coins, notes, beads, shells, stones, and other objects people have exchanged for millennia. But what about the debris, the things that allow a transaction to take place and are left in its wake? How would a museum go about curating our scrawls on electronic keypads, the rec ..."






Paid
Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (Infrastructures)
by Bill Maurer, Lana Swartz, Bruce Sterling, Lynn Gamble, Scott Mainwaring, Lisa Servon, Dave Stearns, Taylor Nelms, Gary Urton, Alexandra Lippman, Sarah Jeong, Maria Bezaitis, Whitney Trettien, David Graeber, Jane Guyer, Keith Hart, Julien Mailland, Michael Palm, Finn Brunton, Rachel O'dwyer, Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Paul N. Edwards, Geoffrey C. Bowker, And Criminology, Law And Society, The Mit Press
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-03575-0, ISBN: 0-262-03575-8

"Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.Museums are full of the coins, notes, beads, shells, stones, and other objects people have exchanged for millennia. But what about the debris, the things that allow a transaction to take place and are left in its wake? How would a museum go about curating our scrawls on electronic keypads, the rec ..."






Media Technologies(1st Edition)
Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society (Inside Technology)
by Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, Kirsten A. Foot, Finn Brunton, Gabriella Coleman, Jonathan Sterne, Lucy Suchman, Christopher Kelty, Sonia Livingstone, Fred Turner, Ignacio Siles, Leah A. Lievrouw, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Gregory J. Downey, Steven J. Jackson, Wiebe E. Bijker, W. Bernard Carlson, Trevor Pinch, The Mit Press
Paperback, 325 Pages, Published 2014 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52537-4, ISBN: 0-262-52537-2

"In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communication and media scholars have increasingly taken theoretical perspectives originating in ..."






Obfuscation(Unabridged)
A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest
by Finn Brunton, Professor Helen Nissenbaum, Dana Hickox
Audio, 1 Pages, Published 2016 by Gildan Audio And Blackstone Audio
Audiobook, Cd, Unabridged
ISBN-13: 978-1-4690-0416-7, ISBN: 1-4690-0416-X

"[Read by Dana Hickox]With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance -- the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguo ..."



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