Digital Cash The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency by FinnBrunton 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, FinnBrunton, 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 FinnBrunton, 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 FinnBrunton, 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 FinnBrunton 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 FinnBrunton, 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 FinnBrunton 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 ..."
Obfuscation(Unabridged) A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest by FinnBrunton, 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 FinnBrunton Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-31394-0, ISBN: 0-262-31394-4
"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 FinnBrunton 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 ..."
"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 FinnBrunton, 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 FinnBrunton Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1-299-45772-0, ISBN: 1-299-45772-X
Spam A Shadow History of the Internet by FinnBrunton 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 FinnBrunton, 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 ..."