Finn Brunton
Biographic Data
| ID | 318148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Finn Brunton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Finn |
| FAMILY NAME | Brunton |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNTON F |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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I will discuss the digital materials that we do not want to archive, or that do not want to be archived, that are particular to Internet history: the trash, cruft, detritus and intentionally opaque hoard of documents and artefacts that constitute our digital middens. Middens are pits of domestic refuse filled with the discards and by-products of material life: the gnawed bones, ashes, fruit stones and potsherds, shells and chips and hair and drip…
Notes from/dev/null
I will discuss the digital materials that we do not want to archive, or that do not want to be archived, that are particular to Internet history: the trash, cruft, detritus and intentionally opaque hoard of documents and artefacts that constitute our digital middens. Middens are pits of domestic refuse filled with the discards and by-products of material life: the gnawed bones, ashes, fruit stones and potsherds, shells and chips and hair and drip…
Une histoire du spam: Le revers de la communauté en ligne
Cet article étudie l'étrange et vaste domaine du spam et son rôle dans l'évolution des communautés virtuelles et de la gouvernance d'Internet. Il développe l'idée selon laquelle le spam opère en exploitant la tension entre les communautés virtuelles et les infrastructures technologiques qui les sous-tendent. Les exploits du spam éclairent à la fois la relation complexe entre les communautés virtuelles et les gouvernements dans lesquels elles inte…
Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest
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 toolkit of privacy p…
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Scholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena. 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. Communicati…
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself.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…
Constitutive Interference: Spam and Online Communities
This paper examines the large and strange domain of spam and the role of spamming in the development of virtual communities and Internet governance. It contends that spamming operates by exploiting the tension between communities and the technological infrastructure that underlies them, and that these exploits illuminate both the complex relationship between virtual communities and the governments within which they operate and the changing politi…
Vernacular resistance to data collection and analysis: A political theory of obfuscation
Computer-enabled data collection, aggregation, and mining dramatically change the nature of contemporary surveillance. Refusal is not a practical option, as data collection is an inherent condition of many essential societal transactions. We present one vernacular response to this regime of everyday surveillance, a tactic we call obfuscation. With a variety of possible motivations, actors engage in obfuscation by producing misleading, false, or a…
Notes from/dev/null
I will discuss the digital materials that we do not want to archive, or that do not want to be archived, that are particular to Internet history: the trash, cruft, detritus and intentionally opaque hoard of documents and artefacts that constitute our digital middens. Middens are pits of domestic refuse filled with the discards and by-products of material life: the gnawed bones, ashes, fruit stones and potsherds, shells and chips and hair and drip…
Une histoire du spam: Le revers de la communauté en ligne
Cet article étudie l'étrange et vaste domaine du spam et son rôle dans l'évolution des communautés virtuelles et de la gouvernance d'Internet. Il développe l'idée selon laquelle le spam opère en exploitant la tension entre les communautés virtuelles et les infrastructures technologiques qui les sous-tendent. Les exploits du spam éclairent à la fois la relation complexe entre les communautés virtuelles et les gouvernements dans lesquels elles inte…
Constitutive Interference: Spam and Online Communities
This paper examines the large and strange domain of spam and the role of spamming in the development of virtual communities and Internet governance. It contends that spamming operates by exploiting the tension between communities and the technological infrastructure that underlies them, and that these exploits illuminate both the complex relationship between virtual communities and the governments within which they operate and the changing politi…
Vernacular resistance to data collection and analysis: A political theory of obfuscation
Computer-enabled data collection, aggregation, and mining dramatically change the nature of contemporary surveillance. Refusal is not a practical option, as data collection is an inherent condition of many essential societal transactions. We present one vernacular response to this regime of everyday surveillance, a tactic we call obfuscation. With a variety of possible motivations, actors engage in obfuscation by producing misleading, false, or a…
Constitutive Interference: Spam and Online Communities
This paper examines the large and strange domain of spam and the role of spamming in the development of virtual communities and Internet governance. It contends that spamming operates by exploiting the tension between communities and the technological infrastructure that underlies them, and that these exploits illuminate both the complex relationship between virtual communities and the governments within which they operate and the changing politi…
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself.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…
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Scholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena. 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. Communicati…
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest
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 toolkit of privacy p…
Une histoire du spam: Le revers de la communauté en ligne
Cet article étudie l'étrange et vaste domaine du spam et son rôle dans l'évolution des communautés virtuelles et de la gouvernance d'Internet. Il développe l'idée selon laquelle le spam opère en exploitant la tension entre les communautés virtuelles et les infrastructures technologiques qui les sous-tendent. Les exploits du spam éclairent à la fois la relation complexe entre les communautés virtuelles et les gouvernements dans lesquels elles inte…
Notes from/dev/null
I will discuss the digital materials that we do not want to archive, or that do not want to be archived, that are particular to Internet history: the trash, cruft, detritus and intentionally opaque hoard of documents and artefacts that constitute our digital middens. Middens are pits of domestic refuse filled with the discards and by-products of material life: the gnawed bones, ashes, fruit stones and potsherds, shells and chips and hair and drip…
Notes from/dev/null
I will discuss the digital materials that we do not want to archive, or that do not want to be archived, that are particular to Internet history: the trash, cruft, detritus and intentionally opaque hoard of documents and artefacts that constitute our digital middens. Middens are pits of domestic refuse filled with the discards and by-products of material life: the gnawed bones, ashes, fruit stones and potsherds, shells and chips and hair and drip…
Computer Science (8 works) · Computer security (5 works) · Internet privacy (4 works) · The Internet (4 works) · World Wide Web (4 works) · Business (2 works) · Communication and technology (2 works) · Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (2 works) · Digital media (2 works) · Long Now Manual for Civilization (2 works)