Samer Hassan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3914579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samer Hassan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samer |
| FAMILY NAME | Hassan |
| SIGNATURE | HASSAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4696-779X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘My body, my money’
This paper examines the material and ideological entanglements between sex work and blockchain technology through a case study of SpankChain, a blockchain-based platform designed with sex workers as its target users. Employing a mixed-methods approach that integrates digital ethnography, discourse analysis of Reddit discussions, and content analysis of platform-authored materials (including SpankChain’s whitepaper and blog posts), the study inves…
Blockchain-based application at a governmental level
Blockchain technology enables new kinds of decentralized systems. Thus, it has often been advocated as a “disruptive” technology that could have the potentiality of reshaping political, economic, and social relations, “solving” problems like corruption, power centralization, and distrust toward political institutions. Blockchain has been gradually gaining attention beyond finance and is thus applied by a range of different actors. This includes l…
Decentralized Autonomous Organization
A DAO is a blockchain-based system that enables people to coordinate and govern themselves mediated by a set of self-executing rules deployed on a public blockchain, and whose governance is decentralised (i.e., independent from central control)
Talk Is Silver, Code Is Gold? Beyond Traditional Notions of Contribution in Peer Production
Peer production communities are based on the collaboration of communities of people, mediated by the Internet, typically to create digital commons, as in Wikipedia or free software. The contribution activities around the creation of such commons (e.g., source code, articles, or documentation) have been widely explored. However, other types of contribution whose focus is directed toward the community have remained significantly less visible (e.g.,…
When Ostrom Meets Blockchain
Blockchain technologies have generated enthusiasm, yet their potential to enable new forms of governance remains largely unexplored. Two confronting standpoints dominate the emergent debate around blockchain-based governance: discourses characterized by the presence of techno-determinist and market-driven values, which tend to ignore the complexity of social organization; and critical accounts of such discourses which, while contributing to ident…
Blockchain technology as a regulatory technology
“Code is law” refers to the idea that, with the advent of digital technology, code has progressively established itself as the predominant way to regulate the behavior of Internet users. Yet, while computer code can enforce rules more efficiently than legal code, it also comes with a series of limitations, mostly because it is difficult to transpose the ambiguity and flexibility of legal rules into a formalized language which can be interpreted b…
Asking the Oracle
This paper presents a set of guidelines, imported from the field of forecasting, that can help social simulation and, more specifically, agent-based modelling practitioners to improve the predictive performance and the robustness of their models. The presentation starts with a discussion on the current debate on prediction in social processes, followed by an overview of the recent experience and lessons learnt from the field of forecasting. This …
Simulación de procesos sociales basada en agentes software
La simulación social basada en agentes constituye hoy una alternativa para avanzar en el conocimiento sociológico desde una perspectiva metodológica novedosa, poseedora de una potencial vocación integradora. Su aplicación adquiere especial sentido cuando existe una cierta abundancia de datos cuantitativos, cualitativos, observaciones longitudinales o transversales y queremos (y necesitamos) ir más allá de las limitaciones propias de cada fuente d…
When Ostrom Meets Blockchain
Blockchain technologies have generated enthusiasm, yet their potential to enable new forms of governance remains largely unexplored. Two confronting standpoints dominate the emergent debate around blockchain-based governance: discourses characterized by the presence of techno-determinist and market-driven values, which tend to ignore the complexity of social organization; and critical accounts of such discourses which, while contributing to ident…
Talk Is Silver, Code Is Gold? Beyond Traditional Notions of Contribution in Peer Production
Peer production communities are based on the collaboration of communities of people, mediated by the Internet, typically to create digital commons, as in Wikipedia or free software. The contribution activities around the creation of such commons (e.g., source code, articles, or documentation) have been widely explored. However, other types of contribution whose focus is directed toward the community have remained significantly less visible (e.g.,…
Blockchain-based application at a governmental level
Blockchain technology enables new kinds of decentralized systems. Thus, it has often been advocated as a “disruptive” technology that could have the potentiality of reshaping political, economic, and social relations, “solving” problems like corruption, power centralization, and distrust toward political institutions. Blockchain has been gradually gaining attention beyond finance and is thus applied by a range of different actors. This includes l…
Simulación de procesos sociales basada en agentes software
La simulación social basada en agentes constituye hoy una alternativa para avanzar en el conocimiento sociológico desde una perspectiva metodológica novedosa, poseedora de una potencial vocación integradora. Su aplicación adquiere especial sentido cuando existe una cierta abundancia de datos cuantitativos, cualitativos, observaciones longitudinales o transversales y queremos (y necesitamos) ir más allá de las limitaciones propias de cada fuente d…
Asking the Oracle
This paper presents a set of guidelines, imported from the field of forecasting, that can help social simulation and, more specifically, agent-based modelling practitioners to improve the predictive performance and the robustness of their models. The presentation starts with a discussion on the current debate on prediction in social processes, followed by an overview of the recent experience and lessons learnt from the field of forecasting. This …
Blockchain technology as a regulatory technology
“Code is law” refers to the idea that, with the advent of digital technology, code has progressively established itself as the predominant way to regulate the behavior of Internet users. Yet, while computer code can enforce rules more efficiently than legal code, it also comes with a series of limitations, mostly because it is difficult to transpose the ambiguity and flexibility of legal rules into a formalized language which can be interpreted b…
Decentralized Autonomous Organization
A DAO is a blockchain-based system that enables people to coordinate and govern themselves mediated by a set of self-executing rules deployed on a public blockchain, and whose governance is decentralised (i.e., independent from central control)
Talk Is Silver, Code Is Gold? Beyond Traditional Notions of Contribution in Peer Production
Peer production communities are based on the collaboration of communities of people, mediated by the Internet, typically to create digital commons, as in Wikipedia or free software. The contribution activities around the creation of such commons (e.g., source code, articles, or documentation) have been widely explored. However, other types of contribution whose focus is directed toward the community have remained significantly less visible (e.g.,…
When Ostrom Meets Blockchain
Blockchain technologies have generated enthusiasm, yet their potential to enable new forms of governance remains largely unexplored. Two confronting standpoints dominate the emergent debate around blockchain-based governance: discourses characterized by the presence of techno-determinist and market-driven values, which tend to ignore the complexity of social organization; and critical accounts of such discourses which, while contributing to ident…
Blockchain-based application at a governmental level
Blockchain technology enables new kinds of decentralized systems. Thus, it has often been advocated as a “disruptive” technology that could have the potentiality of reshaping political, economic, and social relations, “solving” problems like corruption, power centralization, and distrust toward political institutions. Blockchain has been gradually gaining attention beyond finance and is thus applied by a range of different actors. This includes l…
‘My body, my money’
This paper examines the material and ideological entanglements between sex work and blockchain technology through a case study of SpankChain, a blockchain-based platform designed with sex workers as its target users. Employing a mixed-methods approach that integrates digital ethnography, discourse analysis of Reddit discussions, and content analysis of platform-authored materials (including SpankChain’s whitepaper and blog posts), the study inves…
Computer Science (5 works) · Blockchain (4 works) · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (4 works) · Computer security (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Affordance (2 works)