Jaya Klara Brekke

Biographic Data

ID6685979
NAMEJaya Klara Brekke
GIVEN NAMESJaya Klara
FAMILY NAMEBrekke
SIGNATUREBREKKE J K
AFFILIATIONSDurham University
ORCID0000-0001-5490-6930
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Cryptoeconomics

    Open AccessJaya Klara Brekke, W Z AlsindiARTICLEInternet Policy Review2021

    Cryptoeconomics describes an interdisciplinary, emergent and experimental field that draws on ideas and concepts from economics, game theory and related disciplines in the design of peer-to-peer cryptographic systems

  • Decentralisation in the blockchain space

    Open AccessBéla Bodó, Balazs Bodo et al.ARTICLEInternet Policy Review2021

    The rapidly evolving blockchain technology space has put decentralisation back into the focus of the design of techno-social systems, and the role of decentralised technological infrastructures in achieving particular social, economic, or political goals. In this entry we address how blockchains and distributed ledgers think about decentralisation

  • Decentralisation

    Open AccessBéla Bodó, Balazs Bodo et al.ARTICLEInternet Policy Review2021

    This article belongs to Concepts of the digital society, a special section of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Christian Katzenbach and Thomas Christian Bächle. 1. Introduction The concept of decentralisation traverses multiple contexts, fields and disciplines

  • Digital scarcity

    Open AccessJaya Klara Brekke, Aron FischerARTICLEInternet Policy Review2021

    of digital information, goods or services that may be accessed and used entirely digitally

  • The Dissensus Protocol

    Open AccessJaya Klara Brekke, Kate Beecroft et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Human Dynamics2021References: 10

    Peer-to-peer networks and protocols have inspired new ideas and ideologies about governance, with the aim of using technology to enable horizontal and decentralized decision-making at scale. This article introduces the concept of “dissensus” from political theory to debates about peer governance in online communities. Dissensus describes the emergence of incompatible differences. Among peer-to-peer technologies, blockchain stands out as a set of …

  • Hacker-engineers and Their Economies

    Jaya Klara BrekkeARTICLENew Political Economy2020Cited by: 10References: 12

    Research by political economists typically highlights policymakers, regulators, economists and consultants as the makers of economies. This paper foregrounds a different actor entirely, what I call the ‘hacker-engineer’ as an important protagonist in the making of decentralised digital network economies that are forged through the emerging field of ‘cryptoeconomics’ and blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies. Responding to critical …

  • Strange encounters

    Jaya Klara BrekkeARTICLECity2014Cited by: 1

    Debates about migration tend to force a representation of migrants into two categories: criminal or victim. Both of these categories feed each other and form the basis for discourses that substantiate the need for detention prisons and the incarceration of migrants. Map.crisis-scape.net is an online map of racist attacks with a focus on Athens, Greece. One aim of the map has been to attempt a different type of representation of the issues surroun…