Finn Brunton is Assistant Professor of Information in the School of Information at the University of Michigan.
ARTICLES FEATURING FINN
Internet Privacy: Stepping Up Our Self-Defense Game
Despite all the coverage "privacy" gets in the post-Snowden world, many of us don’t see what all the fuss is about....
Hide and Seek: The Problem with Obfuscation
Brunton and Nissenbaum outline a variety of techniques of obfuscation that ordinary people can deploy to camouflage themselves....
The Tedium is the Message: Finn Brunton’s “Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet”
Spam, in all of its myriad forms, is essentially an attempt to capture and redirect a user’s attention, if only momentarily. Finn Brunton’s new book Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet offers the first sustained look at the relationship between attention and community in online spaces....
