Finn Brunton is assistant professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is the author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet and the co-author of Communication and Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest. He has written for the Guardian, Artforum, and Radical Philosophy, among many other publications.
ARTICLES FEATURING FINN
Bitcoin Dreams
Kevin Werbach considers the pitfalls and the potential of Bitcoin and blockchain, explored in three recent publications....
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....
