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Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (Infrastructures) - Hardcover

Buch 1 von 22: Infrastructures

Brunton, Finn

 
9780262018876: Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (Infrastructures)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 026201887X ISBN 13: 9780262018876
Verlag: MIT Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

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 shaped by many different populations around the world: programmers, con artists, bots and their botmasters, pharmaceutical merchants, marketers, identity thieves, crooked bankers and their victims, cops, lawyers, network security professionals, vigilantes, and hackers. Every time we go online, we participate in the system of spam, with choices, refusals, and purchases the consequences of which we may not understand. This is a book about what spam is, how it works, and what it means. Brunton provides a cultural history that stretches from pranks on early computer networks to the construction of a global criminal infrastructure.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Finn Brunton is Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.

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Verlag
MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
026201887X
ISBN 13 
9780262018876
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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