On the Question of Blockchain Activism
Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
Standard
On the Question of Blockchain Activism. / Leistert, Oliver.
The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism.. ed. / Graham Meikle. London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. p. 376-384.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
Harvard
APA
Vancouver
Bibtex
}
RIS
TY - CHAP
T1 - On the Question of Blockchain Activism
AU - Leistert, Oliver
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Oliver Leistert.
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - This chapter begins with an introduction into basic technical concepts and processes of the blockchain, its different historical types, followed by a problematization of its central features like decentralization or transparency. At the core of blockchain technologies are two technical developments: distributed computing and asymmetric encryption. The couple centralization–decentralization almost automatically invokes a long history of struggles of different kinds: for instance, the centralized state and its centralized administration as a loss of agency for individuals. Media activism in the age of the blockchain is confronted with old problems anew. Michel Foucault, in his 1972–1973 lectures on the punitive society, analyzed the establishment of the bourgeois morality as a modulation of laws in the fields of ownership and property. The Economic Space Agency is considering abstractions from the real inherent in derivatives and their execution in blockchains as a prospect for social justice.
AB - This chapter begins with an introduction into basic technical concepts and processes of the blockchain, its different historical types, followed by a problematization of its central features like decentralization or transparency. At the core of blockchain technologies are two technical developments: distributed computing and asymmetric encryption. The couple centralization–decentralization almost automatically invokes a long history of struggles of different kinds: for instance, the centralized state and its centralized administration as a loss of agency for individuals. Media activism in the age of the blockchain is confronted with old problems anew. Michel Foucault, in his 1972–1973 lectures on the punitive society, analyzed the establishment of the bourgeois morality as a modulation of laws in the fields of ownership and property. The Economic Space Agency is considering abstractions from the real inherent in derivatives and their execution in blockchains as a prospect for social justice.
KW - Media and communication studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85143935047&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/192ef636-b101-35d9-a127-848d7624f18c/
U2 - 10.4324/9781315475059-40
DO - 10.4324/9781315475059-40
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-1-138-20203-0
SP - 376
EP - 384
BT - The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism.
A2 - Meikle, Graham
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
CY - London
ER -