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Crypto Crowds : Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain / ed. by Matan Shapiro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- , Bergen University, Author.
- Series:
- Critical Interventions: a Forum for Social Analysis Series
- Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis ; 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cryptocurrencies--Social aspects.
- Cryptocurrencies.
- Social networks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (126 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2024]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Matan Shapiro is a Social Anthropologist currently researching synoptic surveillance and changing notions of alterity online as part of the ERC-funded SAMCOM Project at the department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. Matan Shapiro is a Social Anthropologist currently researching synoptic surveillance and changing notions of alterity online as part of the ERC-funded SAMCOM Project at the department of Digital Humanities, King's College London.
- Summary:
- Ownership of cryptocurrencies and related assets has given rise to self-described “coin-communities.” Discussing the notions around social dynamics, this collection explores how crowd and community formations manifest empirically in cryptocurrency sociality online. It suggests that tensions between cryptocurrency adopters generate political, moral, and cosmological realities, which intensify crowding dynamics online. Pioneering in its approach to the increasing digitalization and datafication of everyday life, the volume encourages scholars to explore further how “decentralized” and “trustless” technologies take part in the construction of postmodern crowds.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Towards Hyperbitcoinization: Bitcoin Maximalism as Speculative Fiction
- The Sociality of the Blockchain and the Appification of Money: Affordances of a New Paradigm for Crowds
- Gambling Crowds as Crypto-oracles? Bridging the Real and the Blockchain through Utopian Markets and Oracular Shenanigans
- Affective Processes in Cryptocurrency Markets: An Exploration with Crowd Theory
- Unstructured Simplicity: The Peer-to-Peer Collective and Concurrent Formations of Cryptocommunities
- Conclusion
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2024)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781805392941
- 1805392948
- 9781805392934
- 180539293X
- OCLC:
- 1464073943
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