User:Euro Pound Yen/sandbox

My papers, talks and other information are available on my CV. My book, Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet, will be out with MIT Press in April 2013. I’m working on the next one now.

I’m an Assistant Professor of Information at the University of Michigan’s School of Information. I teach Introduction to Information (SI 110) and Dead Media (SI 535). Interested in digital media and network subcultures; anonymity, trust, crypto and community; digital humanities, and obsolete and experimental media technologies; hacking and modding practices and cultures; architecture/hardware/infrastructure literacy.

CURRICULUM VITAE: FINN BRUNTON

Finn Brunton School of Information University of Michigan 3441 North Quad 105 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 Tel: 734-764-2064 | Fax: 734-615-3587 finnb@umich.edu | http://finnb.net EDUCATION

Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen, Scotland Ph.D., Modern Thought, 2009 Dissertation title: “Spam in Action: Social Technology and Unintended Consequences.” Advisors: Prof. Christopher Fynsk, Prof. Mario Biagioli. Examiners: Prof. James Leach, Prof. Timothy Lenoir.

European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland M.A., Communications Theory, 2006

UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002 ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant Professor of Information. School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Working on the digital humanities; adoption and adaptation of media, computing, and information systems; special focus on research in privacy, anonymity, innovation, and social dimensions of networking. 2010-current.

Postdoctoral Researcher. Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School, New York University. 2009-2010. BOOKS

Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet. MIT Press, forthcoming April 2013

Shards: Spam Books, Crypto Societies, Thick Games (working title). In preparation ARTICLES & CHAPTERS

Thinking of Everything: Thick Gaming and the Art of Losing. In preparation

Closer to the Metal. With Gabriella Coleman. In Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, ed. Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo Boczkowski, Kirsten Foot. MIT Press, forthcoming 2013

Political and Ethical Perspectives on Data Obfuscation. With Helen Nissenbaum. In Privacy, Due Process and the Computational Turn: The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology, ed. Mireille Hildebrandt, Katja De Vries. Routledge, forthcoming April 2013

Chris Marker: 1921-2012. Radical Philosophy 176, Nov/Dec 2012

The Walled City: “Cannot One Dream of a Computer Hypothesis?” Radical Philosophy 175, Sept/Oct 2012

Constitutive Interference: Spam and Networked Communities. Representations 117, Winter 2012

Vernacular Resistance to Data Collection and Analysis: A Political Theory of Obfuscation. With Helen Nissenbaum. First Monday vol 16, no 5

Keyspace: Reflections on WikiLeaks and the Assange Papers. Radical Philosophy 166, Mar/Apr 2011

After WikiLeaks, Us The New Everyday, April 4, 2011

“Roar So Wildly”: Spam, Language, Technology. Radical Philosophy 164, Nov/Dec 2010 SCHOLARLY INTERESTS & RESEARCH

Digital and other new media (especially adaptation, modification, misuse and abuse); publicity, privacy, anonymity and trust; digital humanities; obsolete and experimental media; network culture and mediated subcultures; hardware and infrastructure literacy; architecture and industrial design SELECTED INVITED PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES & WORKSHOPS

Future

Creativity & Mayhem: Anonymous Communities at Work. With Gabriella Coleman and Quinn Norton. SXSWi, March 9 2013

Past

Four Remarks on Spam for Transmediale. Transmediale, February 1 2013

Thinking of Everything: Algorithmic Gaming and Thick Simulation. Intel Science and Technology Center, November 19 2012, Cornell

Concentrate Upon the Effect: Notes Towards a History of Radical Media. A New Insurgency: The Port Huron Statement in Its Time and Ours, September 20 2012, University of Michigan

The Nonhumanities: Writing with Crowds and Algorithms. Institute for the Humanities 2012 Spring Seminar, May 5 2012, University of Michigan

The Metallurgical Machine: Exploring the Microchip with Dwarf Fortress. Gaming the Game, April 12 2012, UC Davis

All Tomorrow’s Pirates: Foucault, Gibson, and the Walled City. Radical Philosophy Conference, October 21 2011, Columbia University

Velocity/Growth: Essays and Experiments in the Digital Humanities. Institute for the Humanities, October 4 2011, University of Michigan

Dead Media: What the Obsolete, Unsuccessful, Experimental, and Avant-Garde Can Teach Us About the Future of Media. USENIX ATC 2011 and Webapps plenary session, June 16 2011, Portland OR

The Politics of User-Generated Content. With danah boyd, Mizuko Ito, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, and Jonathan McIntosh at Digital Media and Learning 2011, March 3-6, Long Beach, CA SELECTED PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Avenge Me: Anonymity, Publicity and Punishment on 4chan. Canadian Communications Association 2012, May 30, University of Waterloo

Cryptography, Auditing, Perturbation, Obfuscation. Computers, Privacy and Data Protection 2011, January 25-27, Brussels, Belgium

Secret Languages: Privacy, Ownership and Federated Social Networks. Privacy Research Group, October 6 2010, New York University

Vernacular Resistance to Data Collection and Surveillance: A Political Theory of Obfuscation. EASST 2010, September 2-4 2010, Trento, Italy

An Infinite Continuum of Spewage: Bayesian filtering and the reinvention of spam. International Symposium on Electronic Art, August 20-29 2010, Ruhr, Germany

A User’s Guide to Lulzy Media, the Pleasure of Trickery, and the Politics of Spectacle: from Luddites to Anonymous. With Prof. Gabriella Coleman at Hackers On Planet Earth, July 17 2010, New York City

The Unbook. Computers and Writing Conference, May 20-23 2010, Purdue University

The Pleasure of Spam: Metagaming and Misuse in Early Computer Culture. Cultural Studies Association, March 18-20 2010, UC Berkeley

Creating and violating anonymity in online communities: the case of 4chan, Anon, and Dusty the Cat. Privacy Research Group, February 24 2010, New York University TEACHING

Communicating With and About Information. Fall 2013, in preparation.

SI110: Introduction to Information. Winter 2011, School of Information, University of Michigan.

SI535: Dead Media: Preserving Culture and Context. Winter 2011, School of Information, University of Michigan.

Dead Media Research Studio. Fall 2010, Department of Media, Culture & Communication, NYU-Steinhardt.

Introduction to Digital Media. Spring 2010, Department of Media, Culture & Communication, NYU-Steinhardt.

Digital Humanities: Contexts and Platforms. Co-taught with Dr. Kriss Ravetto, Fall 2008, School of Language & Literature, University of Aberdeen. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Co-organizing the Digital Environments / Cyberinfrastructure (DE/CI) 2013 Series

Co-organizing the Science, Technology, & Medicine in Society (STeMS) 2013 series

Member of the Digital Environments Cluster

Member of the Values in Design (VID) Council, working with the Future Internet Architecture Workshop for the National Science Foundation, 2010-present

Consulting on the Unbook Lab at Illinois State University, 2010

Member of the Privacy Research Group, NYU, 2009-10

Member of the Mediations Group, NYU, 2009-10 WEB PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS

http://enfoldment.net Collaborated with Processing artists and Prof. Laura Marks to create companion site for Enfoldment and Infinity (MIT, 2010)

http://finnb.net/a/b/ “Barricade/Labyrinth: Ten Years of Read/Writing Walter Benjamin,” personal project, 2010

http://crissp.poly.edu Creating and managing website for the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Security and Privacy, 2010 Created or consulted on various academic sites MEDIA AND INTERVIEWS

Gave interviews about social networks, spam, and digital culture by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, IEEE Spectrum, the New York Times, etc.