Spam : a Shadow History of the Internet /

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 f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brunton, Finn, 1980-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
Colección:Infrastructures series.
Temas:
Spam (Electronic mail) > History.
Pourriels > Histoire.
COMPUTERS > System Administration > Email Administration.
COMPUTERS > History.
Spam (Electronic mail)
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies
INFORMATION SCIENCE/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Ready For Next Message: 1971-1994
  • Spam And The Invention Of Online Community
  • Galapagos
  • The Supercommunity and the Reactive Public
  • Royalists, Anarchists, Parliamentarians, Technolibertarians
  • The Wizards
  • In The Clean Room: Trust And Protocols
  • Interrupting The Polylogue
  • The Charivari
  • Complex Primitives: The Usenet Community, Spam, And Newbies
  • Shaming And Flaming: Antispam, Vigilantism, And The Charivari
  • For Free Information Via Email
  • The Year September Never Ended: Framing Spam's Advent
  • This Vulnerable Medium: The Green Card Lottery
  • 2. Make Money Fast: 1995-2003
  • Introduction: The First Ten Moves
  • The Entrepreneurs
  • Let's Get Brutal: Premier Services And The Infrastructure Of Spam
  • Building Antispam
  • The Cancelbot Wars
  • Spam And Its Metaphors
  • The Charivari In Power: Nanae
  • You Know The Situation In Africa: Nigeria And 419
  • The Art Of Misdirection
  • Robot-Readability
  • The Coevolution Of Search And Spam
  • 3. The Victim Cloud: 2003-2010
  • Filtering: Scientists And Hackers
  • Making Spam Scientific, Part 1
  • Making Spam Hackable
  • Poisoning: The Reinvention Of Spam
  • Inventing Litspam
  • The New Suckers
  • "New Twist In Affect": Splogging, Content Farms, And Social Spam
  • The Popular Vote
  • The Quantified Audience
  • In Your Own Words: Spamming And Human-Machine Collaborations
  • The Botnets
  • The Marketplace
  • Inside The Library Of Babel: The Storm Worm
  • Surveying Storm: Making Spam Scientific, Part II
  • The Overload: Militarizing Spam
  • Criminal Infrastructure
  • Conclusion
  • The Use Of Information Technology Infrastructure
  • ... To Exploit Existing Aggregation Of Human Attention.

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