Log Out: A Glossary of Technological Resistance and Decentralization [electronic resource].

Institute of Network Cultures 2023

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This book brings together voices from various fields of intellectual inquiry, based on the idea that technological, legal and societal aspects of the information sphere are interlinked and co-dependent from each other. In order to tackle the existing gap in shared semantics, this glossary converges the efforts of experts from various disciplines to build a shared vocabulary on the social, technical, economic, political aspects of decentralized, distributed or sovereign technologies: artifacts which seek to challenge the techno-social status quo by, for example, circumventing law enforcement, resisting surveillance, or being participative. The idea of this glossary arose from the need for a workable, flexible and multidisciplinary resource for terminological clarity, which reflects instead of denying complexity. Situating the terms emerging through technology development in the wider context of multidisciplinary scientific, policy and political discourses, this glossary provides a conceptual toolkit for the study of the various political, economic, legal and technical struggles that decentralized, encryption-based, peer-to-peer technologies bring about and go through. Choosing relevant technology-related terms and understanding them is to investigate their affordances within a given ecosystem of actors, discourses and systems of incentives. This requires an interdisciplinary, multi-layered approach that is attentive to the interlinkages between technological design nuances and socio-political, economic implications.
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Computational intelligence
Economics
Information Commons
Computer networks
Sociology

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Florian Idelberger
Andrea Leiter
Morshed Mannan
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Balázs Bodó
Kelsie Nabben
Ellie Rennie
Aron Fischer
Florian Tschorsch
Ingolf G. A. Pernice
Brett Scott
Jaya Klara Brekke
Wassim Zuhair Alsindi
André Ramiro
Ruy de Queiroz
Heleen Janssen
Jatinder Singh
Roel Roscam Abbing
Cade Diehm
Shahed Warreth
Samer Hassan
Primavera De Filippi
Isabelle A. Zaugg
Anushah Hossain
Brendan Molloy
Daniel Villar-Onrubia
Victoria I. Marín
Laura Lotti
Péter Mezei
Selwa Sweidan
Karlynne Ejercito
Tyng-Ruey Chuang
Rebecca C. Fan
Ming-Syuan Ho
Kalpana Tyagi
Michael Zargham
Gerd Beuster
Oliver Leistert
Theo Röhle
Ori Shimony
Ámbar Tenorio-Fornés
Alexandra Giannopoulou
Fennie Wang
Chris Wray
Giovanni Sileno
Francisco Javier Moreno Gálvez
Francisco Sierra Caballero
Indrek Ibrus
Ulrike Rohn
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
Matthew Archer
Louis Ravn
Moritz Becker
Catalina Goanta
Alfa Yohanis
Vikas Jaiman
Visara Urovi
Jack Wilson
Andy Díaz Sánchez