Crypto Crowds by Matan Shapiro
Ownership of cryptocurrencies features contrasting forms of mobilization. On one hand, it denotes association with a global crowd of unrelated individual investors, which expands as it attracts more members. On the other hand, it includes participation in grassroots communities, which are generally more insular. Crypto Crowds demonstrates how this tension generates political, economic and moral realities in different cultural and geographical contexts. Pioneering in its approach to cryptocurrency trading, this volume will inspire scholars interested in the sociality of decentralized business models, boom-and-bust cycles on the blockchain, libertarian utopias and other postmodern crowding phenomena.
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Security and Development
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Who's Cashing In?
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Globalization
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Expert Knowledge
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The Event of Charlie Hebdo
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Corporate Scandal
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State, Sovereignty, War
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Migration, Development, and Transnationalization
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Nationalism's Bloody Terrain
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The World Trade Center and Global Crisis
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The Global Idea of 'the Commons'
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The Global Life of Austerity
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Arab Spring
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Democracy's Paradox
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War, Technology, Anthropology
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Identifying with Freedom
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Extremism, Society, and the State
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Oligarchs and Oligopolies
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Moral Anthropology
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The Retreat of the Social
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781805392927 |
| ISBN 10 | 1805392921 |
| Title | Crypto Crowds |
| Author | Matan Shapiro |
| Series | Critical Interventions: A Forum For Social Analysis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2024-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 126 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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