Constitutive interference: Spam and online communities

Finn Brunton

doi:10.1525/rep.2012.117.1.30

Constitutive interference: Spam and online communities

Finn Brunton

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This paper examines the large and strange domain of spam and the role of spamming in the development of virtual communities and Internet governance. It contends that spamming operates by exploiting the tension between communities and the technological infrastructure that underlies them, and that these exploits illuminate both the complex relationship between virtual communities and the governments within which they operate and the changing politics of attention online. REPRESENTATIONS 117. Winter 2012

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	30-58
Number of pages	29
Journal	Representations
Volume	117
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2012.117.1.30
State	Published - Dec 2012

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Gender Studies
Cultural Studies
General Arts and Humanities
Sociology and Political Science

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