 Название: Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed
Автор: Fenwick McKelvey
Издательство: University of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1517901545
Год: 2018
Страниц: 336
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), djvu
Размер: 10.1 MB
A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known—but very consequential—programs into the spotlight.
We're used to talking about how tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon rule the internet, but what about daemons? Ubiquitous programs that have colonized the Net's infrastructure—as well as the devices we use to access it—daemons are little known. Fenwick McKelvey weaves together history, theory, and policy to give a full account of where daemons come from and how they influence our lives—including their role in hot-button issues like network neutrality.
Going back to Victorian times and the popular thought experiment Maxwell's Demon, McKelvey charts how daemons evolved from concept to reality, eventually blossoming into the pandaemonium of code-based creatures that today orchestrates our internet. Digging into real-life examples like sluggish connection speeds, Comcast's efforts to control peer-to-peer networking, and Pirate Bay's attempts to elude daemonic control (and skirt copyright), McKelvey shows how daemons have been central to the internet, greatly influencing everyday users.
Internet Daemons asks important questions about how much control is being handed over to these automated, autonomous programs, and the consequences for transparency and oversight.
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Abbreviations and Technical Terms vii
Introduction 1
1 The Devil We Know: Maxwell’s Demon, Cyborg Sciences, and Flow Control 23
2 Possessing Infrastructure: Nonsynchronous Communication, IMPs, and Optimization 45
3 IMPs, OLIVERs, and Gateways: Internetworking before the Internet 71
4 Pandaemonium: The Internet as Daemons 93
5 Suffering from Buffering? Affects of Flow Control 135
6 The Disoptimized: The Ambiguous Tactics of The Pirate Bay 161
7 A Crescendo of Online Interactive Debugging? Gamers, Publics, and Daemons 185
Conclusion 209
Acknowledgments 229
Appendix: Internet Measurement and Mediators 233
Notes 239
Bibliography 267
Index 309
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