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Searching for Trust: Blockchain Technology in an Age of Disinformation

Name: Searching for Trust: Blockchain Technology in an Age of Disinformation
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108834872
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Author: Victoria L. Lemieux
ISBN: 9781108834872

By Victoria L. Lemieux

Cambridge University Press April 2022

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ISBN-13: 9781108834872
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: April 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Searching for Trust explores the intersection of trust, disinformation, and blockchain technology in an age of heightened institutional and epistemic mistrust. It adopts a unique archival theoretic lens to delve into how computational information processing has gradually supplanted traditional record keeping, putting at risk a centuries-old tradition of the 'moral defense of the record' and replacing it with a dominant ethos of information-processing efficiency. The author argues that focusing on information-processing efficiency over the defense of records against manipulation and corruption (the ancient task of the recordkeeper) has contributed to a diminution of the trustworthiness of information and a rise of disinformation, with attendant destabilization of the epistemic trust fabric of societies. Readers are asked to consider the potential and limitations of blockchains as the technological embodiment of the moral defense of the record and as means to restoring societal trust in an age of disinformation.

Preface

Part I. Introduction:

1. What good is Blockchain?

Part II. Trust:

2. Trust and its discontents

3. From 'Trustless Trust' to 'The Great Chain of Certainty'

Part III. Disinformation:

4. Mistrust and the rise of disinformation

5. Faking it

Part IV. Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology:

6. The 'Moral Defence of the Archive'

7. From 'Archival Imaginaries' to archival realities

Part V. The Theory of the Future:

8. The 'Life-World' on ledger

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