Ruling through technology: politicizing blockchain services
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چکیده
Next to artificial intelligence and big data, blockchains have emerged as one of the most oft-cited technologies associated with digital economy. Leading technology companies recently contributed making used more widely by developing integrated blockchain offerings. The emergence such services yet strikingly clashes original stated goal remove any form central political authority, behind these new can represent. How should we then understand embrace that this was notably supposed displace? Using concept infrastructure from Science Technology Studies, argue are not merely adopting but actively promoting a assemblage socio-technical devices reassert their authority over how information is exchanged online. Based on comparative analysis technical documentation Ethereum Amazon Web Services (AWS) services, highlight actors contributing building infrastructures regulate users' behavior affording them different capacities constraints. We moreover show pursuing its commercial interest, AWS supported corporate governance historically promoted United States oversee
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Review of International Political Economy
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1466-4526', '0969-2290']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2021.1959377