#Book: The Dark Net - Inside the Digital Underworld - Jamie Bartlett (2014)
Nominated for the Debut Political Book of the Year, the Transmission Prize and the Orwell Prize.
Jamie Bartlett is a journalist, blogger, incl. for The Telegraph, and director of the Centre for the Analytics of Social media (CASM).
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▻http://www.jamiebartlett.org
In this book Jamie Bartlett explains why he thinks the dark net is becoming mainstream. He shows the shift towards a consumer centric attitude (customer service), where sellers build and care about reputation, customer reviews & grading. Prices go down, quality goes up. In order to appeal some even go as far as advertising “fair trade” organic cocaïne, straight from the Guatemalan farmer instead of the drug lords.
The dark net is going mainstream. #Aphex_Twin announced his last album directly on the dark net. Even #Facebook has a dark net .onion entry in order to be accessible via TOR.
Bartlett predicts that social media going to expand its foothold in the dark net.
▻http://www.amazon.fr/Dark-Net-Jamie-Bartlett/dp/0434023175
Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit—a world of Google, Facebook, and Twitter—lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities, and cultures where freedom is pushed to its limits, and where people can be anyone, or do anything, they want. This is the world of Bitcoin and Silk Road, of radicalism and pornography. This is the Dark Net.
In this important and revealing book, Jamie Bartlett takes us deep into the digital underworld and presents an extraordinary look at the internet we don’t know. Beginning with the rise of the internet and the conflicts and battles that defined its early years, Bartlett reports on trolls, pornographers, drug dealers, hackers, political extremists, Bitcoin programmers, and vigilantes—and puts a human face on those who have many reasons to stay anonymous.
Appearance on #TED: "How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream"
▻https://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_bartlett_how_the_mysterious_dark_net_is_going_mainstream?language=en
Talk at Google:
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzXEa9kpnE
Book reviews:
In French:
▻http://www.ladn.eu/actualites/the-darknet,article,24787.html
Ce livre est un voyage auprès des âmes sombres du net, des sous-cultures créatives, et des plus destructrices. Au nom de l’innovation, de la liberté, de l’anonymat, ou encore de la perversité et de la haine, les sans-visage mènent une vie parallèle dans un monde souvent discuté, jamais vraiment exploré.
In English:
- ▻http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-dark-netinside-the-digital-underworld-by-jamie-bartlett-book-revi
– ▻https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329820.900-meeting-the-human-faces-of-the-internets-dark-places
– ▻http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9308562/the-dark-net-by-jamie-bartlett-review
– ▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-tour-of-the-webs-other-dark-side/2015/06/25/19a5ee2e-0e11-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html
– ▻http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/10/15/book-review-the-dark-net-inside-the-digital-underworld-by-jamie-bartlet
List of articles written by Jamie Bartlett:
▻http://www.jamiebartlett.org/articles
–On Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road) conviction & Doctor X. Salon, June 2015
– How we became obsessed with online privacy The Telegraph, June 2015
– On the Nathan Barley World of the Klout Obsessives The Telegraph, April 2015
– Bot army unleashed onto Twitter to troll online misogynists, The Telegraph, April 2015
– Islamic State and encryption: what to do? The Telegraph, March 2015
– Ethereum: ethical hackers plot to transform the internet The Spectator, March 2015
– The radical right are now the most vocal supporters of free speech. How? Little Atoms, February 2015
– Cover of Darkness: will online anonymity win out? Aeon, January 2015
– Why do we feel the need to tweet after tragedy? The Telegraph, January 2015
– Review of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower: The Many Faces of Anonymous The Guardian, November 2014
– Review of Russell Brand’s ’Revolution’ Harry’s Place, November 2014
– Most British Jihadis are dumb thrill-seekers The Telegraph August 2014
– How the dark net drugs markets work Sunday Times, August 2014
– Battle of ideas moves online New York Times, August 2014
– Wikiwashing and paid Wikipedia editors The Telegraph, July 2014
– My interview with Tommy Robinson The Telegraph, June 2014
– Mo Ansar and the rise of the bogus social media commentator The Telegraph, May 2014
– On the Anarcho-primitivists The Telegraph, May 2014
– On the Transhumanists The Telegraph, April 2014
– Dying online: digital grieving and Twitter grief The Telegraph, April 2014
– Algorithms will soon rule the world The Telegraph, March 2014
#dark_net #darknet
#TOR
#drugs #pornography #terrorism #anonymity #privacy
#silk_road
#moral_ambiguity
#bitcoin #multi-signature_escrow