Searching for Trust: Blockchain Technology in an Age of Disinformation

ISBN-13: 9781108792448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 268 str.

Vancouver) Lemi Victoria L. (University of British Columbia

Opis

Offers a unique archival science perspective on the potential and limitations of blockchain as a means of restoring societal trust.

Recenzje

'In Searching for Trust, Victoria Lemieux introduces a third major use of blockchain: recordkeeping and the long-term preservation of authentic records, a very important domain in an age of increasing disinformation and institutional distrust. The book explains how to relate blockchain to the long tradition of recordkeeping, as well as how to connect blockchain to the theories, principles, and methods of archival science - the science underpinning recordkeeping. Searching for Trust should be read by anyone interested in the long-term future of blockchain in a major domain that has so far not received the proper attention.' Irving Wladawsky-Berger, MIT Sloan School of Management

Spis treści

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; References; Index.