#micronetworks — Blockchain and financial innovation
#micronetworks is a public conversation about the future of networked communication.
The emergence and evolution of distributed, blockchain-based global communication protocols raises important questions about how cultural producers can participate and thrive in digital systems.
Early 21st century communication platforms like Google and Facebook have stabilized their business models around the monopoly of behavioral data and user identity. Their dominance has contributed to a digital economy based almost exclusively on the constant exchange between human attention and advertising targets.
Blockchains, cryptocurrencies, tokens and their resulting networks of interest and investment represent the beginning of a new conversation about information architectures.
Inês Faria is a Post-Doc researcher at the Research Centre in Economic and Organizational Sociology of the Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon (SOCIUS/ISEG-UL). She has a BA and a MA in Anthropology from the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE/IUL) and a PhD in Medical Anthropology from the Amsterdam Institute of Social Sciences Research of the University of Amsterdam (AISSR/UvA).
Inês is currently doing research in economic and organizational sociology and technology, more specifically on social and cultural aspects related to uses of the blockchain technology and peer-to-peer social organization. She is part of the team of the research project Finance Beyond Fact and Fiction: Financial Transformations in Post-2008 Europe.
Recorded in September 2017 in Lisbon, Casino da Trafaria.
