Reading list for June
This month was mainly spent reviewing references for a paper on darknet markets and illicit drug diffusion. It’s a fine…
Strategies for developing research into digital crime
The field of crime and public policy is at a critical turning point. There are new threats such as the…
Oops, our business model is being done to us
Thinking about Apple’s travails running its iCloud service in China. As a condition of operating in China the Chinese government…
Digital drug markets as territories
Introduction This paper theorises drug markets through the concept of digital territory. I hypothesis that territorialisation is a critical process…
Cybercriminals are doing press releases
… and unlike 99% of press releases these actually tell you something and are worth reading DarkSide is a Russian…
A bit of a paper I’m working on – How illicit online drug market cues up intoxication potency and produces a risk reflective, rational subjectivity among opiate users
Markets embed a specific kind of illicit drug culture I wanted to think through how the specific configuration of digital…
Detecting the watchers
Surveillance has been the big idea of criminology for some time. It appears to be a ubiquitous fact of life…
Doubt is the commodity and uncertainty the infrastructure: epistemic problems in disinformation theory
How accurately can you describe the point of view opposing yours on an issue that is core to your sense…
Waiting for the delivery man: Temporalities of addiction, withdrawal and the pleasures of dope time
This is the draft text of an article I completed during our staff/student writing workshop, revised from earlier. Waiting for…
Are markets fundamentally irrational or just irrational right now? And is bitcoin becoming nice?
… there’s no real difference. If it’s irrational at any point it is fundamentally irrational. The answer depends on what…
