Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet

by Finn Brunton

Book Overview

What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself.

The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send cash overseas. Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box. Where does it come from? As Finn Brunton explains in Spam,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026201887X
• ISBN13: 9780262018876
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher