1st Edition

Blockchain and Web 3.0 Social, Economic, and Technological Challenges

Edited By Massimo Ragnedda, Giuseppe Destefanis Copyright 2019
334 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

Blockchain is no longer just about bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general. Instead, it can be seen as a disruptive, revolutionary technology which will have major impacts on multiple aspects of our lives. The revolutionary power of such technology compares with the revolution sparked by the World Wide Web and the Internet in general. Just as the Internet is a means of sharing information, so... Read more

Chapter 1. Blockchain: a disruptive technology. Massimo Ragnedda and Giuseppe Destefanis





PART I. Socio-economic aspects and consequences of decentralized technologies





Chapter 2. The block is hot: A commons-based approach to the development and deployment of blockchains, Sune Sandbeck, A.T. Kingsmith, Julian von Bargen,





Chapter 3. Can permissionless blockchains be regulated and resolve some of the problems of copyright law? Guido Noto La Diega and James Stacey





Chapter 4. Meetups: making space for women on the blockchain, Philippa R. Adams, Julie Frizzo-Barker, Betty B. Ackah, Peter A. Chow-White





Chapter 5. Drivers of Digital Trust in the Crypto Industry, Scott Freeman, Ivana Beveridge, Jannis Angelis





Chapter 6. Lightbulb Concrete. Bronwin Patrickson





PART II. Blockchain and Digital Media





Chapter 7. Could blockchain save journalism? An explorative study of blockchain’s potential to make journalism a more sustainable business. Walid Al-Saqaf and Malin Picha Edwardsson





Chapter 8. The logics of technology decentralization - the case of Distributed Ledger Technologies. Balazs Bodo and Alexandra Giannopoulou





Chapter 9. Disruptive Blockworks: blockchains and networks / acceleration and collision



Matthew Lovett





Chapter 10. Blockchained to What (End)? A Socio-material provocation to check distributed futures, Luke Heemsbergen, Alexia Maddox Robbie Fordyce





Chapter 11. Blockchain and data market. The case of Wibson from a critical perspective, Guillermina Yansen





 



PART III. Technological aspects and consequences of decentralized technologies





Chapter 12. Applying Smart Contracts in Online Dispute Resolutions on a Large Scale and its Regulatory Implications. Janet Hui Xue and Ralph Holz





Chapter 13. SmartAnvil: Open-Source. Tool Suite for Smart Contract Analysis. Stéphane Ducasse, Henrique Rocha, Santiago Bragagnolo and Marcus Denker





Chapter 14. Managing CRM with Fabric Hyperledger blockchain technology. Dario Puligheddu, Roberto Tonelli and Michele Marchesi





Chapter 15. Privacy with Ethereum Smart Contracts. Duarte Teles and Isabel Azevedo





Chapter 16. A Hierarchical Structure Model of Success Factors for (Blockchain-based) Crowdfunding, Felix Hartmann, Xiaofeng Wang and Maria Ilaria Lunesu

Biography

Massimo Ragnedda is a senior lecturer in mass communication at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.





Giuseppe Destefanis is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Brunel University, UK.