The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons.
This Cultural Commons article provide some coordinates that help explain why cryptocurrencies have recently become mainstream, indicating their connection to precarisation and new class formations. It considers how this change has been achieved by examining the impact of ICTs (information and commun...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Cultural Studies Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 598 - 608 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2023
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