Outputs (4)

Digital destruction: examining the sociological tensions hindering the regulation of Bitcoin (2024)
Journal Article
Redshaw, T. (2024). Digital destruction: examining the sociological tensions hindering the regulation of Bitcoin. #Journal not on list, 9(Especial Climate Change),

Bitcoin is an ecological disaster. In 2017, the Bitcoin network used the same amount of energy per year as Uruguay, when its total number of users worldwide was estimated to stand at 3.4million (Hileman and Rauchs, 2017: 99). By 2021 this number had... Read More about Digital destruction: examining the sociological tensions hindering the regulation of Bitcoin.

Book review : Cryptocurrencies and blockchains (2021)
Journal Article
Redshaw, T. (2021). Book review : Cryptocurrencies and blockchains. New Media and Society, 23(7), 2132-2134. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444821999995

Book review of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains Quinn DuPont, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains. Polity Press: Cambridge, 2019; 224 pp,; ISBN 9781509520237, £15.99 (pbk)

What is digital society? Reflections on the aims and purpose of digital sociology (2019)
Journal Article
Redshaw, T. (2020). What is digital society? Reflections on the aims and purpose of digital sociology. Sociology, 54(2), 425-431. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038519880114

Joint book review

Bitcoin beyond ambivalence : popular rationalization and Feenberg's technical politics (2017)
Journal Article
Redshaw, T. (2017). Bitcoin beyond ambivalence : popular rationalization and Feenberg's technical politics. Thesis Eleven, 138(1), 46-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513616689390

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin emerged as an alternative monetary system that could circumvent political and financial authorities. A practice in libertarian prefigurative politics, Bitcoin demonstrates the capacity for online... Read More about Bitcoin beyond ambivalence : popular rationalization and Feenberg's technical politics.