# Finn Brunton **URL:** --- Finn Brunton is assistant professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is the author of _Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet_ and the coauthor of _Communication_ and _Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest_. He has written for the _Guardian_, _Artforum_, and _Radical Philosophy_, among many other publications.