Ashwin Mathew
Senior Lecturer in Global Digital Cultures
Summary
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
A Fragmented Whole: Cooperation and Learning in the Practice of Information Security
January 1, 2018Report on cooperation, learning and the professional backgrounds of information security practitioners; combines ethnography, interviews and surveys to challenge assumptions about formal degrees and pathways into security roles.
The myth of the decentralised internet
September 1, 2016Analysis arguing that the internet has never been fully decentralised and is better understood as a distributed system; uses BGP and routing history to show why decentralisation is not an accurate framing for internet governance debates.
Where in the World is the Internet? Locating Political Power in Internet Infrastructure
January 1, 2014Doctoral dissertation examining the inter-domain routing system, the role of BGP, and the concept of "distributed governance" in Internet infrastructure; comparative analysis between North America and South Asia and discussion of how governance arrangements enable social values in the information society.