Peer-reviewed Articles:

Gili Vidan, "Checks and Balances: Publics, Interests, and the Development of Electronic Fund Transfers in 1970s US," in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 11-25, 1 July-Sept. 2020, doi: 10.1109/MAHC.2020.3008921. [Preprint PDF available here]. Part of special issue on "Computing Capitalisms."

Gili Vidan and Vili Lehdonvirta. "Mine the gap: Bitcoin and the maintenance of trustlessness." New Media & Society (2018): 1461444818786220. Available at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444818786220

Reviews and Short Essays:

"Decentralization: The Rise of a Hazardous Spec." Essay included in virtual roundtable on Virtual Currencies and the State on Just Money, edited by Christine Desan. June 12, 2020. https://justmoney.org/g-vidan-decentralization-the-rise-of-a-hazardous-spec/

Vidan, Gili. Review of Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency, by Finn Brunton. Information & Culture 55, no. 2 (2020): 192-194. muse.jhu.edu/article/757562.

"Where We're Going, We Still Need Roads: Between the Law Lag and the Tech Lag Narratives." Vignette on STS Next 20, December 2015.

Selected Conference Presentations and Invited Talks:

Distributed Knowing: Encryption, Trust, and Keeping Tabs in a Digital World, Lecture Series on the Humanistic Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, February 17, 2020.

Recognizable but Not Known: Negotiating Trust and Identification in the Age of Public Cryptography, 1972–1984, Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Milan. October 25, 2019.

The Work of Governance in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Social Media Collective, Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA. August 20, 2019.

Checks and Balances: Privacy, Payments, and the Public Interest in the Development of 1970s US Electronic Funds Transfer Systems, American Historical Association, Chicago, IL. January 6, 2019.

Technologies of Trust: The Pursuit of Decentralized Authentication and Algorithmic Governance, Talk at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. August 15, 2018.

Alien Phones: The Limits of Disruption and the Infrastructure of Techno-resistance in 1990s US, Priors and Priorities: Conceiving Time and Other Bodies, Mahindra Humanities Center Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. April 20, 2018.

‘Nothing in the Middle’: Escrowed Encryption, Crypto Anarchy, and the Colonization of the Future, 1988-2001, Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS] Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. October 29, 2017.

Promissory Notes: Constituting the Trusted Time-Horizon of Cryptocurrency, Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. August 30, 2017. (Part of a panel on "Digital Constitutionalism" I co-organized with Margo Boenig-Liptsin.)

Other Work:

"Coins, Medieval and Digital," a conversation with Shireen Hamza featured on the Ventricles podcast, produced by the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at the Harvard Divinity School. September 26, 2018.

In 2017 served as the co-managing editor of the blog First 100 Days, which published short essays by STS scholars reflecting on the "post-truth" moment and the politics of knowledge in a variety of national contexts.

Gili Vidan and Frank Hangler, "Could You Afford Facebook Messenger in Cameroon? A Global Map of Mobile Broadband Prices." A featured blog post on Rough Consensus, February 2014.

In 2012, I worked on revamping and updating the Berkman Klein Center's Cybersecurity Wiki, including the development of the Cybersecurity Curriculum under the supervision of Jack Goldsmith. While both available materials and political and technological realities have changed quite significantly since, it still serves as a pretty good repository of annotated primary and secondary sources.