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Summary: Finn Brunton, assistant professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU Steinhardt and the author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (MIT Press, 2013) talks about the history of much-despised spam and how it mirrors that of the internet. Finn Burton (@hagarfalk) explaining how spammers target your inbox. Scary. #wnyc pic.twitter.com/SJorhnuPVq — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) July 15, 2013