@article{48429,
  abstract     = {{Since her debut on Instagram in 2016, Lil Miquela has amassed over 3 million followers. She was the first of many virtual influencers; avatars with a hyper-realistic humanoid appearance who operate on social media. This article investigates how the fashioning of virtual influencers informs the relationship between virtual and human bodies. A visual and textual analysis of virtual influencers on Instagram has revealed that they are emblematic of a coalescence between the virtual and the actual. Virtual influencers often evoke discussions about human nature because their cyberpunk narratives and uncanny appearance position them as autonomous posthuman subjects. Virtual influencers are positioned as Bodies without Organs, as their bodies can be manipulated into any form. Yet, they adhere to normative ideals of youth, slimness and beauty, encouraging their audiences to follow suit. Their fashion reflects the streetwear aesthetic but is often designed by luxury brands. This strategy positions virtual influencers as authentic, while generating visibility within the attention economy. Further, the Deleuzian concept of the fold serves as a metaphor to understand fashion as an interface between surface and depth. It is fashion in its folded form that hominizes virtual influencers, although they are merely a fashionable surface.}},
  author       = {{Brachtendorf, Charlotte}},
  issn         = {{2050-0734}},
  journal      = {{Fashion, Style & Popular Culture}},
  keywords     = {{authenticity, body-without-organs, Deleuze, digital avatars, fashionable ideal, hominization, Instagram}},
  number       = {{4}},
  pages        = {{483--499}},
  title        = {{{Lil Miquela in the Folds of Fashion: (Ad-)Dressing Virtual Influencers}}},
  doi          = {{10.1386/fspc_00157_1}},
  volume       = {{9}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}

@inproceedings{19,
  abstract     = {{Version Control Systems (VCS) are a valuable tool for software development
and document management. Both client/server and distributed (Peer-to-Peer)
models exist, with the latter (e.g., Git and Mercurial) becoming
increasingly popular. Their distributed nature introduces complications,
especially concerning security: it is hard to control the dissemination of
contents stored in distributed VCS as they rely on replication of complete
repositories to any involved user.

We overcome this issue by designing and implementing a concept for
cryptography-enforced access control which is transparent to the user. Use
of field-tested schemes (end-to-end encryption, digital signatures) allows
for strong security, while adoption of convergent encryption and
content-defined chunking retains storage efficiency. The concept is
seamlessly integrated into Mercurial---respecting its distributed storage
concept---to ensure practical usability and compatibility to existing
deployments.}},
  author       = {{Lass, Michael and Leibenger, Dominik and Sorge, Christoph}},
  booktitle    = {{Proc. 41st Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)}},
  isbn         = {{978-1-5090-2054-6}},
  keywords     = {{access control, distributed version control systems, mercurial, peer-to-peer, convergent encryption, confidentiality, authenticity}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE}},
  title        = {{{Confidentiality and Authenticity for Distributed Version Control Systems - A Mercurial Extension}}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/lcn.2016.11}},
  year         = {{2016}},
}