Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses - Couverture souple

Parikka, Jussi

 
9781433132322: Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 143313232X ISBN 13 : 9781433132322
Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2016

Synopsis

Now in its second edition, Digital Contagions is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical analysis of the culture and history of the computer virus.At a time when our networks arguably feel more insecure than ever, the book provides an overview of how our fears about networks are part of a more complex story of the development of digital culture. It writes a media archaeology of computer and network accidents that are endemic to the computational media ecology. Viruses, worms, and other software objects are not seen merely from the perspective of anti-virus research or practical security concerns, but as cultural and historical expressions that traverse a non-linear field from fiction to technical media, from net art to politics of software.Mapping the anomalies of network culture from the angles of security concerns, the biopolitics of computer systems, and the aspirations for artificial life in software, this second edition also pays attention to the emergence of recent issues of cybersecurity and new forms of digital insecurity. A new preface by Sean Cubitt is also provided.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jussi Parikka is Professor in Technological Culture & ; Aesthetics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He is also Docent in Digital Culture Theory at the University of Turku, Finland. A widely published media theorist, he is author of the award-winning Insect Media (2010) and A Geology of Media (2015), What is Media Archaeology (2012), and co-editor of Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History (2015).  ;

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Éditeur
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
143313232X
ISBN 13 
9781433132322
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
338
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9781433100932: Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1433100932 ISBN 13 :  9781433100932
Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2007
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