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Digital Contagions - A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Digital Contagions - A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Digital Formations, 44
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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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