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"Digital Contagions is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical analysis of the culture and history of the computer virus phenomenon. The book maps the anomalies of network culture from the angles of security concerns, the biopolitics of digital systems, and the aspirations for artificial life in software. The genealogy of network culture is approached from the standpoint of accidents that are endemic to the digital media ecology. Viruses, worms, and other software objects are not, then, seen merely from the perspective of anti-virus research or practical security concerns, but as…
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6 editions- Hardcover · English · 2007Peter Lang Publishing · 327 pages · 9781433100932
- Paperback · English · 2007Peter Lang Publishing · 327 pages · 9780820488370
- Other · English · 2016Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter · 9781433135774
- Other · English · 2016Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter · 298 pages · 9781433132322
- Other · English · 2016Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter · 9781433135781
- Other · English · 2016Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter · 9781453918685
Computer virusesComputer networksSecurity measuresComputer securityComputer networks, security measuresSécurité informatiqueVirus informatiquesRéseaux d'ordinateurs