Technological Turf Wars

A Case Study of the Computer Antivirus Industry

Jessica R. Johnston (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2008
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-59213-882-1 (ISBN)

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Analyzes the tensions and political dilemmas that coexist in the interrelationship among science, technology and society. Illustrating how computer security is as concerned with social relationships as it is with technology, this book provides an ethnography that considers corporate culture and the workplace environment of the antivirus industry.

Jessica Johnston is a senior lecturer and head of the American Studies program at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She is the author of The American Body in Context.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Naming the Threat
2. Security Transformations
3. Trust, Networks, and the Transformation of Organizational Power
4. IT Corporate Customers as End Users
5. Marketing Services
6. Situated Exclusions and Reinforced Power
Works Cited
Index

Verlagsort	Philadelphia PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
	Naturwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
ISBN-10	1-59213-882-9 / 1592138829
ISBN-13	978-1-59213-882-1 / 9781592138821
Zustand	Neuware