{"product_id":"digital-contagions-steve-jones-9781433132322","title":"Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses, Second Edition","description":"Now in its second edition, \u003cem\u003eDigital Contagions\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical analysis of the culture and history of the computer virus.\u003cbr\u003eAt 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.\u003cbr\u003eMapping 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Jones, Jussi Parikka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 143313232X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781433132322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/29\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Steve Jones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45478700384511,"sku":"9781433132322","price":64.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6351551c-e69f-4711-b195-63f2cda77e0f.jpg?v=1715935597","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/digital-contagions-steve-jones-9781433132322","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}