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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821764203321

Autore

Johnston Jessica R. <1952->

Titolo

Technological turf wars [[electronic resource] ] : a case study of the computer antivirus industry / / Jessica Johnston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-59213-883-7

1-282-04736-1

9786612047367

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

005.8

Soggetti

Computer software industry - Social aspects - United States

Computer software industry - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Computer security - Social aspects - United States

Computer security - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Organizational behavior - United States

Business ethics - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Naming the threat -- Security transformations -- Trust, networks and the transformation of organizational power -- IT corporate customers as end users -- Marketing service -- Situated exclusions and reinforced power.

Sommario/riassunto

In Technological Turf Wars, Jessica Johnston 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, Johnston provides an illuminating ethnography that considers corporate culture and the workplace environment of the antivirus industry.Using a qualitative, interdisciplinary approach, which combines organizational and security studies with critical and social analysis of science and technology, Johnston que