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Autore: | Johnston Jessica R. <1952-> |
Titolo: | Technological turf wars [[electronic resource] ] : a case study of the computer antivirus industry / / Jessica Johnston |
Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
Disciplina: | 005.8 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Technological turf wars |
ISBN: | 1-59213-883-7 |
1-282-04736-1 | |
9786612047367 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454590803321 |
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