Fragile Computing

How to Live With Insecure Technologies
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-981-99-9809-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

This book proposes alternative ways to engage with computer security, rooted in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and extensive ethnographic observations. Computer security, the author argues, is part of living in the Anthropocene – an age of damaged more-than-human relations. As such, doing computer security means not striving for technical solutions, or individual awareness, but living with fragility. The book suggests conceptual approaches and methods of studying computer security which contribute to current debates on infrastructural breakdown and ecological ruins in STS and Anthropology, while offering new perspectives to Usable Security and Critical Security Studies. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kocksch, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Computersicherheit
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Testing.- Chapter 3: Tinkering.- Chapter 4: Training.- Chapter 5: Performing.- Chapter 6: Fragile Computing.

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Kocksch is a postdoctoral researcher at the Techno-Anthropology Lab (TANTlab), Aalborg University, Denmark.