Robert Latham (ed.): Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship Between Information Technology and Security (2004)
Filed under book | Tags: · globalisation, information technology, privacy, security, surveillance
Information technology (IT) has become central to the way governments, terrorist and criminal organizations, businesses, and social movements organize themselves and pursue their increasingly globalized objectives. With the emergence of the internet and new digital technologies, traditional boundaries and traditional concepts – from privacy, to surveillance, vulnerability, and above all, security – must be reconsidered. In the post-9/11 era of homeland security the relationship between IT and security has acquired a new and pressing relevance. `bomb & bandwidth’, a project of the social science research council, assembles leading scholars in range of disciplines to explore the new nature of IT-related threats, the new power structures emerging around it, and the ethical and political implications arising from this complex and important field. (published in arrangement with the new press, usa).
Publisher Manas Publications, 2004
ISBN 8170491924, 9788170491927
Length 326 pages
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Andrew Pickering: The Science of the Unknowable: Stafford Beer’s Cybernetic Informatics (2006)
Filed under paper | Tags: · cybernetics, information technology, management
This essay derives from a larger project exploring the history of cybernetics in Britain in and after World War II. The project focusses on the work of four British cyberneticians—Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, Stafford Beer and Gordon Pask; here author focuses on Stafford Beer, the founder of the field he called management cybernetics, and his work in informatics.
includes:
Cybernetics and New Ontologies:
An interview session with Andrew Pickering
by Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen
Published by The Centre for STS Studies, Aarhus 2006.
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