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Wednesday 30 May 2007
Cyberwarfare
Although the heady thinking and commentary of writers such as Mark Dery, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker and other Cyberculturalists seemed to have died down in recent years, the spectre of full-out information warfare is still very much alive. Estonia has recently been at the brunt of attacks by hackers, as has the United States. The difference here being that it is not lone black-hat-hackers intent on doing damage but rather attacks that have the backing of government and importantly, native telecommunications industries. The Economist has these reports: here, here and here. Reading material like this always give me feeling that Paul Virilio might be closer to the mark than his sensationalist style might suggest. For those who haven't read his material have a look at the the Information Bomb, excerpt from CTheory.net here.
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- Andrew McStay
- I am director of the Media and Persuasive Communication (MPC) network at Bangor University where I also lecture on political-economy of the media. I am currently working on a book provisionally titled Deconstructing Privacy for Peter Lang and leading two empirical projects in connection with privacy perception and the use of new media for smoking cessation. I am author of Creativity and Advertising: Affect, Events and Process (Routledge, 2013); The Mood of Information: A Critique of Behavioural Advertising (Continuum, 2011); and Digital Advertising (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009). Please contact me at mcstay@bangor.ac.uk if you are interested in Ph.D supervision or consultancy services.
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