Technological turf wars : a case study of the computer antivirus industry / Jessica Johnston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, Jessica R., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer software industry--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.

Computer software industry.

Computer software industry--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--Case studies.

Computer security--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.

Computer security.

Computer security--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--Case studies.

Organizational behavior--United States--Case studies.

Organizational behavior.

Business ethics--United States--Case studies.

Business ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786612047367

9781592138838

1592138837

9781282047365

1282047361

OCLC:

317147295