Fragile Computing

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.

Draws together scholarship in computer security, human factors research, anthropology and Science and Technology Studies Builds on extensive ethnographic material collected in critical infrastructure companies Offers conceptual tools and tactics for living with insecure technologies

Autorentext

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

Inhalt

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