Bombs and Bandwidth: Emerging Relationship Between Information Technology & Security - Hardcover

Robert Latham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8170491924 ISBN 13: 9788170491927

Publisher: Manas Publications, 2004

Synopsis

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 are increasingly irrelevant, 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. Bombs and Bandwidth, a project of the Social Science Research Council, assembles leading scholars in a 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.

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About the Author

Robert Latham is Director of the Social Science Research Council Program on Information Technology and International Cooperation. He is the author of The Liberal Moment and co-editor of Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa and Digital Formations. He lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manas Publications
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 8170491924
• ISBN 13: 9788170491927
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 326