[Air-L] Article on virality and hacker culture

[rbuiani]

strange that you haven't come across this before:

(2007) Digital Contagions. A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses, Peter Lang: New York. Digital Formations-series. ISBN 978-0-8204-8837-0

(2009) The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture. With Tony D Sampson. Cresskill: Hampton Press.

best
roberta buiani

On Oct 20, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Antonio A. Casilli wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> for those of you who study hacker cultures - but also for those who are
> interested in computer viruses - but also for those who work on the
> history of mediactivism: I have just put online my author's cut version of
> "a 36-page essay to be published in the Dec 2010 issue of the journal Body
> & Society 16 (4).
> 
> You can find it here:
> 
> A History of Virulence: The Body and Computer Culture in the 1980s (part 1)
> http://www.bodyspacesociety.eu/2010/10/15/a-history-of-virulence-the-body-and-computer-culture-in-the-1980s-part-1-2/
> 
> A History of Virulence: The Body and Computer Culture in the 1980s (part 2
> – with illustrations and references)
> http://www.bodyspacesociety.eu/2010/10/18/a-history-of-virulence-the-body-and-computer-culture-in-the-1980s-part-2-with-illustrations/
> 
> Cheers,
> Antonio
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Antonio A. Casilli
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