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Real Wars on Virtual Battlefields: The Convergence of Programmable Media at the Military-Civilian Margin

Real Wars on Virtual Battlefields: The Convergence of Programmable Media at the Military-Civilian Margin

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General Political Science

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ISBN10: 3837612406
ISBN13: 9783837612400
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Published: Nov 5 2009
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
The book analyzes the multifarious exchange of algorithmic technologies and concepts between the military and the media industry from the early 1990s until now. Unlike most related scholarly work which focuses on digital games, it drafts a model of programmable media which is grounded in a close-reading of the key technologies, most notably the paradigm of object-oriented programming, and reconsiders technical disciplines from a humanities perspective. This model is then applied to analyze the effects of algorithmic logic on the military-civilian continuum, including economic practices, patterns of media usage and military decision-making.

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