Fenwick McKelvey

Internet Daemons

Digital Communications Possessed

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known-but very consequential-programs into the spotlight We're used to talking about how tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon rule the internet, but what about daemons? Ubiquitous programs that have colonized the Net's infrastructure-as well as the devices we use t

Produktdetails

• Electronic Mediations
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781517901530
• ISBN-10: 1517901537
• Artikelnr.: 52422013

Autorenporträt

Fenwick McKelvey is assistant professor of communication studies at Concordia University. 

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations and Technical Terms
Introduction
1. The Devil We Know: Maxwell’s Demon, Cyborg Sciences, and Flow Control
2. Possessing Infrastructure: Nonsynchronous Communication, IMPs, and
Optimization
3. IMPs, OLIVERs, and Gateways: Internetworking before the Internet
4. Pandaemonium: The Internet as Daemons
5. Suffering from Buffering? Affects of Flow Control
6. The Disoptimized: The Ambiguous Tactics of the Pirate Bay
7. A Crescendo of Online Interactive Debugging? Gamers, Publics and Daemons
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Internet Measurement and Mediators
Notes
Bibliography
Index