Digital Attack Map (Google Ideas)

Digital Attack Map (Google Ideas)

Hackers--Denial of service attacks--Hacktivism--Technologists--Digital Mapping

The author, Gabriella Coleman, explores the idea that DDoS attacks are not a new phenomena, and that they were first recorded in the late 1990s. Coleman examines how the DDos attacks are filtering into public consciousness, but difficult for the public to interpret. Coleman views digital attack maps, as way to view the instance of a DDoS attack, its patterns and flows that might reveal geopolitical realities. Coleman posits, "Even if it cannot fully capture the architectonics and emotional valences the DDoS carries into our world, it allows us to see the Internet on slightly different terms, to grasp its dynamism, see its supports and imagine it as contested. To get at its infrastructure, and the labor required to maintain it, carries us a step away from the false idols of immateriality that have plagued Internet studies for so long. The attack map places the Internet squarely into a plane of its lived messy and conflicting actualities."

Coleman, E. Gabriella, 1973-

http://designandviolence.moma.org/digital-attack-map-google-ideas/

The Museum of Modern Art: Design and Violence

2014-04-02

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English

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