Cyberstudies

The Art of CIIP Strategy: Taking Stock of Content and Processes

by Myriam Dunn Cavelty

in: Javier Lopez, Roberto Setola, Stephen D. Wolthusen (eds), Critical Infrastructure Protection: Information Infrastructure Models, Analysis, and Defense (Springer 2012) (co-authored with Manuel Suter), pp. 15-38.

This chapter analyses and compares CI(I)P and cybersecurity strategies to discover key issues, developments, and... more This chapter analyses and compares CI(I)P and cybersecurity strategies to discover key issues, developments, and trends and to make recommendations about strategy making in the field of CIIP. To this end, it will first define CIP, CIIP and cybersecurity. It will then show what kind of protection goals – statements about a desired state of security of a particular object/asset that is seen in need of protection from one or a variety of threats – are defined and what kind of countermeasures are foreseen. Third, it will move from the content to the process and will make recommendations about how an optimal strategy process in the field of CIIP should look like

Information Operations - Trends and Controversies

by Myriam Dunn Cavelty

CSS Analyses in Security Policy, Vol. 3 • No. 34 • May 2008

Information operations have gained importance in recent years. The capabilities to influence the enemy’s information... more Information operations have gained importance in recent years. The capabilities to influence the enemy’s information or the attitudes of the civilian population in theaters of conflict, and to secure one’s own information and information systems, have become important success factors in military operations. The concept has given rise to vehement controversies, however. Disagreement remains over the nature and scope of operations that can be carried out by the armed forces of democratic states under the rule of law. Clarification is also required as to the distribution of responsibility and tasks at the interface of civilian and military authority

Der Cyber-Krieg der (so) nicht kommt: Erzählte Katastrophen als (Nicht)Wissenspraxis

by Myriam Dunn Cavelty

forthcoming in: Leon Hempel, Marie Bartels (eds), Aufbruch ins Unversicherbare - Zum Katastrophendiskurs der Gegenwart (transcript 2012).

Das vorliegende Kapitel untersucht narrative Praktiken im Fall der Cyber-Apokalypse. Es geht der Frage nach, welche... more Das vorliegende Kapitel untersucht narrative Praktiken im Fall der Cyber-Apokalypse. Es geht der Frage nach, welche Methoden und Praktiken bei der Generierung von Narrationen im politischen Prozess angewandt werden, welche inhaltlichen Ausprägungen diese Narrationen im konkreten Fall aufweisen und was die Konsequenzen solcher Praktiken sind. In einem ersten Kapitel wird die Idee der erzählen Katastrophe näher erläutert und auf ihre spezifischen Merkmale eingegangen. Insbesondere wird die Rolle von Nichtwissen hervorgehoben. Im zweiten Kapitel wird konkreter auf die narrative Praxis von wissenschaftlichen und politischen Erkenntnisgemeinschaften eingegangen. Im abschließenden Kapitel werden die Konsequenzen solcher Prakti-ken diskutiert.

Cyber-security

by Myriam Dunn Cavelty

Forthcoming in: Allan Collins (ed.) Contemporary Security Studies (Oxford University Press 2012)

This chapter analyses why cyber-security is considered one of the key national security issues of our times. The first... more This chapter analyses why cyber-security is considered one of the key national security issues of our times. The first section provides the necessary technical background information. The second unravels three different, but interrelated discourses about cyber-security: discourse number one has a technical focus and is about viruses and worms. Number two looks at the interrelationship between the phenomenon of cyber-crime and cyber-espionage. Number three is a military and civil defence-driven discourse about the double-edged sword of fighting wars in the information domain and the need for critical infrastructure protection. Based on this, the third section turns to selected protection concepts from each of the three discourses. The final section sets the threat into perspective: despite heightened media attention and a general feeling of impending cyber-doom in some government circles, the level of cyber-risk is generally overstated. This has important repercussions for decision-makers and students, which are addressed in the concluding section.

The militarisation of cyber security as a source of global tension

by Myriam Dunn Cavelty

published in Strategic Trends 2012, edited by Daniel Möckli

Cyber security is seen as one of the most pressing national security issues of our time. Due to sophisticated and... more Cyber security is seen as one of the most pressing national security issues of our time. Due to sophisticated and highly publicised cyber attacks such as Stuxnet, it is increasingly framed as a strategic issue. The diffuse nature of the threat, coupled with a heightened sense of vulnerability, has brought about a growing militarisation of cyber security. This has resulted in too much attention on the low probability of a large scale cyber attack, a focus on the wrong policy solutions, and a detrimental atmosphere of insecurity and tension in the international system. Though cyber operations will be a significant component of future conflicts, the role of the military in cyber security will be limited and needs to be carefully defined.

China: On the March to Virtual Conflict

by Dave Schroeder

How can China be expected to expand its cyber and information warfare efforts against the US? The purpose of this... more How can China be expected to expand its cyber and information warfare efforts against the US? The purpose of this paper is to perform a basic examination the scope and intent of Chinese cyber and Information Warfare (IW)/Information Operations (IO) efforts and capabilities. In US doctrine, these include all “actions undertaken to affect adversary information and information systems [...] in order to affect the information-based process, whether human or automated.”

AvatarCulture

by Stephen Webb

Information, Communication and Society

The paper discusses the flows of social interaction in virtual environments and how intermittence best describes how... more The paper discusses the flows of social interaction in virtual environments and how intermittence best describes how users participate and withdraw from different encounters. Avatar culture binds people together temporarily and loosely and then frees them up to relocate themselves elsewhere. In this context, virtual environments might be regarded as putting structure and power into movement. The ethnographic approach adopted helps peel back the residue of social structure to reveal a virtual agency with its emerging shells of avatar-derived affiliations, tensions and conflicts.

FLYER: THE CYBERCRIME HANDBOOK

by Art Bowker

In the early 1990s, professionals began to question how to address offender computer use while on supervision, but in... more In the early 1990s, professionals began to question how to address offender computer use while on supervision, but in the past ten years, tools emerged that were specifically developed
for triage and field forensics. As these were rapidly embraced, it was still unclear what professionals could look for, how to look for it, and how to interpret what they found. This unique book resolves those issues. The book provides a clear outline of what can and should be done regarding the management of offender computer use. Not only does the text help community
corrections professionals understand how to monitor computer use, but it helps realize how information gained during monitoring can assist in overall case management. The book takes the reader through all the paces of managing offender cyber-risk
and is meant specifically for pretrial, probation, parole, and community sanction officers. The chapters are organized by major areas, such as community corrections and cyberspace, understanding the options, condition legality, operational legality,
accessing cyber-risk, computer education, principles of effective computer monitoring, search and seizure, deploying monitoring software, and online investigations. Additionally, numerous appendices provide a wealth of information regarding model forms, questionnaires, and worksheets. This book moves the reader toward a more informed use of the technology that is now readily available to effectively manage offenders' digital behavior.

Temporal Dynamic Form in Music: Atonal, Tonal, and Other

by Joshua B. Mailman

Ph.D. Doctoral dissertation in Music Theory

http://www.joshuabanksmailman.com/dissertation/abstract/J.Mailman_Dynamic_Form_abstract.pdf

Cyberchondriasis: Fact or fiction? A preliminary examination of the relationship between health anxiety and searching for health information on the Internet

by Ben Meghreblian

Muse K, McManus F, Leung C, Meghreblian B, Williams JM - Journal of Anxiety Disorders

This study examined the relationship between health anxiety and searching for health information online, a phenomenon... more This study examined the relationship between health anxiety and searching for health information online, a phenomenon dubbed 'cyberchondria'. The majority of those with 'high' (n=46) and 'low' (n=36) levels of health anxiety reported seeking health information online. However, those with higher levels of health anxiety sought online health information more frequently, spent longer searching, and found searching more distressing and anxiety provoking. Furthermore, more responses in the high than low health anxiety group related to searching for information on diagnosed and undiagnosed medical conditions, descriptions of others' experiences of illnesses and using message boards/support groups, although the largest proportion of responses in both groups was accounted for by seeking information on symptoms. Linear regression (n=167) revealed significant relationships between health anxiety and the frequency, duration and distress and anxiety associated with searching for health information online. This preliminary data suggests that searching for health information online may exacerbate health anxiety.

Technology and the Fleshly Interface in Forster’s “The Machine Stops”: An Ecocritical Appraisal of a One-Hundred Year Old Future

by Alf Seegert

Published in 'Journal of Ecocriticism,' 2 (1), January 2010.

As a prescient critique of telepresence technologies like the Internet, “The Machine Stops” satirizes hypermediated... more As a prescient critique of telepresence technologies like the Internet, “The Machine Stops” satirizes hypermediated contact and in its place valorizes contact made with the fleshly body-—so much so, that it fantasizes the removal of all technological mediations between that body and the “real.” This move carries strong ecocritical implications in its suggestion that all authentic connection—whether between people themselves or between people and the earth—must be corporeal. The narrator’s apology on behalf of “beautiful naked man” (122) and his nostalgia for the robust, technology-­free body are, however, both problematic. Forster appears to conflate nakedness and fleshly connection with unmediated contact or “full presence,” a view that raises many potential criticisms and questions. If the body proves to be but one kind of mediating interface itself, then on what grounds should the mode of fleshly connection be privileged over interactions mediated by motors, buttons, and video screens? If all contact must be mediated somehow, does it even make sense to consider one type of interface as “more authentic” than another? Is it right to equate nakedness with freedom from technology? In this paper I use an ecocritical perspective to explore such questions in the text, focusing in particular on Forster’s depiction of technology as devastating to both the human body and to the experience of space and place. The timeliness of such concerns suggests that “The Machine Stops” might prove even more significant in the hypermediated world of today than it was a hundred years ago for questioning the relationship between corporeality, representation, and nature.

Till We Have [Inter] faces: The Cybercultural Ecologies of Avatar

by Alf Seegert

Published in 'Western Humanities Review,' Summer 2010.

A Socially-Just Internet: The Digital Divide, Cybercultural Agency, and Human Capabilities

by David Toews

The 2008 Russian Cyber Campaign Against Georgia

by Paulo Shakarian

Paulo Shakarian, Military Review, Nov.-Dec. 2011

In August 2008, the Russian Army invaded georgia. numerous, coordinated cyber attacks accompanied the military... more In August 2008, the Russian Army invaded georgia. numerous, coordinated cyber attacks accompanied the military campaign. this represents the first instance of a large-scale computer network attack (CNA) conducted in tandem with major ground combat operations. The attack had no direct connection to the Russian government, but had a significant informational and psychological impact on Georgia: it effectively isolated the Caucasus state from the outside world.

The monopoly of violence in the cyber space: challenges of cyber security

by Roxana Radu

in Fels, Enrico, Jan-Frederik Kremer and Katharina Harmat (eds.), Power in the 21st Century: International Security and International Political Economy in a Changing World, Springer, 2012

Baracknophobia and the Paranoid Style: Visions of Obama as the Antichrist on the World Wide Web

by Amarnath Amarasingam

In Robert Glenn Howard, ed. Network Apocalypse: Visions of the End in an Age of Internet Media (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011): 96-123.

This chapter explores the belief among certain subsets of the US population that Obama is the Antichrist depicted as... more This chapter explores the belief among certain subsets of the US population that Obama is the Antichrist depicted as setting the stage for the end of the world. First, I examine the apocalyptic fears and conspiracies surrounding the presidency of Barack Obama, placing it in historical and religious perspective. Second, I investigate how expressions of apocalypticism and conspiracism surrounding Obama manifest themselves on the Internet.

I Rez, Therefore I Am - 2010

by Vaneeesa Blaylock

VBCO Magazine, July through December, 2010. Collection of blog front pages by Vaneeesa Blaylock, Agnes Sharple, Aero... more VBCO Magazine, July through December, 2010. Collection of blog front pages by Vaneeesa Blaylock, Agnes Sharple, Aero Bigboots.

VB16 - Au Pair Next Door

by Vaneeesa Blaylock

Performed at the Odyssey Performance Simulator, April 2010

Performance document for durational work "Au Pair Next Door." Avatars operated a 24-hour laundromat washing... more Performance document for durational work "Au Pair Next Door." Avatars operated a 24-hour laundromat washing the  virtual clothing of other avatars. Avatar customers were provided with spa towels to wear while waiting for their clothes.

How Internet-mediated research changes science

by Ulf-Dietrich Reips

published 2008 in A. Barak (Ed.), Psychological aspects of cyberspace: Theory, research, applications (pp. 268-294). Cambridge University Press.

From Man of the Crowd to Cybernaut: Edgar Allan Poe's Transatlantic Journey and Back.

by Paul Jahshan

“From Man of the Crowd to Cybernaut: Edgar Allan Poe’s Transatlantic Journey—and Back,” European Journal of American Studies EJAS 2008-2