Dr Popp et la disquette Sida Sociologie d'une affaire hacker

Antonio A. Casilli

doi:10.4000/terrain.15578

Dr Popp et la disquette Sida Sociologie d'une affaire hacker

Translated title of the contribution: Dr Popp and the AIDS floppy disk. Sociology of a hacking scandal

Antonio A. Casilli

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In 1989 the affair of the "AIDS floppy disk" came to the fore. It is one of the first cases of an international scandal in the history of cyber piracy. Basing itself on interviews of the participants in the affair, on reconstructions of media reaction as well as on the the context of technological activism of the time, the paper explores the links between the imagination of the body, medical knowledge and political conflicts. It shows how much of our contemporary understanding of computer technologies is coloured by ideas of viral infection which took form at the end of the twentieth century.

Translated title of the contribution	Dr Popp and the AIDS floppy disk. Sociology of a hacking scandal
Original language	French
Title of host publication	Terrain
Publisher	Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
Pages	14-31
Number of pages	18
Volume	64
ISBN (Electronic)	9782735117680
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4000/terrain.15578
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015

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