TY - JOUR
TI - Cyberthreats in Popular Visual Culture
AU - Dunn Cavelty, Myriam
AU - Holloway, Lorretta
TI - Cyberthreats in Popular Visual Culture
AB - 
	This paper focuses on how cyberthreats have been represented in popular visual culture (Western and Asian). These cultural products are an interesting site where the technical and the political effects of cyberthreats are presented together, giving them a particular weight and place in the discourse. The paper discusses three dominant representations (machine out-of-control, computers used as weapons, and amassing or withholding of data as threat) and then identifies three commonalities between them. The first concerns the surprising “passivity” of technology, making the human the main problem in this story, the second is the importance of non-virtual geography, turning machines into mere additions of normal human life, and the third concerns the normalization of the threat through time. Cyberthreats are part of our lives now and they are so deeply embedded, they cannot be separated from them anymore.
VL - 2018
IS - 7 (1/2018)
PY - 2018
SN - 2450-2561
C1 - 2450-6249
SP - 7
EP - 28
DO - 10.4467/24506249PJ.18.001.9775
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/pjacns/artykul/cyberthreats-in-popular-visual-culture
KW - cybersecurity; cyberthreats; popular visual culture; security politics; visual studies; visuality