Journal article
(Im)material culture: towards an archaeology of cybercrime
World Archaeology, Vol.52(4), pp.607-618
2020
Abstract
Cybercrime is ubiquitous. People now inhabit a digital environment comprising permanent risk, exponential threats, and multiple virtual/physical harms, forming a global community of malefactors and the criminally exploited. The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, through an archaeological lens, to characterize the new materiality of cybercrime (including its artefacts and architecture alongside digital/virtual manifestations). And second, to explore the potential for new perspectives on cybercrime borne out of this archaeological approach. In short: what is the archaeology of cybercrime and can new understandings emerge from an archaeological perspective? In undertaking this research we also challenge the long-held presumption that non-physical traces can be studied archaeologically. It is our contention that they can.
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- Title
- (Im)material culture: towards an archaeology of cybercrime
- Authors
- Clive Harfield (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Cyber InstituteJohn Schofield (Author) - University of York
- Publication details
- World Archaeology, Vol.52(4), pp.607-618
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/00438243.2021.1882333
- ISSN
- 1470-1375
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Cyber Institute; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99511206802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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