[Commlist] New Book, Amnesia Remembered: Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact

Alina Zihharev is pleased to highlight the newly published ‘/AMNESIA 
REMEMBERED: Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact’ /by John Aycock. 
Read freely available introduction 
<https://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/intros/AycockAmnesia_intro.pdf> 
or request a FREE digital exam copy via link 
<https://berghahn-einspections.eb20.com/Requests/EInspection/9781800738683>.//

Our modern culture is increasingly expressed in the form of digital 
artifacts, yet archaeology is in its infancy when it comes to 
researching and understanding them. The study and reverse engineering of 
digital artifacts is no longer the exclusive domain of computer 
scientists. Presented by way of analogy to the process of archaeological 
fieldwork familiar to readers, the 1986 Electronic Arts game Amnesia is 
used as a vehicle to explain the procedure and thought process required 
to reverse engineer a digital artifact. As a go-to reference to learn 
how to begin studying the digital, Amnesia is shown to be a 
multi-layered artifact with a complex backstory; through it, topics in 
data compression, copy protection, memory management, and programming 
languages are covered.

To view TOC and for more information on the book please visit 
_https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/AycockAmnesia 
<https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/AycockAmnesia>._

OF REALTED Interest: Digital Archaeology: Documenting the Anthropocene 
<https://www.berghahnbooks.com/series/digital-archaeology> series.

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