…long-distance communication, especially with kin living and working in urban centers. And when a customer had no credit on her phone, she could use the free “call me” short-message service…

…Number of poems about Hacking in The New Yorker in 1991: Number of times the word “hacker” was used in The New Yorker before 2008: fewer than 10 Number of…

…service distribution and through the production of “duplicates,” fake or copied identities in the list of persons or households entitled to a service. The conception of service is organized around…

…portion of the population during the critical migration and spawning period” (US Fish and Wildlife Service 2016a). Based on the working group’s recommendation, the Fish and Wildlife Service reduced the…

…here. With name and badge number in hand, Anonymous tweeted a dox containing the officer’s name (Anthony Bologna), last known addresses, family members, phone number, and legal troubles. Because Bologna…

…distribution of Rhesus blood-group allele C. In mapping the heterogeneous and patchy collections sent to the Nuffield Blood Group Centre, the workers there used shading and isolines to indicate a…

…efforts to coerce internet service providers [ISPs] into blocking sites and traffic) but mostly offered a salacious opportunity to read the correspondence of executives being awful to each other on…

…ICT program is second to none in the county, but when students undertake dangerous modifications to their cars, and bring those cars to campus, they are not only violating Board…

…their security and breaches, customers can make better-informed decisions about which products and services to use, making it more likely for companies to invest in their security. One way this…

…assisted delivery are relatively low. It aims to pilot the use of mobile devices to improve the use of health care services by pregnant women. MOS@N sends voice medical appointment…

…during the months preceding the annual rice harvest. The ‘hungry season’ of 1940 was, for a number of reasons, particularly serious, amounting practically to a period of true famine” (Lourie,…

…that, as one informant told us while patting his pocketed phone, “has an intimate relationship with millions of Kenyans.” In his influential account of the aesthetics of postcolonial power, Achille…

…user and providing anonymity. At the end of a browsing session the user history is deleted along with the HTTP cookie. Moreover, the greater the number of people using Tor,…

…sanitation. In other cases, the end user is an agent of improvement. In all cases, the end user becomes a “consumer-client” of a given facility, service, or product offering. As…

…him right back: broadcasting Turner’s home phone number, previous places of residence, and criminal records. As the doxing feud escalated, online allegations swirled that Turner was an FBI mole, sleuthing…

…earth. Campbell’s Soups advertisement, The Ladies’ Home Journal, June, 1923. 1810: Service à la russe enchants Parisians with the formality of courses served in continuous succession. Credited to the Russian…

…workers with high rates of task acceptance. However, large scale requesters use a number of other methods to discriminate “good faith” workers from the “malicious.” Most methods boil down to…

…least two-dozen refugees had died of a mysterious ailment, with symptoms that included headaches, vomiting, rash, and gastrointestinal bleeding. Several US members of an international peacekeeping force were stricken with…

…UK National Health Service in the 1960s (Draper 1967), Ebola CCUs are now being erected in the outskirts of villages and periurban neighborhoods all across the outbreak area, using tents,…

…need for continually lower numbers means that these very numbers have become less meaty. On the one hand, not doing better than in the previous year means admitting failure. One…

…petrochemically produced succinic acid, which can be used as a food preservative or as a component in bioplastics. In contrast to the margarine example that follows, the users of DSM’s…

…the counter, escape the retailers’ mediation, and be handled directly by consumers. Well before the advent of supermarkets, cans thus heralded the shift from service to self-service arrangement, the rise…

…statistics as one of the burdens she could not cope with is a disastrous example of the side effects of statistical pressure. Thus, after importing compstat from the US, French…

…entailments of the water network, these publics are often surprisingly heterogeneous and difficult to distinguish along class or religious lines. Public Performances Publics are regularly reproduced through the quotidian maintenance…

…Anonymous has used multiple tactics as well as multiple ideological stances. While the overriding premise of the movement seems to be “Anonymous is not unanimous” and information should flow freely…

The Shelter On January 26, 2017, the IKEA refugee shelter was declared the worldwide Design of the Year in a unanimous decision.[1] When I interviewed one of the jurors about…

…into the next and never went to waste. The storage space was useful enough, but she hadn’t asked for the refrigerator. The number of grocery stores in Guatemala doubled in…