…scratch (or “flex”) cards that people buy to top up their mobile phone airtime balances (Fig. 6). Matthew was one of the first to teach himself how to repair phones;…

…of phone phreakers threatened with arrest in 1962: a handful.5 Number of phone phreakers threatened with arrest in 1962 who went on to become any Ivy League professor and famous…

…to behave that way. If he failed to help them get their code into Huawei’s fleet, he’d have to answer to governments around the world. If they failed to help…

…hackers, and private detectives, dumpster diving has proliferated for all types of reasons. We used to rely on the telephone book to share public information; today, things like phone numbers…

…of someone who had hacked the emails and then found someone, found the right person to give them to, or who was contracted to do the hacking? KZ: Yes. I…

…sought to serve. He explained to representatives that banks “refuse to open their doors to the poor people who cannot provide collateral” and that “giving money to the poor is…

…with a mobile phone and a bicycle to facilitate their movement within the village as they travel to the local primary health care center (PHC). The cell phone has prerecorded…

…playfulness. Whereas hackers break or build as a means to get to a specific ends (we “break” something to get into “somewhere”), software developers claim that they create just to…

…has changed as a result for the better (Benkler 2013). It seems strange to have to assert that increasing access to knowledge is more likely to present benefits to society…

…striking only one arrest. On the contrary, the broken window theory, armed with Compstat, allows for one to compile, add, and present very important misdemeanor numbers. Now, Compstat serves not…

…too little. They are vulnerable to the charge of being too limited as well as the charge of being too expansive. They fail to tackle fundamental global injustices, but they…

…other groups around the US working on recommender systems had tended to emphasize the “collaborative” in collaborative filtering. These systems were envisioned as a way to reconnect lone users to…

…that correlates, according to both the United Nations and doctors in the region, to their health. The scales seem to be failing: most obviously, many are broken or difficult to…

…who sought to film, take pictures, or livestream from inside the restaurant; angry and harassing phone calls to Comet Ping Pong, other businesses implicated in the theory, and to individuals…

…policymakers and aid ministers were no longer able to point to a school or dam to show where the dollars had gone, at least (the theory went) they could point…

…or two ago could still work just as well, but no one knew exactly where to draw the line at when a strip’s diminishing efficacy became too far expired to…

…groupthink, bandwagoning, and information cascades. In Surowiecki’s ideal crowd, no one is too influenced by anyone else, too similar, or too connected. Those concerned about the potential for solidarity within…

…a deterministic way. We still have to consider how public infrastructures—and thus these material, spatial, and technical elements—result from collective decision-making arrangements. How is the power to plan, build, and…

…political risks of nuclear energy and thereby turned energy infrastructures into a contested public problem. They also found ways to turn infrastructure into a terrain for political struggles in a…

…individual preference has become, and how it is being programmed into the heart of the tools we use. Because it is so easy to look directly to social media and…

…amateurs to organize the recruitment and training of walkers, to renounce previously widespread practices of free roaming and keen observation of their patches, to dedicate time to natural reserves, to…

…the plan. Perhaps they were planning to release the more interesting stuff closer to the election, but they felt like they somehow had to respond to the public accusation. Who…

…everyone in India a unique number—or maybe two unique numbers—stored in supposedly safe databases whose purposes include everything from combatting corruption to delivering “services” to remaking the very composition of…

…agent of causation, a scripter of response. It shows eighteen-year-old sweat-shirted boys and married mothers-of-one how to talk about products, how to relate to things or phenomena, and are thus…

…in a very dramatic way, just how ill-prepared we are to detect global epidemic disease threats in a timely fashion, and, once detected, to respond appropriately” (Legters et. al. 1993:…

…care, potentially infecting others along the way. Many others came to associate clinics with death and chose to stay at home, avoiding contact with health services altogether. When the international…

…that they wanted you to do what you can do to become your own organizer, to use the tools to organize locally in whatever way you wanted to. They set…