…been subpoenaed by the FBI to hand over their collated IP addresses. According to an assistant researcher at CMU Nicolas Christin, SEI is a non-profit and not an academic institution…

…in Somalia, Nigeria, Libya, and Syria. As such, GhostSec was a humanitarian cause that prevented the territorialization of cyberspace by terrorists. It was a noble cause, a cyber battle, almost…

…target groups (171-2). Pizza Superiora was “the people’s pizza,” intended for a general audience; Pizza Romano, more expensive and with “a distinctive flavor and character,” targeted “a more adult and…

…use it. With the Internet, the landfill has changed, and so have the stakes. As more of our lives move online, we now do much of our work and pay…

…crowdsourcing platform aimed at engaging nontraditional development actors such as designers and other creative entrepreneurs, diaspora communities, technologists, engineers, and the public at large. It also wants to establish stronger…

…experience. There is a wealth of practical, empirical material to gather and analyze about how prototypes work in different domains (design, architecture, art, metrology, engineering, social science), and also a…

…(Andrews 1996:3-2). The porousness of the state in the global information age accordingly demanded an expansion—a hypertrophy—of state capacities and legal authorities at home and abroad to compensate. The worldwide…

…associated with longstanding ideals of authority, security and order. In opposition, Mockus crafted an image of anti-corruption and transparency, and presented himself as an icon of political virtue. Accordingly, both…

…are the aisles that make the grocery shopping experience such a loathsome chore for so many people, and a crisis for supermarket executives and grocery story owners. As a cultural…

…Figure 1. The artwork as document. Panel from Any Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, an unfinished, thematic and aggressively anachronistic art historical project, now reconstructed in a fascinating website hosted by Cornell…

…drew attention to the protest. The collective used My.BarackObama.com, sites such as Facebook and YouTube, and blogs to gather and garner resources and press attention in an attempt to get…

…MIT, RPI, and Carnegie Mellon receive vast sums of government and corporate directed research, and entire areas of enquiry (Artificial Intelligence, Aeronautic and Astronautic Engineering) are primarily—in some cases exclusively—funded…

…However, we are unable to know for certain. Not only are the criteria opaque and the archive proprietary, we also have no benchmark against which to compare the results. Trends…

…their managers, their partners and mothers, and all other nondevelopers, the systems they build can even resemble the stuff of magic. After starting fieldwork at Noah’s workplace—a large (1000-plus employee)…

…had already existed for decades—so much as it did an effort to certify and market a blend of hacker skills and professional ethics. I first describe how anxieties about hackers…

…In September 2010, an Anonymous activist node by the name of AnonOps launched a pro-piracy campaign by hammering a slew of copyright industry websites with DDoS attacks. One target was…

…(Wikimedia 2014). Wikimedia is not alone in making these notifications public; the BBC also maintains a list of affected pages to preserve “the integrity of the BBC’s online archive” (McIntosh…

…software, algorithms, and machine-sorted data in widespread use today. These networks and devices are built and maintained by massive, trans-national ICT corporations, not least Apple, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), AT&T,…

…a group of workers accept and perform tasks on a web-based platform in exchange for compensation from whoever posted the task. I approached it as a legal and industrial curiosity,…

…a few years after the White House started using email, John Poindexter and Oliver North destroyed 5,000 email messages in an attempt to cover up the Iran-Contra scandal. The FBI…

…more attached to a noble family, for whom they work as ambassadors. But since they were most often wandering as minstrels, they played a crucial role as arbiters in contested…

…“payload”—and the field is alive with imaginaries about exploitation by evil-doers, rather than collapse or break-down due to normal design or usage. The idea of a “normal accident” is almost…

…leading to long-term health problems among DES progeny. Looking at DES with environmentalist glasses as a precursor substance of endocrine disruptors (ED), we see a wide mobilization and a pro-active…

…not taking omega-3 fish oil pills has the same benefits as eating foods that contain omega-3s remains a matter of debate (Allport 2006; Kris-Etherton et al. 2002; Rizos et al….

…just awaiting application. 1970s Band-Aid Advertisement. In and of itself, it is hard to argue with a Band-Aid. As anyone who has used one knows, this little strip of adhesive…

…assemblage of humanitarian biomedicine is now in operation, an assemblage that attempts to simultaneously address individual survival and global security (Lakoff 2010; Redfield 2012). Pre-Presentation A quick “burnout” was what…