…For Occupy protesters, doxing was a demand for social, not criminal, justice. In doing so, we see that when the dumpster goes digital, movements can expand their political capacity by…

…vengeance (International Business Times 2015). Anonymous members declared war on politically violent Islamic extremists. Some Anons said it was their democratic duty to engage in the international political battle against…

…ought to be. Humanitarian design has its historical roots in longstanding alternative design traditions such as universal, ecological, or feminist design. E. F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful (1973) and Victor…

…describes how his colleagues “didn’t have to generate desire very often. We had to capture and empower interest and desire… We made intelligent decisions that kept it growing but I…

…to understand the kinds of groups made and understood through collaborative filtering, it is essential to wade into its technical form — the algorithms tasked with finding order among individuals….

…Linley’s case demonstrates how online media can help transform loose online social links into significant “in real world” support in times of need. In the case of Between The Bars…

…as a tactic for anonymity (Spitters et al., 2014).[2] Onion routing was first developed and designed by the US Naval Research Laboratory in order to secure online intelligence activities. Data…

…search engine.[1] The right has its legal basis in decades-old data protection laws, but had been unenforced until a Spanish court ruled in favor of an individual who wanted Google…

…targeted, almost vocational training for jobs in a new economy, and 2) social media–style knowledge coordination providing employers with better access to potential employees. With Digital On-Ramps, private, non-state actors…

This Has Been an Unauthorized Cybernetic Announcement Start with an archetypal story: a single brave hacker with phenomenal technical chops liberates the suppressed information, and with it society as a…

…describes in this issue. Not all corporate software developers are powerful technological agents. Many also work with constraints and even through states of ignorance (because developers often don’t know what’s…

…of Twitter’s financial aspirations as a for-profit business. Whether or not Trends is an accurate or a deeply flawed measure of vital topics of discussion, it is also a means…

…U.S. law—in both lower courts and on appeal. And yet, despite these successes, Google has quietly forsaken its Library Project, despite being far short of its original outsized goal (“all…

…Its origin story also fits the bill: the 1992 Energy Policy Act repealed restrictions on electric utilities to trade with each other—restrictions introduced under the New Deal—and allowed states to…

…be if a determined effort was made to deliberately disrupt electrical grids by internal or external adversaries? The pressure was therefore increased to develop “self-healing grids” (Amin 2004) based on…

…far more encompassing definition that suggested the distinctiveness of information warfare and, in many cases, the radical disruption of traditional kinetic warfare. The first known official Department of Defense definition…

…begin from the moment of conception and depend upon an individual’s unique genetic and life history. Corporate and industrial actors spreading misinformation and doubt confound the biological and social investigation…

…desirable virtue instead of a barrier to understanding. As collections of personal correspondence, in-group language abounds in these databases, along with imprecise, casual references, professional jargon and elisions, in-jokes, and…

…countries. “Hacking Goes Legit” Paradoxically, the international spread of the credential resulted from the intensely local nature of training. Although some companies did begin offering online training—for example a “midnight…

…she came to university in the capital city of Port Moresby in 2011. She already had friends who owned mobile phones despite an official ban on the devices at her…

…shaped the modern canonical view of the crowd as a model of democratic participation, an avenue for unfettered cultural expression, and an alternative to the stagnating, institutionalized imperative to consume…

…Much work goes also into keeping a rich online archive with audio-visual and textual registers of all activities held at MLP, so that people who could not make it to…

…the fleeting, real-time contours of a behavioral group whose constituents, seated at individual play terminals and immersed in the solitary activity of play, were likely unaware of their kinship. Casino…

…uncovering disparities in earnings by gender and race. What was already known was made explicit, with exact financial figures suddenly made available. While the US government blamed the North Korean…

…extending this new vision of democratic participation and political unity into “technical” development planning via NEPAD, the self-described “technical body of the African Union.” NEPAD officials quite explicitly “believe that…

At the beginning of 2017 information security researcher, Amnesty International technologist, and hacker Claudio (“nex”) Guarnieri launched “Security without Borders,” an organization devoted to helping civil society deal with technical…