…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…

…not do, however, was crowdsource the candidate’s policy platform or electoral strategy. As one highly-active technical volunteer on the Obama campaign describes: “They [Obama’s campaign staff] made it very clear…

…the generative qualities of the synaptic function, I describe here a contemporary challenger to traditional demographic marketing: an algorithmic recommendation technique called “collaborative filtering.” Collaborative filters are an increasingly frequent…

…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…

…include the NSA, authoritarian governments worldwide, and multinational corporations: all organisations that would like to discover the identity of users and their personal information (see for example, the case of…

…be at once selective and comprehensive; and to both exclude the vast majority of edits while also maintaining its radical openness. Visualizing Deletions in Wikipedia. The list, “Notices received from…

…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…

…from real-life figures like Len Sassaman (a privacy advocate and systems engineer who tragically committed suicide in 2011) and fictional representations like Elliot Alderson, the anxiety-afflicted main character in the…

…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…

…simply weighed and settled. This same algorithm must serve the desires of its users, all the while drawing new ones. The degree to which it can do all that is…

…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…

…his child’s diapers, others, also drawing on personal experiences, have expressed concerns about their potential harm as allergens.[2] Research from the 1970s indicates that optical brighteners can cause contact dermatitis…

…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…

…instance, can be increased in anticipation of the arrival of elderly patrons, while slot machines can be virtually “reskinned” for special events like Cinco de Mayo or Chinese New Year…

…when Anonymous trolls prank called Hal Turner, a white supremacist radio host. When he made the grave error of doxing the callers, a group of 4chan anons decided to dox…

…of planning Africa’s infrastructural development. In common usage, the word “ownership” denotes the legal possession of property. But it can also be used, as Mayaki does, to imply a more…

…and violence in the pursuit of justice and democracy cannot succeed if they do not communicate securely, or if they cannot remain safe online. Security must become a fundamental right…