…enormous volumes of data in sophisticated ways, with alarming speed, and at quite low cost. As such, it has become common to view crowds as an exploitable labor pool. Commentators…

…Herald In medieval Europe, heralds are charged with carrying messages to and from the commanders of opposing armies. They are specialists in genealogy: they can trace, on the occasion of…

…of one official investigation, Eugene Spafford, pointed out, the code contained no commands that would harm a computer on which it ran, only commands intended to exploit vulnerabilities that allowed…

…was launched with much fanfare, with the company claiming that the community would discover the benefits of “hygienic public utilities” if one builds a “beautiful toilet” (http://www.ikotoilet.org) and would pay…

…to isolate whether global warming is changing individual species’ and communities’ location, composition, and timing of species interactions (phenology). “Most local changes,” they write, “are idiosyncratic and consist of noise…

…computers; unreliable network connectivity; unintelligible voice messages; difficulties using mobile phones and computers; health workers lacking time to enter health data into the computer, compromising its circulation; women who won’t…

…the de-indexed” is one of the many curious by-products of the online encyclopedia’s ongoing construction. It encapsulates a peculiar set of contradictions arising out of the project’s concurrent imperatives: to…

…a low-tech, “dumb” policy strategy. These efforts harness the ubiquitous connectivity and data-gathering potential of digital infrastructures: the internet and wireless mobile communication, smartphones and other computing gadgets, and also…

…communications (Clynes 2012). Multiple independent reviews, including those performed by FactCheck, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, Penn State University, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Chamber…

…the hostile host: introduction to the study of the laws of hospitality. In Contributions to Mediterranean sociology: Mediterranean rural communities and social change (ed.) J.-G. Peristiany. Paris and The Hague:…

…as a market commodity par excellence. The burden and risk of creating organizing frameworks for buying and selling electricity now falls on a new, dispersed set of experts: electrical engineers…

…sign up online to participate in the community’s open source hardware and software development, investigate whether it can be used to identify chemicals and hazards in everyday products: Three years…

…of “journalists, activists, communication-technology hackers” who “are exerting significant influence in today’s media environment through innovation and media competence” (2016: 9-10). At the current stage, it is important to point…

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…of her book Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War, and Death to a critique of Ebola coverage. Arguing that the American public suffered from an inability to…

…primarily in land transfers from public to private ownership. Revenue is generated in various ways, commonly through the money a local government can generate from the difference between the compensation…

Panier du 20 mai 2011, http://amapetang.blogspot.com/ Like every Thursday afternoon, Celine’s two kids are exited, because Thursday is the jour du Panier (“basket day”). At 6 p.m., Celine and her…

…difference between an individual ear and juridical statistics: “A statistical bureau might be compared to an eye or ear. […] Let us hope that the day will come when the…

…the meatpacking and brewing industries. By 1914 nearly all American plants made use of mechanical refrigeration (often ammonia compression) as part of their trade. 1809: Tin Can Archaeologies: While the…

…The BIG U. In developing its final proposals, the BIG team created separate but coordinated plans for three segments of the waterfront and adjacent communities, called “compartments.” Each compartment comprised…

…a matter of judgment” (PricewaterhouseCoopers 2011:79). The norms that guide the definitions of “bottlenecks” amalgamate different concerns: unification of price zones and competition, increase of cross-border flows, integration of renewable…

…and its formation of a public company mark the integration of novel actors in infrastructure provisioning, from a 17,000-strong group of private shareholders to a series of companies making use…

…state’s online advertising for the initial public offering of its sovereign bonds. Translations: Road Network Development; Watershed Construction; Fiber Optic Construction, Connection to the Electrical Network. Source But who will…