…storyline is the knowledge produced by a modeling technique called life cycle assessment (LCA). LCA quantifies the environmental impacts incurred during a product’s material “life,” from raw material extraction through…

…fact some computers are capable of already. The Rijksmuseum allows users to search its online collections by color; so does the British Library. The latter even indexes triangles, curves, and…

…a testing machine. In order to bring information out of the screen into the physical world, several technological devices have been developed. However, they have not been understood as prototypes…

…climate [is] a mathematical construct that cannot be experienced directly.” Validation is critical in a context in which global circulation models are unable to capture fine-grained local dynamics, and in…

…by The Intercept. These cases helped set new standards for reporting on leaked material and showed the potential of a proactive attitude towards encryption. As Baack argues (2016), digital leaks…

…other unofficial disclosures of information that are the journalist’s stock in trade is not the amount of information disclosed to journalists, but the amount of original source material made accessible…

…proliferation of recent terminology is any indication: network societies, virtual communities, digital culture, cyber-cultures, social media, social software, digital natives, online communities, crowd-sourcing, crowd-funding, organizational networks, networked publics, and so…

…antiglobalist, environmental, or social justice movements. They are generally presented in opposition to industrial food systems. But I would argue that the industrial and alternative systems in fact support each…

…Odebrecht. No longer a project of national territorial integration, the new highway promised international connectivity not just for terrestrial movements, but via all the other infrastructures that the new road…

In less than a decade, hackers have gone from marginal political actors to talking points at presidential debates. Hillary Clinton’s emails and Donald Trump’s 400-pound hacker are only the most…

…used almost exclusively to stage Internet pranks), it only fully entered public consciousness in December 2010. Unfolding before my eyes was a distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaign: #operationpayback. No…

…the contemporary legacy of that archival urge. Total archives from this era span every discipline. It is the time when Alan Lomax (Laemmli) developed the study of “Choreometrics” and travelled…

…perfect duplicates. You can already hear the grinding friction between the words “digital cash.” The “cash” part is crucial; individuals can transact cash directly without having to pass through a…

…impossible to stop at just one. After all, governments already understood how special cases could be policy instruments. Special cases were how pirate sites and child porn were excluded from…

Gabriella Coleman: As you know well, the DNC [Democratic National Committee] hack and leak were quite controversial, with a batch of commentators and journalists debating whether the contents of the…

…not only in terms of having a proof-of-concept of code that can cause physical destruction—which is something we hadn’t seen before—but also it marks a threshold in international relations because…

…of the interviewee” (Kreuger and Casey 2009: 3), focus groups share the central goal of the social sciences – to see the world as if from another person’s point of…

…has been awarding the “Design of the Year” for a decade now, celebrating examples that “promote or deliver change, enable access, extend design practice, or capture the spirit of the…

…alcohol, and sugar consumption, thus allowing national governments to amass larger tax revenues that can be earmarked to finance national health systems and achieve universal health coverage. Last but not…