…create new ones as new products come to market and become vehicles for the expression of social distinction. The synaptic function is both descriptive and generative. In order to examine…

…crowds, dressed in their Sunday best, disembarked from their buses and walked toward the grounds, now peppered with new signage. The first of these gave a hint of what was…

…governing strategy has facilitated the recognition of new collective kinds: new groups of languages can now be compared, and therefore defined; new communities of researchers can interact and share their…

…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…

…connectivity. Different from the nation-state, Europe is lacking clearly defined territorial boundaries and a contiguous state space. Its political unity is always newly at stake, subject to experimentation and new…

…We should be able to transact this “cash” without creating new money objects or new copies of existing money objects. The Bitcoin blockchain’s answer to this seemingly intractable problem of…

…journalism” has been used to explain the context in which new formats of news making, new identities, and new professional boundaries have been set. Data journalism is a good example…

…this earth” by producing a new kind of knowledge that focused on risks to the critical systems that underpinned collective life. The mission articulated by McDermott was the outcome of…

…Columbus of post-modern times, discovered a new “continent”, a New World built by the unintentional consequences of humans’ action. Media from around the world reported the “discovery”, first carefully then…

…coalition was Hermann Scheer, the member of Parliament chiefly responsible for devising new legislation promoting renewable energy. Scheer believed that beyond benefits for the economy and the environment, the promotion…

…the words of a CBS news report on the Nutrition Facts panel: “The new food label is designed to make experts out of everyone.” Is the Medium the Message? The…

…seen espionage and political espionage is not something new. The only thing that’s new here is the leaking of the data that was stolen rather than, let’s say, the covert…

…hacks and document leaks. After reminding him it was illegal to seek hacking aid of any sort, I told him that, as far as I knew, the hackers themselves had…

…the “political influences.” I ask him why there is not yet a vaccine trial in Guinea. He retorts that France is not “doing its job” even though Guinea is its…

…programmers are really superstars, the new and powerful class of worker. I wasn’t so sure.” I nodded, listening, returning to the moment that Noah questioned my thesis that all programmers—not…

…an effort to create a new “social contract” with biomedicine in which people agree to share their data in exchange for new knowledge that helps all people (Lu 2013). The…

…wind turbines. Many residents complained that only a small group of wealthy landowners (like Montero) had amassed the promised benefits, with new revenues ploughed into fancy trucks and new homes…

…defined as generating new ideas leading to large-scale solutions, as crucial to increase the impact of their interventions. In the words of Judith Rodin, former long-time president of the Rockefeller…

…vulnerable to Manchurian-Candidate-style ideological engineering. A fleet of behavioral scientists took on the task of studying this phenomenon, this “something new in history,” as writer Eugene Kinkead for the New…

…sought to retain and even expand budgets in the face of a declining overt threat and looked to political activists as a new group of threats, and then again after…

…marketing campaigns promoting luxury accommodations to American and Canadian expats and tourists, those responsible for the construction of the new infrastructure still “ignored” what the aquifer really was; the details…

…markets to individual behavior and choice lies in the marked influence that rational choice theory had on many of the new generation of Chicago economists. Indeed, this “new science of…

…generate new forms of governing, and new kinds of collectives, by its very execution. Thinking about our contemporary obsession with vast accumulations through the figure of the archive poses questions…

…applications. In these cases, the recovered materials were refashioned as evidence in court cases, sources in newspapers, new commercial products, and to intimidate or impersonate others. At the same time,…