…If the top step is 10 and the bottom step is 0, on which step of the ladder do you feel you personally stand at the present time? (Gallup 2015)….

…a proposal to flood a new lake linked to the canal, which would displace an estimated 2,000 people in the process.[4] Figure 3: During a drought in 2015, Panamanian President…

…technology, the greater is the potential for harm as well (Kelly 2010:246). Sure enough, we soon observed the same technology of liberation become a tool for repression. It was inevitable,…

…and soul of this organization, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier and all the rest. If you have a problem with me, piss off” (Zetter and Poulsen 2010)….

…given source archive by human error, which constitute “dirty data” (Maddodi et al. 2010:664). The distinction between what makes data untranslatable, requiring schema extraction, and what specifically renders it dirty…

…the “democratic atmosphere” or “democratic social climate,” decisions about the nature and trajectory of the task were made by the group, children were free to associate themselves with whomever they…

Foreword In the spring of 2004, a peculiar document surfaced in an obscure municipal archive in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Its contents—a motley assortment of idiosyncratic scrawls, organized into three unmarked…

…promise and enthusiastic investment. Chimeras—monstrous, hybrid, or simply fantastical—tend to be figures of liminality. Their importance is heightened in moments when someone or something sits betwixt and between social categories…

…from a continuous stream of “live data” that is overwhelming in its volume and detail? “We’ve got 20,000 [behavioral] models per second, streaming off the floor,” remarks Javier Saenz, vice…

…public but highly controlled environment of the supermarket a surreptitious, clandestine channel of communication between consumers. The food product becomes a vehicle for delivering unsanctioned messages, and the act of…

…5, 2013, a bit before noon, they also began producing standard random objects at a rate of one per minute: strings of 512 bits of entropy, broadcast every 60 seconds….

…than 50% of the officers who retired after 2002 declare having changed their reports to make figures look better. Crime report manipulation. These sociologists and their survey can be called…

…is the alternation between speaking and silence. This alternation occurs not only between spaces—the lab or public space—but also between concerns. The concern in the laboratory is the delicate process…

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…

…surgeon, a Russian cultural minister, the Walt Disney Company, and the U.S. military. Ultimately, the Choreometrics team gathered more than 250,000 feet of raw footage, representing 2,000 different communities. Each…

…on the Greek islands to shelter newly arrived refugees in 2015, and it came with the backing of the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency, who purchased 15,000 units for distribution…

…500 cases, all of them potentially fatal, had been discovered during an extensive survey of only 9,500 persons.[2] There were the usual journalists’ approximations about African geography: it was written…

…mayor noted that, by his office’s calculus, 600,000 city residents were unqualified for jobs in the twenty-first century information and innovation-focused economy (Nutter 2012a, 2012b). As a result, residents first…

…local government website. Better to take a misdemeanor than run the risk of a federal criminal trial where the conviction rate is north of 90%. But the fact that this…

…accounts, Safaricom was established in 1997 as a subsidiary of the parastatal Telkom; in 2000, the United Kingdom-based Vodafone acquired 40% of the shares and the authorization to autonomously manage…

…distinction between prophets of fortune and misfortune. This distinction is not only, as Spinoza assumed, a difference between happy and sad individuals, but the result of a collective process of…

…back some 5,000 to 6,000 years, with oil palm fossil pollen identified in Miocene layers in the Niger Delta and archeological evidence of an oil palm trade among third-millennium Egyptians…

…shin. For the better part of the night, he will wait, his headlamp fixed on his legs, catching mosquitoes as they land on his legs attempting to feed. The Human…