…top. Suppose we say that the top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you….

…serves the poor in Bangladesh (Grameen Bank, the 2006 Nobel co-winner), he also crafted a global vision for funding entrepreneurs and tirelessly promoted it for three decades. Muhammad Yunus at…

…that the best or only explanation of #occupywallstreet’s absence is that Twitter “censored” it implies that Trends is otherwise an accurate barometer of the public discussion. For some, this glitch…

…in particular geographical zones (ports, urban peripheries). This substantial scaling-up of production involved new forms of construction, manipulation, and mechanization. Milling, baking, and refining, for example, became complex technological processes….

…to maintain: codes and calibrating fluid; lancets to draw blood from fingertips (for which some people substituted pins or sewing needles); and lithium and other specialized imported batteries, for which…

…Designs for things like solar lanterns or nutritionally fortified foods, for example, seek to generate economic value for a diverse array of investors, via sales to institutional consumers like humanitarian…

…affordances that made it easy for supporters to raise and donate money for the candidate and call voters to identify their preferences. For example, My.BarackObama.com featured fundraising pages that supporters…

…a closet and forgotten for more than 10 years. Only in 2001 did these notecards come to the attention of the broader research community. Since that time, linguists and data…

…done with it? Is the toolkit a device for enticing participation, for improving it, or for something else? What imagination drove its form and function, and can we learn anything…

…other. Alternative food movements blame industrial agro-food systems for social injustices such as impoverishing small producers and for environmental damage such as polluting soil and decreasing biodiversity, as well as…

…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…

…writing code, stopping only to ice his wrists (Townsend 2015). Yet, questions arose on the ground about the value and meaning of an endeavor that required an ever-growing number of…

…Sony fired their entire security team shortly before they got hacked over 30 times in 2011. For such companies, security only becomes a concern for them when it becomes a…

…piece was then logged, coded for dozens of different movement qualities, and entered into a database for further analysis. “Choreometric coding sheets,” From the Alan Lomax Collection at the American…

…“not fraud.” (Forensic accounting is a multicredential career for a reason.) The WikiLeaks “Collateral Murder” video was exceptional precisely because it was an unambiguous video of a battlefield killing, and…

…region. But if the region’s apple and pear orchards stand for healthy sweetness, then what does the sugar beet and its refined sugar stand for today? Sugar has become suspect…

…suing the NYPD for intimidation. Schoolcraft’s claims were bolstered by further research, when Eterno and Silverman (2010), a former cop and a sociologist, designed a survey in which retired officers…

…timestamp of its creation, output frequency, a status code, and—most significant, for the question of archivesthe value of the previous output, the most recent random broadcast. This collection of data…

…frontiers has been a dramatic factor in the Ebola outbreak. Frontiers, though largely irrelevant to kinship and social networks, stimulated the opportunistic movement of people (for trade or protection, for…

…people to make educated decisions about what is in their food, without waiting for government or corporations to do it for them.” A handful of websites, Twitter feeds, and Facebook…

…the stakes for the conference itself. I apologize if necessary. As Lucy Suchman points out here, one of the powerful effects of “prototyping culture” is that it forces people to…

…concern for the longer term costs associated with post September 11 border tightening. For a system based not simply on connectivity, but speed of connectivity, border security can itself be…

…Réseau-DES lobbied and advocated for maternity leave for DES daughters for more than fifteen years. Their efforts were unsuccessful until 2010, a time when most DES daughters were nearing the…

…a collection of badges could qualify a participant for a certain sort of job. This badge-based digital learning through a smartphone represented a path-breaking step forward for Digital On-Ramps and…

…is a form of care for the well-being of non-humans they take in their charge. Counting and making inventories often constitutes a cooperative, affective and descriptive form of surveillance. Naturalist…

…archive of American global panopticism that will be preserved in posterity. The DNC leaks, on the other hand, were timed for immediate, disruptive, and destabilizing force: that is, their form…