…into an IBM card using a coding system. “The combination of the maps and the codes,” Lowe summarized, “is what constitutes the Bombing Encyclopedia” (1946:13). Using it, an analyst could…

…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…

…most serious health emergency); Sierra Leone reports two cases; Saudi Arabia suspends visas for muslim pilgrims from Guinea and Liberia April [n/d]: U.S. CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officers begin…

…wrote in the New Yorker about how hard it has been to circulate Ebola blood samples (Preston 2014). While some blood made it out of Sierra Leone in May, “[a]…

…created new network nodes, managed by private contractors, which increased complexity, vulnerability, and risk. A 1917 exemplar of bureaucracy: the Tabulating Machines Company (later IBM). That changing network architecture configuration…

Hackers create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things. (McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto, 2004:4). What Was GhostSec?…

…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…

…between the goals of stove promoters and those of rural people, the poor performance of stoves that do not live up to big claims, the burden of buying new cooking…

In July 2013, the front page of The New York Times reported that Edward Snowden was a certified ethical hacker (CEH). The Times noted that the certification process would have…

…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…

…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,…

…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…

…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…

…historically novel “ecotechnical” systems. These systems in turn operate as new environments within which natural selection operates. Food systems thus demonstrate how differences in scale produce emergent phenomena. Canadian railway…

…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…

…– should be practiced “on the avian level.” Tracking the mutations and reassortments of the flu virus in birds allowed microbiologists to anticipate a new strain that could successfully pass…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…MSF—de facto the only organization capable of managing viral hemorrhagic outbreaks—had expected. But when Ebola cropped up in cities—Conakry (Guinea), Monrovia (Liberia), and finally Freetown (Sierra Leone)—tracking and isolating individual…

…uses of the concept. The first and most direct response was that Morris became the first individual to be tried under the new Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986,…

…representative or legislator who is called upon to reform the judiciary or the penal code and yet who is, hypothetically, ignorant of juridical statistics, will be as rare and inconceivable…

Thanks to the development of new methods at the interface of ecology and chemistry first pioneered in the 1970s, environmental sensors such as sentinel organisms are today used to detect…

…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…