Issue 6 The Total Archive »In the Name of Humanity…hacker willing to break both laws and locks in his quest for free access. In his 2008 “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” (Swartz 2008), he forcefully argued for the unilateral liberation…
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »Interview: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai…and we get overwhelmed. And everyone gets—readers get overwhelmed too. And if you dump 3,000 emails, you’re just going to get a certain level of attention. If you do it…
Issue 6 The Total Archive »Alan Lomax and the Temple of Movement…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…
Issue 6 The Total Archive »The Genomic Open…The Sanger Center bought 30 of the new ABI capillary sequencing machines at $300,000 apiece; Eric Lander at the Broad Institute bought 125. In 1999, the year after Venter launched…
Issue 9 Little Development Devices / Humanitarian Goods »A Slightly Better Shelter? …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…
Issue 2 Crowds and Clouds »Romans or Barbarians? Political Campaigns and Social Media in Colombia…use of social media for electoral purposes disrupts these neat definitions. Although social media are not political by definition—they can be used for many purposes—they allow something appealing for political…