…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…

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…

…“disease implication” within the ecosystem. Although Newman and his colleagues moved to confirm their insights in new research projects, the anthropologist must examine more closely how Newman discovered the unexpected….

…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…

…new foci of infection, targeting primary or secondary contacts of the infected, and following the importation of the disease to new countries. While the data suggest that while the fatality…

…new labels to products, and bring to the surface attributes hidden or misrepresented in the standard container. Like other forms of graffiti, writing on food packages introduces in the ostensibly…

…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…

…to improving conditions of existence and the quality of lives. They thus require and entail the assembly of new kinds of expertise, new visions of a better future (whether for…

…point of production to the point of consumption.” Systems thinking gave rise to a new approach known as ‘integrated distribution management’, a new name for the field ‘business logistics’, and…

…arguing that engineered systems for generating electricity, increasing agricultural productivity, and expanding habitable terrain were having disastrous effects on wildlife and on ecosystems. New publics emerged to speak for those…

…is, for Twitter, caught between competing desires: reporting back what Twitter users care about most, versus drawing new users into new conversations. Users too are caught between competing desires: wanting…

…Health, the Ebola virus had been isolated in European laboratories and the WHO knew there was an Ebola outbreak in Guinea (Sun et al. 2014). Some might complain that those…

…explores this entanglement, and asks: what are the politics of disclosing vulnerabilities? What new risks and changed expectations exist in a world where it is not clear who is hacking…

…knew that he knew, and other people would later know, so even though I was driving while brown, there were limits on how bad it could get. “You too, sir.”…

…perceived.”[2] This curtain was an intellectual one—it featured news coverage, for example, that neglected the concerns of the distant and the poor—but it was also something more. Lomax had begun…

…will pass. (Madeleine Akrich, Michel Callon and Bruno Latour, “The key to success in innovation”) Prototypes in public. A new question arises with another visualization system, the application for an…

…research was only one of many controversies that have flared up around research on polar bears since the initial push for a new “machinery” of surveillance and prediction in the…

…become involved in generating knowledge about their environmental conditions? How might we build not only DIY sentinel devices but also a new public grassroots infrastructure for the discovery and analysis…

…an outbreak of Ebola in Kikwit, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Major magazines, including Newsweek, Time, and The Economist, published cover stories on the “Killer Virus”; network news programs…

…description for a new paradigm of knowledge-production: where hospitality is taken to frame the conditions of possibility of new knowledge. Works Cited Candea, M. & G. da Col. 2010. The…