…“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….

…world—Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, the New York Public Library, and the University of Michigan, to begin—and to make those books accessible online. The news astonished interested observers, eliciting both fear and…

…coalition was Hermann Scheer, the member of Parliament chiefly responsible for devising new legislation promoting renewable energy. Scheer believed that beyond benefits for the economy and the environment, the promotion…

…had “missed chances to prevent Ebola from spreading soon after it was first diagnosed in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea last spring, citing factors such as incompetent staff and a…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…stop the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone) has recently pointed to the lack of basic public health infrastructure as the primary reason the epidemic remains difficult to control. “The…

…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.”…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…produced in India by Whisper Design of New Delhi, coordinated by Sunita Chakravarty of the Regional Water and Sanitation Group in New Delhi in 1994. This copy owned by the…

…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…

…businesses more vulnerable to disruption. New infrastructures have extended the logic of systemic risk into new domains, as in the case of digital information infrastructure – analyzed here by Christopher…

…By the end of the twentieth century, the focus group came very close to being a universal tool in America. Even in face of a generation of new attention-spangled, Twitter-spawned…

…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…