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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…the threat of isolation: Welcome to New Orleans Within the past 21 days, have you traveled from Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea? Do you have flu-like symptoms and a fever?…

…cost-effective uplift in their national tally. Where the old behaviorism posited that individuals are known by their responses, the new science of happiness judges nations and continents on the basis…

…preserved foods and the technical means to carry them, their promoters more or less surreptitiously introduced important changes linked to the features of this new container.[1] A change over time…

…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.”…

…email were newsworthy, and another batch of commentators assessing their geopolitical significance. Our Limn issue features pieces that in fact assess the importance of the DNC hack in quite distinct…

…the effects of one “variable” upon another. But, by focusing on distributions rather than on averages, these new tools introduced the idea of “variation” and eventually “explained variation,” and in…

…campaign, Clinton’s administration promised to inaugurate a new era for the White House. Technology would be centrally implicated in this new phase: the Clinton Administration would be the first to…

…twice the global average, and predictions of largely ice-free summers recently have been moved forward to as early as 2030 (e.g. Wang and Overland 2009). While the extent of Arctic…

In 2006, David Hackenberg, a commercial beekeeper in Pennsylvania, noticed what appeared to be a new disease in his honey bee hives. Bees are susceptible to a range of pests…

What is it about leaks that makes them different from other news events? If the statements of governments and media organizations are anything to go by, it’s file size that…

…all between 15 and 22 years old. Continuing the investigation through a case-control study, the Herbst team published its findings in the New England Journal of Medicine: This form of…

…the consumer’s gaze. Sustainability claims are made legible through percentages of reduction of used resources or produced waste involved in the development of new products, using prospective product life cycle…

…new intervention into the existing archival evidence of the pandemic as a global event. This new arrangement queries photography as a transparent historical source. When we encounter images, we enter…

We live in a risk society. On a never-ending search-and-destroy mission to eliminate sources of potential harm, we constantly develop new systems to identify it and mitigate it. But do…

…in both a planned and technical sense. Staffers in the campaign’s New Media Division carefully set their goals, defined metrics for supporter involvement, and then measured their progress. Staffers honed…

…visiting care groups or sent by relatives in the United States or elsewhere abroad—were priced around $50 to $100. Some corporations even provided them for free if you bought enough…

“In the future, ___ will be done by the crowd.” This sentiment has become ubiquitous among those engaged in the study or promotion of technologies that exploit large, networked groups…

…to share cat pictures, memes, porn, music, and news as well as an unprecedented platform for intellectual liberation, organization, and mobilization. Pretty great, right? However, to quote Kevin Kelly: There…

…al.’s (2012) Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, cypherpunks are described as “advocate[s] for the use of cryptography and similar methods as ways to achieve societal and political…