…propaganda, or the strategies of the new mass medium of radio—accompanied this new collective kind. The tension was also visible in the rise of a form of market capitalism that…

…rows of concrete structures partially assembled will remain that way. Still, the marketers have not yet walked away, and tall billboards throughout the city advertise the homes with images of…

…be protected and so stopped getting shared with the group’s followers” (Raincoaster 2015). After the split, GhostSec continued on, remaining within the Anonymous fold. Meanwhile, the market consumed GSG via…

…in late 2014, I heard an emergent class of panoptic Modi joke in which an official skipping office duty, breaking a rule, or not following the PM’s instructions would suddenly…

…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…

…the raw terms of geopolitical claims to power. Canada and Russia, both having abandoned the Kyoto Protocol, have clearly staked their game-theoretical futures on expansive fossil energy reserves. Russia’s fossil…

…from cars to pharmaceuticals, in conducting medical screenings, as components of stock market trading strategies, and even in military decisions—the safest evasive maneuver, all other things being equal, is one…

In the realm of U.S. homeland security, the word of the day seems to be “resilience.” As a sociologist working in this area, I encounter the term more and more…

…The word derives from the Greek πρωτότυπον (prototypon), “primitive form”, neutral of πρωτότυπος (prototypos), “original, primitive”, from πρῶτος (protos), “first” and τύπος (typos), “impression”.(Online Etymology Dictionary) Prototype as a re-presentation….

…could only mean deliberate human intervention into what should be a smoothly-running machine. The workings of these algorithms are political, an important terrain upon which political battles about visibility are…

…doing. Through Public Lab’s website, an evolving framework for collaborative open source hardware development, Josh could become part of community building this tool and share the results of his work….

…mode of governance, to those by which people are still elevated and ruined largely by chance: a chance skewed, rendered impure, by wealth and power. There’s a deeply seductive appeal…

…notorious figure of motivational guru Ernst Dichter had it, that told marketers why instant cake mixes weren’t selling to Feminine-Mystique-era homemakers. Such mixes, with freeze-dried egg product already included, required…

…by an enigma. Or maybe you do know how the enigma did it, and you feel stupid: because the enigma exposed your lazy information security—maybe because your password was just…

…“hidden service” marketplace (Silk Road 2.0) on the so-called “Dark Net”(Geuss 2015).[4] His IP address (along with other users) was purportedly captured in early 2014 by researchers, Alexander Volynkin and…

…anti-meat brochures, and religious tracts were some of the examples cited before an audience of worried legislators. In the words of the Chief Marketing Counsel for Kraft Foods: “These incidents…

…money—bribery, described it most elegantly: The Genizah, to explore which was the object of my late travels in the east, is an old Jewish institution. The word is derived from…

…(I use the word “debut” advisedly, for this event really did resemble a theatrical debut.) Set down at the opening of a metallic grid that held a five-foot square walled…

…of the modern age: rational, rule based, and results oriented. When it works well, bureaucracy is a remarkable form of human organization that has enabled modern governments and corporations to…

…a scenario-based exercise. Science journalist Laurie Garrett, who attended the meeting, later described Legters’ exercise—and participants’ experience of it—in a Newsday article: In the spring of 1991, as tensions escalated…

…for prisons and law enforcement are a significant market for high technology research and development, while technologies for prisoners‘ rights and public defenders are not. Engineering education covers thermal dynamics…

…into a book. I was awash in words: transcripts from the field, journal articles, and the written and rewritten words of my manuscript. I welcomed the opportunity to work in…

…dropped by nearly 50% from 2004 to 2012, and the supergiant oil field in the Gulf of Mexico is running dry. The nationalized oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) will no…

…samples would travel in coolers or liquid nitrogen Dewar flasks held on the laps of researchers as they flew back from the field. Today, the biospecimen—both cryopreserved as well as…