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Map of the underwire active and planned submarine cable systems around the world. For the purposes of this article, the map illustrates the vast number of internet cables that cluster around the Western world.
Issue 43 by Anonymous Author on November 15th, 2016
Lack of ethical processes around data collection and management, and ongoing Western control over data, continue the legacy of colonialism within aid work.
The first VR prototype: a bulky contraption with a mounted screen over the eyes, thick wires and cords attached to a mannequin head.
Issue 43 by Veve Jaffa on November 14th, 2016
While you’re exploring virtual reality, Facebook is exploring you.
A small drone with four sets of propellers flying against a sunset.
Issue 39 by Lauren Chief Elk-Young Bear on July 27th, 2016
What if we were able to harness technology independent of military and carceral dictation of the movement? How can we think about technologies in ways that would be helpful to women, not used as violence against us?
Artistic shot of a video game controller.
Issue 35 by Kara Melton on March 30th, 2016
In a social environment where the movement of black people is produced through constant surveillance, Curry’s inability to be accurately transformed into a digital version is a powerful critique.
A woman sitting and facing snow-covered trees, pictured through a 4-pane window.
Issue 27 by Anonymous Author on September 17th, 2015
I look around and I see my friends building technologies that make life easier for abusers. I am overwhelmingly sad thinking of all the people whose lives have been made orders of magnitude more hellish carrying ever-connected computers on their bodies.
Three different smart watches on a single wrist.
Issue 23 by Dana Cass on July 2nd, 2015
We have reduced the notion of health to a set of standards that tend to be binary, arbitrary, or both.
A stuffed bear in black and white, casting long eerie shadows on the wooden floor.
Issue 23 by Alana Massey on July 1st, 2015
Though adults are free to opt in and out of advertising services and control the collection and use of their personal data, children have no such power.
Business license with the seal of the City of Chicago affixed to it. In the upper left is a graphic of a megaphone with the text 'Alarm', sound waves emanating from it.
Issue 22 by Jessica Barrett Sattell on June 10th, 2015
Mass-produced surveillance signage is not only about cameras.
Multiple surveillance feeds displayed across many screens.
Issue 21 by Sedge Armon on May 18th, 2015
How is an article about surveillance by a woman who admits her madness to be taken seriously at all?