A never posted draft dusted off and posted now. While doing some research on a completely unrelated topics I came across a few articles on
Author: Dan Ryan
I've been an Academic Program Director at MinervaProject.com, a professor at University of Toronto, University of Southern California, and Mills College teaching things like human centered design, computational thinking, modeling for policy sciences, and social theory. My current mission is to figure out how to reorganize higher education and exploit technology so that we can teach twice as many twice as well twice as easily.
Is There a Right to Data Collection?
What’s more socially harmful: politicians not knowing what sound bite will play well or voters being mislead by scurrilous misinformation? New Hampshire is one state
Should Your Company Tell You Your Secrets
Nice sociology of info two-fer in Forbes article about Target being able to detect pregnancy based on purchases (see also “How Companies Learn Your Secrets”in
Is Your Information Your Business?
The Business section is fast becoming the sociology of information section. In “Twitter Is All in Good Fun, Until It Isn’t,” David Carr writes about
White House College Scorecard Suggestions
The White House asked for some feedback on their proposed “scorecard” for higher education cost and value which is intended “to make it easier for
Prying Information Loose and Dealing with Loose Information
A sociology of information triptych this morning. Disclosure laws that fail to fulfill their manifest/intended function, the secret work of parsing public information, and the
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