I was inspired by a TeachSoc post from Kathe Lowney today to have a look at two articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education on computer
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.
This is your Background Check on Steroids
An article, “Social Media History Becomes a New Job Hurdle,” by Jennifer Preston in yesterday’s NYT is obvious fodder for the sociology of information. It’s
Anonymity and the Demise of the Ephemeral
The New York Times email update had the right headline “Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone” but made a common mistake in the
animal diminutives
At the risk of straying too far off the sociology of information trail, may I report a conversation from this morning’s ride down to CASBS
Toward a Wikipedia of Sociology
Every few years one gets a request from the editor of an encyclopedia of social theory or globalization or social research. Some publisher has succumbed
Reinventing Research? Information Practices in the Humanities
[re-blogged from Resource Connection : April 26, 2011] A project of the Research Information Network (RIN) focuses on the behaviours and needs of researchers working
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