A few months ago I was hanging out with a group of folks from National Public Radio’s “Next Generation Radio” Project. Participants were sitting around
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.
Silence on the Soc of Info Front
Week’s worth of silence here was due to a quick trip to Paris in the company of my partner, Gillian Hadfield, who was talking at
Calibrating Blog Traffic Tracking
A classic information illusion arises on the net: the conflation of a click with a look with a read. It’s easy to track how many
Notification and the Life Course
We’ve become so aware of our embeddedness in networks that it’s easy to forget that you have to learn how to be a node. Competent
Quick Followup : More notification in "Mad Men"
An earlier post (8 September) described the use of notificational deviance as a dramatic plot device using the television series Mad Men as an example.
Notification and the Public Sphere
Working today on the outline for a chapter on “notification and the public sphere.” In previous chapters the focus was notification and the maintenance of
Innoeduvation 