Last week United Airlines (or more properly its stockholders) had an unfortunate information experience. It turns out to be pretty delicious stuff from a sociology
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.
Notification and Disclosure
Sooner or later, the analysis of notification leads to a consideration of disclosure. The two terms blend into one another in dictionary and thesaurus but
Sociology of Information Gaffes
Much has been made of VP candidate Joe Biden’s capacity to put his fut in his mouth. In this morning’s paper, reporter John Broder (“Hanging
The Theory of Notification
As you might know, I’m on sabbatical this year working on a book on the sociology of notification (alas, along with two other projects and
Children as Spies
I’m working today on my chapter about how we are socialized into our roles in information networks. It’s called “Learning to Be a Node.” The
The CONSEQUENTIALIST View of Information
Most of what I’m writing about under the banner “sociology of information” focuses on the relational and symbolic value of information and information transition in
Innoeduvation 