Gillian Hadfield (USC Law) and I just gave a paper at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association called “Democracy, Courts and the Information
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.
The Ontology of Mis-Information
An editorial, “We’ll Have to Check, Sir,“ in this morning’s Times criticizes the apparent difficulties in purging incorrect information from the government’s terrorist “watch list.”
Disclosure as Tactic and Strategy
Robert Frank has a nice piece on the “full-disclosure principle” in today’s NYT Business section. It’s called “To Disclose or Not? Ask the Frogs.” Give
The Dominant Ideology Hypothesis
The more I look at the scholarship and journalism (actually, a lot of the former is just a step or so beyond the latter) on
It’s Been a While…
since the last posting here. What’s the main take-away from that observation? There are two: one, last semester I was wicked busy, and two, the
Courts and the Information Order
Dan Rather is suing CBS and affiliated corporate entities for $70 million. Ostensibly, it’s a contract case: CBS promised him something and he says they
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