One part of Barack Obama’s campaign strategy has been to build a network of supporters unlike any that’s been built before in the U.S. An
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.
For the "Organization of Ignorance" File
News reports (e.g., Daily Journal, alas, by subscription) and blogs today mention the lawsuit brought by UCLA economist and law professor Richard Sander and others
Democracy and the Information Order
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
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
Innoeduvation 