A report on last year’s Virginia Tech shootings was released last week (full report | executive summary). It highlights a number of sociology of 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.
What Society Knows
The lead editorial in the NY Times today (“What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You“) addresses the question of the state’s role in the generation
"The More Information the Better"?
Take a look at BARRY MEIER’s May 23, 2007 NYT article “For Drug Makers, a Downside to Full Disclosure.” It’s about how GlaxoSmithKline made drug
Democracy and the Information Order I
Consider Adam Liptak’s front page article in the Times today. It’s about a website that publishes information about people who agree to be witnesses for
Tooting My Own Horn
Well, the sociology of information has made it to the big time now. John Tierney has a piece (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/22tier.html?ex=1337659200&en=6619e8ff1cb79513&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink) in the New York Times Science
Technology and Invisibility
Technology boosters are fond of telling us that soon everything will be at our fingertips, that technology will transform an informational landscape that is riddled
Innoeduvation 