Lots of online commentary and reposting of OpEd (“The Trouble with Online Education“) by M Edmundson of UVA in last week’s New York Times. For
Category: aa sociology of information
The Path from "Running a University Like a Business" Leads Where?
A blog post with some insightful comments about UVA situation (http://bit.ly/PD6WNv) notes that the folks who pressured the president to resign favor something they call
Scoops in Journalism and Everyday Life
Jay Rosen has a post today titled “Four Types of Scoops” that will surely make it into my sociology of information book. The four types
Tomorrow’s Social Science Today? By Techies?
If you generate the data, the analysts will come. And more and more of the technologies of everyday life generate data, lots of it. “Big
Should Your Company Tell You Your Secrets
Nice sociology of info two-fer in Forbes article about Target being able to detect pregnancy based on purchases (see also “How Companies Learn Your Secrets”in
Google Knol into the Dustbin of E-history
After 15 weeks of non-stop work, a moment for thinking about something other than classes and budgets came available today. Recently, while googling about, I
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