Category: aa sociology of information

The Canon of College Majors Persists Amid Calls for Change The more academe changes, the more the list of majors stays the same, even though

Monica Davey’s article “Case Shows Limits of Sex Offender Alert Programs” in the NYT (2 Sept 2009)raises a number of interesting sociology of information issues.

Any time we create a committee we should stop and ask why.  The baseline for answering that question should be the world (or institution) without

I met recently, along with Andy, Alice, and Kiem, with two reps from the Blackboard company. They were here to tell us about a Blackboard

A Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN) will be held at the Stern School at NYU in late September. Here’s how they describe what they

Recently got copy of an email sent out by McGraw-Hill’s “Assessment Research Project.” In part it said: As a quick reminder, we are conducting this