Category: aa sociology of information

In the most recent New Yorker, a short story, “Brother on Sunday” by A.M. Holmes, opens with a woman on the phone: “Are you sure?”

Provocative short piece on Keynes in NYT Magazine today: “The Remedist” by Robert Skidelsky. At issue is the question of just what it was that

I am today working on a chapter called “Learning to be a Node” about how we need to be socialized into our roles as nodes

Dan Rather’s lawsuit against CBS isback in the news*. The gist of the suit is Rather’s claim that the network allowed political considerations (over his

A textbook perfect example of notification appeared on the front page of the NYT business section today. Geraldine Fabrikant tells the story of Sallie Krawcheck’s

In the last few days I’ve read a number of blog posts and letters to the editor in which the writers expressed discomfort (a kind