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
Category: aa sociology of information
The Intellectual World as Magazine Shop
Just back from “Family Weekend” at MIT (very well done, BTW) and catching up on things. The following appeared in the American Sociological Association‘s newsletter
Calibrating Blog Traffic Tracking
A classic information illusion arises on the net: the conflation of a click with a look with a read. It’s easy to track how many
Notification and the Life Course
We’ve become so aware of our embeddedness in networks that it’s easy to forget that you have to learn how to be a node. Competent
Information, People, Machines, and Systems
Last week United Airlines (or more properly its stockholders) had an unfortunate information experience. It turns out to be pretty delicious stuff from a sociology
Notification and Disclosure
Sooner or later, the analysis of notification leads to a consideration of disclosure. The two terms blend into one another in dictionary and thesaurus but
Innoeduvation 