News reports (e.g., Daily Journal, alas, by subscription) and blogs today mention the lawsuit brought by UCLA economist and law professor Richard Sander and others
Category: aa sociology of information
Democracy and the Information Order
Gillian Hadfield (USC Law) and I just gave a paper at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association called “Democracy, Courts and the Information
The Ontology of Mis-Information
An editorial, “We’ll Have to Check, Sir,“ in this morning’s Times criticizes the apparent difficulties in purging incorrect information from the government’s terrorist “watch list.”
Disclosure as Tactic and Strategy
Robert Frank has a nice piece on the “full-disclosure principle” in today’s NYT Business section. It’s called “To Disclose or Not? Ask the Frogs.” Give
The Dominant Ideology Hypothesis
The more I look at the scholarship and journalism (actually, a lot of the former is just a step or so beyond the latter) on
Courts and the Information Order
Dan Rather is suing CBS and affiliated corporate entities for $70 million. Ostensibly, it’s a contract case: CBS promised him something and he says they
