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
Quick Followup : More notification in "Mad Men"
An earlier post (8 September) described the use of notificational deviance as a dramatic plot device using the television series Mad Men as an example.
Notification and the Public Sphere
Working today on the outline for a chapter on “notification and the public sphere.” In previous chapters the focus was notification and the maintenance of
Talking to Ourselves
This post is not my usual brand of sociology of information. It’s true that the topics I’m including under that title DO veer off in
The Economy and Information : Does More Info Make the World a Better Place?
This week’s serial superlatives in things economic — each day the “events of recent days” were “the most stunning thing to happen since the thirties”
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
Innoeduvation 