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The Sociology of Information: July 2011
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The Sociology of Information. The not quite raw, not quite half-baked, observations of a sociologist of information. Thursday, July 21, 2011. This is your Background Check on Steroids. An article, " Social Media History Becomes a New Job Hurdle. In yesterday's NYT is obvious fodder for the sociology of information. It's primarily about Social Intelligence. A web start up that puts together dossiers about potential employees for its clients by " scraping. Issues that show up here:. Perhaps more alarming t...
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The Sociology of Information: August 2011
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The Sociology of Information. The not quite raw, not quite half-baked, observations of a sociologist of information. Saturday, August 13, 2011. Information Control and Politics: Not Just "Over There". Cell Reception Cut In San Francisco To Hinder Protest. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. August 13, 2011. Transit officials blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations for three hours to disrupt planned demonstrations over a police shooting. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Sociology of Information: The Socially Competent Node
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The Sociology of Information. The not quite raw, not quite half-baked, observations of a sociologist of information. Friday, February 07, 2014. The Socially Competent Node. Curiously, they can all be distinguished from the most well know information deviant, the liar, by the fact that they can be deviant while handling "the truth.". These characters are "deviant nodes" who fail at their duties in a social information networks. They fail to discriminate. They introduce errors into the message. We do have ...
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The Sociology of Information: Scoops in Journalism and Everyday Life
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The Sociology of Information. The not quite raw, not quite half-baked, observations of a sociologist of information. Friday, April 20, 2012. Scoops in Journalism and Everyday Life. Jay Rosen has a post today titled " Four Types of Scoops. And statements of a truly personal nature: "I'm not feeling well today" that do not reflect one's position or location or worth in the world. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Soc of Info Archive. Scoops in Journalism and Everyday Life.
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The Sociology of Information: February 2014
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The Sociology of Information. The not quite raw, not quite half-baked, observations of a sociologist of information. Friday, February 07, 2014. The Socially Competent Node. Curiously, they can all be distinguished from the most well know information deviant, the liar, by the fact that they can be deviant while handling "the truth.". These characters are "deviant nodes" who fail at their duties in a social information networks. They fail to discriminate. They introduce errors into the message. We do have ...
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The Sociology of Information: January 2012
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The Sociology of Information. The not quite raw, not quite half-baked, observations of a sociologist of information. Sunday, January 22, 2012. Prying Information Loose and Dealing with Loose Information. A sociology of information triptych this morning. Disclosure laws that fail to fulfill their manifest/intended function, the secret work of parsing public information, and the pending capacity to record everything all bear on the question of the relationship between states and information. On the idea th...
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The Sociology of Information: Conference Tools for Twitter
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The Sociology of Information. The not quite raw, not quite half-baked, observations of a sociologist of information. Sunday, October 28, 2012. Conference Tools for Twitter. Recent experience of following (and contributing to) Twitter stream at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association inspired a number of ideas (not all original, I'm sure, and some probably already implemented) in connection with Twitter and conferences:. What would you add? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Sociology of Information: April 2013
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The Sociology of Information. The not quite raw, not quite half-baked, observations of a sociologist of information. Sunday, April 14, 2013. Institutional Reports and TagAlongs. While talking with GKH about writing today, I figured out what was wrong with a draft of an institutional report I read yesterday: it was packed with tag-alongs. When it comes to reports, perhaps we'd do better to charge by the word instead of paying by the hour. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Sociology of Information: October 2012
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The Sociology of Information. The not quite raw, not quite half-baked, observations of a sociologist of information. Sunday, October 28, 2012. Conference Tools for Twitter. Recent experience of following (and contributing to) Twitter stream at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association inspired a number of ideas (not all original, I'm sure, and some probably already implemented) in connection with Twitter and conferences:. What would you add? Links to this post. Has a fun post, " What T...
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The Sociology of Information: Tomorrow's Social Science Today? By Techies?
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The Sociology of Information. The not quite raw, not quite half-baked, observations of a sociologist of information. Sunday, April 08, 2012. Tomorrow's Social Science Today? If you generate the data, the analysts will come. And more and more of the technologies of everyday life generate data, lots of it. And what happens to the funding for non-big-data social science when resource-hungry projects like this emerge? And what will be the effect on the epistemological status of non-big-data social science?
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