The Sociology of Information

Any number of news outlets communicated a sense of outrage over the fact that James Comey apparently learned he'd been fired by looking ...

Essay in progress (w GKH): HRC criticized DJT as unfit to lead because he could fly off the handle over an insulting tweet, get distracted...

Consider the following deviant characters: loose cannons, blabbermouths, gossipers, and yentas, stool pigeons and canaries, tattlers and s...

A short excerpt from zeroth draft of chapter "Learning to be a node" The chapter is about how social networks depend on compe...

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 p...

Recent experience of following (and contributing to) Twitter stream at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association inspired...

Elections and a three course semester have crowded out blogging over last few months.  And so, the blogger's cop out of pointers to som...

Jay Rosen has a post today titled " Four Types of Scoops " that will surely make it into my sociology of information book.  The f...