Cyber-Utopianism: Critical Analysis Needed
I am currently reading Evgeny Morozov’s new book, To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism (you can find my review of Morozov’s previous book, The Net Delusion here. In...
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The Surveillance Society Will Get Annoying
By SocProf. Thanks to Google Glass. Specifically this: “The key experiential question of Google Glass isn’t what it’s like to wear them, it’s what it’s like to be around someone else who’s wearing...
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A Few More MOOC Thoughts
By SocProf. So, here we are again. MOOCs are very much still the talk of the academic town. And I am still working my way through a few of them. I actually just completed edX’s Statistics 2.1x –...
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Book Review – Networks of Outrage and Hope
In his latest book, Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in The Internet Age, Manuel Castells tries his hand at public sociology. Those of us who are regular readers of Castells’s work know...
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Data Analysis for Intro to Sociology – Culture: Changing Views on LGBT- Part 2
[In order to get a better view of larger visualizations, you should click on the "<>" symbols on the upper right corner of the page for flexible page width. I have finally figured out how to...
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Book Review – Liquid Surveillance
Needless to say, when two of my favorite contemporary sociologists write a book together, on a topic of high relevance, lately – surveillance – I jumped on it. Liquid Surveillance – A Conversation is...
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