Study Abroad
...Venkatesh is convinced his approach is groundbreaking: “No one really had done a study on the complicated lives of people who toiled underground.” Yet many sociologists — including Melissa Ditmore,...
Sunday Reading
...bias in academe: an annotated bibliography It's the data, stupid: what Elsevier's purchase SSRN also means The commencement speaker racket "When transferable skills come to dominate education and employment above...
Sunday Reading
...a D.C. Bikeshop is Joining a Radical Socialist Union Data and Discrimination Close Reading the Database Random Course Evaluation Generator Labor and the New Encyclopedia Remarks on Rod Ferguson's The...
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
Sunday Reading
...rise of digital infidelity The death of the theorist and the emergence of data and algorithms in digital social research. Hong Kong’s protesters demand democracy, but not for its domestic...
Sunday Reading
...conference in Baltimore & urban big data conference in NYC. Bint Battuta: Simone's Funeral: Egyptian Lives, Jewish Deaths in 21st-Century Cairo A requiem for the Jaffna Library The future of...
No Place Like Home
Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know
The Suit
...came from a tree on an idyllic jungle plot. It’s far more likely that the rubber is synthetic, born of some chemical compound with an unpronounceable name. I blunder through...
Jagged Little Pill
...women about the power of oral contraceptives to harm our health and keep us under the heel of patriarchal capitalism. Unfortunately, any good points she makes are lost amid a...
The Ego's Death Trip
...therein belonged to a program for soliciting data from some 700 participants of Carhart-Harris’s study with the goal of confirming the specificity of ego dissolution occasioned by psychedelics versus the...
Sunday Reading
...Non-Reproductive Futurism An Interview with Saskia Sassen Bringing Guantanamo to Park Avenue Big Data, New Epistemologies and Paradigm Shifts A Sociology of Algorithms (video) Angry Olives Practically Marzipan: What 'Black...
Sunday Reading
...right to scuttle her commencement address American kids have to be protected from chopsticks Import.io Turns Web Pages Into a Useable Data Table Things to Know When Talking About Race...
Vol. 22 Editors' Note: Self-Help
...suggests we re-politicize the notion of friendship. In “Data Occupations,” Whitney Erin Boesel defends the Quantified Self movement against its high-profile detractors and finds in it the potential for nurturing...
The Other Occupy Movement
...has the highest rate of unemployment in Spain, at about 10 percent above the national average of 25 percent. Using census data, the Spanish daily El País reported earlier this...
Beauty Blogosphere, Ides of March
...narratives to self-quantification and interpret the data accordingly. And we bring a lot of desired narratives to calorie tracking, eh? Through the vine: Congratulations to Angela Washko, the first artist...
Sunday Reading
...“My mother got all the care she needed and no one presented her or us with a bill” Congressional Data: conservative outside money 4X greater than liberal. The ultimate scorecard....