Fishbowl Conversation on Moneyball
Monday, Dec. 5th, 2011
MGH 420, 12:00-1:20 PM
Join the ISchool Information & Society Center (ISC) for our quarterly Open Event. At this fishbowl conversation moderated by Ricardo Gomez, Mike Eisenberg, Beth Patin, and members from the audience will discuss the movie “Moneyball” in relation to the use of [...]
A big thank you to all who were able to attend Dr. Eero Sormumen’s presentation on authoring Wikipedia articles as an information literacy assignment.
If you weren’t able to attend, you can listen to the audio of the discussion held on May 24.
Four options to download and listen to the talk:
ISC Members Karen Fisher and Karine Nahon presented on a panel this morning at the Third Annual Journal of Information Technology & Politics Conference being held today and tomorrow at the University of Washington.
Karen’s presentation, “Building Usable Large‐Scale Datasets for Accountability and Advocacy in Troubled Times” and Karine’s “Uncovering Social Dynamics in Networks [...]
THE INFORMATION: A History. A Theory. A Flood. By James Gleick. Illustrated. 526 pp. Pantheon Books. $29.95.
James Gleick has offered up so much fodder in “The Information: A History. A Theory. A Flood” it’s hard for any iSchooler to not want to dive in, devour and critique.
The Information & Society Center (ISC) [...]
ISC member Ricardo Gomez and Elizabeth Gould recently received an Outstanding Paper Award at the Literati Network Awards for Exccellence 2011.
Their paper, “The ‘cool factor’ of public access to ISC: Users’ perceptions of trust in libraries, telecenters and cybercafés in developing countries” was published last year in Information Technology & People. The [...]
ISC member Karine Nahon recently contributed to a collection of articles in the International Journal of Communication. Her article, “Fuzziness of Inclusion/Exclusion in Networks” is a part of a special section on “Network Multidimensionality in the Digital Age.” Other contributors include Manuel Castells,Bruno Latour,Yochai Benkler, and Noshir Contractor.
Nahon, K. (2011). Network Fuzziness of [...]
James Gleick has offered up so much fodder in “The Information: A History. A Theory. A Flood” it’s hard for any iSchooler to not want to dive in, devour and critique.
The Information & Society Center (ISC) is organizing a book talk/reading group-call it what you like, but it’ll be a blast, a great [...]
