Search Results for “Sociology of Knowledge”

2009/11/292009/12/05

Review: Understanding Knowledge as a Commons–From Theory to Practice

Almost a Three–Ambitious Title, Narrow Focus November 29, 2009 Charlotte Hess An MIT publication from 2007, this is actually knowledge from the 2000-2004 timeframe, and it is annoying narrow knowledge written from legal-economic point of view. Well-intentioned, no doubt, this is not the “inter-disciplinary” work that it claims to be, and I demonstrate restraint in …

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2001/02/112009/12/04

Review: The Web of Knowledge–A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Garfield

4.0 out of 5 stars About the Methods, Not the Findings, February 11, 2001

2014/08/052014/08/01

Review (Guest): The Global War for Internet Governance

Laura DeNardis A Guide to the “Technologically Concealed” in Internet Governance, January 21, 2014 By Francesca Musiani The final draft of Laura DeNardis’s most recent book, officially released on January 1st, 2014, had most likely been finalized before Edward Snowden’s recent revelations about the pervasive surveillance implemented by the U. S. National Security Agency entered …

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2013/03/022015/03/20

Open Power: Democracy Lost & Found Essay, Book Review Blurbs and Links [Updated 3 MAR 2015]

NEW: Kindle Book Open Power ($2.99) OLD: Core Documents for Both Initiatives (Free) OLD: the foundation book The Open Source Everything Manifesto ROBERT STEELE: There are two schools of thought on effecting political (and hence economic and social) reform. One school is the school of love — this school emphasizes trust building and doing no …

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2012/04/082012/04/08

Sepp Hasslberger: Scientists, Citizens, & Real-Time Pervasive Science

Scientists and citizens Sam Geall February 24, 2012 Could a new wave of networked, amateur scientific endeavour speed the discovery of solutions to pressing environmental problems? Sam Geall reports. What connects a group of Bayaka pygmy hunters in the Congo Basin, opposed to illegal loggers encroaching on their land; residents of Deptford, in south London, …

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2012/02/182012/02/18

Review: The Information Diet – A Case for Conscious Consumption

Clay Johnson 5.0 out of 5 stars Gift Book, Gift Idea, Gift Economy, Get a Grip,February 18, 2012 I received a copy of this book as a gift, and gladly so since the top review at this time is unfairly dismissive while also confessing that the reviewer only read the first third of the book …

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2010/08/172010/08/17

Search: ecology intelligence

Although this search produces adequate results, because in the absence of comments that we had to turn off to close out Russian spammers, the Search tracker has turned out to be quite valuable as an interactive tool, and we respond to Searches daily. First, here are the results for this search on this blog: ecology …

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