Today we discussed access to information, especially equitable access by age, educational attainment, and economic status. We used the Pew report, “Who’s Not Online and Why?” as a starting point; see this chart for the demographics of online access, according to the report. Related to our discussion of information access via cultural institutions, here is the list of all museums that offer free/discounted admission with a CUNY ID.
On Monday we’ll hear from group #4, who will report on research and social movements from pp. 141-142 of “The Politics of Research” by Brian Martin.
Metadata (information about information) is our topic for next Monday, March 9. Please read the following for Monday:
Badke, Research Strategies, chapter 4 (our textbook, remember?)
Dye, Folksonomy: A game of high-tech (and high-stakes) tag
Crockford, Graphs by MIT Students Show the Enormously Intrusive Nature of Metadata
Your blogging assignment is one reading response blog post. Questions about the research topic assignment, due March 23? Get in touch!
~Prof. Leonard
