There’s a great article in The Nation this week about social media and ad hoc credit scoring. Can Facebook assign you a score you don’t know about but that determines your life chances? Traditional credit scores like your FICO or your Beacon score can determine your life chances. By life chances, we generally mean howRead More “Credit Scores, Life Chances, and Algorithms”
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Everything But The Burden: Publics, Public Scholarship, And Institutions
Institutions are inherently conservative. They are built to last. One way that institutions last is by diffusing threats to the status quo across org charts, rules, forms, email chains and meetings. Lots and lots of meetings. That is why it is ridiculous to expect college institutions to be radical. But, that is the claim thrownRead More “Everything But The Burden: Publics, Public Scholarship, And Institutions”
It Is Hard To Write While I’m Crying
It is hard to write while I am crying so this will be short. Plus, everybody else has already written All The Things. I just want to park a short reflection about Freddie Gray, Baltimore and our state of things more broadly. I spent the day yesterday arguing with, well, everybody (it felt like) aboutRead More “It Is Hard To Write While I’m Crying”