
WHO
Professor, Faculty of Information and Faculty of Law (by courtesy)
University of Toronto
Formerly Professor of Teaching Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation at IY Academy, USC teaching in Academy and USC Gould School of Law
Formerly Mills College Professor of Sociology
Lorry I. Lokey Chair in Ethics
PhD Sociology, Yale University, BA Mathematical, Physical & Computer Sciences, New College of Florida
WHERE
5000 Macarthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
Vera Long Room 105 510.430.3242
danryan at mills dot edu
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WHY
Innovation education, innovation in education, sociology of information, communities of organization, technology and society
WHEN
Office Hours: TBA by appointment.
WHAT
COURSES: Human Centred Design (draft) + Computational Thinking (draft) + Justice Innovation Startup Lab (video) + The Garage Experience + Legal Design Lab + Design Thinking for Higher Education (video) + Capstone Seminars + Simulation and Modeling in the Social and Policy Sciences + Research Methods+ GIS + Sociology of Mass Communication + Social Theory + Human Centered Design + Sociology of Everyday Life + Social Control + The popUp Curriculum + Social Networks + Math and Social Science + Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Teaching Evaluations 1998-present
ADVISING: Home
PUBLICATIONS: (articles) Notification + Time + Coalitions + Everything is Political ++ (book) Ghosts of Organizations Past ++ (reviews+)
EXPRESSIONS: (blogs) Sociology of Information + Assessing Assessing + Majoring 21 + ICYMI + Soc@Mills + Sociology of Information + Assessing Assessing + Majoring 21 + ICYMI + Soc@Mills ++ (videos...) ++ (audio...) ++ (talks...) ++ (essays...) ++ (code...) ++ (objects...) ++ (2D...) ++ (3d...) ++ (miscellaneous...)
HOW
I use
organizational analysis,
network analysis,
phenomenology,
agent models,
laser cutting,
3d printing,
simulation,
javascript,
python,
video,
GIS,
d3