{"id":265,"date":"2002-05-19T16:35:39","date_gmt":"2002-05-19T16:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2002\/05\/19\/fields_of_study.html"},"modified":"2002-05-19T16:35:39","modified_gmt":"2002-05-19T16:35:39","slug":"fields_of_study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2002\/05\/19\/fields_of_study.html","title":{"rendered":"fields of study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYTimes printed an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/05\/19\/opinion\/19PATT.html\">interesting article about sociology<\/a>, written in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/smg.media.mit.edu\/people\/danah\/blog\/archives\/000012.html#000012\">David Riesman&#8217;s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.activism.net\/cypherpunk\/\">cypherpunk<\/a> login for nytimes: c1ph3rpunk\/c1ph3rpunk]<\/p>\n<p>My research is on technology, privacy, identity, individual perception of self\/community, etc.  And while i know that i want to continue my education into my Ph.D., i have no idea what field i should be studying in, or with whom.  Computer Science? Sociology?  Media Studies?  Communications?  Anthropology?  Information Sciences?  Frankly, i find the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcriterion.com\/archive\/12\/feb94\/cultures.htm\">separation of disciplines<\/a> aspect of academia disheartening, confusing and utterly aggrevating.  Of course, this gets magnified by what is considered valuable to fund (science of course, particularly military-related research).  I find this quite problematic, as though there only valid ways of thinking are scientific.  Not everything can be understood by measurement, and much of what can&#8217;t be measured is still quite valuable.  Maybe at a core, everything can be measured, but we aren&#8217;t at that core and there are useful ways of understanding the world outside of that which can be measured.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of a society that only values one train of thought is quite disturbing.  The most intriguing ideas have always come from a combination of thoughts, a well-rounded perspective for thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYTimes printed an interesting article about sociology, written in response to David Riesman&#8217;s death. [cypherpunk login for nytimes: c1ph3rpunk\/c1ph3rpunk] My research is on technology, privacy, identity, individual perception of self\/community, etc. And while i know that i want to continue my education into my Ph.D., i have no idea what field i should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}