by Mike Sosteric (Dr. S.) | Apr 4, 2018 | Commentary, Current Events, Uncategorized |
I wrote my dissertation on the political economy of scholarly communication, and the transformative potentials of what were then emerging internet technologies. Ever since, I’ve been teaching critical courses on our always human, and sometimes religious, obsession...
by Mike Sosteric (Dr. S.) | Oct 18, 2016 | Articles, Uncategorized |
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said, in an interview with Russia Today, that Facebook was “the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented.” Assange said he believes Facebook is a giant database of names and records about people, maintained voluntarily(!)...
by Mike Sosteric (Dr. S.) | Jan 16, 2016 | Articles, Uncategorized |
In the last essay I defined sociology as the scientific study of society. In order to understand that definition you have to understand what a science is, and that’s relatively easy. Science is an intellectual, emotional, moral, even spiritual orientation to truth....
by Mike Sosteric (Dr. S.) | Dec 7, 2015 | Articles, Uncategorized |
The debate around sex and gender always revolves around physical differences in the male/female body/brain. People who want to believe that there are essential differences between boys and girls try and find evidence that differences are rooted in the physical body,...
by Mike Sosteric (Dr. S.) | Aug 21, 2015 | Articles, Uncategorized |
As you probably know if you’ve ever taken a good look at the world around you, violence is a problem in the world today. We have the general violence of war and conflict, the economic violence of debt and austerity, the emotional and physical violence of our...
by Mike Sosteric (Dr. S.) | May 13, 2015 | Articles, Essential Reading, Uncategorized |
If you are university student, or if you have ever thought critically about religion and spirituality, chances are you have absorbed the idea that scientists and scholars are, by virtue of their “higher” educational training, secular atheists. It's true, isn't it?...
