Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to connect digital media technologies in digital sociology to traditional sociological and offers a much needed overview of it. It includes problems of the digital age in relation to inequality and identity, making it suitable for use for a global audience on a variety of courses.
Trade Review"Highly recommended [for] graduate students and faculty." - CHOICE
"A comprehensive account of the digital sociology project whose scope is startling in its ambition and which shows how the digital has implications for nearly all sociological topics, questions and problems." David Beer, University of York
Table of ContentsPreface ~ Sassen; Volume Introduction ~ Gregory, Cottom, Daniels; PART I. DIGITAL SOCIOLOGY IN EVERDAY LIFE; (SECTION INTRO) Structure and Agency in a Digital World ~ Karen Gregory; Beyond Digital Dualism: Modeling Digital Community ~ Alexia Maddox; A Return to Gemeinschaft: Digital Impression Management and the Sharing Economy ~ Alexandrea Ravenelle; Digital Discourse Analysis: Finding Meaning In Small Online Spaces ~ Timothy Recuber; Virtually Ethical: Ethnographic Challenges in Researching Textile Crafters Online ~ Alison Mayne; Interactivity, Social Media, and Superman: How Comic Books Can Help Us Understand And Conceptualise Interactivity Online ~ Harry T. Dyer; The Digital Solidarity Trap: Social Movement Research and Online Activism ~ Theresa A. Hunt; Positively Digital Orientalism: Discursive Authority in Online Tourist Reviews ~ W. Trevor Jamerson; PART II: DIGITIZED INSTITUTIONS; (SECTION INTRO) Digitized Institutions and Inequalities ~ Tressie McMillan Cottom; Toward a Digital Sociology of School ~ Neil Selwyn, Selena Nemorin, Scott Bulfin and Nicola Johnson; Representing ‘Inforgs’ in Data-Driven Decisions ~ Jeffery Alan Johnson; Employee Monitoring in a Digital Context ~ Calle Rosengren and Mikael Ottoson; Digital Sociology’s Vocational Promise ~ Stephen Barnard; Black CyberFeminism: Ways Forward for Intersectionality and Digital Sociology ~ Tressie McMillan Cottom; Deconstructing Racism on College Websites ~ Monita H. Mungo; Yakking About College Life ~ Francesca Tripodi; On Thursdays We Watch Scandal: Communal Viewing and Black Twitter ~ Apryl Williams; Disruptive Labor: Bleacher Report and the Monetization of Mass Amateurization ~ Andrew McKinney; Covert Leisure and Public Space: Geocaching In Post-9/11 New York City ~ Jonathan R. Wynn; PART III: DIGITAL BODIES; (SECTION INTRO), Bodies in Code ~ Jessie Daniels; Personal Data Practices in the Age of Lively Data ~ Deborah Lupton; “They’re just too urban”: Black gamers streaming on Twitch ~ Kishonna Gray; From “Geek” to “Chic”: Wearable Technology and the Woman Question ~ Elizabeth Wissinger; Queer Facebook? Digital Sociality and Queer Theory ~ Benjamin Haber; The Ms. Dewey “Experience”: Technoculture, Gender, and Race ~ Miriam E. Sweeney; The Emperor’s New Data Clothes: Implications of ‘Nudity’ as a Racialized and Gendered Metaphor in Discourse on Personal Digital Data ~ Yuliya Grinberg; Post Your Comments Below: A Case Study of Immigrant Bashing Online ~ Adrian Cruz and Kazuyo Kubo; Our Mothers Have Always Been Machines: The Conflation of Media and Motherhood ~ Kara Van Cleaf; #notracist: Exploring Racism Denial Talk on Twitter ~ Sanjay Sharma and Phillip Brooker.
