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Book SynopsisDigital Sociology is definitive for anyone interested in social research with digital data. Lucidly and generatively, it analyses how digital data increasingly render knowledge a core contemporary social problem.
Trade Review"Digital Sociology is definitive for anyone interested in social research with digital data. Lucidly and generatively, it analyses how digital data increasingly render knowledge a core contemporary social problem. Drawing on great experience with digital methods, and excellent sociological and philosophical scholarship, Marres generously and incisively explores the predicaments of knowing the digital and digital knowing. The remarkable re-configurative potential of the book ranges from practical and technical considerations through to ethical and ontological questions associated with social life."
—Adrian MacKenzie, Lancaster University
"Arguing that the advent of digital sociology affords an opportunity for wider critical reflection on social research, Noortje Marres is the perfect guide to developments and debates in computationally mediated methods and sociality. The scope and acuity of her review illustrate cogently how social worlds and their analyses are perpetually conjoined."
—Lucy Suchman, President of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
"Digital Sociology presents an intelligent and empathetic account of social inquiry with and against digital infrastructures. Among its many strengths is the licence it offers to problematize and conjure up objects for research in interaction with actor – digital and otherwise – that are busy redefining knowledge, sociality and politics."
—Brit Ross Winthereik, IT University of Copenhagen
"By examining the different theoretical fundaments of digital sociology, this book constitutes a unique contribution to recent discussions about the need to renovate social research methods [...]. Marres positions digital sociology as an approach with which to develop new experimental forms of social research and forms of engagement."
—Science as Culture
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Preface
1. What is digital sociology?
2. What makes digital technologies social?
3. Do we need new methods?
4. Are we researching society or technology?
5. Who are digital sociology�s publics?
6. Does digital sociology have problems?
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