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Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book rethinks the role of these mediums in public sociology and what they can contribute to the discipline in the post-COVID world. It reconsiders the history and current conceptualizations of what sociology is, and analyzes what kinds of social life emerge in and through the interactions between ‘intellectuals’, ‘publics’ and ‘platforms’ of communication. Cutting across multiple disciplines, this pioneering work envisions a new kind of public sociology that brings together the digital and the physical to create public spaces where critical scholarship and active civic engagement can meet in a mutually reinforcing way.

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Introduction Chapter 1. Defining ‘the Public’ Chapter 2. The History of Platforms Chapter 3. Between Publics and Platforms Chapter 4. Sociology and its Platforms Chapter 5. The Past, Present, and Future of Public Sociology Chapter 6. Making Sociology Public Chapter 7. Making Platforms Public Chapter 8. Assembling Public Sociology

The Public and Their Platforms: Public Sociology

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 9 June 2021
      ISBN-13 9781529201055
      978-1529201055
      ISBN-10 1529201055
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      Internet, digital media and society Social and ethical issues Sociology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book rethinks the role of these mediums in public sociology and what they can contribute to the discipline in the post-COVID world. It reconsiders the history and current conceptualizations of what sociology is, and analyzes what kinds of social life emerge in and through the interactions between ‘intellectuals’, ‘publics’ and ‘platforms’ of communication. Cutting across multiple disciplines, this pioneering work envisions a new kind of public sociology that brings together the digital and the physical to create public spaces where critical scholarship and active civic engagement can meet in a mutually reinforcing way.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction Chapter 1. Defining ‘the Public’ Chapter 2. The History of Platforms Chapter 3. Between Publics and Platforms Chapter 4. Sociology and its Platforms Chapter 5. The Past, Present, and Future of Public Sociology Chapter 6. Making Sociology Public Chapter 7. Making Platforms Public Chapter 8. Assembling Public Sociology

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