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Book SynopsisThis SAGE Handbook brings together cutting edge social scientific research and theoretical insight into the emerging contours of digital society. Chapters explore the relationship between digitisation, social organisation and social transformation at both the macro and micro level, making this a valuable resource for postgraduate students and academics conducting research across the social sciences.
The topics covered are impressively far-ranging and timely, including machine learning, social media, surveillance, misinformation, digital labour, and beyond. This innovative Handbook perfectly captures the state of the art of a field which is rapidly gaining cross-disciplinary interest and global importance, and establishes a thematic framework for future teaching and research.
Part 1: Theorising Digital Societies
Part 2: Researching Digital Societies
Part 3: Sociotechnical Systems and Disruptive Technologies in Action
Part 4: Digital Society and New Social Dilemmas
Part 5: Governance and Regulation
Part 6: Digital Futures
Trade ReviewDigital technologies not only catalyse processes of social change, they also call forth new ways of understanding social phenomena. Resisting the temptation to focus on digital social research methods in isolation, this timely and highly original collection demonstrates how digital societies offer a unique opportunity to remaster classic sociological questions and to reorientate the study of social life. The individual contributions cover an impressive range of topics that cross disciplinary silos, scales of analysis, methodological approaches, and theoretical traditions. Together they make for essential reading on the dynamics of social problems and the contours of contemporary society.
Professor David M. Evans, ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures, University of Bristol UK
-- David M. Evans
Table of ContentsPART 1: Theorising Digital Societies Chapter 1: The Emerging Contours of Digital Society: Remastering, Reconsideration, Reorientation and New Socio-Digital Domains - William Housley, Adam Edwards, Roser Benito-Montagut and Richard Fitzgerald Chapter 2: Digital stratification: Class, status group, and party in the age of the Internet - Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert Chapter 3: Crime, Control, and the Ambiguous Gifts of Digital Technology - Michael R. McGuire Chapter 4: Digital Mobilities and Digital Society - Robin Smith Chapter 5: Disconnection and Digital Society: Perspectives on how Citizens Deal with Media Technology - Maria José Brites and Rita Figueiras PART 2: Researching Digital Societies Chapter 6: Developing Tools and Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Digital Social Research - Rob Procter Chapter 7: Quantitative Research Methods Teaching in a Digital Age - Malcolm Williams, Charlotte Brookfield, Luke Sloan Chapter 8: The Research Stack: A Framework for Data-Driven Humanities and Social Science - Dennis Leeftink and Daniel Angus Chapter 9: Ethnography and Digital Society - Alexia Maddox Chapter 10: Understanding Identity and Platform Cultures - Harry T Dyer and Crystal Abidin Chapter 11: Instagram Aesthetics for Social Change: A Narrative Approach to Visual Activism on Instagram - Gemma San Cornelio Chapter 12: Researching Digital Discourse and Interaction - Joanne Meredith Chapter 13: Researching Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence - Phillip Brooker and Michael Mair PART 3: Sociotechnical Systems and Disruptive Technologies in Action Chapter 14: Social Media Analytics: Boom and Bust? - Axel Bruns Chapter 15: Games and Mediated Playful Practices - Larissa Hjorth and Ingrid Richardson Chapter 16: Algorithmic Configurations of Sexuality: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Approaches - Shuaishuai Wang Chapter 17: Drones as Disruptive Sociotechnical Systems: A Case Study of Drone Crime and Control - Mike Coliandris Chapter 18: The Internet of Things and New Frontiers of Datafication - Andrés Domínguez Hernández PART 4: Digital Society and New Social Dilemmas Chapter 19: Digital Racism - Pamela M. Hong and Fabio G. Rojas Chapter 20: Social Media, Gender and Online Discrimination - Charlotte Nau Chapter 21: Online Safeguarding of Adults with an Intellectual Disability: How do we Ensure that Participation and Protection Rights are Adequately Met in Digital Society? - Emma Bond Chapter 22: Clickbait in the Commodification of Sympathy: Disability, Inspiration Porn and the Possibilities for New Narratives - Gwyneth Peaty, Jordan Alice and Katie Ellis Chapter 23: Political Communication in the Digital Age - Sharon Meraz PART 5: Governance and Regulation Chapter 24: Algorithmic Governance: Technology, Knowledge, and Power - Rik Peeters and Marc Schuilenburg Chapter 25: Digital (Dis)information Operations and Misinformation Campaigns - Martin Innes, David Rogers, Nora Jansen and Viorica Budu Chapter 26: Frauds in Digital Society - Michael Levi Chapter 27: The Responsible Innovation of Disruptive Technologies - Philip Inglesant, Helena Webb, Carolyn Ten Holter, Menisha Patel, Marina Jirotka Chapter 28: Governing through Infrastructural Control: Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing in the Data-Intensive State - Ben Williamson Chapter 29: Freedom of Speech and Online Harm in Liberal Democracies: a Triadic Concept - Adam Edwards, William Housley, Roser Beneito-Montagut and Richard Fitzgerald PART 6: Digital Futures Chapter 30: Digital Transformation and the Future of Work - Phillip Brown, Manuel Souto-Otero and Sahara Sadik Chapter 31: Conversational AI: Respecifying Participation as Regulation - Stuart Reeves and Martin Porcheron Chapter 32: Critical Data Futures - Neil Selwyn Chapter 33: Mediating the Message in Digital Society - Steve Fuller
