Digital Sociology in Everyday Life
Edited by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory and Tressie McMillan Cottom
Published
Nov 18, 2016Page count
143 pagesISBN
978-1447329053Imprint
Policy PressPublished
Nov 18, 2016Page count
143 pagesISBN
978-1447329060Imprint
Policy Press
Digital Sociology in Everyday Life
Digital technologies, digital media, and mobile technologies now shape the experience of everyday life in the Western world, yet the way our quotidian lives are enmeshed with these technologies is far from clearly understood.
Through studies of the digital everyday, sociologists are beginning to reinvigorate the sociological imagination in light of digitization. Chapters in this Byte cover topics such as designing a research framework and how to work ethically as a digital researcher, continually interrogating one’s position as a researcher and reflecting on the process of knowledge creation. Cumulatively, they highlight the value of sociological theory for understanding our digital world.
Jessie Daniels is a professor, author and an internationally recognized expert on the Internet manifestations of racism. She is the author of two books about race and various forms of media, as well as dozens of peer-reviewed articles in journals such as New Media & Society, Gender & Society, American Journal of Public Health, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. She co-founded Racism Review, with Joe R. Feagin, and was awarded a Ford Foundation grant for JustPublics@365. In 2014, Contexts Magazine profiled her as “Pioneering Digital Sociology.
Karen Gregory is a lecturer in Digital Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on contemporary spirituality, precarity, entrepreneurialism and digital media. Her writings have appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Women and Performance, The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, and Visual Studies. Karen is the founder of CUNY Graduate Center’s Digital Labor Working Group, which was featured in The Atlantic.
Tressie McMillan Cottom is a former fellow at the Microsoft Social Media Collective, the Center for Poverty Research at UC-Davis and she serves on the American Sociological Association’s “Task Force on Engaging Sociology”. Her work has examined education expansion, media, technology and the intersections of race, class and gender. And her publications have appeared in Contexts, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine and Human Affairs as well as edited volumes. Tressie’s public sociology has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR. Her blog and social media accounts have numerous citations and awards.
Digital Data Doubles and Data Practices in the Age of Lively Data ~ Deborah Lupton;
‘Yaking’ about College Life: A Case Study of Media-in‐Interaction~ Francesca Tripodi;
Attachment Blogging and the Mediated Mother ~ Kara Mary Van Cleaf;
Digital discourse analysis: Finding meaning in forgotten online space ~ Timothy Recuber;
Post Your Comments Below: A Case Study of Immigrant Bashing Online ~ Adrian Cruz, Kazuyo Kubo;
Disruptive Labor: Bleacher Report and Monetization of Mass Amateurization ~ Andrew McKinney;
Revolution will not be Televised, It will be Tweeted: Digital Media, Activism and Turkey's Gezi Movement ~ Selen Yanmaz;
The Digital Solidarity Trap: Social Movement Research, Online Activism and Accessing the Othered Others ~ Theresa Hunt.
