Full Description
This 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
Contents
PART 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
