Tag Archives: digital sociology
Why should sociologists study digital media?
Deborah Lupton has posted a comprehensive and helpful list of the reasons why sociologists should study digital media. The post on her This Sociological Life blog argues for the centrality of digital media in a range of social processes, practices … Continue reading
The New Circulations of Culture
My short article ‘The New Circulations of Culture’ has just been published in Berfrois. It’s a piece about the way that data circulations and new media infrastrcutures are reconfiguring culture (based upon my recent book).
Deborah Lupton on the implications of digital sociology
On her great blog This Sociological Life, Deborah Lupton has offered some reflections on ‘Digital Sociology, Public Sociology, Private Sociology‘. The post responds to a recent event to think about the implications of digital sociology for the broader discipline and … Continue reading
Digital Sociology study group website
The Digital Sociology study group, which is affiliated with the British Sociological Association, has a really lively and informative website. It’s updated regularly and also has a Twitter feed. The site is run by the group coordinators Mark Carrigan and … Continue reading
What is digital sociology? An audio interview with Noortje Marres
Mark Carrigan has posted an audio interview with Noortje Marres. The interview is titled ‘What is digital sociology?’. Noortje discusses various aspects of digital sociology in the interview. She discusses the various problems and dilemmas raised by digital analytics. She … Continue reading
Deborah Lupton on blogging (an audio interview)…
Deborah Lupton, who is really taking a lead on digital sociology, has been interviewed by Mark Carrigan for his Digital Sociologists series of podcasts. The interview is available here. This is the forth in the series. The previous contributors were … Continue reading
What is holding digital sociology back?
A new issue of Fast Capitalism has been published, it includes a special section on Academia and the Internet. In response to this special section Antonio A. Casilli asks What is Holding Back Digital Sociology? His post works through some … Continue reading
An interview about digital data and the future of social research
The second interview I did with Mark Carrigan focused on questions around digital data and the future of social research. We focused on the importance of digital data, why I matters, how we can cope with it and what it … Continue reading
Scraping the social? By Noortje Marres and Esther Weltevrede
Noortje Marres and Esther Weltevrede’s article ‘Scraping the Social? Issues in Live Social Research‘ has just been published in the Journal of Cultural Economy. I’ve been waiting for this piece to come out so that I can add it to … Continue reading
Digital Sociology: Critical Perspectives is published
Digital Sociology: Critical Perspectives edited by Kate Orton-Johnson and Nick Prior has now been published (in both paperback and Hardback). I’ve got a chapter in here, co-authored with Roger Burrows, on ‘Rethinking Space: Urban Informatics and the Sociological Imagination’.
Thinking culture 