ISBN:
9780745684826
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 229 Seiten)
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Sociology
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Social sciences Research
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Technological innovations Social aspects
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Sociology
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Social sciences
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Technological innovations
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Soziologie
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Sozialwissenschaften
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Digitalisierung
Abstract:
"This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the interface of computing, social research and social life. Digital Sociology introduces key concepts, methods and understandings that currently inform the development of specifically digital forms of social inquiry. Marres assesses the relevance and usefulness of digital methods, data and techniques for the study of sociological phenomena and evaluates the major claim that computation makes possible a new?science of society?. As Marres argues, the digital does much more than inspire innovation in social research? it forces us to engage anew with fundamental sociological questions. If digital ways of knowing society are to deliver on their promise, we must learn to appreciate that the digital has the capacity to throw into crisis existing knowledge frameworks and is likely to reconfigure wider relations between sociology, computing, media and their publics. This timely engagement with a key transformation of our times will be indispensable reading for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in digital sociology, digital media, computing and society"--
Abstract:
Cover -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 What is digital sociology? -- The 'rise' of digital sociology -- From vision to controversy -- What then does the 'digital' in digital sociology refer to? -- Problems with digital ways of knowing society: bias, instrumentalism, interactivity -- The coming out of the technology of sociology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 What makes digital technologies social? -- Platform-centric perspectives: technology makes the social? -- Data, traces, materials -- Practice, the situation: the sociological serum, but does it still work? -- Interlude: how do social 1, 2, and 3 add up? -- Representing and intervening: rendering social life (and analysis) deployable -- Changing relations between technology, sociality and knowledge -- The configuration and contestation of the social -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Do we need new methods? -- The digital methods debate -- Digital sources of methodological innovation -- The digital methods debate reconsidered -- Interface methods -- Pilot study: the liveliness of climate change on Twitter -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Are we researching society or technology? -- Problems of digital bias -- Two methodological strategies for dealing with digital bias -- The Janus face of the digital in social research: object and resource -- How (not) to deal with it? Affirming the problem of ambiguity -- Three tactics for dealing with ambiguity: critical extraction, performative deployment, radical empiricism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Who are digital sociology's publics? -- 'From the audience to participation': for and against digital exceptionalism -- Three features of digital participation: valuable, technological, metricized -- Digital participation as a device of social research
Abstract:
Re-qualifying digital participation: a machine for knowing society with society -- Are digital ways of knowing society participatory? A typology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Does digital sociology have problems? -- What kinds of problems? Not only ethics, and politics, but knowledge -- Computational social science: no problem, or the mother of all problems? -- Contesting laissez-faire methodologies -- Expanding the frame on sociological experiments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements Preface 1. What is digital sociology? 2. What makes digital technologies social? 3. Do we need new methods? 4. Are we researching society or technology? 5. Who are digital sociology's publics? 6. Does digital sociology have problems? References
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