Digital Sociology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Kate Orton-Johnson, Nick Prior

      Pages 1-9

3. Relationships

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Personal Relationships, Intimacy and the Self in a Mediated and Global Digital Age

      • Lynn Jamieson

      Pages 13-33

   3. ‘Gendering the Digital’: The Impact of Gender and Technology Perspectives on the Sociological Imagination

      • Eileen Green, Carrie Singleton

      Pages 34-50

   4. Afterword: Digital Relationships and Feminist Hope

      • Debra Ferreday

      Pages 51-57

4. Spaces

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Rethinking Space: Urban Informatics and the Sociological Imagination

      • Roger Burrows, David Beer

      Pages 61-78

   3. Re-Thinking Community in the Digital Age?

      • Karen Evans

      Pages 79-94

   4. Afterword: Digital Spaces, Sociology and Surveillance

      • David Lyon

      Pages 95-102

5. Structures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Inequalities in the Network Society

      • Jan A. G. M. van Dijk

      Pages 105-124

   3. Trillions Out of Ones and Zeros: The Sociology of Finance Encounters the Digital Age

      • Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

      Pages 125-138

   4. Digital Fields, Networks and Capital: Sociology beyond Structures and Fluids

      • Mike Savage

      Pages 139-147

6. Mediations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. War Reporting in a Digital Age

      • Stuart Allan, Donald Matheson

      Pages 151-168

   3. Imagining Networks: The Sociology of Connection in the Digital Age

      • Allison Cavanagh

      Pages 169-185

   4. Afterword: Mediating the Digital

      • Nick Prior, Kate Orton-Johnson

      Pages 186-193

7. Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Rethinking Education in the Digital Age

      • Neil Selwyn

      Pages 197-212

Sociology and our sociological imaginations are having to confront new digital landscapes spanning mediated social relationships, practices and social structures. This volume assesses the substantive challenges faced by the discipline as it critically reassesses its position in the digital age.

• community
• education
• feminism
• gender
• Nation
• network
• networks
• research
• society
• sociology
• technology

• University of Edinburgh, UK

  Kate Orton-Johnson, Nick Prior

STUART ALLAN Professor of Journalism in the Media School, Bournemouth University, UK DAVID BEER Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of York, UK ROGER BURROWS Professor of Sociology at the University of York, UK ALLISON CAVANAGH is a Lecturer and Researcher in Communications at the University of Leeds, UK KAREN EVANS is Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK DEBRA FERREDAY is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Lancaster University, UK EILEEN GREEN is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Teesside University, UK LYNN JAMIESON is Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK JUAN PABLO PARDO-GUERRA is Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK JOËLLE KIVITS Researcher at the University of Nancy, France DAVID LYON Director, Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's Research Chair in Surveillance Studies, Professor of Sociology, Professor of Law, Queen's University, Canada DONALD MATHESON is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa, New Zealand NEIL SELWYN is a Researcher at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK CARRIE SINGLETON is a Research Fellow at Teesside University, UK JAN VAN DIJK is Professor of Communication Science at the University of Twente, The Netherlands ANDREW WEBSTER IS Professor in the Sociology of Science and Technology at the University of York, UK

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