Digital Media and Society

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4739-2500-7
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 239 mm x 195 mm, Gewicht: 768 g

What can flame-throwing squirrels tell us about human emotion? Can social media empower political activism? How has the internet changed the way we form our identities? Do algorithms have a social role?

What is digital society?

In the early 21st century, digital media and the social have become irreversibly intertwined. In this cutting-edge introduction, author Simon Lindgren explores what it means to live in a digital society. Neatly divided into three sections, Digital Media and Society expertly leads students through:

Theories: from social media and cyber-optimism, to online social interaction and social change

Topics: from emotion, participation and the public sphere, to the impact of data, software and mobile technology

Tools: from digital ethnography, social network analysis and text-mining, to guidance on digital ethics and mixing methods

With succinct explanations of key concepts and theories, practical exercises to aid understanding and application, and suggested further reading sections to guide students through the literature and enhance their own research, this is a must-have resource for all students of the digital society.

Digital Media and Society is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses exploring digital media, social media, media and society, media sociology, and the Internet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lindgren, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: THEORIES
1. Digital Society
2. Social Media
3. Cyber Debates
4. Interaction and Identity
5. Communities and Networks
PART II: TOPICS
6. Digital Visuality and Visibility
7. Feeling Digital
8. Digital Citizenship
9. Digital Power and Exploitation
10. Digital Activism
11. Mobile Culture
12. Software, Algorithms and Data
PART III: TOOLS
13. Digital Social Research
14. The Research Process
15. Digital Ethnography
16. Mapping and Mining Digital Society
PART IV: CONCLUSION
17. A Theory of Digital Media and Social Change

Über Autor(innen)

Lindgren, Simon
Simon Lindgren is Professor of Sociology at Umeå University in Sweden. He is also director of DIGSUM, an interdisciplinary academic research centre studying the social dimensions of digital technology, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Digital Social Research.

His research is about the relationship between digital media and society with a particular focus on politics and power relations. He studies mobilisation and contention on the internet and the consequences of datafication and automation for such processes.