TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orton-Johnson,Kate
AU  - Prior,Nick
AU  - أورتون-جونسون، كيت
AU  - بريور، نيك
TI  - Digital sociology: critical perspectives 
SN  - 978-0-230-22283-0
U1  - 301.0285 23E
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Technology--Sociological aspects
KW  - Information society
N1  - Notes bibliogr; Introduction / K.Orton-Johnson & N.Prior. -- Part 1: Relationships. Personal Relationships, Intimacy and the Self in a Mediated and Global Digital Age /  L.Jamieson ; 'Gendering the Digital': The Impact of Gender and Technology Perspectives on the Sociological Imagination / E.Green & C.Singleton ; Digital Relationships and Feminist Hope / D.Ferreday. -- Part 2: Spaces. Rethinking Space: Urban Informatics and the Sociological Imagination / R.Burrows & D.Beer ; Rethinking Community in the Digital Age? / K.Evans ; Digital Spaces, Sociology and Surveillance / D.Lyon. -- Part 3: Structures. Inequalities in the Network Society / J.Van Dijk ; Trillions Out of Ones and Zeros: The Sociology of Finance Encounters the Digital Age / J.Pardo-Guerra ; Digital Fields, Networks and Capital: Sociology Beyond Structures and Fluids / Mike Savage. -- Part 4: Mediations. War Reporting in a Digital Age / S.Allan & D.Matheson ; Imagining Networks: The Sociology of Connection in the Digital Age / A.Cavanagh ; Mediating the Digital? / N.Prior & K.Orton-Johnson. -- Part 5: Practices. Rethinking Education in the Digital Age / N.Selwyn ; E-Health and Renewed Sociological Approaches to Health and Illness / J.Kivits ; Digital Technology and Sociological Windows / A.Webster
N2  - "New digital technologies have fostered much debate about the nature of social relationships, institutions and structures in a new information age. An amorphous and interdisciplinary field of research has emerged, concerning itself with the complexities and contradictions involved in the fundamental shifts and radical transformations which information and communication technologies (ICTs) are purportedly bringing about across cultural, political and economic practices. From cyberselves to cyber communities, from media wars to the digital divide, sociology confronts a new digital landscape. This text takes stock of how the discipline has addressed the challenge of the digital providing a uniquely sociological framework with which to critically re-evaluate fundamental social concerns: from digital intimacies and online relationships to new forms of mediated inequality and network structures, from digitally mediated media practices to education and health 2.0, this text provides a comprehensive introduction to the transformations wrought by digital technologies to contemporary societies and a critical reflection on how the digital is reconfiguring the tools, concepts and precepts of the discipline."--Publisher's website
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