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Understanding Digital Societies Jessamy Perriam

Understanding Digital Societies By Jessamy Perriam

Understanding Digital Societies by Jessamy Perriam

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Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it.

Understanding Digital Societies Summary

Understanding Digital Societies by Jessamy Perriam

Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it. You will be introduced to core sociological ideas and texts along with exciting global examples that shed light on how we can use sociology to understand the world around us.

This innovative, new textbook:
  • Provides unique insights into using theory to help explain the prevalence of digital objects in everyday interactions.
  • Explores crucial relationships between humans, machines and emerging AI technologies.
  • Discusses thought-provoking contemporary issues such as the uses and abuses of technologies in local and global communities.

Understanding Digital Societies is a must-read for students of digital sociology, sociology of media, digital media and society, and other related fields.

About Jessamy Perriam

Jessamy Perriam is Assistant Professor in the Technologies in Practice research group and the Centre for Digital Welfare at the IT University of Copenhagen. She was previously Lecturer in Sociology at The Open University. Her research is situated within Science and Technology Studies and Sociology, and focuses on public sector digital transformation, failure, cybersecurity and public demonstrations of expertise. Jessamy is currently part of an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council-funded interdisciplinary group of social science and engineering researchers investigating the emergence and role of shadow infrastructures in society in light of pandemics and other global events. Jessamy received her PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2018 with a thesis titled Theatres of Failure: digital demonstrations of disruption in everyday life. She has also written about digital methods in a post-API environment for the International Journal of Social Research Methodology. Prior to working in academia full time, Jessamy worked as a digital transformation practitioner in the UK public sector, conducting qualitative research for government departments and other public sector organisations. Jessamy currently teaches Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and ethnography at an undergraduate level, and Science and Technology Studies and research methods at a graduate level. She is interested in innovative forms of teaching, including online distance education and using live radio as an alternative to in person lectures. Simon Carter is a sociologist working at The Open University with interests in Science and Technology Studies, health and medicine and science engagement. He originally was a research chemist working in the automotive industry and then in environmental protection. But after studying at The Open University, his career took a different direction when he returned to full time higher education to complete a PhD at Lancaster University. After this, Simon mainly specialised in the sociology of health and illness, and medical sociology. Simon has conducted research into: the cultural turn towards the sun and sunlight in early twentieth-century Europe; critical approaches to the public understanding of science as applied to health issues; how biosecurity interfaces with other concerns in our globalised world; and, more recently, the impact of wearables and digital technologies on health.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Everyday Life and The Digital Chapter 1: The Digital Sociological Imagination - Jessamy Perriam Chapter 2: The Presentation of Self in Digital Spaces - Jessamy Perriam Part 2: Society, Technology, Citizens and Cities Chapter 3: Planning the Cities of the Future - Liz McFall and Darren Umney Chapter 4: Migration, Diaspora and Transnationalism in the Digital Age - Marie Gillespie and Rhys Crilley Chapter 5: Transnational Digital Networks: families and religion - Umut Erel and John Maiden Part 3: Humans and Machines Chapter 6: Autonomous Digital Objects: between humans and machines - Simon Carter Chapter 7: Freedom, Fetishes and cyborgs - Paul-Francois Tremlett Chapter 8: Health and Digital Technologies: the case of walking and cycling - Simon Carter Part 4: Uses and Abuses of the Digital Chapter 9: Material Digital Technologies - Jessamy Perriam and Simon Carter Chapter 10: Disinformation, 'fake news' and Conspiracies - David Robertson Chapter 11: Cybersecurity, Digital Failure and Social Harm - Jessamy Perriam and Simon Carter Chapter 12: Too Much, Too Young? Social media, moral panics and young people's mental health - Peter Redman Chapter 13: Algorithms - Simon Carter and Jessamy Perriam

Additional information

NGR9781529732573
9781529732573
1529732573
Understanding Digital Societies by Jessamy Perriam
Jessamy Perriam
Published in Association with The Open University
New
Paperback
SAGE Publications Ltd
20210506
496
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