Understanding Digital Societies by Jessamy Perriam

Understanding Digital Societies by Jessamy Perriam

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

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.

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ISBN 13	9781529732573
ISBN 10	1529732573
Title	Understanding Digital Societies
Author	Jessamy Perriam
Series	Published In Association With The Open University
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2021-05-06
Number of pages	496
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