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The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society

Adam Edwards editor William Housley editor Richard Fitzgerald editor Roser Beneito-Montagut editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd

Published:19th Dec '22

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This SAGE Handbook brings together cutting edge social scientific research and theoretical insight into the emerging contours of digital society. Chapters explore the relationship between digitisation, social organisation and social transformation at both the macro and micro level, making this a valuable resource for postgraduate students and academics conducting research across the social sciences.

The topics covered are impressively far-ranging and timely, including machine learning, social media, surveillance, misinformation, digital labour, and beyond. This innovative Handbook perfectly captures the state of the art of a field which is rapidly gaining cross-disciplinary interest and global importance, and establishes a thematic framework for future teaching and research.

Part 1: Theorising Digital Societies

Part 2: Researching Digital Societies

Part 3: Sociotechnical Systems and Disruptive Technologies in Action

Part 4: Digital Society and New Social Dilemmas

Part 5: Governance and Regulation

Part 6: Digital Futures

Digital technologies not only catalyse processes of social change, they also call forth new ways of understanding social phenomena. Resisting the temptation to focus on digital social research methods in isolation, this timely and highly original collection demonstrates how digital societies offer a unique opportunity to remaster classic sociological questions and to reorientate the study of social life. The individual contributions cover an impressive range of topics that cross disciplinary silos, scales of analysis, methodological approaches, and theoretical traditions. Together they make for essential reading on the dynamics of social problems and the contours of contemporary society.

 

Professor David M. Evans, ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures, University of Bristol UK

-- David M. E

ISBN: 9781526498779

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1350g

672 pages