An interesting new project by occasional SI contributor Chris Till, following from his Digital Health series:
Tag Archive for ‘digital sociology’
Social Imaginaries: The re-invention of social research
Social Imaginaries: The re-invention of social research Panel discussion and book launch of Digital Sociology by Noortje Marres Date and Time: 9 May, 5-7pm Location: Central Saint Martins, Granary Building, Granary Square, London N1C 4AA Hosted by: – Innovation Insights Hub, University… Read More ›
Reflective Practice and Interdisciplinary Approaches to ‘Digital Social Research’
By William Housley Reflecting on interdisciplinarity in the context of digital social research is a worthwhile exercise. There is a significant discrepancy between the rhetoric of interdisciplinarity and its actual practice and accomplishment. Sociology, as a global disciplinary enterprise, has participated… Read More ›
The lost socio-technical architecture of qualitative research
I’ve long been fascinated by how rarely qualitative researchers talk about the equipment they use in their research. I love it when I see exceptions to these trend, such as Les Back’s chapter in this volume, because they highlight the tools… Read More ›
The class politics of innovation and the new digital elite
In his remarkably prescient Listen Liberal, Thomas Frank describes the rapid capture of the Democratic Party by the professional class which took place during those decades when economic transition left them ascendent within the country as a whole. This was… Read More ›
Digital Sociology vs STS
ISRF Digital Social Science Forum participants Susan Halford, Will Housley and Mark Carrigan will be speaking at a joint Digital Sociology Study Group and STS Study Group Event at the Oxford Internet Institute on 8th December 2016. An opportunity for anyone interested… Read More ›
Big data, new skills: how the accelerated academy hinders the interdisciplinary collaboration we need
Underlying many of the issues we’re discussing today is the fundamental problem of speed. We’ve seen rapid developments at the level of platforms, devices, practices and methods but this rapidity has made it difficult for methodological and theoretical deliberation to catch… Read More ›
The Shifting Plate Tetonics of the Human Sciences
This is a wonderful account by Felicity Callard and Des Fitzgerald, in their new book on interdisciplinarity, concerning the radical restructuring of academic labour that is currently underway within the university. I’ve come at this from a different angle, specifically… Read More ›
Zygmunt Bauman on the trap of social media
I’m not convinced by Bauman on this topic (increasingly true of all his other topics as well) but some of our readers might find this interview interesting: The question of identity has changed from being something you are born with… Read More ›
Towards Digital Social Ontology
This is a brief write up of a talk I gave at the first meeting of the Digital Social Science Forum in January 2016. Digital Social Ontology should be an important part of how we approach Digital Social Science given the ISRF’s commitment… Read More ›
Call for book proposals: Critical Digital & Social Media Studies OA book series
“Critical Digital & Social Media Studies” is a book seried edited by Christian Fuchs on behalf of the Westminster Insitute for Advanced Studies and published by the University of Westminster Press. It publishes books that critically study the role of… Read More ›
In one’s hand: an extension of self and society
by Mike Duggan The materiality of things, both physically and symbolically, alongside our fetishisation of things is clear to see in our relationships with personal technologies. Simple observations of people waiting; on train platforms, for the bus or at the bar with… Read More ›
Digital capitalism and the form of social science it encourages
I’ve published a great piece on The Sociological Review blog, by Sage’s Ziyad Marar, which really resonates with some of the concerns shaping my new project: Yet our digital culture may exacerbate this problem by tilting us even further toward… Read More ›
Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition and Intelligent Devices
Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition and Intelligent Devices http://warwick.ac.uk/streamsofconsciousness 21st and 22nd of April 2016 Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies University of Warwick “What’s on your mind?” This is the question to which every Facebook status update now responds. Millions of users sharing… Read More ›
call for contributions: digital sociology and the future of the discipline
In recent years Digital Sociology has emerged as an increasingly prominent trend within the discipline at an international level. But it remains unclear precisely what this tendency represents, provoking enthusiasm and skepticism in equal measure. In this special section for The Sociological… Read More ›
Call For Papers: Qualitative Methods and Data in Digital Societies
Call for papers: Themed Issue Qualitative Methods and Data in Digital Societies Qualitative Research [html: http://qrj.sagepub.com%5D Edited by William Housley (Cardiff University), Bella Dicks (Cardiff University) and Karen Henwood (Cardiff University). The explosion of digital social data in recent years has required… Read More ›
Digital Sociology Mini-Conference
Digital Sociology Mini-Conference In keeping with the Eastern Sociological Society’s theme of “My Day Job: Politics and Pedagogy in Academia,” the Digital Sociology Mini-Conference seeks papers that address the many digital ways of knowing, particularly as those impinge on the work we… Read More ›
A collection of Digital Sociology CfPs
Tressie McMillan Cottom has collected a broad range of upcoming Digital Sociology calls for papers on her blog: http://tressiemc.com/cfps-digital-sociology-inequalities/
The necessity of digital sociology
It’s far from the most sophisticated argument I’ve heard made to this end, but I appreciate the spiritedness with which David Lyon defends the necessity of digital sociology in his Liquid Surveillance book with Zygmunt Bauman pg 34: Sociology is… Read More ›
Social media and the promise of never again being alone
From Liquid Surveillance: a conversation by Zygmunt Bauman and David Lyon, pg 22-23. I heard Bauman make these arguments at re:publica earlier this year and was rather impressed. As ever with him, it’s immensely impressionistic but I think he identifies something important… Read More ›
CAMRI Research Seminars Autumn 2015
CAMRI Research Seminars Autumn 2015 University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/visit-us/directions/regent-street http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars Graham Murdock: The Political Economy of Crisis and the Crisis of Political Economy October 15, 17:00 http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/graham-murdock-the-political-economy-of-crisis-and-the-crisis-of-political-economy-the-challenge-of-sustainability Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/graham-murdock-political-economy-of-crisis-crisis-of-political-economy-tickets- Movie: The Internet’s Own Boy… Read More ›
Call for Papers: Regulating the ‘Sharing Economy’
Call for Papers for Special Issue of Internet Policy Review on *Regulating the ‘Sharing Economy’* http://policyreview.info/node/371 Special Issue editors: Kris Erickson, Research Fellow, CREATe, University of Glasgow & Inge Sørensen, Research Fellow, CCPR, University of Glasgow. You are ‘the new infrastructure’, an entrepreneur… Read More ›
The politics of data science
A special issue of Discover Society I recently edited: FOCUS: The Emerging Contours of Data Science William Housley, (Cardiff University) Read More VIEWPOINT: The Politics of Data Visualisation Joanna Boehnert Read More ON THE FRONTLINE: What is the Data in Big… Read More ›
Who’s more popular on twitter? the UK’s top research universities or academic blogs and viral feeds?
Comparing the follower counts for Twitter feeds based on the 2014 REF results (i.e. I mean ‘top’ in a very narrow sense) and an unsystematically chosen selection of the Twitter feeds I’ve been scrutinising this morning as I finish off the book. Oxford University: 231,000 Cambridge… Read More ›
Imagining post-capitalism and techno-fascism
Last week Paul Mason posted a provocative Guardian essay suggesting that the end of capitalism has begun. It’s a precursor to his upcoming book PostCapitalism: A Guide To Our Future which is released in a few days time. I’m looking forward to the book,… Read More ›
Call for Digital Anthropology book proposals
This looks like it will be an extremely valuable book series:
Social Science and Digital Worlds: New Technologies, Old Methods
Sociology Graduate Conference Social Science and Digital Worlds: New Technologies, Old Methods Wednesday 21st October 2015 University of Leicester Keynote speakers: Prof Bob Carter Prof Jason Hughes Prof Celia Lury Call for Papers The first Sociology Graduate Conference at the… Read More ›
CfP: Bio-power(ful) Cloud-Bodies
Bio-power(ful) Cloud-Bodies Host: Foucault Madness Collective Date: Saturday, September 26th, 2015. Location: The Historic Thibodo House (1150 Lupine Hills Drive, Vista, CA) Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jack Halberstam The Foucault Madness Conference is back for a second year! This year’s theme… Read More ›