
Understanding Digital Societies
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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.
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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.
Content
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
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