Sociology and our sociological imaginations are having to confront new digital landscapes spanning mediated social relationships, practices and social structures. This volume assesses the substantive challenges faced by the discipline as it critically reassesses its position in the digital age.
Introduction; K.Orton-Johnson & N.Prior PART I: RELATIONSHIPS Personal Relationships, Intimacy and the Self in a Mediated and Global Digital Age; L.Jamieson 'Gendering the Digital': The Impact of Gender and Technology Perspectives on the Sociological Imagination; E.Green & C.Singleton Digital Relationships and Feminist Hope; D.Ferreday PART II: SPACES Rethinking Space: Urban Informatics and the Sociological Imagination; R.Burrows & D.Beer Rethinking Community in the Digital Age?; K.Evans Digital Spaces, Sociology and Surveillance; D.Lyon PART III: STRUCTURES Inequalities in the Network Society; J.Van Dijk Trillions Out of Ones and Zeros: The Sociology of Finance Encounters the Digital Age; J.Pardo-Guerra Digital Fields, Networks and Capital: Sociology Beyond Structures and Fluids; Mike Savage PART IV: MEDIATIONS War Reporting in a Digital Age; S.Allan & D.Matheson Imagining Networks: The Sociology of Connection in the Digital Age; A.Cavanagh Mediating the Digital?; N.Prior & K.Orton-Johnson PART V: PRACTICES Rethinking Education in the Digital Age; N.Selwyn E-Health and Renewed Sociological Approaches to Health and Illness; J.Kivits Digital Technology and Sociological Windows; A.Webster Index
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