Digital Sociology Critical Perspectives

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

STUART ALLAN Professor of Journalism in the Media School, Bournemouth University, UK DAVID BEER Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of York, UK ROGER BURROWS Professor of Sociology at the University of York, UK ALLISON CAVANAGH is a Lecturer and Researcher in Communications at the University of Leeds, UK KAREN EVANS is Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK DEBRA FERREDAY is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Lancaster University, UK EILEEN GREEN is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Teesside University, UK LYNN JAMIESON is Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK JUAN PABLO PARDO-GUERRA is Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK JOËLLE KIVITS Researcher at the University of Nancy, France DAVID LYON Director, Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's Research Chair in Surveillance Studies, Professor of Sociology, Professor of Law, Queen's University, Canada DONALD MATHESON is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa, New Zealand NEIL SELWYN is a Researcher at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK CARRIE SINGLETON is a Research Fellow at Teesside University, UK JAN VAN DIJK is Professor of Communication Science at the University of Twente, The Netherlands ANDREW WEBSTER IS Professor in the Sociology of Science and Technology at the University of York, UK