Digital sociology examines how digital technologies influence society and should be central to sociological research. The document outlines the history and development of digital sociology from the 1990s to present. Key areas that digital sociology can influence include theoretical approaches, research methods, and understanding how digital media impacts issues like hate groups, incarceration, health, and education. Digital sociology is still emerging but growing rapidly in relevance and importance given society's increasing digitalization.
In mid 2012 the highest court in Russia ruled against gay pride parades in Moscow for the next 100 years. In 2013 a federal bill banned the distribution of "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" to minors. Homophobia thrives not just at legal and political levels but is widespread among the general population; according to a 2013 survey 74% believe that homosexuality should not be accepted by society. As gay teens struggle to find support in public space they increasingly find affirmation online, in closed groups like Deti-404 (The Observer, 2013).
Meanwhile, Chelsea Manning, at the centre of a WikiLeaks scandal in 2010, has come out as transgender and has requested that ‘starting today you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun’ (press release, Aug 22, 2013). Chelsea Manning is currently serving 35 years in a male prison facility where she has been informed that the army will not support hormone therapy or sex-reassignment therapy.
As surveillance of everyday engagement online is increasingly acknowledged by government and private enterprise (including Google’s gmail service) and young people around the world are being alerted to the dangers of cyber-bullying and online predators, how are social perceptions of privacy and safety shifting? Is a closed group on ‘VK’ (the second biggest social network service in Europe, after Facebook) private enough to provide assurance to young queer Russians? Where will Chelsea seek affirmation with restricted online access in a male prison? Can the Dark Web provide an alternative for subaltern publics? Or does the technical expertise and tenacity required to access these spaces of supposedly amplified security make them unattainable for disenfranchised minorities?
This paper draws on current case studies to explore shifting understandings of privacy and networked identity work in cultures where public expression of queer sexuality remains taboo.
Cyberbullying has increased among teens ages 14-16 since the rise of Facebook and some teens have committed suicide due to cyberbullying. The study will explore the relationship between Facebook, cyberbullying, and suicide using a survey questionnaire. It hypothesizes that Facebook correlates with increased cyberbullying which sometimes leads to suicide. The study aims to increase awareness of cyberbullying and protect teens' privacy online.
The introduction discusses the emergence of participatory culture online, especially among teens, and highlights both promising and concerning examples. It outlines 5 core ethical issues raised by new digital media: identity, privacy, ownership/authorship, credibility, and participation. While these issues are not new, their stakes may be different online. The document seeks to provide an objective analysis of ethical fault lines in new digital media and how supports for ethical participation can help realize its promises.
Content Creation on the Internet and the Participation Divide in GermanyChristoph Lutz
The document discusses research on the participation divide in online content creation. It summarizes previous research that found demographics like age, education, and socioeconomic status predict different types of online content creation. However, these studies had limitations like focusing only on students or the US. The presented study uses social cognitive theory to examine how cognitive attributes like privacy concerns and self-efficacy may mediate the impact of demographics on different types of online content creation. An online survey was conducted with 1488 German participants and structural equation modeling was used to analyze the relationships between variables. The findings suggest cognitive constructs partially mediate the influence of demographics on content creation and different types of content are affected differently.
This document summarizes the key findings from recent research on gender differences in internet use. It identifies three main trends: 1) While the gender gap in internet access has disappeared, gaps remain in the types of online activities men and women engage in. 2) Gender differences in internet use reflect broader social roles and expectations. 3) Digital inequalities mirror and sometimes enhance existing social and economic inequalities related to factors like gender, immigration status, ethnicity, and parental background. The topic has become more interdisciplinary and data-driven over time, providing a richer understanding of the intersection between gender and technology use.
In mid 2012 the highest court in Russia ruled against gay pride parades in Moscow for the next 100 years. In 2013 a federal bill banned the distribution of "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" to minors. Homophobia thrives not just at legal and political levels but is widespread among the general population; according to a 2013 survey 74% believe that homosexuality should not be accepted by society. As gay teens struggle to find support in public space they increasingly find affirmation online, in closed groups like Deti-404 (The Observer, 2013).
Meanwhile, Chelsea Manning, at the centre of a WikiLeaks scandal in 2010, has come out as transgender and has requested that ‘starting today you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun’ (press release, Aug 22, 2013). Chelsea Manning is currently serving 35 years in a male prison facility where she has been informed that the army will not support hormone therapy or sex-reassignment therapy.
As surveillance of everyday engagement online is increasingly acknowledged by government and private enterprise (including Google’s gmail service) and young people around the world are being alerted to the dangers of cyber-bullying and online predators, how are social perceptions of privacy and safety shifting? Is a closed group on ‘VK’ (the second biggest social network service in Europe, after Facebook) private enough to provide assurance to young queer Russians? Where will Chelsea seek affirmation with restricted online access in a male prison? Can the Dark Web provide an alternative for subaltern publics? Or does the technical expertise and tenacity required to access these spaces of supposedly amplified security make them unattainable for disenfranchised minorities?
This paper draws on current case studies to explore shifting understandings of privacy and networked identity work in cultures where public expression of queer sexuality remains taboo.
Cyberbullying has increased among teens ages 14-16 since the rise of Facebook and some teens have committed suicide due to cyberbullying. The study will explore the relationship between Facebook, cyberbullying, and suicide using a survey questionnaire. It hypothesizes that Facebook correlates with increased cyberbullying which sometimes leads to suicide. The study aims to increase awareness of cyberbullying and protect teens' privacy online.
The introduction discusses the emergence of participatory culture online, especially among teens, and highlights both promising and concerning examples. It outlines 5 core ethical issues raised by new digital media: identity, privacy, ownership/authorship, credibility, and participation. While these issues are not new, their stakes may be different online. The document seeks to provide an objective analysis of ethical fault lines in new digital media and how supports for ethical participation can help realize its promises.
Content Creation on the Internet and the Participation Divide in GermanyChristoph Lutz
The document discusses research on the participation divide in online content creation. It summarizes previous research that found demographics like age, education, and socioeconomic status predict different types of online content creation. However, these studies had limitations like focusing only on students or the US. The presented study uses social cognitive theory to examine how cognitive attributes like privacy concerns and self-efficacy may mediate the impact of demographics on different types of online content creation. An online survey was conducted with 1488 German participants and structural equation modeling was used to analyze the relationships between variables. The findings suggest cognitive constructs partially mediate the influence of demographics on content creation and different types of content are affected differently.
This document summarizes the key findings from recent research on gender differences in internet use. It identifies three main trends: 1) While the gender gap in internet access has disappeared, gaps remain in the types of online activities men and women engage in. 2) Gender differences in internet use reflect broader social roles and expectations. 3) Digital inequalities mirror and sometimes enhance existing social and economic inequalities related to factors like gender, immigration status, ethnicity, and parental background. The topic has become more interdisciplinary and data-driven over time, providing a richer understanding of the intersection between gender and technology use.
This document summarizes a study on the demographics of social media users. It discusses how personality traits like extroversion and openness impact social media use, with extroverts and those open to new experiences being more likely to use social media. It also overviewed different types of specialized social networking sites for different races, ethnic groups, and interests. Major social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter were examined along with their target demographics. The study was conducted through an online survey of 3,000 participants and analyzed 340,000 online friendships and 200,000 interpersonal messages.
The document provides an overview of topics to be covered in an upcoming class, including housekeeping items, learning objectives focused on critically evaluating social media, two "tests" on theoretical frameworks, examples of technofeminism and Lanström's critique, Castells' concepts of mass self-communication and counter-power, and where the class will go from there with additional readings on critical theory and the prosumer.
Smart Phones: Affecting Adolescent's Social Skillsspencermahoney2
Adolescents are communicating less face-to-face and more through smartphones and social media. They average 60 texts per day, up from 50 in 2009, and can access friends through Facebook without actual interaction. This overuse of technology has negatively impacted social skills as face-to-face communication has decreased. Texting also removes tone and context from conversations, making messages prone to misinterpretation and preventing thinking on one's feet. As technology continues to connect people virtually over personally, social skills risk continuing to deteriorate.
Thanks to the web, we’re alone together and loving itMirian Souza
Barry Wellman coined the term "networked individualism" to describe how people today interact through electronic networks rather than just face-to-face. A large research study confirms that electronic interaction through computers has replaced much social interaction for many people. Contrary to concerns that the internet isolates people, the study found that it connects people to more real people than they would otherwise through advice and support on major life decisions. While people are more independent, they are also reaching out to more people through easy electronic connections.
John Perrino Silicon Valley Lobbying Language SlidesJohn Perrino
This document summarizes a content analysis of policy statements, blogs, government comments, and letters to lawmakers. The analysis aims to understand how political communication can be improved to make lobbying more effective. It discusses how policy issues can be framed in different ways and how political struggles involve competing definitions of policy issues. It also examines quotes about the role of businesses in social and political issues and perceptions of government. The document concludes that determining how decision makers make judgments is very difficult but this content analysis could help lobbyists determine if they should adapt typical Washington language or take a more casual approach.
Understanding Users' Privacy Motivations and Behaviors in Online SpacesJessica Vitak
I’ve spent my career so far studying the social outcomes people derive from their use of new communication systems like Facebook. These sites contain numerous affordances that differentiate them from other forms of communication & create low-cost environments for things like relationship maintenance and exchange of resources. I have found this research to be extremely rewarding, as it is important to understand how these social systems extend our capabilities for human interaction, beyond the more traditional forms of communication we have relied on previously.
But, there's a flip side to this story. Humans, by nature, are very social beings and want to interact, want to disclose information and share it with others. Social network sites and their like facilitate this through a variety of features. However, as individuals have moved their communication from offline spaces, where the interactions tend to be much more ephemeral and audiences are generally known, to online spaces, where the lines between public and private become much more blurred, I believe that thoughts of privacy of personal information are often lost in the novelty of the technologies. Now, as we begin to think about this issue more and more, I believe it’s time to step back and re-evaluate how we conceptualize our privacy in this highly networked world and to integrate that understanding into solutions that will help individuals become more savvy users of the technology.
1) The formal organizational structure of a company outlines official roles and tasks, but the informal structure indicates how work actually gets done through communication networks.
2) Social network analysis examines properties like tie strength, centrality, density, structural holes, and closure that influence how information and resources flow.
3) Individuals can build and diagnose their own networks to access greater social capital and opportunities. Expanding networks beyond proximity and similarity can provide new information and resources.
Evolution of Technology discusses how technology has advanced from basic tools to modern devices and networks, changing how people interact and share information. However, increased connectivity has consequences for privacy as more personal data is exposed. While technology will continue to evolve, its effects on society must be carefully considered to avoid unintended harm.
This document discusses two conceptual approaches - social compensation and rich-get-richer - that have been proposed to explain adolescent online risk-taking behaviors. It summarizes a study that examined which approach better predicts such behaviors using data from the Pew Internet Foundation. The study found that predictors of risk-taking included a lack of extracurricular activities, especially for boys, and infrequent socializing with friends in person, especially for girls. This supports the social compensation approach, which posits that those with less satisfying offline lives engage in more online risk as compensation. The document provides background on the approaches and outlines the study's methodology using the Pew Internet Foundation survey data to analyze relationships between adolescent characteristics and risk behaviors.
Incremental Persuasion through Microblogging: A Survey of Twitter Users in La...Agnis Stibe
The document summarizes research on persuasion patterns in Twitter. A survey of 403 Latvian Twitter users found that more experienced users were more likely to generate content, trust information on Twitter, recognize unwritten communication rules, and feel Twitter could call users to action offline. The findings support the hypothesis that Twitter users' behaviors and attitudes can change incrementally over time through use of the platform, in line with the fourth postulate of the Persuasive Systems Design framework.
Too many issues to count: Signifying friendship on FacebookDaniel Hooker
A presentation on my final paper for LIBR 559B: New Media for Children and Young Adults. The paper is a semiotic analysis of a popular Facebook meme and concerns the establishment of theoretical principles of human communication to online social networking behaviour.
Why Are African Americans Over Represented on Twitter?kenya28
The document proposes two hypotheses for why African Americans are overrepresented on Twitter compared to their share of the U.S. population. Hypothesis 1 is that African Americans who own smartphones and access the internet through them are more likely to have a Twitter profile. Hypothesis 2 is that celebrity-conscious African Americans are more likely to have a Twitter profile. The author plans to test these hypotheses by surveying and interviewing black Americans aged 25-34 with college educations, recruited from Facebook and Twitter, analyzing the results using SPSS to identify trends. The findings could provide insights into digital divide issues and minority online behaviors.
This document discusses digital divides and net neutrality. It defines a digital divide as a gap between those who have access to information and communication technologies, and the skills to use them, versus those who do not within a given area. It notes factors like cost, technical skills, cultural factors, and knowledge that can contribute to digital divides. It also discusses how some groups like African Americans were more likely to use certain technologies like smartphones or join platforms like Twitter due to different interests compared to other racial groups.
This document discusses the permanence and visibility of digital information shared online. It notes that social media platforms allow information to be easily copied, pasted, embedded and shared with a vast audience. While people continue exploring identities and social connections online, digital content can now have unforeseen and long-lasting implications due to how easily it is replicated and distributed to anonymous masses. Youth are particularly impacted as digital records could document experimentation and risky behavior permanently.
And Then the Internet Happened Prospective Thoughts about Concept Mapping in ...Daniel McLinden
In this millennium the worldwide web has enabled new models of collaboration and the power of networks to emerge. In the second decade of the new millennium these ideas continue to spread. Cross-disciplinary teams, open innovation and social networks represent radically different approaches to working in systems to create knowledge, share information and develop interventions. Think Wikipedia. Methods for program planning and evaluation need to keep pace with these changes and concept mapping methodology may have been ahead of its time as a method that resonates with 21st century complexity. To think prospectively, this session will reframe concept mapping as a method that employs open innovation and networks to create meaning about complex phenomena. With this basis, this session will explore through presentation and discussion the future possibilities for the types of problems that can be addressed and ways to co-create meaning with diverse stakeholders.
And Then the Internet Happened Prospective Thoughts about Concept Mapping in ...Daniel McLinden
In this millennium the worldwide web has enabled new models of collaboration and the power of networks to emerge. In the second decade of the new millennium these ideas continue to spread. Cross-disciplinary teams, open innovation and social networks represent radically different approaches to working in systems to create knowledge, share information and develop interventions. Think Wikipedia. Methods for program planning and evaluation need to keep pace with these changes and concept mapping methodology may have been ahead of its time as a method that resonates with 21st century complexity. To think prospectively, reframe concept mapping as a method that employs open innovation and networks to create meaning about complex phenomena. With this basis, the future possibilities for the types of problems that can be addressed and ways to co-create meaning with diverse stakeholders can be explored.
This document discusses how technology and the internet have changed media, economics, and society. It addresses several key points:
1) The internet has disrupted traditional broadcast and advertising models by allowing for many-to-many communication and long-tail economics through niche markets.
2) Users are now "prosumers" who both consume and produce media, representing a shift away from distinct producers and consumers.
3) The internet has led to changes in work through the sharing economy, with workers taking on temporary gig work without benefits instead of full-time jobs.
4) The document also discusses how racism, hate speech, and white supremacy have adapted to the digital era through more accessible and global
These are my slides from the Internet Researcher's Conference (#IR15.0) in Daegu, Korea in October 2014... you can read more about it at my research blog over at www.incitestories.com.au
This document summarizes a study on the demographics of social media users. It discusses how personality traits like extroversion and openness impact social media use, with extroverts and those open to new experiences being more likely to use social media. It also overviewed different types of specialized social networking sites for different races, ethnic groups, and interests. Major social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter were examined along with their target demographics. The study was conducted through an online survey of 3,000 participants and analyzed 340,000 online friendships and 200,000 interpersonal messages.
The document provides an overview of topics to be covered in an upcoming class, including housekeeping items, learning objectives focused on critically evaluating social media, two "tests" on theoretical frameworks, examples of technofeminism and Lanström's critique, Castells' concepts of mass self-communication and counter-power, and where the class will go from there with additional readings on critical theory and the prosumer.
Smart Phones: Affecting Adolescent's Social Skillsspencermahoney2
Adolescents are communicating less face-to-face and more through smartphones and social media. They average 60 texts per day, up from 50 in 2009, and can access friends through Facebook without actual interaction. This overuse of technology has negatively impacted social skills as face-to-face communication has decreased. Texting also removes tone and context from conversations, making messages prone to misinterpretation and preventing thinking on one's feet. As technology continues to connect people virtually over personally, social skills risk continuing to deteriorate.
Thanks to the web, we’re alone together and loving itMirian Souza
Barry Wellman coined the term "networked individualism" to describe how people today interact through electronic networks rather than just face-to-face. A large research study confirms that electronic interaction through computers has replaced much social interaction for many people. Contrary to concerns that the internet isolates people, the study found that it connects people to more real people than they would otherwise through advice and support on major life decisions. While people are more independent, they are also reaching out to more people through easy electronic connections.
John Perrino Silicon Valley Lobbying Language SlidesJohn Perrino
This document summarizes a content analysis of policy statements, blogs, government comments, and letters to lawmakers. The analysis aims to understand how political communication can be improved to make lobbying more effective. It discusses how policy issues can be framed in different ways and how political struggles involve competing definitions of policy issues. It also examines quotes about the role of businesses in social and political issues and perceptions of government. The document concludes that determining how decision makers make judgments is very difficult but this content analysis could help lobbyists determine if they should adapt typical Washington language or take a more casual approach.
Understanding Users' Privacy Motivations and Behaviors in Online SpacesJessica Vitak
I’ve spent my career so far studying the social outcomes people derive from their use of new communication systems like Facebook. These sites contain numerous affordances that differentiate them from other forms of communication & create low-cost environments for things like relationship maintenance and exchange of resources. I have found this research to be extremely rewarding, as it is important to understand how these social systems extend our capabilities for human interaction, beyond the more traditional forms of communication we have relied on previously.
But, there's a flip side to this story. Humans, by nature, are very social beings and want to interact, want to disclose information and share it with others. Social network sites and their like facilitate this through a variety of features. However, as individuals have moved their communication from offline spaces, where the interactions tend to be much more ephemeral and audiences are generally known, to online spaces, where the lines between public and private become much more blurred, I believe that thoughts of privacy of personal information are often lost in the novelty of the technologies. Now, as we begin to think about this issue more and more, I believe it’s time to step back and re-evaluate how we conceptualize our privacy in this highly networked world and to integrate that understanding into solutions that will help individuals become more savvy users of the technology.
1) The formal organizational structure of a company outlines official roles and tasks, but the informal structure indicates how work actually gets done through communication networks.
2) Social network analysis examines properties like tie strength, centrality, density, structural holes, and closure that influence how information and resources flow.
3) Individuals can build and diagnose their own networks to access greater social capital and opportunities. Expanding networks beyond proximity and similarity can provide new information and resources.
Evolution of Technology discusses how technology has advanced from basic tools to modern devices and networks, changing how people interact and share information. However, increased connectivity has consequences for privacy as more personal data is exposed. While technology will continue to evolve, its effects on society must be carefully considered to avoid unintended harm.
This document discusses two conceptual approaches - social compensation and rich-get-richer - that have been proposed to explain adolescent online risk-taking behaviors. It summarizes a study that examined which approach better predicts such behaviors using data from the Pew Internet Foundation. The study found that predictors of risk-taking included a lack of extracurricular activities, especially for boys, and infrequent socializing with friends in person, especially for girls. This supports the social compensation approach, which posits that those with less satisfying offline lives engage in more online risk as compensation. The document provides background on the approaches and outlines the study's methodology using the Pew Internet Foundation survey data to analyze relationships between adolescent characteristics and risk behaviors.
Incremental Persuasion through Microblogging: A Survey of Twitter Users in La...Agnis Stibe
The document summarizes research on persuasion patterns in Twitter. A survey of 403 Latvian Twitter users found that more experienced users were more likely to generate content, trust information on Twitter, recognize unwritten communication rules, and feel Twitter could call users to action offline. The findings support the hypothesis that Twitter users' behaviors and attitudes can change incrementally over time through use of the platform, in line with the fourth postulate of the Persuasive Systems Design framework.
Too many issues to count: Signifying friendship on FacebookDaniel Hooker
A presentation on my final paper for LIBR 559B: New Media for Children and Young Adults. The paper is a semiotic analysis of a popular Facebook meme and concerns the establishment of theoretical principles of human communication to online social networking behaviour.
Why Are African Americans Over Represented on Twitter?kenya28
The document proposes two hypotheses for why African Americans are overrepresented on Twitter compared to their share of the U.S. population. Hypothesis 1 is that African Americans who own smartphones and access the internet through them are more likely to have a Twitter profile. Hypothesis 2 is that celebrity-conscious African Americans are more likely to have a Twitter profile. The author plans to test these hypotheses by surveying and interviewing black Americans aged 25-34 with college educations, recruited from Facebook and Twitter, analyzing the results using SPSS to identify trends. The findings could provide insights into digital divide issues and minority online behaviors.
This document discusses digital divides and net neutrality. It defines a digital divide as a gap between those who have access to information and communication technologies, and the skills to use them, versus those who do not within a given area. It notes factors like cost, technical skills, cultural factors, and knowledge that can contribute to digital divides. It also discusses how some groups like African Americans were more likely to use certain technologies like smartphones or join platforms like Twitter due to different interests compared to other racial groups.
This document discusses the permanence and visibility of digital information shared online. It notes that social media platforms allow information to be easily copied, pasted, embedded and shared with a vast audience. While people continue exploring identities and social connections online, digital content can now have unforeseen and long-lasting implications due to how easily it is replicated and distributed to anonymous masses. Youth are particularly impacted as digital records could document experimentation and risky behavior permanently.
And Then the Internet Happened Prospective Thoughts about Concept Mapping in ...Daniel McLinden
In this millennium the worldwide web has enabled new models of collaboration and the power of networks to emerge. In the second decade of the new millennium these ideas continue to spread. Cross-disciplinary teams, open innovation and social networks represent radically different approaches to working in systems to create knowledge, share information and develop interventions. Think Wikipedia. Methods for program planning and evaluation need to keep pace with these changes and concept mapping methodology may have been ahead of its time as a method that resonates with 21st century complexity. To think prospectively, this session will reframe concept mapping as a method that employs open innovation and networks to create meaning about complex phenomena. With this basis, this session will explore through presentation and discussion the future possibilities for the types of problems that can be addressed and ways to co-create meaning with diverse stakeholders.
And Then the Internet Happened Prospective Thoughts about Concept Mapping in ...Daniel McLinden
In this millennium the worldwide web has enabled new models of collaboration and the power of networks to emerge. In the second decade of the new millennium these ideas continue to spread. Cross-disciplinary teams, open innovation and social networks represent radically different approaches to working in systems to create knowledge, share information and develop interventions. Think Wikipedia. Methods for program planning and evaluation need to keep pace with these changes and concept mapping methodology may have been ahead of its time as a method that resonates with 21st century complexity. To think prospectively, reframe concept mapping as a method that employs open innovation and networks to create meaning about complex phenomena. With this basis, the future possibilities for the types of problems that can be addressed and ways to co-create meaning with diverse stakeholders can be explored.
This document discusses how technology and the internet have changed media, economics, and society. It addresses several key points:
1) The internet has disrupted traditional broadcast and advertising models by allowing for many-to-many communication and long-tail economics through niche markets.
2) Users are now "prosumers" who both consume and produce media, representing a shift away from distinct producers and consumers.
3) The internet has led to changes in work through the sharing economy, with workers taking on temporary gig work without benefits instead of full-time jobs.
4) The document also discusses how racism, hate speech, and white supremacy have adapted to the digital era through more accessible and global
These are my slides from the Internet Researcher's Conference (#IR15.0) in Daegu, Korea in October 2014... you can read more about it at my research blog over at www.incitestories.com.au
490 Presentation: Disgust, Shame, and NetworksJodie Nicotra
Dr. Jodie Nicotra is researching how shame and disgust spread through networks like Twitter and how technology aids and abets public shaming online. Some of her research questions examine how shame works rhetorically, how search engines and social media help spread shaming, and what this reveals about the technological nature of rhetoric. She also discusses how networks can crystallize states of feeling and change how we teach argument.
Slides from a session debunking articles written about Millennials and how educational institutions should really determine how and where to communicate to their audiences on social media. Presented at the 2015 CASE Social Media and Community Conference in Miami.
In this session, we talk about the mobile and social web, and how it shapes economy, individual behavior and well-being, political events, and society as a whole.
The emerging field of computational social science (CSS) is devoted to the pursuit of interdisciplinary social science research from an information processing perspective, through the medium of advanced computing and information technologies.
How Does Social Media Negatively Influence Online BehaviourAllison Noble.
This document summarizes a student paper investigating the negative influence of social media on online behavior through the lenses of sociology and social psychology. The paper examines how social media has rapidly evolved and considers theories from both disciplines like social identity theory and symbolic interactionism. By merging these fields with web science, the paper aims to develop a framework to better understand the relationships between individual online behaviors and broader social impacts. Initial findings suggest symbolic interactionism may provide common ground between the disciplines. Further analysis of theory relationships could lead to insights into how social factors shape web use and its effects.
This document provides an agenda for a class on social media that includes discussions on various social media terms and concepts. It outlines activities for students, such as defining social media and discussing the differences between social media "visitors" and "residents". It also lists various readings and resources for students to explore key topics in social media research, such as network analysis, tie strength, and strategic planning for social media initiatives. The document provides links to external resources and materials to support the activities and assignments for the class.
Stefanie Duguay, Jean Burgess, and Ben Light
Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Draft working paper for the Digital Intimate Publics Symposium, 19-20 November 2015, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Abstract
This paper focuses on images of sexual desire that shape digital intimate publics of same-sex attracted women through related hashtags on social media platforms. While previous research has focused on same-sex attracted men’s use of digital technology to perform sexuality, studies of same-sex attracted women are sparse, focused on older technologies, and complicated by debates around gendered power relations. This is investigated by examining sexual content organised through hashtags related to same-sex attracted women (e.g., #lesbian, #gaygirl) on Instagram and Vine. Textual and visual analysis of user-generated content is paired with walkthroughs interrogating these platforms’ design, activity flows and features, identifying mediators that shape performances of sexual desire. Preliminary analysis shows that performances on Instagram can be divided into four categories: pornography and advertisements; memes, animations, and popular media; images of idealised ‘lesbians’; and personal selfies and sexy photos. On Vine, popular media and idealised lesbians are represented in fan mash-ups of YouTube celebrities while the majority of sexual performances involve sensual lip dubs and dancing to rap and hip hop music. Each platform provides unique affordances for these performances, such as Instagram’s filters and Vine’s audio track tools, as well as shared affordances like co-hashtags. Further analysis will allow for a better understanding of these multiple components of performances of sexual desire, presenting a view of Instagram and Vine’s digital intimate publics relating to same-sex attracted women.
This document discusses research on transgender communities on Tumblr. It begins by outlining the research questions around what can be learned from trans youth networks and how trans data can inform theory. It then describes the methods used to analyze over 1 million posts from the #ftm and #mtf hashtags on Tumblr. Key findings include Tumblr serving as an archive of experiences, a source of medical knowledge, and a site for cultural production and identity exploration. The document argues for an approach to trans data that recognizes its situated nature and holds binaries in tension. It suggests trans theory can benefit from understanding lived experiences and recognizing manifold identities.
This document discusses new ethical dilemmas arising from increasing use of technology by counselors. It begins by outlining the history of technology use in counseling from audio taping in the 1940s to current uses of email, texting and social media. It then discusses different types of digital users from digital immigrants to natives and the digital divide.
Next, it covers specific issues around social media use, providing statistics on popular sites and detailing how clients commonly use technology. It outlines ethical issues around counselor self-disclosure on social media and maintaining privacy when emailing or texting clients.
Finally, it questions whether counselors should have social media policies and explores different policy considerations around friending clients, posting photos,
This document discusses how changes in higher education and knowledge production have led to increased incentives for academics to develop public profiles and online followings, referred to as "micro-celebrity". It notes that while going public can be liberating, it also shifts the risks of maintaining institutional status onto individuals. Furthermore, the risks and incentives differ for different types of scholars, and becoming more publicly visible can exacerbate existing inequalities, such as fewer protections against online harassment for minority scholars. The document calls for institutions to provide more support for academics navigating these changes.
Types of Polarisation and Their Operationalisation in Digital and Social Medi...Axel Bruns
This document discusses types of polarization that can be studied in digital media, including micro, meso, and macro levels as well as issue-based, ideological, affective, perceived, and interactional forms. It describes a research project studying drivers of partisanship and polarization across multiple countries over time using digital methods like topic modeling, sentiment analysis, and network analysis. Examples are given of analyzing polarization on topics like climate change on Twitter and political rhetoric on Facebook. Finally, it outlines perspectives on further defining symptoms of dysfunctional polarization and developing more systematic diagnostic approaches.
The document provides an overview of the inaugural Lewis College Roundtable event that took place on October 29, 2015 and discussed the theme of "Algorithms: Human Influence on the World of Data". A diverse panel of experts discussed how algorithms shape the information people see and the impact of human influence on algorithms. The panelists represented different areas of expertise and perspectives on algorithms. They discussed examples like Facebook and how algorithms personalize what users see. The roundtable highlighted the complexity of algorithms and how they are shaped by human values and decisions. It also noted the need for more transparency around how algorithms function.
Beyond the Bubble: A Critical Review of the Evidence for Echo Chambers and Fi...Axel Bruns
This document provides a critical review of evidence for the existence of echo chambers and filter bubbles. It summarizes that while some case studies have found ideological clustering and selective exposure in social media, broader network mapping and large-scale studies show more complex and interconnected online information networks. It argues that concerns about echo chambers and filter bubbles tend to oversimplify online behavior and overestimate the power of algorithms, when in reality people encounter a diverse range of information online. The real problem, it concludes, is political polarization rather than communicative fragmentation.
Miscellaneous Info: The Digital Past, Present, FutureLee Cafferata
The document discusses the past, present, and future of digital technologies and data. It covers topics like how open data and big data are changing how we analyze information and make decisions. Additionally, it explores how digital networks and media are illuminating how ideas and stories spread over time, such as identifying characteristics that helped 19th century news stories go viral. The document also references resources for working with open data and digital humanities.
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Soc101 - Collective Behavior & Social MovementsJessie Daniels
This document discusses social movements and collective behavior. It introduces key concepts like collective behavior, crowds, and different crowd types. Traditional theories for understanding crowds are discussed as well as how digital technologies are changing collective behavior. Social movements are introduced as goal-oriented groups seeking social change. Questions are asked about defining and differentiating collective behavior and social movements. The role of the internet in changing social movements and collective behavior is discussed.
White Women, Popular Culture & Narratives of AddictionJessie Daniels
This presentation examines the role of white women in two popular television series that feature narratives of addiction.
We conducted a systematic analysis of a narrative television show, Law and Order, and a reality-based show, Intervention, using nine (9) seasons over the same time period (2000-2010). We use this analysis to argue that white women play an important symbolic role in justifying the racist drug war.
This document summarizes the spread of racist propaganda in the digital era. It discusses how white supremacist rhetoric has become easier to access globally through digital technologies and social media. The document outlines three key aspects: 1) the modern forms of racist propaganda, 2) how the author's previous research showed how white supremacist messaging has changed online, and 3) how the changing media ecosystem has elevated and amplified racist views. It warns that racist propaganda aims to put important moral and political victories up for debate and threatens democracy.
This document provides an introduction to sociological concepts related to deviance and social control. It discusses key topics including the social construction of what is considered "deviant", labeling theory, and the debate around the influence of social structure versus individual agency. Labeling is presented as a powerful mechanism of social control. Theories of symbolic interactionism emphasize how individuals create identities through social interactions, while structural approaches stress how people are shaped by broader forces. The document uses the work of Erving Goffman to explain how individuals perform different roles and identities depending on social context.
This document provides an introduction and overview of topics related to sociology of health and medicine. It discusses key questions around why some groups are healthier than others and how diagnosis can be a form of social control. It introduces concepts like structural determinants of health and structural violence to explain differences in health outcomes based on social and economic factors beyond individual choices. Medicalization is discussed as a process by which normal human conditions become defined and treated as medical issues, and how this can be a form of social control. Healthism and its link to neoliberal ideas about individual responsibility for health are also covered.
This document discusses the changing landscape of academic scholarship in the digital age. It notes how scholarship was traditionally closed and removed from the public sphere, but new technologies have changed this. It discusses different options for open access publishing like gold and green routes. It emphasizes the importance for digital scholars to be aware of their rights when publishing and to make their work as open and accessible as possible in order to have broader impact. It provides an example of an addendum that can be added to publishing agreements to retain more open access rights. The overall message is that digital technologies have transformed scholarly practice and scholars should leverage these tools to make their work openly available to the public.
Understanding Trump & the Alt-Right MovementJessie Daniels
This is a talk I gave for the Hunter College Sociology Department, November 9, 2016 about the Trump election and the alt-right movement. Most of this is in the text of this related blog post: http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2016/11/09/understanding-trump-moment/
How has the Internet changed the way white supremacy spreads? Has it made it more mainstream? This talk presents research from two studies, before and after the rise of the popular Internet. Findings suggest that the issue is not "recruitment" but a challenge to hard-won moral and legal victories, that turns the clock backward on civil rights.
"Feminism, Activism, Politics: The Trouble with White Feminism"Jessie Daniels
Jessie Daniels, PhD gave a talk titled "Feminism, Politics & Activism: The Trouble with White Feminism" where she made three key points:
1) Historically, white women have often been complicit in and benefited from systems of racism and white supremacy, from slavery to lynchings. Only a small minority of white women resisted and advocated for racial justice.
2) In the 1960s civil rights era, most white women supported segregationist policies while black feminists challenged racism within feminist and anti-war movements.
3) In recent years, high-profile white feminist campaigns and organizations like Lean In and SlutWalk have been criticized for ignoring issues of
In this overview, I discuss the changing landscape of being a scholar in an era of digital technology, open access publishing, and shifting scholarly practices. At the end are several links to resources for the workshop.
The Power of Open Scholarship and Open EducationJessie Daniels
This presentation tells the story of my evolution on open access and open educational resources through three stories. I end with some things that scholars who want to share their work more openly can do now.
Dr. Jessie Daniels gave a presentation on digital, public scholarship in the current academic landscape. She notes that academics are increasingly focused on real-world problems and engaging the public sphere. She highlights examples of social movements that have utilized digital tools for activism. Daniels' own website receives over 200,000 unique visitors per month and has allowed her to engage in scholarship, journalism, and activism. She argues that legacy models of closed, removed academic scholarship must evolve to take advantage of new digital technologies and opportunities for open, public engagement.
Reimagining Scholarly Communication for the Public GoodJessie Daniels
This document summarizes Jessie Daniels' presentation about reimagining scholarly communication for the public good. Daniels argues that academics can no longer remain isolated in the "ivory tower" and must demonstrate their public worth. New digital technologies have changed how scholarship is conducted, published, accessed, and measured. Scholarly work is becoming more open, collaborative, activist-oriented, and publicly engaged. Daniels provides examples of how her own work is embracing these changes through open online workshops and multimedia publications to make scholarship more accessible and impactful for public audiences.
Social Justice & Public Scholarship in the Digital AgeJessie Daniels
The landscape of scholarship has changed dramatically with the rise of digital technologies, yet we train scholars as if it's 1983. We, must begin to reimagine scholarly communication for the public good in the digital era. If academe can find a way to be digitally engaged and more fluent in the digital lexicon of the 21st century in which we find ourselves,
then, there is hope I believe for scholars to be a force for social good -- that is, an engaged citizenry & a more democratic, equal and just society.
Our Blogs, Our Bodies, Ourselves: Women's Health Activism in Digital, Global ...Jessie Daniels
Jessie Daniels, PhD gave a presentation on women's health activism in a digital, global context. She discussed how women's health activism that began in the US through publications like "Our Bodies, Ourselves" has now become a global movement. However, she raises questions about which feminist movements become transnationalized and by whom, and whether framing women's health as a movement exports a form of middle-class Western feminism. Daniels also questioned whether online women's health activism should be considered a form of digital labor.
Academic Publishing for Journalism FacultyJessie Daniels
The document provides tips and advice for scholarly publishing for journalism faculty. It discusses setting goals for publishing, checking publication rates of other faculty, maintaining a pipeline of publications, managing workflows, choosing publication formats like journal articles or blog posts, following standard formats for academic papers, conducting literature reviews, choosing targeted journals, understanding the peer review process, signing up to be a reviewer, tracking impact, and preparing tenure portfolios. The document stresses that scholarly publication is important for knowledge production and career advancement.
Public Sociology in the Digital Era (British Sociological Association)Jessie Daniels
This document summarizes a presentation by Jessie Daniels on how digital technologies are changing public sociology. Some of the key ways outlined are:
- Digital technologies have expanded access to scholarship by making information more openly accessible online rather than closed in print. This allows for more public impact.
- Knowledge production, peer review, pedagogy, and activism are all changing with new digital tools that facilitate more open and collaborative work.
- Measuring success is also changing with "altmetrics" that track online mentions and readership rather than just citations.
- Academics need to embrace these digital changes and opportunities for greater public engagement to remain relevant and justify public funding in the current environment.
The document provides instructions for feminists to get involved in editing Wikipedia by creating an account, adding their name to a page for feminist editors, and learning basics of editing like adding references and using the citation gadget. It includes links to resources for editing Wikipedia entries and tutorials on citation and creating entries that adhere to Wikipedia guidelines.
Public Sociology in the Digital Era (UPenn)Jessie Daniels
In this talk I gave at UPenn on Nov.4, I discuss the ways public sociology and higher ed are changing. And, I offer some examples from the JustPublics@365 project for reimagining scholarly communication in the digital era. For more content, down
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Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering.pptxDenish Jangid
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering
Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
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2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
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Please feel empowered to live Tweet if you’re so inclined.... I might suggest these hashtags for our conversation today.
Among many other things that ‘digital’ means, the digital is about code.... coding information into binary code of 1’s and 0’s.
Image from here: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/D83AI8LmcuyqyfnvS6qk1Q
When this happens, information - data - is easier to move around, edit, aggregate and analyze. And, it enables a different set of human interactions that are reconfiguring our selves & society in profound ways.
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Some might wonder why the need for a digital sociology – when we already have 20 years of digital humanities, 15 years or so of Internet studies, and an even longer tradition of communication studies.
The fact is – the social world is changing…..
Image source: http://www.businessinsider.com/vatican-square-2005-and-2013-2013-3
…but how sociologists study the world hasn’t, mostly.
Image source: http://www.businessinsider.com/vatican-square-2005-and-2013-2013-3
Today, there is exciting work happening in each of these areas that grapples with how digital technologies are transforming --- religion, politics, culture, the economy, education, law, crime, sports & the environment to name just a few – but most of it is not happening in sociology. It is happening in other disciplines, and across disciplines, .
The fact is that many of the social implications of the Internet were articulated decades ago by leading sociologists without calling themselves “digital sociologists”. Scholars such as Castells, 1996; Back, 2002; DiMaggio, et al., 2001; Hampton 2002; Ignacio, 2000; Sassen, 2002; Wacjman, 1991; Wellman, 2001, have all made important contributions to our understanding of how the digital and the material are imbricated, to paraphrase Sassen. Yet, overall sociology as a discipline has been relatively unconcerned with explicitly defining a disciplinary relationship to the digital. Instead, sociology has often ceded this terrain to other disciplines.
And, from a disciplinary standpoint, SOCIOLOGY IS AT RISK in a least two ways: 1) it risks becoming irrelevant if it doesn’t take seriously the digital, and 2) it will lose the early career scholars who will look elsewhere for job placements and conference attendance.
So, I see the formation of digital sociology as a transformation of the discipline of sociology in ways that will enliven it and ensure its continued relevance for students and the next generation of professors.
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There are theoretical antecedents to the emergence of digital sociology…
Castells makes a persuasive argument that we are living through a transformation as significant as the industrial revolution – entering an “informalion age” and the “rise of network society” – a transformation he says began in the 1970s – and is which affects the economic, social, cultural and identity.
RISE OF NETWORK SOCIETY: Castells argues that in this 'new economy', in which on 'a new mode of development, informationalism, of which networking is a critical attribute — evidence of changes in work structure and labour patterns, and concludes that while the networked 'symbolic analyst' (or knowledge worker)
POWER OF IDENTITY: Feminism, white supremacists + environmentalists….
END OF MILLENNIUM: Makes a not-very-well developed argument about the rise of inequality globally.
Been CRITIQUED FOR TECHNOLOGICAL DETERMINISM.
Counters the narrative about technology isolating us…. popularized relentlessly by Sherry Turkle.
Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb
Chart 5 domains where Internet is relevant for sociology: 1) inequality / digital divide 2) community + social capital 3) political participation, 4) organizations + economic institutions, 5) cultural participation and cultural diversity.
WACJMAN: argues against technological determinism. This article examines the development of the social studies of science and technology (STS) and its critique of this dominant position. It provides an account of the principal concepts that inform the area, which emphasize that technology is a socio-technical product, patterned by the conditions of its creation and use. Technology and society, rather than being separate spheres, are mutually constituted.
SASSEN: examines the embeddedness of the new technologies, the complex interactions between the digital and the material world, and the mediating cultures that organize the relation between these technologies and users.
The 1990s were really early days of the Internet.
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Montgomery, Alabama. Photo from 1989.
Image source: http://www.exploring-america.com/pics/civil-rights-memorial-center_montgomery.jpg
Consistent theme in my research.
Source: The History Channel http://www.history.com/images/media/pdf/Men%20Who%20Built%20America.pdf
This, too, is consistent with earlier work because there is no greater engine of WS than the carceral system. 98% of those incarcerated at the Rikers youth facility were Black/Latino. And, the notions of threat / criminality are consistent.
The challenge was: could we interrupt this cycle and improve health?
Health risk is really at the point of re-entry to community….
SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION (SOPHE)
Sarah Mazelis Paper of the Year Award (2011)
Screen capture from: http://hpp.sagepub.com/content/12/1/44
Blogs were on the rise, as the latest big thing….and they were heralded as a technology that made possible the “citizen journalist” + there was a lot of talk about the ‘little people rising up’ through blogs.
2004 was also the year that “blog” was picked as word of the year. Remember that, because I’m going to come back to it at the very end….
Joe R. Feagin and I began discussing establishing a scholarly blog in about 2004-2005.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4059291.stm
Joe R. Feagin and I began discussing establishing a scholarly blog in about 2004-2005. We finally did it in spring, 2007.
Early screenshot fromRacism Review, 2007.
http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2007/04/08/imus-gendered-racism/
Joe and I both conceptualize what we’re doing with the RR blog as a form of intellectual activism, the work of digitally-engaged scholar-activists.
For more on intellectual activism, see PHCollins’ latest book.
The backend... which, if we were going to approach advertisers, is what we would show people.
The big numbers.
The smaller numbers, which in many ways, I’m more pleased about, because these suggest both a continuously engaged community (more so than the larger numbers which may be one-time visitors) – and the smallest number, 144 of ‘authors’ reflects the menorting work that Joe + I do with other scholars many, but not exclusively, younger or early career who want to write for the blog.
First story begins in 2009….
Wanted to know if the six organizations / newsletters I’d followed in first book had made the transition to the digital era – and if so, what form they were taking. Overall, some did, most didn’t – but Internet created new opportunities for WS.
Findings from earlier research held true – gendered WS & overlap with mainstream. But, something the BIG FINDING: racism is changing b/c of digital technologies.
Much, much EASIER TO ACCESS the same rhetoric than when I had to drive to Montgomery AL to visit the Klanwatch archive.
Much more GLOBAL – enabling what I refer to as TRANSLOCAL WHITENESS, so that people in countries around the world who identify as ‘white’ can now find each other online.
More PARTICIPATORY – which has meant more voices, including more women, shaping WS rhetoric, which has led to some interesting modifications of WS, so that gender equality (for white women) and lesbian/gay rights (for white people) are openly discussed and often embraced.
Thinking about WS in a global context – shifts things considerably from the earlier work – and it sets the U.S. often misguided notion of ‘first amendment protection’ for hate speech in sharp relief with the rest of the world. The U.S. stands alone among western, industrialized nations in its unwillingness to take action against hate speech – often refusing to even attend UN gatherings about hate speech --- so that WS in countries outside the U.S. are attracted here. Making the U.S., what one scholar calls “a haven for hate speech” online.
In fact, not all speech is protected, even here in the U.S.
some 14 states in the US have “no crossing burning” ordinances on the books – and a conservative supreme court ruled on this – finding that there is no constitutional protection for a burning cross. Yet, it is often local law enforcement who is left to make judgment calls about what is, and is not, “protected speech,” and hate speech – particularly online – is almost always ignored.
Image source: http://www.iwchildren.org
An important question remains: what constitutes a burning cross in the digital era?
The longest-running and most popular white supremacist site online.
At time book went to press, 129,000+ members….
As of December, 2015: 300,000+
My experience in the classroom prompted research questions I didn’t know how to answer at the time….
http://www.flickr.com/photos/macloo/3348765187/
First, one student typed in “kkk.com” to search engine.
A second student typed in “martin luther king” into a search engine and came to this site….
….it is hosted by Stormfront…
Cloaked websites…. a disorienting new form of WS that has some insidious implications.
Cloaked site consistently appears third (3rd) or fourth (4th) in the results (e.g., ‘hits’): and this is an important factor for assessing value, trustworthiness of the information according to the young people in this study, like this young woman:
Task II: Participants were asked to evaluate pairs of websites:
Cloaked site (www.martinlutherking.org)
Legitimate site (www.thekingcenter.org )
Task II: Participants were asked to evaluate pairs of websites:
Cloaked site (www.americancivilrightsreview.com)
Legitimate site (www.voicesofcivilrights.org)
At one time, you could type in the words “American Civil Rights Review” into Google, it comes up first along with sources from Harvard, the library of congress’ Voices of Civil Rights and the American Civil Rights Institute, Ward Connelly’s conservative California-based organization.
Visual cues are an important part of how adolescents evaluate information online.
Of the cloaked civil rights site, many responded like this young person….quoted here.
Good news for growing literacy about digital media – bad news is that WS are just one good graphic designer away from a much more pernicious presence.
For young people who possess critical race consciousness, recognizing cloaked websites is within their reach, as this young woman illustrates.
In this case, the young woman assesses that this site, as just another “point of view,” another “side” on a two-sided argument. She is also unable to ascertain who it is that’s publishing the site, which is hosted by anti-Semite and racist Frank Weltner who is advocating on this page for a re-writing of the history such that plantations were “sanitary, humane and relaxed,” workplaces rather than institutions predicated on human misery. As in the previous example, this illustrates how a lack of critical thinking about racial politics offline can lead to misreading information online.
So, sort of by serendipitous accident, I happened to have a kind of “natural experiment” of WS rhetoric before and after the Internet in these two books. One of the big takeaways for me is really the point about digital sociology that I brought up near the beginning. Digital technologies are changing the social world & sociology needs to rise to the challenge of investigating this changing social world.
More recently, my work has turned to how digital technologies are changing the way we do our work as scholars.
This interest resulted in the project: JustPublics@365…..we’re called “Just Publics” because our focus is on reaching wider publics…with academic research that connects to social justice in some way. ….which I presented on here awhile back.
Funded as a 1-year “experiment,” $550,000. Basically, like running a startup within a traditional academic institution. Challenging, but good.
Another resource about this....
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access
Open access also means new approaches to knowledge production… as I discuss in this piece about how I took a tweet from a conference, transformed it into a blog post, then a series of posts, and then into a peer-reviewed article.
At the LSE Impact Blog: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/09/25/how-to-be-a-scholar-daniels/
There are lots of tools coming together to help make it easier to measure these alternative metrics, or “altmetrics.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22173204
From the abstract/conclusion: “Tweets can predict highly cited articles within the first 3 days of article publication. Social media activity either increases citations or reflects the underlying qualities of the article that also predict citations, but the true use of these metrics is to measure the distinct concept of social impact. Social impact measures based on tweets are proposed to complement traditional citation metrics. The proposed twimpact factor may be a useful and timely metric to measure uptake of research findings and to filter research findings resonating with the public in real time.”
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2013 vs. 2014
“The Quantified Self” -- through digital technologies that we wear – or perhaps soon, that we embed – is collecting data at a very personal, individual level and aggregating into large datasets – mostly by marketers and that we mostly have no control over.
Image source: http://quantifiedself.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/TechReview_July11-Cover-2_x220.jpg
So ahead that there’s a national grants-making-org devoted to it.
“who controls our data?” – is a fairly commonly asked question in Internet circles, but I would argue it’s one that needs to be investigated by sociologists.
When the NYTimes ran a piece in the Upshot (July 9, 2015) this summer – about “when algorithms discriminate”
….Google’s online advertising algorithm, for instance, shows as for high-income jobs to men much more often than it showed the ad to women, a new study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers found.
…ads for arrest records were significantly more likely to show up on searches for distinctively black names or a historically black fraternity.
….advertisers are able to target people who live in low-income neighborhoods with high-interest loans.
– I just kept thinking: these are sociological issues.
As Sassen + others theorists note – the material and the digital are imbricated…. They overlap
As Sassen + others theorists note – the material and the digital are imbricated…. They overlap
As Sassen + others theorists note – the material and the digital are imbricated…. They overlap
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Please feel empowered to live Tweet if you’re so inclined.... I might suggest these hashtags for our conversation today.