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Transcript of Digital Day of Ideas Keynote
Conceptualizing Digital Sociology as Critical, Interdisciplinary Practice
Dr. Karen GregoryDigital Day of Ideas | May 18th 2016
University of Edinburgh @claudiakincaid
#DigScholEd
Source: http://akraya.com/managed-projects/big-data/
• Why Digital Sociology?
• Examples of current work: • Enchanted Entrepreneurs: Karen Gregory• The Quantified Self: Deborah Lupton• Facebook as Value: Beverley Skeggs & Simon Yuill
• Connecting our work: How do we participate in building this emerging digital, social world?
“…privacy, the private self, human and civil rights,
governance and citizenship, finance, health and
medicine… and even, of course, education…”
Tracing Digital Sociology
“…long history of research done in Internet
studies, information and communication studies,
media and cultural studies, the sociology of
science and technology, and surveillance
studies…”
“The very algorithms that makes Facebook what it is, for example, do not simply arrive in our lives.
They themselves are the result of human labor, decision-making processes, flows of capital, and even the extraction of rare minerals necessary for their very computing power.”
“Like Mills, we remain interested in understanding
the rather complicated nature of human agency in
an increasingly technocratic society.”
how digitization affects or alters “the relations
between researchers and researched, and those
between the objects, methods, [and] techniques of
social research, broadly conceived.” – Noortje
Marres
“What is Digital Sociology?” 2013
http://www.csisponline.net/2013/01/21/what-is-digital-sociology/
… such methods do not just describe society but
“help to create it anew.” – Evelyn Ruppert
Digital SociologyPodcast, 2013: https
://markcarrigan.net/2013/09/10/evelyn-ruppert-on-digital-sociology/
• Gregory, Karen. (2014) Enchanted Entrepreneurs: The Labor of Esoteric Practitioners in New York City. Dissertation. City University of New York.
• Lupton, Deborah. (2016) The Quantified Self. Polity Press: Boston, MA.
• Skeggs, Beverley & Yuill, Simon (2015) “The methodology of a multi-model project examining how Facebook infrastructures social relations.” Information, Communication, and Society. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1091026
“… Increasingly, we are now seeing digital
technologies and data-aggregating apparatuses
developing in the service of a positivism that
desires not only to represent social life, but to
predict its very outcomes…”