digital day of ideas keynote
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Conceptualizing Digital Sociology as Critical, Interdisciplinary Practice
Dr. Karen GregoryDigital Day of Ideas | May 18th 2016
University of Edinburgh @claudiakincaid
#DigScholEd
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Source: http://akraya.com/managed-projects/big-data/
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• 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?
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“…privacy, the private self, human and civil rights,
governance and citizenship, finance, health and
medicine… and even, of course, education…”
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Tracing Digital Sociology
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“…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…”
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“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.”
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“Like Mills, we remain interested in understanding
the rather complicated nature of human agency in
an increasingly technocratic society.”
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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/
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… 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/
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• 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
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“… 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…”