Digital Sociology: Definitions,Developments and Directions

Deborah Lupton

News & Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra

@DALupton

@DALupton

Varieties of doing digital sociology

• Using digital tools/media for research or engagement

• Researching how other people use digital tools/media

• Harvesting digital data for analysis

• Reflexive/critical analyses

Directions

• Inventive methods/live sociology

• ‘Lively data’ and algorithmic authority

• Data politics, data practices, data circulations and data materialisations

More directions

• How ‘smart objects’ interact with each other (human as nodes in the Internet of Things)

• Veillance and surveillance: how these operate, political implications, implications for selfhood and social relations

lively data

emotion

aesthetics

lively capitaldata

subjects/doubles

flow & circulation

multiple uses/repurposing

Live/ly sociology

Live/lysociology

lively data

inventive methods

hacker/punk sensibility