What is Digital Sociology?

Neil Selwyn is a Professor at Monash University, Australia

“This is an insightful and informative contribution to the burgeoning literature on digital sociology, recognizing what is distinctive about it while acknowledging what it shares with other fields.”Mark Carrigan, University of Cambridge“Neil Selwyn’s book is a valuable introduction to the emerging subfield of digital sociology, which it seeks to locate both in an established sociological tradition and in very contemporary research. The book’s approach, readability, pace and tone will make it very attractive to students as a source for debate, elaboration or contention.”Karen Gregory, University of Edinburgh"[An] excellent introduction to digital sociology, particularly for undergraduate and postgraduate students and any sociologist curious about the field's scope and purpose."Huw Davies, LSE Review of Books"Selwyn makes clear how the focus on the digital requires particular attention outside of existing theories and areas of exploration. Selwyn excels at asking key questions of sociological inquiry in the […] areas of networks, platforms, big data, and algorithms."Information, Communication and Society

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Digital sociology: promises and precedentsChapter 2. Digital sociology: central concerns, concepts and questionsChapter 3. Digital sociology in action: 'digital labor' and 'digital race'Chapter 4. Digital methods and methodologyChapter 5. Being a digital sociologistReferences