Society in the Digital Age: An Interactionist Perspective,William Housley

-About this book

In Digital Society: An Interactionist Perspective, William Housley explores the ways interactionist thinking contributes to our understanding of current trends and topics within digital sociology.
Drawing on a range of aligned approaches, concepts and empirical studies, he explores how notions of self and presentation, action and agency, practical reason and interaction are of fundamental importance to our understanding of some of the emerging contours of digital society; inclusive of big data, social media, the social life of methods, algorithmic culture, ‘artificial intelligence’ and the pivot to voice. In doing so, Housley aims to demonstrate the enduring relevance of work associated with Goffman, Garfinkel and Sacks in understanding everyday digital social life.
The book provides a range of insights into how sociology and social science continues to draw upon interactionism and aligned traditions such as ethnomethodology in making sense of the Interaction Order 2.0 and beyond.

-CONTENTS

1 Introduction: We are Still Interactionists 1

2 Digital Society and Disruptive Technologies 7

Big Data as a Social Force and the Challenge for Social Science 9

The Big (Social) Data Imaginary 10

Automation, Algorithms and Social Life 14

Self, Entanglements and Relationality 17

The Social Life of Methods? 18

3 Digital Society and Interaction 21

Symbolic Interactionism 21

Platforming Institutional Life in Digital Times 24

Accounting for Social Media in the Workplace: Civil Agents’

Use of Social Media 26

Self, Influencers, Metrics and Vlogging 30

Goffman and the Interaction Order 2.0 32

4 Digital Society, Ethnomethodology and Social Organisation 36

Respecification 37

Respecifying AI 40

Digital Society, Ethnomethodology, Design and the Study of

Collaborative Work 44

Platform Work and Situated Action: Add Your Voice to the

Sound of the Crowd 48

5 Digital Society and Mundane Civic Culture-in-Action 52

Membership Categorisation and Social Media? 55

Membership Categorisation and Twitter Formulations 55

Corrective Memes 57

Mundane Deconstruction, Interactional Threads and

Countering Derogatory Speech 60

Conclusion: Mundane Civics and the Digital Street 63

6 Digital Society and the Pivot to Voice 66

Talk and Technology 66

Interaction, Turn Taking and Sequential Organisation 67

Pivot to Voice, Precedents and Contemporary Concerns 71

Mobile Telephone Interaction 71

Video-Mediated Communication 73

Digital Assistants and Voice Agents 76

Interaction Design, Voice Data and the Digital Era 78

7 Conclusion: Reflections and Interactionist Futures 81

Digital Society as Interaction: Key Thematic Considerations 82

Digital Society: Interactionism and Social Science 84

References 87

Index 95

-Caractéristiques

Date de parution:25 mai 2021

Éditeur ‏ : ‎ SAGE Publications Ltd

NB.de pages : ‎ 112 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1526478080

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526478085

Poids de l’article ‏ : ‎ 270 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.81 x 0.79 x 21.01 cm