Notes on the authors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Preface viii
5. Notes on the authors x
6. Introduction xvii
7. PART I Digital sociology in everyday life
8. 1 Structure and agency in a digital world 3
9. 2 Beyond digital dualism: Modeling digital community 9
10. 3 A return to Gemeinschaft: Digital impression management and the sharing economy 27
11. 4 Digital discourse analysis: Finding meaning in small online spaces 47
12. 5 Virtually ethical: Ethnographic challenges in researching textile crafters online 61
13. 6 Interactivity, social media, and Superman: How comic books can help us understand and conceptualize interactivity online 77
14. 7 The digital solidarity trap: Social movement research, online activism, and accessing the other’s others 103
15. 8 Digital Orientalism: TripAdvisor and online travelers’ tales 119
16. PART II Digitized institutions
17. 9 Digitized institutions and inequalities 139
18. 10 Toward a digital sociology of school 147
19. 11 Representing “inforgs” in data-driven decisions 163
20. 12 Employee monitoring in a digital context 181
21. 13 Digital sociology’s vocational promise 195
22. 14 Black cyberfeminism: Ways forward for intersectionality and digital sociology 211
23. 15 Deconstructing racism on college websites 233
24. 16 Yakking about college life: Examining the role of anonymous forums on community identity formation 251
25. 17 On Thursdays we watch Scandal: Communal viewing and Black Twitter 273
26. 18 Disruptive labor: Bleacher Report and the monetization of mass amateurization 295
27. 19 Covert leisure and public spaces: Geocaching in post-9/11 New York City 313
28. Part III Digital bodies
29. 20 Bodies in code 335
30. 21 Personal data practices in the age of lively data 339
31. 22 “They’re just too urban”: Black gamers streaming on Twitch 355
32. 23 From “geek” to “chic:” Wearable technology and the woman question 369
33. 24 Queer Facebook? Digital sociality and queer theory 387
34. 25 The Ms. Dewey “experience:” Technoculture, gender, and race 401
35. 26 The Emperor’s new data clothes: Implications of “nudity” as a racialized and gendered metaphor in discourse on personal digital data 421
36. 27 Post your comments below: A case study of immigrant bashing online 435
37. 28 Our mothers have always been machines: The conflation of media and motherhood 449
38. 29 #notracist: Exploring racism denial talk on Twitter 463
39. Index 487