The public and their platforms : public sociology in an era of social media

The public and their platforms public sociology in an era of social media

Cutting across multiple disciplines, this book maps out a new role for the public sociologist in the post-COVID world. It envisions a new kind of public sociology that brings together the digital and the physical to create public spaces where critical scholarship and active civic engagement can meet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Carrigan, Mark, author (author), Fatsis, Lambros, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press 2021.
Edición:First edition
Colección:Public sociology series.
Policy Press scholarship online.
Materias:
Social psychology.
Social media.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009769039006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Series
  • The Public and Their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 Defining 'the Public'
  • What/who is 'the public'?
  • The good, the bad, and the redeemable 'public'
  • The disappearance of 'the public'
  • How to rethink 'the public' in order to revive it
  • Becoming citizens
  • Practising citizenship
  • (Re)making public space(s)
  • 2 The History of Platforms
  • The rise of the (digital) platform
  • A brief history of social media platforms
  • Platform and agency
  • The ideology of social media
  • The reality of online participation
  • 3 Between Publics and Platforms
  • Platforms and their publics
  • Caught between publics and platforms
  • Publishers as intermediaries
  • The divided soul of the platform
  • 4 Sociology and its Platforms
  • Reasons for caution
  • Rethinking sociological practice for platforms
  • Decentring outputs
  • Decentring expertise
  • Decentring knowledge
  • What does this mean for public sociology?
  • 5 The Past, Present and Future of Public Sociology
  • The past of public sociology
  • The present of public sociology
  • Traditional public sociology
  • Print media
  • Books
  • Organic public sociology
  • The future of public sociology
  • 6 Making Sociology Public
  • Social media in higher education
  • The problems of platforms
  • The scholastic disposition
  • Forgetfulness o f technics
  • Building platforms for public sociology
  • 7 Making Platforms Public
  • The platform university
  • The epistemic chaos of platform capitalism
  • The contestation of research
  • Public sociology and platform governance
  • 8 Assembling Public Sociology
  • Sociology in public
  • What is public sociology?
  • What is public about public sociology?
  • Who and what is its 'public'?.
  • What is public sociology's relationship to its 'public'?
  • Can professional sociology (ever) be 'public'?
  • The digital undercommons
  • Public 'inter-lectuals'
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover.

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