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Digital Sociology: The Uses of ICTs in Social Life
Digital Sociology: The Uses of ICTs in Social Life
Abstract Submissions Closed
Tuesday, 23 February 2021: 17:45-19:15
Location:
RC07 Futures Research (host committee)
Language: Spanish and English
Session Type: Oral
This session intends to discuss research specificities of Digital Sociology understood not just as a methodological segment of the discipline, but as a broad field of investigation about the uses of Information Technologies in social and political life. This field of research includes subjects like political organization, new forms of sociability and conflict, anti-institutional trends, collective identity building and new forms of inequality. The ongoing consolidation and dissemination of digital media in different societies can also constitute an important research subject dealing with local realities, cultural reapropriations of communication technologies and the creation of neoliberal subjectivities shaped by the commercial interests of the the Silicon Valley oligopoly of social networking sites. The era of connectivity has proved to be one of main forces shapping our future presenting sociology not just new subjects of research, but also new methodological and theoretical challenges.
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