PART 1: Theorising Digital Societies
William Housley, Adam Edwards, Roser Benito-Montagut and Richard Fitzgerald
Chapter 1: The Emerging Contours of Digital Society: Remastering, Reconsideration, Reorientation and New Socio-Digital Domains
Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert
Chapter 2: Digital stratification: Class, status group, and party in the age of the Internet
Michael R. McGuire
Chapter 3: Crime, Control, and the Ambiguous Gifts of Digital Technology
Robin Smith
Chapter 4: Digital Mobilities and Digital Society
Maria José Brites and Rita Figueiras
Chapter 5: Disconnection and Digital Society: Perspectives on how Citizens Deal with Media Technology
PART 2: Researching Digital Societies
Rob Procter
Chapter 6: Developing Tools and Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Digital Social Research
Malcolm Williams, Charlotte Brookfield, Luke Sloan
Chapter 7: Quantitative Research Methods Teaching in a Digital Age
Dennis Leeftink and Daniel Angus
Chapter 8: The Research Stack: A Framework for Data-Driven Humanities and Social Science
Alexia Maddox
Chapter 9: Ethnography and Digital Society
Harry T Dyer and Crystal Abidin
Chapter 10: Understanding Identity and Platform Cultures
Gemma San Cornelio
Chapter 11: Instagram Aesthetics for Social Change: A Narrative Approach to Visual Activism on Instagram
Joanne Meredith
Chapter 12: Researching Digital Discourse and Interaction
Phillip Brooker and Michael Mair
Chapter 13: Researching Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence
PART 3: Sociotechnical Systems and Disruptive Technologies in Action
Axel Bruns
Chapter 14: Social Media Analytics: Boom and Bust?
Larissa Hjorth and Ingrid Richardson
Chapter 15: Games and Mediated Playful Practices
Shuaishuai Wang
Chapter 16: Algorithmic Configurations of Sexuality: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Approaches
Mike Coliandris
Chapter 17: Drones as Disruptive Sociotechnical Systems: A Case Study of Drone Crime and Control
Andrés Domínguez Hernández
Chapter 18: The Internet of Things and New Frontiers of Datafication
PART 4: Digital Society and New Social Dilemmas
Pamela M. Hong and Fabio G. Rojas
Chapter 19: Digital Racism
Charlotte Nau
Chapter 20: Social Media, Gender and Online Discrimination
Emma Bond
Chapter 21: Online Safeguarding of Adults with an Intellectual Disability: How do we Ensure that Participation and Protection Rights are Adequately Met in Digital Society?
Gwyneth Peaty, Jordan Alice and Katie Ellis
Chapter 22: Clickbait in the Commodification of Sympathy: Disability, Inspiration Porn and the Possibilities for New Narratives
Sharon Meraz
Chapter 23: Political Communication in the Digital Age
PART 5: Governance and Regulation
Rik Peeters and Marc Schuilenburg
Chapter 24: Algorithmic Governance: Technology, Knowledge, and Power
Martin Innes, David Rogers, Nora Jansen and Viorica Budu
Chapter 25: Digital (Dis)information Operations and Misinformation Campaigns
Michael Levi
Chapter 26: Frauds in Digital Society
Philip Inglesant, Helena Webb, Carolyn Ten Holter, Menisha Patel, Marina Jirotka
Chapter 27: The Responsible Innovation of Disruptive Technologies
Ben Williamson
Chapter 28: Governing through Infrastructural Control: Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing in the Data-Intensive State
Adam Edwards, William Housley, Roser Beneito-Montagut and Richard Fitzgerald
Chapter 29: Freedom of Speech and Online Harm in Liberal Democracies: a Triadic Concept
PART 6: Digital Futures
Phillip Brown, Manuel Souto-Otero and Sahara Sadik
Chapter 30: Digital Transformation and the Future of Work
Stuart Reeves and Martin Porcheron
Chapter 31: Conversational AI: Respecifying Participation as Regulation
Neil Selwyn
Chapter 32: Critical Data Futures
Steve Fuller
Chapter 33: Mediating the Message in Digital Society