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oapen-20.500.12657-764582024-03-28T09:47:57Z The Public and Their Platforms Carrigan, Mark Fatsis, Lambros Internet studies; Mass society; Platform capitalism; Public engagement; Public intellectuals; Public sociology; Social media; Sociology EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book rethinks the role of these mediums in public sociology and what they can contribute to the discipline in the post-COVID world. It reconsiders the history and current conceptualizations of what sociology is, and analyzes what kinds of social life emerge in and through the interactions between ‘intellectuals’, ‘publics’ and ‘platforms’ of communication. Cutting across multiple disciplines, this pioneering work 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 in a mutually reinforcing way. 2023-09-27T13:30:21Z 2023-09-27T13:30:21Z 2021 book 9781529201055 9781529201079 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76458 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781529201062.pdf 9781529201086.epub https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-public-and-their-platforms Bristol University Press 10.47674/9781529201062 10.47674/9781529201062 1c3eed4f-33ba-4e18-91b5-cf9a96ff57ee 9781529201055 9781529201079 254 Bristol open access
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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book rethinks the role of these mediums in public sociology and what they can contribute to the discipline in the post-COVID world. It reconsiders the history and current conceptualizations of what sociology is, and analyzes what kinds of social life emerge in and through the interactions between ‘intellectuals’, ‘publics’ and ‘platforms’ of communication.
Cutting across multiple disciplines, this pioneering work 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 in a mutually reinforcing way.
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