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The public and their platforms : public sociology in an era of social media / Mark Carrigan and Lambros Fatsis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carrigan, Mark (Mark Alexander), author.
- Fatsis, Lambros, author.
- Series:
- Public sociology series.
- Policy Press scholarship online.
- Public sociology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social psychology.
- Social media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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 in a mutually reinforcing way.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)
- ISBN:
- 9781529201086
- 152920108X
- 9781529201109
- 1529201101
- 9781529201062
- 1529201063
- OCLC:
- 1255235243
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