This course is an introduction to theories and concepts for studying digital phenomena, which are issued from sociology in France, and to some extent in other countries.
Social relations and their analysis are changing along with computational processes, and digital sociology offers a way of deconstructing this. After reviewing digital sociology's contribution, we will pay particular attention to what Science and Technology Studies (STS) can tell us about understanding techniques. Our daily life is now woven by “digital-native” innovation: Big data, machine learning, web services, mobile applications, Internet of Things, as it has been with long-standing techniques such as the printing, algorithms, networks, media.
The course provides students an intersectional understanding of the issues (socioeconomic, political and gender) underlying the invention of techniques, the digitalisation of social behaviour, as well as the digitalisation of sociology.
Jessica PIDOUX
Séminaire
English
Spring 2022-2023
Marres, Noortje, 2017, Digital sociology: the reinvention of social research. Malden, MA: Polity.