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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.
Table of Content
Introduction
Chapter 1. Defining ‘the Public’
Chapter 2. The History of Platforms
Chapter 3. Between Publics and Platforms
Chapter 4. Sociology and its Platforms
Chapter 5. The Past, Present, and Future of Public Sociology
Chapter 6. Making Sociology Public
Chapter 7. Making Platforms Public
Chapter 8. Assembling Public Sociology
About the author
Lambros Fatsis is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at City, University of London. His research fuses Cultural Criminology with Black radical thought, focusing on police racism and the criminalisation of Black music subcultures. His co-authored book with Mark Carrigan, The Public and Their Platforms Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media is published by Bristol University Press.
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