Social Media, Internet and Society
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2016) | Viewed by 55139
Special Issue Editors
Interests: social psychology; self and identity; cultural sociology; technology and society; new and social media; the body and embodiment; qualitative research methods; experimental research methods
Interests: self-organization; design studies; new and social media; qualitative research methods; critical making; social theory; urban studies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on theoretically driven work that examines the mutually influential relationship between humans, platforms, devices, and code. Articles can be wholly theoretical or incorporate empirical data, broadly defined, that illustrates a theoretical argument and/or complicates existing theoretical debates. A partial list of suggested topics includes network formation and maintenance, race and racism, big data, small data, gender and sexism/cis-ism, intersectionalities, courtship and dating, sex and sexuality, algorithms and curation, privacy and publicity, digital dualism, augmented reality, popular discourses of new and social media, embodied technology, social media ecologies, prosumption/identity prosumption, political processes, and labor and exploitation. Articles published in this Special Issue will counter utopic and dystopic renderings of technological pervasiveness, and move beyond descriptive analyses. Instead, the issue will push theoretical advancements that illuminate the multifaceted relationship between humans and information communication technologies. To optimize interdisciplinarity and a broad reach, authors are encouraged to write clearly and avoid disciplinary jargon.
Dr. Jenny L. Davis, PhD
Mr. David A. Banks, Doctoral Candidate
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Digital
- Social Media
- Internet and society
- Code
- Algorithms
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