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Anchored in a desire to use both sociology and social media platforms to stimulate civic engagement and public participation, we organize our discussion around three main propositions.
What does public sociology mean in an era of social media? Many answers to this question see social media as providing new tools for public sociology, promising the expansion of sociology’s reach by communicating its insights to vast audiences.
9 cze 2021 · As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this book rethinks the role of these mediums in public sociology and what they can contribute to the discipline in the post-COVID world.
13 wrz 2016 · The articles in this special section strengthen our understanding of the relationship between media, collective action, and participation in social change by exposing how knowledge about it is produced.
1 lis 2021 · We claim that using multiple data sources, optimizing keyword settings, enhancing interdisciplinary cooperation, and paying more attention to the functional role of social media can benefit the development of social media-based public opinion analysis.
21 lip 2021 · The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media is a timely collection of eight essays that explore the relationship between public sociology and social media. The concept of ‘the public’ has been widely theorised in the social sciences.
18 sie 2017 · I informally examine how the idea of public sociology has been affected by the rise of social media. New social media platforms disintermediate communication, make people more visible, and encourage public life to be measured.
