People, Technology, and Social Organization

ISBN-13: 9781032230689 / Twarda / 2023 / 16 str.

Opis

This insightful and accessible book is a response to the increasing important role that technology plays in everyday life, and the urgent need for empirical studies that analyse the impact of technology on social practices.

Spis treści

1 Introduction  Part 1  Power and Control  2 Being Family and Friends to Abused Women – A Qualitative Study of Digital Media in Intimate Partner Violence  3 News, Sex, and the Fight Between Corporate Control and Human Communication Online  4 Terminal Violence: Online Interactions and Infra-Humanization  5 Summing Up the Criminal Case Online  Part 2  Identity and Community  6 Organizing Subcultural Identities on Social Media: Instagram Infrastructures and User Actions  7 A Queer Kind of Stigma  8 Symbolic Separation: The Amish and 21st-Century Technologies  Part 3  Practices and Technology  9 Receiving Phone Calls During Medical Consultations: The Production of Interactional Space for Technology Use  10 Non-Talking Heads: How Architectures of Digital Copresence Shape Question-Silence-Answer-Sequences in University Teaching  11 The Role of Cursor Movements in a Screen-Based Video Game Interaction  12 Problems with the Digital Public Encounter  13 Smartphone Tooling: Achieving Perception by Positioning a Smartphone for Object Scanning  Part 4  Reflections on Interactionist Studies of Technologies  14 Where Next for Interactionist Studies of Technology?

O autorze

Dirk vom Lehn is Professor of Organization and Practice at King’s Business School/King’s College London, co-editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism, and author of Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology.

Will Gibson is Professor of Interactional Sociology and Qualitative Research at the Institute of Education, University College London, co-editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism and co-author of Institutions, Interaction and Social Theory.

Natalia Ruiz-Junco is Associate Professor of Sociology at Auburn University, USA, and co-editor of Updating Charles H. Cooley: Contemporary Perspectives on a Sociological Classic and The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism.