Digitized Institutions

Daniels, Jessie, Gregory, Karen, Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, Tressie McMillan Cottom

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781447329091
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

A key sociological insight is that institutions, whether education, the economy, politics or the media, shape the contours of individual life and drive inequality. In this Byte, the contributions take up the way that digitally meditated social processes are transforming institutions. The writing here examines the interconnectedness of institutions and considers digitization across schooling, work, and media, with an eye toward how inequality works.

Together, these selections yield important insights into critical features of the institutions that mediate our digitized society, arguing that digital sociology's greatest challenge is measuring inequalities that are produced by society's datalogical turn.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Notes on the authors
• 9. Digitized institutions and inequalities
• 10. Toward a digital sociology of school
• 11. Representing “inforgs” in data-driven decisions
• 12. Employee monitoring in a digital context
• 13. Digital sociology’s vocational promise
• 14. Black cyberfeminism: Ways forward for intersectionality and digital sociology
• 15. Deconstructing racism on college websites
• 16. Yakking about college life: Examining the role of anonymous forums on community identity formation
• 17. On Thursdays we watch Scandal: Communal viewing and Black Twitter
• 18. Disruptive labor: Bleacher Report and the monetization of mass amateurization
• 19. Covert leisure and public spaces: Geocaching in post-9/11 New York City