UID:
almahu_9949585699502882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-5292-0108-X
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1-5292-0110-1
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1-5292-0106-3
Series Statement:
Public sociology series
Content:
Cutting across multiple disciplines, this book maps out a new role for the public sociologist in the post-COVID world. It 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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2022).
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Front Cover -- Series -- The Public and Their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Defining 'the Public' -- What/who is 'the public'? -- The good, the bad, and the redeemable 'public' -- The disappearance of 'the public' -- How to rethink 'the public' in order to revive it -- Becoming citizens -- Practising citizenship -- (Re)making public space(s) -- 2 The History of Platforms -- The rise of the (digital) platform -- A brief history of social media platforms -- Platform and agency -- The ideology of social media -- The reality of online participation -- 3 Between Publics and Platforms -- Platforms and their publics -- Caught between publics and platforms -- Publishers as intermediaries -- The divided soul of the platform -- 4 Sociology and its Platforms -- Reasons for caution -- Rethinking sociological practice for platforms -- Decentring outputs -- Decentring expertise -- Decentring knowledge -- What does this mean for public sociology? -- 5 The Past, Present and Future of Public Sociology -- The past of public sociology -- The present of public sociology -- Traditional public sociology -- Print media -- Books -- Organic public sociology -- The future of public sociology -- 6 Making Sociology Public -- Social media in higher education -- The problems of platforms -- The scholastic disposition -- Forgetfulness o f technics -- Building platforms for public sociology -- 7 Making Platforms Public -- The platform university -- The epistemic chaos of platform capitalism -- The contestation of research -- Public sociology and platform governance -- 8 Assembling Public Sociology -- Sociology in public -- What is public sociology? -- What is public about public sociology? -- Who and what is its 'public'?.
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What is public sociology's relationship to its 'public'? -- Can professional sociology (ever) be 'public'? -- The digital undercommons -- Public 'inter-lectuals' -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5292-0109-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5292-0105-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.56687/9781529201062
