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In Digital Society: An Interactionist Perspective, William Housley explores the ways interactionist thinking contributes to our understanding of current trends and topics within digital sociology. Drawing on a range of aligned approaches, concepts and empirical studies, he explores how notions of self and presentation, action and agency, practical reason and interaction are of fundamental importance to our understanding of some of the emerging contours of digital society; inclusive of big data, social media, the social life of methods, algorithmic culture, ‘artificial intelligence’ and the pivot to voice. In doing so, Housley aims to demonstrate the enduring relevance of work associated with Goffman, Garfinkel and Sacks in understanding everyday digital social life. The book provides a range of insights into how sociology and social science continues to draw upon interactionism and aligned traditions such as ethnomethodology in making sense of the Interaction Order 2.0 and beyond.
Conclusion: Reflections and Interactionist Futures
Conclusion: Reflections and Interactionist Futures
During the course of this book we have explored digital society from an interactionist oriented set of perspectives. This has included the consideration of ideas associated with the presentation of self and everyday life, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis as they relate to the emerging contours of digital society and the social implications of digital disruptive technologies. These aligned approaches have distinct aspects, however, as outlined at the beginning of this book, and in combination, they provide a powerful apparatus for exploring the interaction order in digital times. To this extent the account of digital society presented during the course of the book is one that is grounded in an appreciation of the ways in which ...
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