The Public and Their Platforms : : Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media / / Mark Carrigan, Lambros Fatsis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Carrigan, Mark,; Fatsis, Lambros,
• MitwirkendeR: Brewer, John D.,; McLaughlin, Neil,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Bristol University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Public Sociology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Series Editors’ Preface --; Introduction --; Defining ‘the Public’ --; The History of Platforms --; Between Publics and Platforms --; Sociology and its Platforms --; The Past, Present and Future of Public Sociology --; Making Sociology Public --; Making Platforms Public --; Assembling Public Sociology --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781529201062; 9783111196756
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mark Carrigan, Lambros Fatsis.

As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book rethinks the role of these mediums in public sociology and what they can contribute to the discipline in the post-COVID world. It reconsiders the history and current conceptualizations of what sociology is, and analyzes what kinds of social life emerge in and through the interactions between ‘intellectuals’, ‘publics’ and ‘platforms’ of communication. Cutting across multiple disciplines, this pioneering work 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.