The Public and Their Platforms, livre ebook

There are a number of texts on similar themes but no direct competitors with a sociological focus looking at public engagement and public sociology;

Added content in relation to Covid;

Written by well-known authors in their fields;

Topical and relevant to a broad audience.

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

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.

Introduction

Chapter 1. Defining ‘the Public’

Chapter 2. The History of Platforms

Chapter 3. Between Publics and Platforms

Chapter 4. Sociology and its Platforms

Chapter 5. The Past, Present, and Future of Public Sociology

Chapter 6. Making Sociology Public

Chapter 7. Making Platforms Public

Chapter 8. Assembling Public Sociology