Digital sociology’s vocational promise

Barnard, Stephen R.

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“…Indeed, the concept emphasizes the qualitative changes to communicative action brought about by hyper-mediation (Hjarvard, 2013). In mediatized fields, social action is not only bound by traditional institutional relations but is also constantly augmented by media(ted) dynamics, which can amount to a fundamental shift in the form and function of fields (Barnard, 2016c; Couldry, 2014; Jurgenson, 2012). The proliferation of #BlackLivesMatter—both as a hashtag and a networked social movement—illustrates how a hybrid, mediatized political–journalistic field can operate.…”

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Tweeting #Ferguson: Mediatized fields and the new activist journalist

Barnard

2017

New Media & Society

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As a hybrid, journo-activist space, tweeting #Ferguson quickly emerged as a way for activists and journalists to network and spread information. Using a mixed-methods approach combining digital ethnographic content analysis with social network analysis and link analysis, this study examines journalistic and activist uses of Twitter to identify changes in field relations and practices. Employing the lenses of field theory and mediatization, this study finds parity and divergence in the themes, frames, format, and discourse of journalist and activist Twitter practices. While the traditions of objective journalism and affective activism persist, notable exceptions occurred, especially following acts of police suppression. The networked communities of professional and activist Twitter users were overlapping and interactive, suggesting hybridity at the margins of the journalistic field. Given the hybridizing of journalistic and journo-activist practices, this case study examines the role of social media in efforts to report on and bolster social change.

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Tweeting #Ferguson: Mediatized fields and the new activist journalist

Barnard

2017

New Media & Society

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“…Rapidly changing technological landscapes have blurred the boundaries between public and private spheres and altered the contours of risk in relation to self identity (Bond, 2014). Yet as Stokes (2010: 321) observes:… conceiving of the ‘web’ as a dimension of reality rather than a separate space frees us from the traditional false dichotomies found in social science and the false analogy of ‘virtual’ and ‘real’.As such: ‘given the ubiquity of digital technology and connectivity in contemporary society, an honest, empirically driven, and sociologically grounded discussion of these dynamics is long overdue’ (Barnard, 2017: 199).…”

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Biases, concerns and the erosion of rights: Addressing digital issues with adopted and fostered children in a policy vacuum

Phippen,

Bond

2023

Adoption & Fostering

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Online harms and the resultant safeguarding approaches are a key challenge for those working in the children’s workforce. However, safety narratives and a wish to prevent harm, rather than mitigate risk, have arguably caused a safeguarding environment that is neither mindful of children’s rights nor in their best interests. When supporting adopted and looked after children, there are some specific challenges that can result in further caution in supporting children in their use of digital technology. Empirical data presents observations on a professional environment where, with a dearth of training or policy direction, professionals are left to bring their own biases and beliefs into safeguarding judgements and, in the rush to protect, often forget the importance of working across stakeholders rather than trying to resolve issues independently.

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“…There is even less research on how the family informs the Internet. Although there is a lot of "digital scholarship" (i.e., studies with native digital data, digital methods, and online publication outlets), there is a lack of "scholarship of the digital" that places digital technologies at the heart of theoretical and empirical inquiry (Barnard, 2017). A tacit yet enduring dichotomy between online and offline social life remains (see Maddox, 2017).…”

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The Internet as a social institution: Rethinking concepts for family scholarship

Longo

2023

Family Relations

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I argue that scholars study the Internet as a social institution. This study employs a critical literature review of multi-disciplinary scholarship on the Internet, the family, and adjacent institutions comparing it to Patricia Yancy Martin's (2005) fourteen criteria of social institution to demonstrate how the Internet represents a new social institution, worthy of inquiry through its fourteen defining characteristics of endurance (persistence over time), social practices, conflicts, power struggles, identity formation, and change, among other criteria (Martin 2004; 1256). I, then, I discuss the potential starting points of digital data research methods for newcomers to the field, such as data acquisition, coding potential, and approaches to analysis. Conceptualizing the Internet as a social institution will ultimately improve the evaluation of peer-reviewed digital research, expand social theory more broadly, elevate our awareness of the Internet's sociality, and subject the interconnections of the social institution of the Internet and other social institutions to more critical investigations.

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Digital sociology’s vocational promise

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Tweeting #Ferguson: Mediatized fields and the new activist journalist

Tweeting #Ferguson: Mediatized fields and the new activist journalist

Biases, concerns and the erosion of rights: Addressing digital issues with adopted and fostered children in a policy vacuum

The Internet as a social institution: Rethinking concepts for family scholarship

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