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This SAGE Handbook brings together cutting edge social scientific research and theoretical insight into the emerging contours of digital society. Chapters explore the relationship between digitisation, social organisation and social... more
This SAGE Handbook brings together cutting edge social scientific research and theoretical insight into the emerging contours of digital society. Chapters explore the relationship between digitisation, social organisation and social transformation at both the macro and micro level, making this a valuable resource for postgraduate students and academics conducting research across the social sciences.

The topics covered are impressively far-ranging and timely, including machine learning, social media, surveillance, misinformation, digital labour, and beyond. This innovative Handbook perfectly captures the state of the art of a field which is rapidly gaining cross-disciplinary interest and global importance, and establishes a thematic framework for future teaching and research.

Part 1: Theorising Digital Societies

Part 2: Researching Digital Societies

Part 3: Sociotechnical Systems and Disruptive Technologies in Action

Part 4: Digital Society and New Social Dilemmas

Part 5: Governance and Regulation

Part 6: Digital Futures

Chapter 1: The Emerging Contours of Digital Society: Remastering, Reconsideration, Reorientation and New Socio-Digital Domains. William Housley, Adam Edwards, Roser Benito-Montagut and Richard Fitzgerald

Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert Chapter 2: Digital stratification: Class, status group, and party in the age of the Internet

Michael R. McGuire Chapter 3: Crime, Control, and the Ambiguous Gifts of Digital Technology

Robin Smith Chapter 4: Digital Mobilities and Digital Society

Maria José Brites and Rita Figueiras Chapter 5: Disconnection and Digital Society: Perspectives on how Citizens Deal with Media Technology 

PART 2: Researching Digital Societies

Rob Procter Chapter 6: Developing Tools and Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Digital Social Research

Malcolm Williams, Charlotte Brookfield, Luke Sloan Chapter 7: Quantitative Research Methods Teaching in a Digital Age

Dennis Leeftink and Daniel Angus Chapter 8: The Research Stack: A Framework for Data-Driven Humanities and Social Science

Alexia Maddox Chapter 9: Ethnography and Digital Society

Harry T Dyer and Crystal Abidin Chapter 10: Understanding Identity and Platform Cultures

Gemma San Cornelio Chapter 11: Instagram Aesthetics for Social Change: A Narrative Approach to Visual Activism on Instagram

Joanne Meredith Chapter 12: Researching Digital Discourse and Interaction

Phillip Brooker and Michael Mair Chapter 13: Researching Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence 

PART 3: Sociotechnical Systems and Disruptive Technologies in Action

Axel Bruns Chapter 14: Social Media Analytics: Boom and Bust?

Larissa Hjorth and Ingrid Richardson Chapter 15: Games and Mediated Playful Practices

Shuaishuai Wang Chapter 16: Algorithmic Configurations of Sexuality: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Approaches

Mike Coliandris Chapter 17: Drones as Disruptive Sociotechnical Systems: A Case Study of Drone Crime and Control

Andrés Domínguez Hernández Chapter 18: The Internet of Things and New Frontiers of Datafication 

PART 4: Digital Society and New Social Dilemmas

Pamela M. Hong and Fabio G. Rojas Chapter 19: Digital Racism

Charlotte Nau Chapter 20: Social Media, Gender and Online Discrimination

Emma Bond Chapter 21: Online Safeguarding of Adults with an Intellectual Disability: How do we Ensure that Participation and Protection Rights are Adequately Met in Digital Society?

Gwyneth Peaty, Jordan Alice and Katie Ellis Chapter 22: Clickbait in the Commodification of Sympathy: Disability, Inspiration Porn and the Possibilities for New Narratives

Sharon Meraz Chapter 23: Political Communication in the Digital Age 

PART 5: Governance and Regulation

Rik Peeters and Marc Schuilenburg Chapter 24: Algorithmic Governance: Technology, Knowledge, and Power

Martin Innes, David Rogers, Nora Jansen and Viorica Budu Chapter 25: Digital (Dis)information Operations and Misinformation Campaigns

Michael Levi Chapter 26: Frauds in Digital Society

Philip Inglesant, Helena Webb, Carolyn Ten Holter, Menisha Patel, Marina Jirotka Chapter 27: The Responsible Innovation of Disruptive Technologies

Ben Williamson Chapter 28: Governing through Infrastructural Control: Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing in the Data-Intensive State

Adam Edwards, William Housley, Roser Beneito-Montagut and Richard Fitzgerald Chapter 29: Freedom of Speech and Online Harm in Liberal Democracies: a Triadic Concept 

PART 6: Digital Futures

Phillip Brown, Manuel Souto-Otero and Sahara Sadik Chapter 30: Digital Transformation and the Future of Work

Stuart Reeves and Martin Porcheron Chapter 31: Conversational AI: Respecifying Participation as Regulation

Neil Selwyn Chapter 32: Critical Data Futures Steve Fuller Chapter 33: Mediating the Message in Digital Society
This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks’s original analyses – concerned with the lived detail of action and language-in-interaction, discoverable in... more
This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks’s original analyses – concerned with the lived detail of action and language-in-interaction, discoverable in members’ actual activities – demonstrated a means of doing sociology that had previously seemed impossible. In so doing, Sacks provided for highly technical, detailed, yet stunningly simple solutions to some of the most trenchant troubles for the social sciences relating to language, culture, meaning, knowledge, action, and social organisation. In this original collection, scholars working in a range of different fields, including sociology, human geography, communication and media studies, social psychology, and linguistics, outline the ways in which their work has been inspired, influenced, and shaped by Sacks’s approach, as well as how their current research is taking Sacks’s legacy forward in new directions. As such, the collection is intended to provide both an introduction to, and critical exploration of, the work of Harvey Sacks and its continued relevance for the analysis of contemporary society.

Table of Contents
1. On Sacks: Methodology, Materials, and Inspirations

Robin James Smith, Richard Fitzgerald, William Housley

2. Discovering Sacks

Rod Watson

3. Action, Meaning and Understanding: Seeing Sociologically with Harvey Sacks

Michael Mair and Wes Sharrock

4. Sacks’ Plenum: The Inscription of Social Orders

Andrew P. Carlin

5. From Ethnosemantics to Occasioned Semantics: The Transformative Influence of Harvey Sacks

Jack Bilmes

6. Sacks, Categories, Language, and Gender

Elizabeth Stokoe, Bogdana Huma, Derek Edwards

7. A Most Remarkable Fact, for All Intents and Purposes: The Practical Matter of Categorical Truths

Jessica Robles

8. Sacks: On Omni-relevance and the Layered Texture of Interaction

Richard Fitzgerald

9. Membership Categorization and the Sequential Multimodal Organisation of Action: Walking, Perceiving, and Talking in Material-spatial Ecologies

Lorenza Mondada

10. Revisiting Sacks’s Work on Greetings: the "First Position" for Greetings

Christian Licoppe

11. Sacks, Silence, and Self-(de)selection

Eliot M. Hoey

12. Using Observation as a Basis for Theorising: Children’s Interaction and Social Order

Susan Danby

13. Membership Categorisation and the Notion of "Omni-relevance" in Everyday Family Interactions

Sara Keel

14. Sacks and the Study of the Local Organisation of Second Language Lessons

Ricardo Moutinho

15. Categorisation Practices, Place, and Perception: Doing Incongruities and the Commonplace Scene as ‘Assembled Activity’

Robin James Smith

16. On Sacks and the Analysis of Racial Categories-in-Action

Kevin A. Whitehead

17. Harvey Sacks, Membership Categorisation, and Social Media

William Housley
How do we interact in and with social networks? How do they affect politics and journalism? How do we build a space and an interactive space? How do users of digital platforms define themselves as members of a community? Through ten... more
How do we interact in and with social networks? How do they affect politics and journalism? How do we build a space and an interactive space? How do users of digital platforms define themselves as members of a community?

Through ten contributions the authors explore the discourse of digital communication and offer an innovative look at the hybrid and multimodal forms of speech of social networks. This volume includes contributions in both French and English through qualitatively and quantitatively studies from Canada, UK, France, Italy and Switzerland and sits at the intersection of several interests:

• Describing the communication work and affordances of social networks.

• Highlighting the importance of combined methodological approaches in the study of the discourse of social networks.

• Examining issues of identity within and between digital communication and citizenship.

• Examining evolving policies in relation to the responsibility of the media in the digital age.

This book is particularly intended for researchers and teachers of digital humanities and communication sciences through a reflection on the issues of new media and citizenship.
Research Interests:
This is an exciting addition to the dynamic, multidisciplinary field of membership categorization analysis. Bringing together the biggest names in MCA this landmark publication provides a contemporary analysis of the field and a platform... more
This is an exciting addition to the dynamic, multidisciplinary field of membership categorization analysis. Bringing together the biggest names in MCA this landmark publication provides a contemporary analysis of the field and a platform for emerging researchers and students to build upon.

The book sets out the current methodological developments of MCA highlighting its analytic strength – particularly when examining social identity and social knowledge. It provides a sophisticated tool of qualitative analysis and draws from a wide range of empirical studies provided by global scholars.

The culmination of years of international research this agenda-setting text will be essential reading for academics and advanced students using membership categorization across the social sciences; particularly in media and communication studies, sociology, psychology, education, political science and linguistics.


Contents.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Membership Categorization Analysis. William Housley and Richard Fitzgerald

Chapter 2: De Reifiying Categories. Rod Watson

Chapter 3: Prospective and Retrospective Categorization: Category proffers and inferences in social interaction and rolling news media. Elizabeth Stokoe and Frederick Attenborough

Chapter 4: Categorization Work in the Courtroom: The ‘foundational’ character of membership categorization analysis. Christian Licoppe

Chapter 5: Challenging Normativity: re-appraising category, bound, tied and predicated features. Edward Reynolds and Richard Fitzgerald

Chapter 6: Omnirelevance in Technologized Interaction: Couples coping with video calling distortions.. Sean Rintel

Chapter 7: Membership Categorization and Methodological Reasoning in Research Team Interaction. William Housley and Robin Smith.

"MCA provides an orientation, set of questions, and identification of discrete discourse devices to aid understanding of the moral work  being accomplished by speakers’ and writers’ as they  select  category terms and tie them to descriptions.  Fitzgerald and Housley’s Advances in Membership Categorization Analysis brings together cutting edge theoretical explication with fascinating examples ( YouTube posts, intimates video chatting, a review board assessing parole, a research team meeting, online breaking news updates)  and is a must-read for anyone interested in identities and interaction."

Karen Tracy
Professor and Chair. Department of Communication,

"A state of the art collection which is essential reading for anyone interested in social identity and social order."

David Silverman
Goldsmiths' and King's College, London, and University of Technology, Sydney

"Membership categories are central to the organization of culture.  They set up inferential relations between classes of people, they implicate actions and thoughts, and they mark moral statuses.  Membership categorization analysis develops the tradition of work started by Harvey Sacks and shows that the issues he explored are still urgent and significant.  In this volume an A-list of contributors provide state of the art analyses that illustrate the ongoing vitality of membership categorization analysis.  It is essential reading for anyone interested in this topic."

Jonathan Potter
Professor of Discourse Analysis, Loughborough University

"Richard Fitzgerald and William Housley are to be congratulated for further developing the field. In taking up such questions as the ethnomethodology of categorization (a masterful discussion by Rod Watson), the omni-relevance of categories, the precise nature of the connections between categories and predicates, the temporal reference of category usage, the relationship of categorization to “doing being ordinary” and the place of categorization in the “social life of methods,” the contributors truly bear out the promise expressed in the title of advancing membership categorization analysis."

Peter Eglin
Wilfrid Laurier University
Research Interests:
Situated within the field of discourse-oriented approaches to policy and media, this collection explores the interface between government, media and the public, highlighting the increasing importance placed on media channelled 'public... more
Situated within the field of discourse-oriented approaches to policy and media, this collection explores the interface between government, media and the public, highlighting the increasing importance placed on media channelled 'public opinion' as part of a democratic process.

The authors use a variety of discourse analytic methods including CA/MCA, Discourse Analysis and Interactionism, to provide discussions around the social organization of policy debate in media sites including news interviews, public access broadcasts, broadcast debates, panel discussions, mediated government initiatives, newspapers and news broadcasts. The book's geographical coverage spans the USA, Canada, the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia.

This volume offers a major contribution to discourse analysis and its emphasis on policy substance will appeal to a broad audience in social and public policy, political communication, journalism and politics.

Contents

1. Media, Policy and Interaction: Introduction.
Richard Fitzgerald and William Housley
2. Membership Category Work in Policy Debate.
William Housley and Richard Fitzgerald
3. Configuring a television debate: Categorisation,
questions and answers.
Alain Bovet
4. Asserting Interpretive Frames of Political Events:
Panel Discussions on Television News.
Emo Gotsbachner
5. Staging Public Discussion: Mobilizing Political
Community in Closing Discussion Programmes.
Hanna Rautajoki
6. Doing public policy’ in the Political News Interview
Johanna Rendle-Short
7. Press Scrums: Some Preliminary Observations.
Patrick Watson and Christian Greiffenhagen
8. Styling for hegemony: The West as an enemy (and
the ideal) in Belarusian television news.
Marián Sloboda
9. Scandal and Dialogical Network: What does morality
have do to politics. About the Islamic headscarf within
the Egyptian parliament
Baudouin Dupret, Enrique Klaus, Jean-Noël Ferrié
10. Moving teachers: Public texts and institutional
power
Susan Bridges and Brendan Bartlett
11. Newspapers on education policy: constructing an
authoritative public voice on education
Sue Thomas"
"Abstract The aim of this research is to examine the lived work of a radio broadcast. Within this two main aims are undertaken: the first methodological the second analytic. The methodological discussion takes the form of a critical... more
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The aim of this research is to examine the lived work of a radio broadcast. Within this two main aims are undertaken: the first methodological the second analytic. The methodological discussion takes the form of a critical examination of conversation analysis and membership categorisation analysis as separate methods for analysing members interaction. It is argued that, rather than any one method being applied to the exclusion of others, the analysis of members’ methods should be able to demonstrate a sensitivity to the mutually elaborative combination of methods drawn upon and used as a resource by members in situ. A methodological approach which combines an appreciation of various participant methods is then advanced and used in an initial examination of a radio phone-in. This initial examination of the data is then developed upon in the second section. Here, calls are examined in more detail documenting a variety of categorial and sequential resources, both routine and specialised, used and relied upon by participants when offering their opinions and debating a topic. From this it is suggested that, rather than these methods being seen as a modification of mundane methods, the methods used can be seen as common resources drawn upon to make this situation what it is."