The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology

Deana A. Rohlinger is a Professor of Sociology at Florida State University with expertise in political participation, political change and digital technologies. She is author of Abortion Politics, Mass Media and Social Movements in America (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and New Media and Society (New York University Press, 2019) as well as dozens of research articles and book chapters that analyze topics as diverse as the kinds of claims individuals make in the emails they sent Jeb Bush about the Terri Schiavo case to collective identity processes in MoveOn.org and the Tea Party Movement. Her most recent articles can be found in Information, Communication & Society, Signs, Mobilization, New Media & Society, and Social Media + Society. Rohlinger has co-edited three volumes: Strategy in Action: Movements and Social Change (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change: Special Issue on Media, Movements, and PoliticalChange (2012), and Emerald Studies in Media and Communication: Social Movements and Mass Media (2017), guest-edited two journals (Information, Communication & Society in 2018 and the American Behavioral Scientist in 2009), served as the book review editor for the journal Mobilization (2012-2018), and was the editor of the section on Social Movements for Sociology Compass (2012-2015). Rohlinger chaired the American Sociological Association's Communication, Information Technologies and Media Sociology section (2018-2019) and is chair-elect for the Collective Behavior, Social Movements section. She has been interviewed on a range of topics including digital politics and controversies involving Planned Parenthood as well as written commentaries for a variety of media outlets including U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, The American Prospect, and The Conversation. Her body of research was recently honored with the 2021 William F. Ogburn Mid-Career Achievement Awardfrom the Communications and Information Technologies and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association.Sarah Sobieraj is Professor of Sociology at Tufts University and a Faculty Associate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Her most recent book, Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2020), examines the impact of identity-based digital abuse on women's participation in social and political discourse. She is also the author of The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility (Oxford University Press, 2014) with Jeff Berry, and Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism (NYU Press, 2011). Sobieraj also edited (with Rob Boatright, Danna Young, and Tim Schaffer) A Crisis of Civility: Political Discourse and Its Discontents (Routledge, 2019). Her most recent journal articles can be found in Information, Communication &Society, Social Problems, PS: Political Science & Politics, Poetics, Political Communication, and Sociological Theory. Her work has been featured in venues such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Politico, Vox, CNN, PBS, NPR, The American Prospect, National Review, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, and Salon. Sobieraj serves on the advisory board of the Social Science Research Council's Disinformation Research Mapping Initiative and a member of the National Institute for Civil Discourse Research Network.

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsWhen the Extraordinary Become Mundane: Digital Media and The Sociological LensDeana A. Rohlinger, Sarah SobierajTheoretical Explorations of Digital Life1. Technology and TimeJudy Wajcman2. Media and the Social Construction of RealityNick Couldry and Andreas Hepp3. Theorizing CurationJenny Davis4. Affective Publics: Solidarity and DistanceZizi Papacharissi5. Big Data from the South(s): An Analytical Matrix to Investigate Data at the Margins Stefania Milan and Emiliano TreréDigital Media and Social Institutions6. From "Impact" to "Negotiation": Educational Technologies and InequalityCassidy Puckett and Matthew H. Rafalow7. Journalism in the Age of TwitterStephen R. Barnard8. Families, Relationships, and TechnologyRaelene Wilding9. Digital ReligionStef Aupers and Lars de Wildt10. Technology, Labor, and the Gig EconomyJamie WoodcockDigital Media in Everyday Life11. The Sociology of Mobile AppsDeborah Lupton12. Folding and Friction: The Internet of Things and Everyday LifeMurray Goulden13. Negotiating Intimacy via Dating Websites and Apps: Digital Media in Everyday LifeShantel Gabrieal Buggs14. Digital Pornography and Everyday LifeJennifer A. Johnson15. Use of Information and Communication Technologies Among Older Adults: Usage Differences, Health-Related Impacts, and Future NeedsShelia Cotten and Alexander Seifert16. The Sociology of Self-Tracking and Embodied Technologies: How Does Technology Engage Gendered, Raced, and Datafied Bodies?Elizabeth WissingerDigital Media, Community and Identity17. LGBTQ+ Communities and Digital MediaBrady Robards, Paul Byron, and Sab D'Souza18. Facework on Social Media in ChinaXiaoli Tian and Qian Li19. Video Games and Identity Formation in Contemporary SocietyDaniel Muriel20. Fans and Fan ActivismThomas V. Maher21. Trolls and Hacktivists: Political Mobilization from Online CommunitiesJessica L. Beyer22. Networked Street LifeJeffrey Lane and Will MarlerDigital Media Social Inequalities23. The Feminization of Social Media LaborSophie Bishop and Brooke Erin Duffy24. Electronic Waste and Environmental JusticeDavid N. Pellow25. Digital War: Mediatized Conflicts in Sociological PerspectiveOlga Boichak26. Masculinity, Everyday Racism, and GamingStephanie Ortiz27. Socioeconomic Inequalities and Digital SkillsMatías Dodel28. The Digital Production Gap in the Algorithmic EraJen Schradie and Liam BekirskyDigital Media, Power, and Politics29. Detect, Document, and Debunk: Studying Media Manipulation and DisinformationGabrielle Lim and Joan Donovan30. Gender, Digital Toxicity, and Political Voice Online Sarah Sobieraj31. Digital Media in Grassroots Anti-Corruption Across the WorldAlice Mattoni32. Digital Youth PoliticsJennifer Earl, Sam Scovill, and Elliot Ramo33. Transformations in American Political ParticipationDeana A. Rohlinger