As technology has changed people's lives, criminal phenomena are also constantly
evolving. Today's digital society is changing the activities of organized crime and organized …

We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of
machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longer the case. Billions of …

An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of
audio files into streamed experience. Spotify provides a streaming service that has been …

This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of
interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the …

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media
platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their …

This paper reviews the contemporary discussion on the epistemological and ontological
effects of Big Data within social science, observing an increased focus on relationality and …

We now live in a digital society. New digital technologies have had a profound influence on
everyday life, social relations, government, commerce, the economy and the production and …

Advancing theory in media exposure and effects requires contending with an increasing
level of complexity and contingency. Building on established theoretical concerns and the …

Algorithms, as constitutive elements of online platforms, are increasingly shaping everyday
sociability. Developing suitable empirical approaches to render them accountable and to …

Not so long ago, I ran a postgraduate workshop on Actor-Network Theory (henceforth ANT).
An introductory overview had been specifically requested by students, many of whom did not …