A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post
online—and the large societal impact of these decisions Most users want their Twitter feed …

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 media platforms play an increasingly important civic role as platforms for discourse,
where we discuss, debate, and share information. This article explores how users make …

The capacity to understand and control one's personal data is now a crucial part of living in
contemporary society. In this sense, traditional concerns over supporting the development of …

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 …

In this article, I inquire into Facebook's development as a platform by situating it within the
transformation of social network sites into social media platforms. I explore this shift with a …

Inspired by a call to Occupy Wall Street circulated by the Canadian magazine Adbusters, the
Occupy movement began on 17 September 2011 when activists occupied Zuccotti Park in …

This article explores the new modalities of visibility engendered by new media, with a focus
on the social networking site Facebook. Influenced by Foucault's writings on Panopticism …

Communication scholars have recently begun to recognize and investigate the importance
of algorithms to a wide range of processes related to the production and consumption of …

This article examines the social utility of the concept,'data literacy'. Recent developments in
the processes of datafication challenge long-held assumptions about privacy and the role of …