Activity: Digital Inclusion

• Relevant factors?
• Experiences?
• Diversity of perspectives?

Required Texts

• Latour, Bruno. “Networks, Societies, Spheres: Reflections of an Actor-network Theorist.” International Journal of Communication 5 (2011): 796–810. http://lar.me/2-o
• Kreiss, D., M. Finn, and F. Turner. “The Limits of Peer Production: Some Reminders from Max Weber for the Network Society.” New Media & Society 13, no. 2 (October 12, 2010): 243–259. doi:10.1177/1461444810370951. http://lar.me/2-p

Latour

Latour, Bruno. “Networks, Societies, Spheres: Reflections of an Actor-network Theorist.” International Journal of Communication 5 (2011): 796–810. http://lar.me/2-o

• Network society?
• Classical sociology?
• Agency?

Kreiss et al.

Kreiss, D., M. Finn, and F. Turner. “The Limits of Peer Production: Some Reminders from Max Weber for the Network Society.” New Media & Society 13, no. 2 (October 12, 2010): 243–259. doi:10.1177/1461444810370951. http://lar.me/2-p

• Bureaucracy
• Peer production vs. prosumption
• Dialogue

Activity: Network Graph

• Make a list of ten people with whom you interact on a regular basis (friends, family, coworkers…)
• Give an initial to each of these people.
• Separately, list or map out the relationships between these people. Who knows whom?
• What can you say about this social graph? Is it a dense network? Are you the only person connecting this group?
• Post a brief thought about this graph.

Contributions

• Grade on 10 and quick explanation
• Extra mile? Made a difference?
• Not attendance or expected work.
• Not really assignment.
• May change grade if really out of whack.

Midterm

• Short answers (a sentence or two): two points each, probably four out of six
• Open questions (a paragraph): three points each, probably four out of six
• Apply concepts (e.g. “prosumption” on Facebook?)
• Show you really understand: explain to somebody else
• Broader issues, topics, concepts on doing sociology with the Internet

Themes, Threads, Topics?

Building Questions

Required Texts

Van Dijk, Jan AGM. “Inequalities in the Network Society.” In Digital Sociology: Critical Perspectives, edited by Kate Orton-Johnson and Nick Prior, 105–124. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Kendall, Lori. “Meaning and Identity in ‘Cyberspace’: The Performance of Gender, Class, and Race Online.” Symbolic Interaction 21, no. 2 (May 1998): 129–153. doi:10.1525/si.1998.21.2.129.

Van Dijk

Van Dijk, Jan AGM. “Inequalities in the Network Society.” In Digital Sociology: Critical Perspectives, edited by Kate Orton-Johnson and Nick Prior, 105–124. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

• Digital Democracy
• Social Network Analysis

Kendall

Kendall, Lori. “Meaning and Identity in ‘Cyberspace’: The Performance of Gender, Class, and Race Online.” Symbolic Interaction 21, no. 2 (May 1998): 129–153. doi:10.1525/si.1998.21.2.129.

• MUDs
• Generic categories
• Privilege (“Invisible Knapsack”)
• Identity play