Paper delivered at the Digital Sociology mini-conference, Eastern Sociological Association, New York City, 27 February

1. Digital Sociology: Definitions,
Developments and Directions
Deborah Lupton
News & Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts &
Design, University of Canberra
@DALupton

2. @DALupton

3. Varieties of doing digital sociology
• Using digital tools/media for research or
engagement
• Researching how other people use digital
tools/media
• Harvesting digital data for analysis
• Reflexive/critical analyses

4. Directions
• Inventive methods/live sociology
• ‘Lively data’ and algorithmic authority
• Data politics, data practices, data circulations
and data materialisations

5. More directions
• How ‘smart objects’ interact with each other
(human as nodes in the Internet of Things)
• Veillance and surveillance: how these operate,
political implications, implications for selfhood
and social relations

6. lively
data
emotion
aesthetics
lively capital
data
subjects/doubles
flow & circulation
multiple
uses/repurposing

7. Live/ly sociology
Live/ly
sociology
lively data
inventive
methods
hacker/punk
sensibility