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 Political Change (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 Award from 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.

Acknowledgments
Contributors
When the Extraordinary Become Mundane: Digital Media and The Sociological Lens
Deana A. Rohlinger, Sarah Sobieraj

Theoretical Explorations of Digital Life

1. Technology and Time
Judy Wajcman
2. Media and the Social Construction of Reality
Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp
3. Theorizing Curation
Jenny Davis
4. Affective Publics: Solidarity and Distance
Zizi Papacharissi
5. Big Data from the South(s): An Analytical Matrix to Investigate Data at the Margins Stefania Milan and Emiliano Treré

Digital Media and Social Institutions

6. From "Impact" to "Negotiation": Educational Technologies and Inequality
Cassidy Puckett and Matthew H. Rafalow
7. Journalism in the Age of Twitter
Stephen R. Barnard
8. Families, Relationships, and Technology
Raelene Wilding
9. Digital Religion
Stef Aupers and Lars de Wildt
10. Technology, Labor, and the Gig Economy
Jamie Woodcock

Digital Media in Everyday Life

11. The Sociology of Mobile Apps
Deborah Lupton
12. Folding and Friction: The Internet of Things and Everyday Life
Murray Goulden
13. Negotiating Intimacy via Dating Websites and Apps: Digital Media in Everyday Life
Shantel Gabrieal Buggs
14. Digital Pornography and Everyday Life
Jennifer A. Johnson
15. Use of Information and Communication Technologies Among Older Adults: Usage Differences, Health-Related Impacts, and Future Needs
Shelia Cotten and Alexander Seifert
16. The Sociology of Self-Tracking and Embodied Technologies: How Does Technology Engage Gendered, Raced, and Datafied Bodies?
Elizabeth Wissinger

Digital Media, Community and Identity

17. LGBTQ+ Communities and Digital Media
Brady Robards, Paul Byron, and Sab D'Souza
18. Facework on Social Media in China
Xiaoli Tian and Qian Li
19. Video Games and Identity Formation in Contemporary Society
Daniel Muriel
20. Fans and Fan Activism
Thomas V. Maher
21. Trolls and Hacktivists: Political Mobilization from Online Communities
Jessica L. Beyer
22. Networked Street Life
Jeffrey Lane and Will Marler

Digital Media Social Inequalities

23. The Feminization of Social Media Labor
Sophie Bishop and Brooke Erin Duffy
24. Electronic Waste and Environmental Justice
David N. Pellow
25. Digital War: Mediatized Conflicts in Sociological Perspective
Olga Boichak
26. Masculinity, Everyday Racism, and Gaming
Stephanie Ortiz
27. Socioeconomic Inequalities and Digital Skills
Matías Dodel
28. The Digital Production Gap in the Algorithmic Era
Jen Schradie and Liam Bekirsky

Digital Media, Power, and Politics

29. Detect, Document, and Debunk: Studying Media Manipulation and Disinformation
Gabrielle Lim and Joan Donovan
30. Gender, Digital Toxicity, and Political Voice Online
Sarah Sobieraj
31. Digital Media in Grassroots Anti-Corruption Across the World
Alice Mattoni
32. Digital Youth Politics
Jennifer Earl, Sam Scovill, and Elliot Ramo
33. Transformations in American Political Participation
Deana A. Rohlinger