Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social Research, Marres 9780745684 HB^+

Digital SociologyThe Reinvention of Social Research\nAuthor(s): Noortje Marres\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745684789, 978-0745684789\nSynopsis\nThis 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 interface of computing, media, social research and social life. Digital Sociologyintroduces key concepts, methods and understandings that currently inform the development of specifically digital forms of social enquiry. Marres assesses the relevance and usefulness of digital methods, data and techniques for the study of sociological phenomena and evaluates the major claim that computation makes possible a new science of society. As Marres argues, the digital does much more than inspire innovation in social research: it forces us to engage anew with fundamental sociological quest.