Over fifty authors from two dozen countries and from across the full spectrum of sociology tackle the pertinent issues of our time.
Continue ReadingRaúl Trejo-Delarbre: New Media
The new media have expanded and improved participation in public affairs. … but beside the support for democracy are also several restrictions.
Continue ReadingBarry Wellman: Network Revolutions
The Network Revolutions are (mostly) good news. Why? How come?
Continue ReadingGuobin Yang: Internet in China
How is the Chinese Internet developing? What strategies and tools do government, corporations, and citizens use to shape its future?
Continue ReadingChristina Schachtner: Global Flows
Global flows in the form of movements of capital, commodities, information, communication and migrants rank among the most distinctive characteristics of the social and cultural upheavals which we are experiencing at present all over the world.
Continue ReadingToby Miller: Cybertarianism
Irresistibly enchanted by a seeming grassroots cornucopia, many cybertarian technophiles in the Global North attribute magical properties to today’s communications and cultural technologies, …
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