What People Leave Behind - Marks, Traces, Footprints and their Relevance to Knowledge Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This open access book focuses on a particular but significant topic in the social sciences: the concepts of "footprint" and "trace". It associates these concepts with hotly debated topics such as surveillance capitalism and knowledge society. The editors and authors discuss the concept footprints and traces as unintended by-products of other (differently focused and oriented) actions that remain empirically imprinted in virtual and real spaces. The volume therefore opens new scenarios for social theory and applied social research in asking what the stakes, risks and potential of this approach are. It systematically raises and addresses these questions within a consistent framework, bringing together a heterogeneous group of international social scientists. Given the multifaceted objectives involved in exploring footprints and traces, the volume discusses heuristic aspects and ethical dimensions, scientific analyses and political considerations, empirical perspectives and theoretical foundations. At the same time, it brings together perspectives from cultural analysis and social theory, communication and Internet studies, big-data informed research and computational social science. This innovative volume is of interest to a broad interdisciplinary readership: sociologists, communication researchers, Internet scholars, anthropologists, cognitive and behavioral scientists, historians, and epistemologists, among others.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research, 7
Release date:	October 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Francesca Comunello • Fabrizio Martire • Lorenzo Sabetta
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	359
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-111755-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
LSN:	3-03-111755-7
Barcode:	9783031117558

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