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Social Digitalisation - Persistent Transformations Beyond Digital Technology (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Social Digitalisation - Persistent Transformations Beyond Digital Technology (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book shows how many previously contingent social processes
have gradually been re-organised and transformed into entangled
processes of 'discontinuance' and 'continuance' through the
implementation of digital logic. Together with the necessary
co-evolution of our collective digital literacy, this persistent
process of transformation throughout modernity is theorised here as
one of 'social digitalisation.' Social digitalisation highlights
the ways in which material digital technology, like preceding
material technologies, has been fitted into the longer term
trajectory of digital transformation. This new social theory thus
reverses prevailing accounts of the 'digital revolution' that focus
exclusively on changes allegedly caused by material digital
technology in recent decades. The book also demonstrates the
fruitfulness of applying the theory of social digitalisation as a
holistic approach in researching the wide-ranging consequences of
contemporary digitalisation, including its contrasting effects on
different social groups. It will be useful to students and
researchers of sociology, communications, media and history, but
also for general readers interested in understanding the overall
complexity of digitalisation and how digital transformation has
come to dominate the ways we live today.
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