“With great control and depth of exploration, the outstanding contribution
of this book is to bring together the seemingly disconnected aspects of digital
social life, revealing something new in the process. It is great to see a book
that thinks so widely and that explores the various intricacies and big
questions in one place.”
David Beer , Professor of Sociology, University of York, UK
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Through a series of questions raised by our new digital lives, How Digital
Social Life Matters argues for significant changes in how we see the world.
Focusing on the relationship between theory and methods, it offers a critical
phenomenology of experiences associated with the network society and net-
worked individualism in an era of‘big data’. It uses an examination of the
concept and phenomenon of the simple, unpacking its new dynamics, its new
meanings and its new depth, as a way of demonstrating the need for new
conceptions of the complex in such contexts as reality, the universe, and the
cosmos. As such, it will appeal to social theorists, communication scholars,
and philosophers with interests in the fields of relational sociology, digital
media, and object-oriented ontology. It also engages more broadly with
scholars with a sociologically informed interest in reimagining the social roles
of politics, science, nature, media, globalisation, the environment, and social
interaction for our new digital era.
David Toews PhD 