[Air-L] Ori Schwarz's new book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
You can read Dan M. Kotliar's interview with Ori Schwarz on the CaMP
anthropology blog
today.

https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press Blurb for Sociological Theory for Digital Society:

The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social
life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic
assumptions that have underlain it. In this timely book, Ori Schwarz
explores the main challenges digitalization poses to different strands of
sociological theory and offers paths to adapt them to new social realities.

What would symbolic interactionism look like in a world where interaction
no longer takes place within bounded situations and is constantly
documented as durable digital objects? How should we understand new
digitally mediated forms of human association that bind our actions and
lives together but have little in common with old-time 'collectives'; and
why are they not simply ‘social networks’? How does social capital
transform when it is materialized in a digital form, and how does it
remould power structures? What happens to our conceptualization of power
when faced with the emergence of new forms of algorithmic power? And what
happens when labour departs from work? By posing and answering such
fascinating questions, and offering critical tools for both students and
scholars of social theory and digital society to engage with them, this
thought-provoking book draws the outline of future sociological theory for
our digital society.