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Plan for the blog
This blog is my record of the process of writing my forthcoming textbook for Sage Publications, tentatively titled Superconnected: The Internet and Techno-Social Life. I’m hoping that blogging will...
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Live-tweeting in the classroom…with a guest speaker-tweeter
One of the aspects of techno-social life that I’ll be looking at closely in my forthcoming book Superconnected: The Internet and Techno-Social Life is the reality of the online experience. To explore...
View ArticleChapter 4 and Podcast 4 from Superconnected
This chapter takes a closer look at how information is shared in a superconnected society, and the impact of widespread sharing on the way we live and create and shop and take ownership of things —...
View ArticleChapter 5 and Podcast 5 from Superconnected
In Chapter 5, processes and implications of the truly global nature of superconnectedness take center stage. It becomes apparent early in the chapter that inequalities within and between large-scale...
View ArticleChapter 6 and Podcast 6 from Superconnected
In this chapter of Superconnected, things get personal. We look at how individuals create and express their individuality, their personalities, their selves. Topics include socialization — the “twin,”...
View ArticleChapter 7 and Podcast 7 from Superconnected
Students are telling me that chapter 7 is their favorite in Superconnected. I guess that’s to be expected: it’s the one focusing on relationships, and that means friendship, dating, flirting, sex, and...
View ArticleChapter 8 and Podcast 8 from Superconnected
We say that something is an institution when it is foundational, functional, long-lasting, large-scale, systemic. It has been around a long time and it seems like it may always be. Social institutions...
View ArticleChapter 9 and Podcast 9 from Superconnected
In this chapter, a number of the benefits and downsides of superconnectedness are explored: our constant availability to one another, the convenience of the tech, fun and play and entertainment,...
View ArticleChapter 10 and Podcast 10 from Superconnected
This chapter looks at the future — or, more accurately, the possible future — of living in a world in which digital connectedness is so prevalent. The rise and proliferation of the internet,...
View ArticleSecond Edition of Superconnected!
I’m excited to announce that I’m working on a second edition of Superconnected! It will contain new sections on accuracy, misinformation and “fake news”; the “dark web” and the “deep web”‘ and the...
View ArticleSecond edition of Superconnected has arrived!
I’m very pleased to announce the publication of the fully revised and updated second edition of Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media and Techno-Social Life. This new revised edition features:...
View ArticleBook launch: Eastern Sociological Society Conference Feb. 22-25, 2018
Superconnected’s second edition was officially “launched” at the 2018 Eastern Sociological Society conference in Baltimore, MD. I signed books, met up with mentor/friend Karen Cerulo and grad school...
View ArticleFree review copies available at SAGE website
It’s very easy to request a free review copy of Superconnected for prospective classroom use! Just go to...
View ArticleThird Edition of Superconnected To Be Published in 2020
Change is a constant in the digital world, and the pace of change in technology-rich societies continues to accelerate. To address the many changes in our techno-social lives, SAGE Publications will...
View ArticleIn newly published research, Vivek Singh and I find bias and stereotyping to...
In research published in JASIST, The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, my colleague at Rutgers’ School of Communication and Information Vivek Singh, our students Raj...
View ArticleOnline Shaming
Why do so many of us “shame” those with whom we disagree? This is a common behavior online, which can become even more pernicious in times of crisis, as in the global coronavirus pandemic. See more in...
View ArticleMy Q and A in Rutgers Today
Rutgers Today interviewed me about the relevance of my research on digital connectedness to the global coronavirus crisis. You can read the Q and A, which includes some of my suggestions for keeping...
View ArticleWhat is 50 years on the internet worth to humanity?
My thoughts on this, published by NBC News Online. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/what-50-years-spent-internet-worth-humanity-ncna1073656
View ArticleThird Edition of Superconnected is Here!
The book: Gathers findings from multiple fields that overlap — including communication, sociology, psychology, media studies, and information and data science — so that key understandings and insights...
View ArticleTrailer for Superconnected
Here’s the trailer for the book — all you need to know about it in under a minute!
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