Rohlinger Deana A. - The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology

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Deana A. Rohlinger and Sarah Sobieraj

Judy Wajcman

Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp

Jenny L. Davis

Zizi Papacharissi

Stefania Milan and Emiliano Trer

Cassidy Puckett and Matthew H. Rafalow

Stephen R. Barnard

Raelene Wilding

Stef Aupers and Lars de Wildt

Jamie Woodcock

Deborah Lupton

Murray Goulden

Shantel Gabrieal Buggs

Jennifer A. Johnson

Alexander Seifert and Shelia R. Cotten

Elizabeth Wissinger

Brady Robards, Paul Byron, and Sab DSouza

Xiaoli Tian and Qian Li

Daniel Muriel

Thomas V. Maher

Jessica L. Beyer

Jeffrey Lane and Will Marler

Sophie Bishop and Brooke Erin Duffy

David N. Pellow

Olga Boichak

Stephanie M. Ortiz

Matas Dodel

Jen Schradie and Liam Bekirsky

Gabrielle Lim and Joan Donovan

Sarah Sobieraj

Alice Mattoni

Jennifer Earl, Sam Scovill, and Elliot Ramo

Deana A. Rohlinger

Deana A. Rohlinger is a professor of sociology at Florida State University with expertise in political participation, political change, and digital technologies. She is author of Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and New Media and Society (New York University Press, 2019) as well as dozens of research articles and book chapters that analyze topics as diverse as the kinds of claims individuals make in the emails they sent Jeb Bush about the Terri Schiavo case to collective identity processes in MoveOn.org and the Tea Party movement. Her most recent articles can be found in Information, Communication & Society, Signs, Mobilization, New Media & Society, and Social Media + Society. Rohlinger has co-edited three volumes, Strategy in Action: Movements and Social Change (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change: Media, Movements, and Political Change (2012), and Emerald Studies in Media and Communication: Social Movements and Mass Media (2017); guest-edited issues of two journals (Information, Communication & Society in 2018 and the American Behavioral Scientist in 2009); served as the book review editor for the journal Mobilization (20122018); and was the editor of the section on social movements for Sociology Compass (20122015). Rohlinger chaired the American Sociological Associations Communication, Information Technologies and Media Sociology section (20182019) and is chair-elect for the Collective Behavior, Social Movements section. She has been interviewed on a range of topics including digital politics and controversies involving Planned Parenthood as well as written commentaries for a variety of media outlets including U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, The American Prospect, and The Conversation. Her body of research was recently honored with the 2021 William F. Ogburn Mid-Career Achievement Award from the Communications and Information Technologies and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association.

Sarah Sobieraj is a professor and chair of The Department of Sociology at Tufts University and a faculty associate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Her most recent book, Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2020), examines the impact of identity-based digital abuse on womens participation in social and political discourse. She is also the author of The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility (Oxford University Press, 2014) with Jeff Berry and Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism (New York University Press, 2011). Sobieraj also edited (with Rob Boatright, Danna Young, and Tim Schaffer) A Crisis of Civility: Political Discourse and Its Discontents (Routledge, 2019). Her most recent journal articles can be found in Information, Communication & Society, Social Problems, PS: Political Science & Politics, Poetics, Political Communication, and Sociological Theory. Her work has been featured in venues such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Politico, Vox, CNN, PBS, NPR, The American Prospect, National Review, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, and Salon. Sobieraj serves on the advisory board of the Social Science Research Councils Disinformation Research Mapping Initiative and is a member of the National Institute for Civil Discourse Research Network.

Stef Aupers is a professor of media culture in the Department of Communication Sciences, Institute for Media Studies at KU Leuven. His research deals with the transformation and mediatization of Western culture, and he has published widely in international journals on topics such as digital religion, artificial intelligence in everyday life, online game culture, and conspiracy theories on the internet. His most recent book, edited with Dick Houtman and Rudi Laermans (KU Leuven) is Science under Siege: Contesting the Secular Religion of Scientism (Palgrave, 2021).

Stephen R. Barnard is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Butler University. His work focuses on the roles media and communication technologies play in relations of power, practice, and democracy. He is the author of Citizens at the Gates: Twitter, Networked Publics, and the Transformation of American Journalism and co-author of All Media Are Social: Sociological Perspectives on Mass Media. His scholarship has been published in New Media & Society, Journalism, Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, Hybrid Pedagogy, and several edited volumes.

Liam Bekirsky is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. His research interests are at the intersection of sociology and social network analysis, education, and knowledge building. Prior to joining the Oxford Internet Institute, Bekirsky completed a dual masters degree at Sciences Po Paris in digital and new technology and public policy and in global affairs at the University of Toronto. He is also trained and certified as a secondary school teacher. Outside of academia, he has worked in education policy at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developments Centre for Educational Research and Innovation and at the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada.