Towards a Sociology of Information Technology

By Saskia Sassen. 2002

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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e-Tourism beyond COVID-19: a call for transformative research (2020, background): “This “sociology-of-technology” approach (Sassen 2002) also argues for a higher sensitivity to social and cultural differences (Lynch 2008).”
Material knowing: the scaffolding of human knowledgeability (2006, background): “…(Law 1992), hybridization (Haraway, 1992), actor-network (Callon, 1986; Latour 1992), activity systems (Engeström et al., 1999), imbrication (Sassen, 2002), motley (Turnbull, 2000), and mangle (Pickering, 1995) are attempting to directly address this challenge, and break down the…”
Take an issue: cultural economy and finance (2007, background): “…relations (see Law 2002; Law and Hetherington 2000) suggests that financial culture has a specific materiality (see also Latham and Sassen 2005; Sassen 2002: 369; papers by MacKenzie and Muniesa this issue), most obviously the symbolic structures that house financial organizations (see Zaloom…”
Rethinking Cyberfeminism(s): Race, Gender, and Embodiment (2009, background): “…states, local opposition, mass media indifference, and major national economic actors, thus opening a whole new terrain for activism that addresses gender and racial inequality (Sassen 2002; Earl and Schussman 2003; Everett 2004; Kahn and Kellner 2004; Langman 2005; Sutton and Pollock 2000).”
Race and racism in Internet Studies: A review and critique (2013, background): “Sassen (2002) has noted the way that the digital and the material are imbricated, that is, the way they overlap significantly rather than exist in distinct, disparate realms.”
Connected and concerned: Variation in parents' online safety concerns (2013, background): “Finally, what happens online and off is imbricated, making it challenging to understand people’s online fears without also understanding more broadly lived experiences (Sassen, 2002).”
Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media (2010, background): “…finance and capitalism (Knorr-Cetina & Bruegger 2002a,b; Schull 2008, 2010; Zaloom 2006), complementing existing sociological scholarship on how digital technologies magnify the speed, exploitation, and reach of contemporary global, neoliberal capitalism (Castells 2009, Harvey 1990, Sassen 2002).”