In my post on PBS.org’s MediaShift, I contend that Big Data is Too Small. I will also be giving a talk on the topic at the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting on August 13 in New York. Here’s the lede: “The utopian hype over Big Data is being critiqued on many fronts. After all, it isn’t that new. [...]
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Big Data is Too Small: How the Digital Divide Leaves People Out
By schradie on July 31, 2013 in Academia, Digital Divide, Facebook, My Talks, Social Movements, Sociology, Twitter
7 Myths of the Digital Divide
Check out my guest blog post at Cyborgology on the 7 Myths of the Digital Divide. I have heard so often from pundits, colleagues and, well, the Internet, that either digital inequality doesn’t matter or it’s over, so I decided to write this post based on the most common tropes that I hear (p.s. class [...]
The Digital Activism Gap – where social class, social media and social movements collide
By schradie on April 24, 2013 in Academia, Blogging, Digital Activism, Digital Divide, Facebook, Labor, Social Movements, Sociology, Tea Party, The South, Twitter, Unions
The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a report today on social media and politics. It’s no surprise to sociologists that their findings reflect structural inequalities. Perhaps it was a bit of a jolt to digital utopianists, though. Aaron Smith, the author of the Pew report, finds social class divisions with political activity in [...]
Is Marriage Equality Bourgeois? Separating a social movement from a social movement organization
Check out my latest post on the debate over people changing their Facebook profile to support the Supreme Court hearing on marriage equality. The post is in Mobilizing Ideas, a social movement studies blog, which is part of The Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame, editorial home of the [...]
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