Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 28 Michael Rosino on drug policy, race & online comments
For this episode I spoke to Michael Rosino (http://michaelrosino.com/) about his book Debating the Drug War: Race, Politics, and the Media (https://www.routledge.com/Debating-the-Drug-War-Race-Politics-and-the-Media/Rosino/p/book/9781138239692)which comes from a detailed analysis of the discourse on drug policy and race in newspapers and the comment sections of their online versions.
Michael tells me about the discourses he identified which often deny racism and racial oppression as a factor in patterns of criminalisation of groups in drug related crime statistics.
Michael is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Molloy College, Long Island, New York and you can follow him on Twitter @michaelrosino (https://twitter.com/michaelrosino)
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This will be the last episode for a while but I hope to be back with some more in the future. However, in the meantime I will be launching a new series of my Social Theory Podcast (https://anchor.fm/chris-till) in the next couple of weeks.
25 Aug 2021
Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 27 Guerrilla Democracy
For this episode I spoke to Peter Bloom (https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/bloom09008) who is a Professor of Management at the University of Essex, Owain Smolović Jones (https://www.open.ac.uk/people/osj8) who is Director of the Open University's Research into Employment, Empowerment and Futures (http://business-school.open.ac.uk/research/research-activity/reef)academic centre of excellence and Jamie Woodcock (https://www.open.ac.uk/people/jw32377) who is Senior Lecturer at the Open University.
We talk about their new book Guerilla Democracy: Mobile Power and Revolution in the 21st Century (https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/guerrilla-democracy) which is a theoretically sophisticated analysis of digital politics.
We have a fascinating chat about different examples of radical collective action (from striking cinema and restaurant workers to anti-vaxxers and the storming of the Capitol) and the guests suggest some creative and challenging ways of understanding these events. What role have digital technologies and networks played in these events? Do they enable easier and more effective political action? Are these digitally facilitated resistances only disruptive or can they lead to constructive political alternatives?
You can follow Peter (http://pbloombk/)on Twitter @pbloombk, Owain (http://sunnowain/)@SunnOwain and Jamie (https://twitter.com/jamie_woodcock)@jamie_woodcock
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18 Aug 2021
Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 26: Ben Jacobsen and David Beer on Social Media and Memory
This episode is a really great chat I had with Ben Jacobsen (https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/our-staff/students/benjamin-jacobsen/) and David Beer (https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/our-staff/academic/david-beer/#publications-content) both of The University of York.
We talk about their new book Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past (https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-media-and-the-automatic-production-of-memory) which is an exploration of the ways in which social media engages with memory and how this becomes significant for their platforms. They focus on the "Facebook Memories" app within the Facebook platform which generates reminders to users of previous posts, photos or other content.
We talk about what kinds of memories Facebook values and how it draws in previous interactions to create new content which is likely to produce more engagement in the present.
They tell me about how the distinction between a "real" memory and one created by Facebook is blurring and how the platform's perspective on what memories are valuable differ from those of users. This also tells us a lot about the role which the platform plays in creating or assessing the value of memories.
You can read more about their work in an LSE blog post. (https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2021/07/23/as-social-media-classify-and-rank-our-memories-what-will-this-mean-for-the-way-we-remember/)
You can follow Ben (https://twitter.com/BN_Jacobsen) on Twitter @bn_jacobsen and find David's website here (https://davidbeer.net/).
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