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Digital Societies

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Digital Societies refer to social structures and interactions that are fundamentally shaped by digital technologies, including the internet, social media, and mobile devices. This field examines how these technologies influence communication, culture, economy, and governance, as well as their impact on individual and collective identities within contemporary society.
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Digital Societies refer to social structures and interactions that are fundamentally shaped by digital technologies, including the internet, social media, and mobile devices. This field examines how these technologies influence communication, culture, economy, and governance, as well as their impact on individual and collective identities within contemporary society.
Emerging media technologies, including social media platforms, algorithmic systems, artificial intelligence, and digitally mediated learning environments, are reshaping the conditions under which young people form identities, acquire... more
This paper makes the case for studying the work of web archivists, in an effort to explore the ways in which practitioners shape the preservation and maintenance of the archived Web in its various forms. An ethnographic approach is taken... more
The emergence of Big Data is both promising and challenging for social research. This article suggests that realising this promise has been restricted by the methods applied in social science research, which undermine our potential to... more
Recent years have seen persistent tension between proponents of big data analytics, using new forms of digital data to make computational and statistical claims about ‘the social’, and many sociologists sceptical about the value of big... more
This study explains how bots interact with human users and influence conversational networks on Twitter. We analyze a high-stakes political environment, the UK general election of May 2015, asking human volunteers to tweet from... more
For over three decades telecentres have been promoted as a means of reducing digital exclusion. However, their relevance is inconclusive. In this paper we investigate how telecentre users empower rural communities in Malawi. We adopt a... more
Gegenstand Der Begriff D. ist eine Selbstbeschreibung von Gesellschaften, die für ihre Funktionen und Leistungen zunehmend Netzwerke und Computer verwenden. Gesellschaftliche Wirklichkeit und Problemlagen waren seit Mitte des 20.... more
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