memes as racialized discourse

Online Education After The End of Net Neutrality

I have been grading all morning. My course this semester was an online graduate seminar called “Digital Sociology”. It is a capstone course in our newly-100-percent-bureucratically-approved Master’s of Science in Digital Sociology at Virginia…

Artificial Intelligence “Gaydar”

Those of us who study the digital society have a complex set of issues around the data we use to study…

Get Your Learn On(line)

I know a bit about online higher education. It has its plusses and its minuses. As faculty co-founder of the digital sociology master’s of science program at Virginia Commonwealth University, I have thought deeply about online instruction. And, I am still learning all the time.

Sociologists in the Digital Wild

Recently we discussed the controversy surrounding a new paper on artificial intelligence and sexuality by Wang and Kosinski. Really smart analysis continues to emerge. Sociologist Greggor Mattson shares his expert thoughts on how we study marginalized communities.