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.

Anti-Immigrant Moral Panic in Online Spaces

The demonization of new immigrant groups has been a common occurrence throughout the history of the United States. However, the Internet and social media have given the public sphere, including anti-immigrant groups, a new medium through which they can express and spread their…