Digital Sociology at VCU

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…

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…

memes as racialized discourse

Moderating the Digital Square

When we use social media we often think of it as “public”. Yet, the platforms that mediate the content we produce online are rarely public. This conflation of public square with private media is one defining characteristic of the digital society.