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Digital Sociology at VCU

The Digital Sociology Magazine is the public-facing community of the digital sociology program in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. We study intersecting inequalities in the digital society. http://digital.sociology.vcu.edu

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Tressie McMillan Cottom in Digital Sociology at VCU

Dec 14, 2017

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…

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Tressie McMillan Cottom in Digital Sociology at VCU

Oct 12, 2017

Racial Projects in Black Box Societies

From Omi and Winant to Pasquale in Pictures

In our Digital Sociology graduate seminar at Virginia Commonwealth University, we are working on how to systematically study how racial categories derive their meaning in a digital society.

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Kristin Vamenta in Digital Sociology at VCU

Sep 23, 2017

The royal court of #content

When “content is king,” what kinds of power are afforded to creators and…

Tressie McMillan Cottom in Digital Sociology at VCU

Sep 19, 2017

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.

Tressie McMillan Cottom in Digital Sociology at VCU

Sep 14, 2017

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.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom in Digital Sociology at VCU

Sep 13, 2017

Your Debt, Your Self: Classification Situations in the Digital Society

I wrote a book about for-profit colleges that was released earlier this year. Student loan debt is a big part of that story. Frankly, debt is the main reason anyone is usually interested in for-profit…

Tressie McMillan Cottom in Digital Sociology at VCU

Sep 13, 2017

Artificial Intelligence “Gaydar”

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