Sociology of Social Media

These posts are from our Fall 2023 Sociology of Social Media Course

Students wrote about sociological texts that we read for the course relating theories we learned to contemporary issues and presenting the findings for a general audience.

• Nora Taplin-Kaguru
  • Sociology of Social Media
    • Algorithms and Community Formation
    • Be Your Own Boss? Or Mourn Your Loss? Does the Gig Economy Support Workers or Suppress Them?
    • Behind the “Glamour:” The Reality of Urban Poverty
    • Blind Faith and Falsehoods: How Our Search Results Lie To Us
    • Can Motherhood Be More Inclusive in the Digital World?: An Argument for Black Cyberfeminism
    • Combatting Digital Disadvantage: Reviews and Critiques of Ballad of the Bullet
    • Considering Anonymous and Nominal Social Media
    • Digital democratization x digital divide: Drill’s online opportunities and offline risks
    • Empathic Exploration: Forrest Stuart’s Ballad of the Bullet and the Art of Humanistic Ethnography
    • For Care and Connection, or Capital? Mommy Blogging as a Performance
    • Inventing the Self Online
    • Looking at Techno-Social Lives Beyond Digital Dualism: Concerns of Digital Deviance
    • Meet Alexa, Another Overlooked Mother of the 21st Century
    • Model Minorities: How Social Media is Modeled after Black and Queer Communities
    • Navigating New Roles and Identities As Mothers and Young Adults: A Look at Mommy Blogs and Yik Yak
    • Navigating Truth and Community in the Digital Age
    • No Busine$$ as Usual
    • Posting for More Likes: Questioning the Authenticity of Social Media Posts in the Digital Attention Economy
    • Queer Facebook and Black Twitter: Exploring Community In The Digital Margins
    • The Power of a Click
    • The Publicization of Private Life: How Mothers Manage Digital Networks
    • Yik Yak, Mommy Bloggers and Attunement