Digital Sociology

New digital media technologies have had a profound influence on everyday life and social relations for many people in developed societies, and increasingly in developing societies. This book includes many examples of how digital technologies are incorporated into everyday life by users, from social media platforms such as Twitter to technologies used by companies for the surveillance and the monitoring of consumer habits. It locates the apparently `new¿ field of digital sociology within its intellectual tradition, showing the trajectory of theory and research from the days of cyber theory beginning in the 1980s until the present moment of theorising and researching `the digital¿.