Sivkov D.Y. (2018) Digital Sociology: Tensions, Ambiguities, Unsolved Problems. Sociology of Power, 30 (3): 8-13.

Abstract

However, the statement that society has become digital is clearly not enough for digital sociology to take place. I propose the following move: to denote far from a complete set of stresses in order to use unsolved problems (if not antinomy!) to delineate the field of sub-disciplines. The first tension to be mentioned is the tension in the very formulation between the digital and the social. Depending on what the emphasis is, the meaning of digital sociology changes. In the first case, digital sociology pretends to turn from a sub-discipline into a sociological mainstream. In the second case, digital is only a field of research of more or less traditional sociology in the sense that it only replaces other mediations and/or fits into already established social structures and relations.