Live, punk, hacker and digital sociology: shaking up the discipline?

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Live, punk, hacker & digital sociology: Shaking up the discipline? Deborah Lupton, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra @DALupton

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Seminar presentation given by Deborah Lupton at the Department of Sociology, Australian National University, Canberra, 24 September 2014.

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  • 1. Live, punk, hacker &digital sociology:Shaking up the discipline?Deborah Lupton, News & Media ResearchCentre, University of Canberra@DALupton

2. Punk Marx 3. Zombie Marx 4. Zombie Foucault 5. Punk Foucault 6. Hacker sociology 7. Live Methods, 2012, edited by Les Back andNirmal Puwar 8. Live sociology Avoiding fossil facts, or rendering vitality into deadobjects Steering clear of zombie concepts Adding new techniques to our empirical toolbox Reflecting on digital global knowledge economy &digitisation of social life Responding to the crisis of empirical sociology Responding to the vitality of data and social life Reflecting on the impact of social research on sociallife 9. Punk Sociology, 2014, by David Beer 10. Punk sociology The punk ethos challenging the status quo Drawing on alternative forms of knowledge Seeing the world from multiple perspectives Response and reactive to cultural norms Renewed creativity trying new things Iconoclastic eclectic DIY ethos/collaborative 11. Inventive Methods, 2012, edited by CeliaLury and Nina Wakeford 12. Inventive methods Theorising the sociological research device Addressing the politics of method Reflexivity about method Alternative forms of data Old methods in new/inventive ways 13. The Sociological Review Manifesto, 2014, by the editors(Sarah Green, Mike Michael & Bev Skeggs) Critical & creative sociology review as a process ofcritical sociological engagement Openness to other disciplines (especially socialanthropology, cultural geography & STS) Publishing work that unpicks the boundaries Publishing a wider range of texts (art, poetry, fictionetc) 14. Digital Sociology 15. Digital sociology Reconceptualising methods Rethinking the social Sociologists as knowledge workers in thedigital knowledge economy The digitised sociologist New opportunities for sociology 16. Challenges for sociologyglobal digital information economyprosumptioncrisis of empirical sociologydata envy 17. ResponsesNew methodsNew dataNew ways of theorising method + data 18. New methodshacker sociology using digital tech + datadata visceralisations beyond the visualcultural probesspeculative design ethnography 19. Digital devices 20. Data visualisations 21. 3D data objects 22. Lively datalivelydataaestheticsemotionlively capitaldatasubjects/doublesflow & circulationmultipleuses/repurposing 23. Live/ly sociologyLive/lysociologylively datainventivemethodshacker/punksensibility