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'A Public Sociology of Platforms, Algorithms, and AI' with Karen Gregory – Room G1, 7 Priory Road, Wed 14 Oct 2026 - A Public Sociology of Platforms, Algorithms, and AI (a joint Technology and Digital...

"New Directions in Membership Categorisation Analysis" published on 27 Aug 2026 by Brill.

<p>In Digital Society: An Interactionist Perspective, William Housley explores the ways interactionist thinking contributes to our understanding of current tren

In a world transformed by digital innovations and a social life increasingly digitally automated and augmented, Digital Society, Interaction Order and Auto

"New Directions in Membership Categorisation Analysis" published on 27 Aug 2026 by Brill.

<p>In Digital Society: An Interactionist Perspective, William Housley explores the ways interactionist thinking contributes to our understanding of current tren

In a world transformed by digital innovations and a social life increasingly digitally automated and augmented, Digital Society, Interaction Order and Auto

"New Directions in Membership Categorisation Analysis" published on 27 Aug 2026 by Brill.

“Once again the season of the anti-sociologists is upon us…[a]curious admixture of illogic and sentiment…makes up the creed and canons of anti-sociology.” Those words come from Robert K Merto

Letter: Prof Anne‑Marie Kilday of the University of Northampton highlights the value of universities for individuals and communities

Studentships are a specific type of funding, usually for a specific research project offered by an academic department.

Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation advances our understanding of how interactionist thinking can be leveraged as a conceptual and methodological resource for approaching digital societies in relation to automation and the emerging contours of interaction order in the 21st century.

In this chapter, we will seek to advance and explore how certain strands of interactionist thinking, inclusive of ethnomethodology and conversation analysi

During the last chapter, we explored how living and interacting with machines had opened up new avenues for engaging with and instructing generative AI app

Brexit has had a profound negative impact on the United Kingdom that was entirely foreseeable at the time of the 2016 referendum.

Table of contents for Cultural Sociology, 20, 2

In recent years the ‘pivot to voice’ (Housley, 2021) has been enhanced through the arrival of generative artificial intelligence (AI) that displays automat

The closure of the Science Communication and Public Engagement programme has drawn particular ire, with 130 offers rescinded.

In recent years the ‘pivot to voice’ (Housley, 2021) has been enhanced through the arrival of generative artificial intelligence (AI) that displays automat

Many of the social outcomes and patterns located at the very center of sociological inquiry are grounded in interaction ritual dynamics. Yet, while broadly used...

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In this chapter, we will seek to advance and explore how certain strands of interactionist thinking, inclusive of ethnomethodology and conversation analysi

We have just published New on Early View: "“Do You Want to Continue?”—Coordinating the Closing of Conversations and Managing Face Concerns" by Emmi Koskinen on Early View of Symbolic Interaction.  Members of SSSI can access the article HERE and by clicking the image below. To join SSSI and subscribe to Symbolic Interaction from $35 (£30), please click HERE.

Disruptive technologies include mobile telephony, social media, big data, the Internet of Things, networked video-mediated communications, smart urban sens

GenAI is changing the way that schools and universities think about student assessment.&nbsp;We talk to Thomas Corbin (Deakin University) about the future of the written essay in the era of AI, and ho...

Drawing on the “Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test”—a science fiction version of Turing’s famous thought experiment—we propose the Conversational Action Test (CAT): a ne...

This book showcases the critical contribution that scholarship in the field of social interaction can make to the study of the senses. Centred on an understanding of the senses as interactionally conf...