Doing words with things of the Internet

Evelyn Ruppert

doi:10.5771/9783845295008-467

Contents
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- 1–16 Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis 1–16
- 17–90 Soziologie 17–90
  - 17–45 Soziologie 4.0 und ihre Vorläufer: Eine Skizze Dirk Baecker Dirk Baecker 17–45
  - 46–59 Postsoziale Gesellschaft. Zur Aktualität der Systemtheorie in Zeiten digitaler Kommunikation Sascha Dickel Sascha Dickel 46–59
  - 60–72 The Digital Revolution in the Social Sciences: Five Theses about Big Data and Other Recent Methodological Innovations from an Analytical Sociologist Tobias Wolbring Tobias Wolbring 60–72
  - 73–90 Die Neuerfindung der Soziologie in einer, für eine und mit einer sich digitalisierende(n) Gesellschaft Barbara Sutter, Sabine Maasen Barbara Sutter, Sabine Maasen 73–90
- 91–150 Daten 91–150
  - 91–108 Die kommunikative Konstruktion der Daten. Mediendebatten des Digitalen Elke Wagner, Niklas Barth Elke Wagner, Niklas Barth 91–108
  - 109–133 Big Social Media Data als epistemologische Herausforderung für die Soziologie Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda 109–133
  - 134–150 Daten als Schnittstellen zwischen algorithmischen und sozialen Prozessen. Konzeptuelle Überlegungen zu einer Relationalen Techniksoziologie der Datafizierung in der digitalen Sphäre Roger Häußling Roger Häußling 134–150
- 151–246 Medien 151–246
  - 151–175 Digitale Normalität? – Eine medientheoretische Beobachtung des Sinnhorizonts digitalisierter Sozialität Udo Thiedeke Udo Thiedeke 151–175
  - 176–197 „Numerical Coupling". Zum Verhältnis von Massenmedien und Internet Josef Wehner Josef Wehner 176–197
  - 198–209 Digital Experiences – Patient’s Patchwork Knowledge in Health-Related Online Forums Nicole Zillien Nicole Zillien 198–209
  - 210–224 Fernsehen als soziales Erlebnis. Social TV als Substitut oder Ergänzung zu traditionellen Fernsehgesprächen? Bernadette Kneidinger-Müller Bernadette Kneidinger-Müller 210–224
  - 225–246 Getrennt zusammenleben: Soziotechnische Konstellationen und Praktiken der Fürsorge und Erziehung im Kontext von Transmigration Heike Greschke, Jagoda Motowidlo Heike Greschke, Jagoda Motowidlo 225–246
- 247–304 Plattformen 247–304
  - 247–264 Hat der Nutzer immer Recht? Zum inflationären Rückgriff auf Vertrauen im Kontext von Online-Plattformen René König, Patrick Sumpf René König, Patrick Sumpf 247–264
  - 265–284 Ursachen der Entstehung von ubiquitären Zentrum-Peripheriestrukturen und ihre Folgen Christian Stegbauer, Alexander Mehler Christian Stegbauer, Alexander Mehler 265–284
  - 285–304 Das Produktionsmodell des digitalen Kapitalismus Oliver Nachtwey, Philipp Staab Oliver Nachtwey, Philipp Staab 285–304
- 305–378 Arbeit 305–378
  - 305–325 Arbeit im Informationsraum – Informatisierung als Perspektive für ein soziologisches Verständnis der digitalen Transformation Andreas Boes, Tobias Kämpf, Alexander Ziegler Andreas Boes, Tobias Kämpf, Alexander Ziegler 305–325
  - 326–348 Digitalisierung, Arbeit und Beschäftigung: Altbekannte Zusammenhänge, überholte Kategorien, neuartige Effekte? Sabine Pfeiffer, Anne Suphan Sabine Pfeiffer, Anne Suphan 326–348
  - 349–378 Industrie 4.0 als sozio-technische Zukunftsvorstellung. Zur Bedeutung von organisationaler Sinnerzeugung und -stiftung Uli Meyer Uli Meyer 349–378
- 379–430 Ungleichheit 379–430
- 431–479 Politik 431–479
  - 431–452 Wie sich alltagspolitische Engagementpraktiken transformieren: Eine Untersuchung der Nutzung sozialer Netzwerkseiten Jeffrey Wimmer Jeffrey Wimmer 431–452
  - 453–466 Monitory politics, digital surveillance and new protest movements: an analysis of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement John Postill, Victor Lasa, Ge Zhang John Postill, Victor Lasa, Ge Zhang 453–466
  - 467–479 Doing words with things of the Internet Evelyn Ruppert Evelyn Ruppert 467–479
- 480–490 Abstracts 480–490
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Soziologie des Digitalen - Digitale Soziologie? , page 467 - 479

Doing words with things of the Internet

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Evelyn Ruppert

DOI
- doi.org/10.5771/9783845295008-467
- ISBN print: 978-3-8487-5323-9
- ISBN online: 978-3-8452-9500-8
Abstract

Much of social and political life is now conducted through the Internet and social and power relations are ever more entwined with digital life. How might digital sociology then attend to fundamental sociological questions of power and subjectivity as people variously act through the Internet? There are of course many studies of how the Internet is remaking sociality, social networks, publics, politics, identities, subjectivities, or human-technology interactions. In various ways, they attend to how the Internet is altering relations not only between people but also between people and vast arrangements of sociotechnical conventions that have become part of everyday language, such as tweeting, messaging, friending, emailing, blogging, sharing, and so on. Interpreting the digital data that these ‘registers of action’ generate and their different forms of subjectivity represent an interpretive challenge for digital sociology and its emerging digital methods. In response to this challenge, I offer a conceptual framing that starts from Bruno Latour’s account of ‘how to do words with things’ to interpret the various ways that subjects ‘do words with things of the Internet’. The framing builds on the formulation that when subjects act they perform different subject positions that are composites of obedience, submission, and subversion. I then focus on subjects who perform digital acts by subverting conventions of the Internet to make rights claims and in doing so bring a political subjectivity called the digital citizen into being.

Zusammenfassung

Much of social and political life is now conducted through the Internet and social and power relations are ever more entwined with digital life. How might digital sociology then attend to fundamental sociological questions of power and subjectivity as people variously act through the Internet? There are of course many studies of how the Internet is remaking sociality, social networks, publics, politics, identities, subjectivities, or human-technology interactions. In various ways, they attend to how the Internet is altering relations not only between people but also between people and vast arrangements of sociotechnical conventions that have become part of everyday language, such as tweeting, messaging, friending, emailing, blogging, sharing, and so on. Interpreting the digital data that these ‘registers of action’ generate and their different forms of subjectivity represent an interpretive challenge for digital sociology and its emerging digital methods. In response to this challenge, I offer a conceptual framing that starts from Bruno Latour’s account of ‘how to do words with things’ to interpret the various ways that subjects ‘do words with things of the Internet’. The framing builds on the formulation that when subjects act they perform different subject positions that are composites of obedience, submission, and subversion. I then focus on subjects who perform digital acts by subverting conventions of the Internet to make rights claims and in doing so bring a political subjectivity called the digital citizen into being.
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