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This book provides readers with a comprehensive guide to the theory and research of Web social science. It traces and critically evaluates the rise of Web social science, demonstrates how the Web is used as a resource for social research, illuminates how Web social science promotes social and political connections and the ways in which it has been used for the purposes of commerce and business

Engin F. Isin and the volume's contributors explore the social sites that have become objects of government, and considers how these subjects are sites of contestation, resistance, differentiation and identification.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: Behind the Internet -- ONE: Behind the Screen -- TWO: Understanding Commercial Content Moderation -- THREE: Screening in Silicon Valley -- FOUR: "I Call Myself a Sin-Eater" -- FIVE: "Modern Heroes": Moderating in Manila -- SIX: Digital Humanity -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

"Home is a complex and multifaceted concept. This book revisions how 'home' is used in social work literature by showing how it is positioned as being discursively represented, materially experienced and embodied, and multiply imagined as symbolic and existential. It will be of interest to all academics and students of social work, sociology, public policy, housing policy, gender studies, and human geography"--