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In this pioneering book, David Beer redefines emergent algorithmic technologies as the new systems of knowing. He examines the acute tensions they create and how they are changing what is known and what is knowable.

Intro; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. On-demand Culture and its Quirks ; A Bit More Context: Crew-Neck Capitalism -- Chapter 2. The Order of Things ; Ripping Up the Yellow Pages; The End of the NME and the Changing Sources of Cultural Information; Whatever Happened to the Mysterious Epicentre of the British Music Scene?; The Chaos of Music Genres; Why Is Everyone Talking About Algorithms?; Algorithms as Heroes and Villains; Cultural Acceleration 1: The Closure of Vine; Cultural Acceleration 2: Debut Number 1s and the Accelerating Pop Chart; Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Total Recall: The Past, Present and Future ; FutureBecoming Media Savvy: TV Game Shows and Social Change; Those Matter Out of Place Moments; Platform Nostalgia; Are Cassette Tapes Really Making a Comeback Too?; The Rise of the Comeback; Social Media and Memories; Conclusion -- Chapter 4. The Comforts and Discomforts of Connection The Comfort of a Smartphone; Bodies in Bubbles; The Comforts and Discomforts of Smartness; Social Media's Collective Backfiring; The Discomforting Power of Our Social Media Data; The Ideals and Tensions of Our Social Media Spaces -- Chapter 5. The Demands of On-demand Culture.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Contextualising Simmel's Thinking -- Part I: The Pursuit of Inspiration -- Chapter 2. Lowering a Plumb Line -- Chapter 3. The Emerging Figure -- Part II: The View of Life -- Chapter 4. Life as Transcendence -- Chapter 5. The Turn Toward Ideas -- Chapter 6. Death and Immortality -- Chapter 7. The Law of the Individual -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Working with and Using Simmel's Ideas

This book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility, the author explores the interwoven relations between power and metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources to place these metrics within their broader historical, political and social contexts. More specifically, he illuminates the various ways that metrics implicate our lives - from our work, to our consumption and our leisure, through to our bodily routines and the financial and organisational structures that surround us. Unravelling the power dynamics that underpin and reside within the so-called big data revolution, he develops the central concept of Metric Power along with a set of conceptual resources for thinking critically about the powerful role played by metrics in the social world today

This book explores the possibility of drawing upon a punk ethos to inspire sociology and to cultivate a vibrant future for the discipline. Aiming to fire the sociological imaginations of sociologists at any stage of their careers, from new students to established professors, it uses punk to think creatively about what sociology is and how it might be conducted. Following a succinct outline of the disciplinary and social challenges that sociology faces today, the book then applies the punk ethos to sociological knowledge, communication and terrain. The concept of punk sociology is developed through a series of riffs, each of which directly applies key features of the punk ethos to sociology. "Punk Sociology" encourages sociologists to avoid the temptation to play it safe. Instead it calls for us to be bold, open, inventive, and to produce raw, stripped back and fearless work that adheres to a do-it-yourself ethic

This book explores the possibility of drawing upon a punk ethos to inspire sociology and to cultivate a vibrant future for the discipline. Aiming to fire the sociological imaginations of sociologists at any stage of their careers, from new students to established professors, it uses punk to think creatively about what sociology is and how it might be conducted. Following a succinct outline of the disciplinary and social challenges that sociology faces today, the book then applies the punk ethos to sociological knowledge, communication and terrain. The concept of punk sociology is developed through a series of riffs, each of which directly applies key features of the punk ethos to sociology. "Punk Sociology" encourages sociologists to avoid the temptation to play it safe. Instead it calls for us to be bold, open, inventive, and to produce raw, stripped back and fearless work that adheres to a do-it-yourself ethic

This book explores the material and everyday intersections between popular culture and new media. Using a range of interdisciplinary resources the chapters open up various hidden dimensions, including objects and infrastructures, archives, algorithms, data play and the body that force us to rethink our understanding of culture as it is today, Popular culture and new media are deeply interwoven, yet they are often thought of as separate spheres. This book explores the material and everyday intersections between popular culture and new media. Using a range of interdisciplinary resources the chapters open up a series of hidden dimensions - including objects and infrastructures, archives, algorithms, data play and the body - that force us to rethink our understanding of culture as it is today. Through an exploration of its intersections with new media, this book reveals the centrality of data circulations in the formation, organization and relations of popular culture. It shows how digital data accumulate as a result of our routine engagements with culture. It then examines the ways that these data fold-back into culture through algorithmic process, through play and through mediated bodily experiences. The book asks how we might conceptualize and understand culture as it continues to be reshaped by these recursive circulations of data

This book explores the material and everyday intersections betweenpopular culture and new media. Using a range of interdisciplinary resources thechapters open up various hidden dimensions, including objects and infrastructures, archives, algorithms, data play and the body that force us to rethink ourunderstanding of culture as it is today.

Responding to this journal's inaugural editorial statement, this forum piece reflects on the ongoing usefulness of the concept of the digital itself. The digital as a term could be regarded to encapsulate too much of social life to be effective as an analytical point of reference. Beginning with the unstated evocations of the term, the article turns back to earlier work on digital sociology in an attempt to put this concept into context and to think about its value. It argues for embracing the digital's retro properties by reflecting on how it might be used to understand the relations between past, present and future. The article concludes by thinking about how potential issues with the term digital can be turned to the advantage of the researcher and also how a renewed agenda for research on digital society might yet be devised, especially in the pages of this new journal.

Con posterioridad al golpe cívico militar del año 1955, en el instituto de Educación Física Manuel Belgrano, encontramos dos corrientes de gimnasia: la alemana y la sueca. Esta última había adoptado la propuesta danesa denominada gimnasia moderna y formativa. Ante esta situación los enrolados en la escuela alemana (Los Turnen), advirtieron que las diferencias habían conformado una tensión que devendrá en una disputa faccional, entre dos grupos que en particular he denominado: Conservadores y Modernos. Este trabajo da cuenta de la misma entre los años que enmarcan dos reformas de plan de estudios: 1956 y 1967. Las mismas reflejan los nudos del entramado de poder institucional. ; Mesa 13: Educación física e historia ; Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación

Con posterioridad al golpe cívico militar del año 1955, en el instituto de Educación Física Manuel Belgrano, encontramos dos corrientes de gimnasia: la alemana y la sueca. Esta última había adoptado la propuesta danesa denominada gimnasia moderna y formativa. Ante esta situación los enrolados en la escuela alemana (Los Turnen), advirtieron que las diferencias habían conformado una tensión que devendrá en una disputa faccional, entre dos grupos que en particular he denominado: Conservadores y Modernos. Este trabajo da cuenta de la misma entre los años que enmarcan dos reformas de plan de estudios: 1956 y 1967. Las mismas reflejan los nudos del entramado de poder institucional.

Con posterioridad al golpe cívico militar del año 1955, en el instituto de Educación Física Manuel Belgrano, encontramos dos corrientes de gimnasia: la alemana y la sueca. Esta última había adoptado la propuesta danesa denominada gimnasia moderna y formativa. Ante esta situación los enrolados en la escuela alemana (Los Turnen), advirtieron que las diferencias habían conformado una tensión que devendrá en una disputa faccional, entre dos grupos que en particular he denominado: Conservadores y Modernos. Este trabajo da cuenta de la misma entre los años que enmarcan dos reformas de plan de estudios: 1956 y 1967. Las mismas reflejan los nudos del entramado de poder institucional.