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Chapter 1: Social media and digital scholarship; Chapter 2: using social media to publicise your work; Chapter 3: Using social media to build your network; Chapter 4: Using social media to manage information; Chapter 5: Using social media for public engagement; Chapter 6: The dark side of social media; Chapter 7: Professional identity in an age of social media; Chapter 8: Communicating effectively online; Chapter 9: Finding the time for social media; Chapter 10: Social media and the future of the university.

Cutting across multiple disciplines, this book maps out a new role for the public sociologist in the post-COVID world. It envisions a new kind of public sociology that brings together the digital and the physical to create public spaces where critical scholarship and active civic engagement can meet in a mutually reinforcing way.

AbstractIn this paper, we argue that digital platforms play an important role within higher education, not least of all when Covid-19 has made remote working the norm. An increasingly rich field of theoretical and empirical work has helped us understand platforms as socio-technical infrastructures which shape the activity of their users. Their insertion into higher education raises urgent institutional questions which necessitate dispensing with the individualised mode of analysis and instrumentalised conception of technology which often accompany these topics. We outline an alternative approach through a case study of social media in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, exploring the incorporation of platforms into research evaluation. Our findings suggest social media is invoked differently across disciplinary groupings, as well as platform metrics being cited in a naive and problematic matter. We offer a neo-institutionalist analysis which identifies a tendency towards isomorphism, with perceived 'best practice' being seized upon in response to uncertainty. We suggest such an approach is urgently needed given the role which digital platforms will play in building the post-Pandemic university.

This volume engages with post-humanist and transhumanist approaches to present an original exploration of the question of how humankind will fare in the face of artificial intelligence. With emerging technologies now widely assumed to be calling into question assumptions about human beings and their place within the world, and computational innovations of machine learning leading some to claim we are coming ever closer to the long-sought artificial general intelligence, it defends humanity with the argument that technological 'advances' introduced artificially into some humans do not annul their fundamental human qualities. Against the challenge presented by the possibility that advanced artificial intelligence will be fully capable of original thinking, creative self-development and moral judgement and therefore have claims to legal rights, the authors advance a form of 'essentialism' that justifies providing a 'decent minimum life' for all persons. As such, while the future of the human is in question, the authors show how dispensing with either the category itself or the underlying reality is a less plausible solution than is often assumed

1. Thinking and theorizing about educational systems -- 2. On predicting the behaviour of the educational system -- 3. The myth of cultural integration -- 4. The vexatious fact of society -- 5. Morphogenesis versus structuration -- 6. For structure: its reality, properties and powers : a reply to Anthony King -- 7. The private life of the social agent : what different does it make? -- 8. The ontological status of subjectivity : the missing link between structure and agency -- 9. Reflexivity as the unacknowledged condition of social life -- 10. A brief history of how reflexivity becomes imperative -- 11. Morphogenic society : self-government and self-organization as misleading metaphors -- 12. The generative mechanism reconfiguring Late Modernity -- 13. How agency is transformed in the course of social transform : don't forget the double morphogenesis.

Intro -- SEXUAL MINORITY RESEARCH IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM -- SEXUAL MINORITY RESEARCH IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- EDITORS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- "HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU DON'T LIKE IT IF YOU HAVEN'T TRIED IT?" ASEXUAL AGENCY AND THE SEXUAL ASSUMPTION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING ASEXUALITY -- METHOD -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- Asexual Agency -- FRIENDS AND PEERS -- FAMILY -- ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS -- The Sexuality Assumption -- Limitations -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ASEXUALITY: AN EMERGENT SEXUAL ORIENTATION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- ASEXUALITY DEFINED -- ASEXUALITY AS A SEXUAL ORIENTATION -- COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OF ASEXUALS -- ASEXUAL INDIVIDUALS IN SOCIETY -- CONCLUSIONS -- METHOD -- Participants -- Measures -- Procedure -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- CONTEXTUAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH CHILDBEARING DECISIONS AMONG LESBIAN COUPLES PLANNING A FAMILY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- WHICH ONE WILL BIRTH THE CHILD? -- Anonymous or Known Donor? -- METHOD -- Participants -- Procedure -- Quantitative Measures: Individual Characteristics -- Quantitative Measures: Dyadic Characteristics -- Quantitative Measures: Social Network Characteristics -- Qualitative Measures -- Analytical Strategy -- RESULTS -- Individual Characteristics -- DYADIC CHARACTERISTICS -- Social Network Characteristics -- Legal and Cultural Context Surrounding Choice of Donor Type -- DISCUSSION -- Individual Characteristics -- Dyadic Characteristics -- Social Network Characteristics -- Legal Uncertainty -- Study Limitations -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- A PHENOMENOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF GAY FATHERHOOD IN ALBERTA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- Same-Sex Marriage and Same-Sex Parenting -- Prevalence of Same-Sex Parenting -- Gay Fatherhood.