EAN: 9783031117589

WHAT PEOPLE LEAVE BEHIND KARTONIERT (TB)

This open access book focuses on a particular but significant topic in the social sciences: the
concepts of footprint and trace. It associates these concepts with hotly debated topics such as
surveillance capitalism and knowledge society. The editors and authors discuss the concept
footprints and traces as unintended by-products of other (differently focused and oriented)
actions that remain empirically imprinted in virtual and real spaces. The volume therefore
opens new scenarios for social theory and applied social research in asking what the stakes 
risks and potential of this approach are. It systematically raises and addresses these
questions within a consistent framework  bringing together a heterogeneous group of
international social scientists. Given the multifaceted objectives involved in exploring
footprints and traces  the volume discusses heuristic aspects and ethical dimensions 
scientific analyses and political considerations  empirical perspectives and theoretical
foundations. At the same time  it brings together perspectives from cultural analysis and
social theory  communication and Internet studies  big-data informed research and computational
social science. This innovative volume is of interest to a broad interdisciplinary readership:
sociologists  communication researchers  Internet scholars  anthropologists  cognitive and
behavioral scientists  historians  and epistemologists  among others.

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