Book review: "Networked: The New Social Operating System, by Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman MIT Press. 2012"

Jen Schradie (1)

1 UC Berkeley - University of California [Berkeley]

Sociologists have been researching digital technology and society over the past two decades, yet our discipline has yet to fully grasp its theoretical significance. Therefore, Rainie and Wellman's book, Networked: The New Social Operating System, is a welcome addition to a broader dialogue on the role of the Internet and mobile technologies in social life. Their central argument is that digital technology is both situated in and shapes a new “networked individualism.” (First paragraph)

Domains: Sociology

Jen Schradie. Book review: "Networked: The New Social Operating System, by Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman MIT Press. 2012". Social Forces, 2014, 94 (3), pp.e89-e89. ⟨10.1093/sf/sou075⟩. ⟨hal-03823028⟩