Where Platform Capitalism and Racial Capitalism Meet: The Sociology of Race and Racism in the Digital Society

The study of race and racism in the digital society must produce theoretically distinct and robust formulations of Internet technologies as key characteristics of the political economy. The author puts forth racial capitalism as a coherent framework for this research agenda. The argument for racial capitalism draws on two examples of its engagement with two characteristics of the digital society: obfuscation as privatization and exclusion by inclusion. Internet technologies are now a totalizing sociopolitical regime and should be central to the study of race and racism

"Who Do You Think You Are?": When Marginality Meets Academic Microcelebrity

23 pagesPopulists and capitalists conceptualize academic public writing as a democratizing process. I argue that interlocking structures of oppression contour neoliberal academic appeals for public scholarship. Using data from a public academic blog, I conceptualize the attention economy as stratified by attenuated status groups. I also discuss the methodological promise of digital texts for sociological inquiry.University of Oregon Librarie

Black Cyberfeminism: Ways Forward for Classification Situations, Intersectionality and Digital Sociology

This paper considers what intersectionality brings to digital sociology. I will use digital sociology to mean: observing social processes at the micro, meso, and macro level that are transformed or mediated by digital logics, technologies and platforms.

Mitigating Concerns and Maximizing Returns: Social Media Strategies for Injury Prevention Non-profits

Injury prevention programs can use social media to disseminate information and recruit participants.Non-profit organizations have also used social media for fundraising and donor relationshipmanagement. Non-profit organizations (NPOs) with injury prevention missions often serve vulnerablepopulations. Social media platforms have varied levels of access and control of shared content. Thisvariability can present privacy and outreach challenges that are of particular concern for injuryprevention NPOs. This case report of social media workshops for injury prevention NPOs presentsconcerns and strategies for successfully implementing social media campaigns. [West J Emerg Med.2014;15(5):582–586.

Mitigating Concerns and Maximizing Returns: Social Media Strategies for Injury Prevention Non-profits

Injury prevention programs can use social media to disseminate information and recruit participants.Non-profit organizations have also used social media for fundraising and donor relationshipmanagement. Non-profit organizations (NPOs) with injury prevention missions often serve vulnerablepopulations. Social media platforms have varied levels of access and control of shared content. Thisvariability can present privacy and outreach challenges that are of particular concern for injuryprevention NPOs. This case report of social media workshops for injury prevention NPOs presentsconcerns and strategies for successfully implementing social media campaigns. [West J Emerg Med.2014;15(5):582–586.

The Ties that Corporatize: A Social Network Analysis of University Presidents as Vectors of Higher Education Corporatization

In this paper we demonstrate how social network analysis can model the extent and type of corporatization theorized to be occurring in U.S. higher education by tracing presidents’ career histories from a heterogeneous sample of U.S. colleges and universities (n=215) across not-for-profit public universities, for-profit universities and corporations

Welcome and Plenary Session

Pudom Lindblad, Tressie McMillan Cottom, and T-Kay Sangwand, with Anastasia Salter as moderator