This document discusses efforts to update and reinvent sociology in response to challenges from new digital technologies and data. It outlines approaches like "live methods" that seek to capture vitality rather than treat concepts and data as "fossilized facts". "Punk sociology" and "hacker sociology" aim to challenge conventions through creative and collaborative methods. "Digital sociology" explores how digitization is reshaping social life and the role of sociologists in analyzing new digital data and knowledge networks. The document advocates for inventive methods that reimagine data and theorize new approaches to research.

1. Live, punk, hacker &
digital sociology:
Shaking up the discipline?
Deborah Lupton, News & Media Research
Centre, University of Canberra
@DALupton

2. Punk Marx

3. Zombie Marx

4. Zombie Foucault

5. Punk Foucault

6. Hacker sociology

7. Live Methods, 2012, edited by Les Back and
Nirmal Puwar

8. Live sociology
• Avoiding ‘fossil facts’, or rendering vitality into dead
objects
• Steering clear of ‘zombie concepts’
• Adding new techniques to our empirical toolbox
• Reflecting on digital global knowledge economy &
digitisation of social life
• Responding to the ‘crisis of empirical sociology’
• Responding to the vitality of data and social life
• Reflecting on the impact of social research on social
life

9. Punk Sociology, 2014, by David Beer

10. Punk sociology
• The punk ethos – challenging the status quo
• Drawing on alternative forms of knowledge
• Seeing the world from multiple perspectives
• Response and reactive to cultural norms
• Renewed creativity – trying new things
• Iconoclastic – eclectic
• DIY ethos/collaborative

11. Inventive Methods, 2012, edited by Celia
Lury and Nina Wakeford

12. Inventive methods
• Theorising the sociological research ‘device’
• Addressing the ‘politics of method’
• Reflexivity about method
• Alternative forms of data
• Old methods in new/inventive ways

13. The Sociological Review Manifesto, 2014, by the editors
(Sarah Green, Mike Michael & Bev Skeggs)
• Critical & creative sociology – review as a process of
critical sociological engagement
• Openness to other disciplines (especially social
anthropology, cultural geography & STS)
• Publishing work that ‘unpicks the boundaries’
• Publishing a wider range of texts (art, poetry, fiction
etc)

14. Digital Sociology

15. Digital sociology
• Reconceptualising methods
• Rethinking ‘the social’
• Sociologists as knowledge workers in the
digital knowledge economy
• The digitised sociologist
• New opportunities for sociology

16. Challenges for sociology
global digital information economy
prosumption
crisis of empirical sociology
data envy

17. Responses
New methods
New data
New ways of theorising method + data

18. New methods
hacker sociology – using digital tech + data
data visceralisations – beyond the visual
cultural probes
speculative design ethnography

19. Digital devices

21. Data visualisations

23. 3D data objects

24. Lively data
lively
data
aesthetics
emotion
lively capital
data
subjects/doubles
flow & circulation
multiple
uses/repurposing

25. Live/ly sociology
Live/ly
sociology
lively data
inventive
methods
hacker/punk
sensibility