ABSTRACT

Each year the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association curates a special issue highlighting sociological contributions to technology and media studies. That tradition continued in 2020, even as everything else changed. The articles included in this year’s special issue were mostly written pre-Pandemic, yet their implications seem amplified by the current historical moment. With a globe gone remote, mediated communication rose from a specialist academic subject to an acute social consideration, intersecting with and illuminating basic sociological concerns about inequality, the nature of work, family life, and the compounding effects of race, class, gender, and sexuality as they interplay with social and material conditions. These topics are all reflected in the articles from this year’s issue, now inflected with a post-Pandemic reality that shows insights from CITAMS are needed now, more than ever.

摘要

每年，美国社会学协会的传播，信息技术和媒体社会学部分都会组织一期特别刊物，着重介绍社会学对技术和媒体研究的贡献。即使其他一切都发生了变化，这一传统在2020年仍继续存在。今年特刊中的文章大多是前潘迪米克式的，但其含义似乎被当前的历史时刻放大了。随着地球的遥远发展，媒介传播已经从专业的学术问题转变为一种敏锐的社会考虑，与不平等，工作性质，家庭生活以及种族，阶级，性别和性别的复合影响相交并阐明了基本的社会学问题。性与社会和物质条件的相互作用。