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Lovely review of The Public and their Platforms

There’s a lovely account of The Public and their Platforms in this brilliant review essay by Douglas Hartmann. It’s so nice to read an expert in the field who so completely gets what we were trying to do with the book:

Carrigan and Fatsis’s book, whose title cleverly plays off John Dewey’s classic The Public and Its Problems, captures how significantly both social life and political discourse have been affected by new technologies and mediated engagements in the twenty-first century. This is not a how-to for sociologists hoping to go online (for that, see Daniels and Thistlethwaite 2016), nor a celebration of the benefits of these developments for democracy, civil society, or sociology. Rather, this book uses the emergence of these new technologies to take a deep dive into the various platforms—analog as well as digital—that sociology and our publics rely on, and what is both positive and problematic about all of this. It is, for my money, one of the most probing and comprehensive treatments of public sociology that is now available. It is a volume that helps us grasp both the full range and complexity of what public sociology is as well as why it is so important for the discipline as a whole.

Thanks to the University of Manchester’s generosity, you can read the book open access here: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/display/book/9781529201062/9781529201062.xml

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