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MASTERS OF SCIENCE DIGITAL SOCIOLOGY


SOCY@VCU IS A VIBRANT, CRITICALLY ENGAGED SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT WHERE WE DO
THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PRAXIS THAT IMPACTS THE WORLD.

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DIGITAL DATA

 * Develop practice
 * Analyze use
 * Solve new problems

In fall 2016, we will launch the U.S.'s first master’s degree in sociology with
a focus on Digital Sociology. Digital Sociology is the study of the social
processes that shape technologies like the Internet and how those technologies
shape social processes. We study what all this change means for how we work, go
to school, form families, understand ourselves, and enact social change. This
rigorous degree program will prepare graduates to shape emerging local, national
and global conversations about big data, privacy, algorithms, inequality and
social movements. Students will create meaningful projects from the start,
building a digital portfolio of analytical skills, theoretical chops, and
critical analysis. The course sequence brings together a cohort from day one
that moves through an eight course sequence in methods, theory, substantive
courses and internship/practicum. Join us as sociologists shape the digital
future at VCU SOCY.


LEARN TOGETHER. GROW TOGETHER.

SEMESTER 1

 * Statistics
 * Theory
 * Digital Social Problems

SEMESTER 2

 * Research Methods
 * Public Sociology
 * Big Data/Data Scraping

SEMESTER 3

 * Quantitative
 * Digital Sociology
 * Project 1

SEMESTER 4

 * Data Visualization
 * SNA
 * Project 2

WHAT IS A DITIAL SOCIOLOGIST?

According to sociologist Deborah Lupton, digital sociology has four
distinguishing characteristics:

 1. Professional digital practice: using digital media tools for professional
    purposes: to build networks, construct an e-profile, publicize and share
    research and instruct students.

 2. Sociological analyses of digital use: researching the ways in which people's
    use of digital media configures their sense of selves, their embodiment and
    their social relations.

 3. Digital data analysis: using digital data for social research, either
    quantitative or qualitative.
 Critical digital sociology: undertaking
    reflexive and critical analysis of digital media informed by social and
    cultural theory.
 4. Critical digital sociology: undertaking reflexive and critical analysis of
    digital media informed by social and cultural theory.

AS A DITIAL SOCIOLOGIST, YOU WILL:

 1. Develop a professional digital practice: using digital media tools like
    WordPress, soundcloud, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Hypothes.is,
    Slack and other platforms you will share sociological analysis with various
    audiences.

 2. Analyze digital use: using various methods you will apply classic and
    contemporary social theory to how individuals, institutions and groups use
    digital media.

 3. Do digital data analysis: you will develop analytical skills using data
    mining, textual analysis, content analysis, virtual ethnography, social
    network analysis, linear regression and surveys.

 4. Apply critical sociology to contemporary social problems: using theory,
    data, and methods you will demonstrate that you can identify and analyze
    stratification and articulate theories of social change.

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DEDICATED, INVOLVED FACULTY

Faculty and students share a strong interest in bringing sociology out into the
public through social action, internships, community research, digital
storytelling and civic engagement.

Our dedicated faculty works tirelessly with students & the community.


WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

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CAMPUS ADDRESS

VCU Department of Sociology
827 West Franklin Street, Founders Hall,
Richmond, Virginia 23284-2019

CAMPUS ADDRESS

VCU Department of Sociology
827 West Franklin Street, Founders Hall,
Richmond, Virginia 23284-2019

CAMPUS ADDRESS

VCU Department of Sociology
827 West Franklin Street, Founders Hall,
Richmond, Virginia 23284-2019
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