scholarly journals Book Review: The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-48
Author(s):  
Rulon W. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Social Lives

scholarly journals Digital Urban Ethnography: A Book Review of The Digital Street

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Walters ◽  
Enid Truong
Keyword(s):  
Social Worlds ◽  
Urban Ethnography ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
Construction Methods ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Social ◽  
Unique Approach ◽  
Physical Spaces

Jeffery Lane explores the social worlds of youth in Harlem during the digital era through his unique approach, digital urban ethnography. Researchers use this ethnographic method to understand how social lives and meanings are co-constructed within digital and physical spaces. The digital and physical do not neatly represent each other but each provides specific ways to engage that both shape and are shaped by youth’s social lives. As novice researchers, we read this work with an eye towards methodological choices and techniques. In particular, we hoped this work would provide us with an understanding of how to conduct research with youth on ways the physical and digital worlds interact to produce knowledge and meaning. This review discusses Lane’s theoretical framework, three themes that highlight the potential of digital urban ethnography to construct unique findings, and the significance of Lane’s work in terms of methodology and specific techniques/data construction methods.

scholarly journals Book Review [Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner, published by Bloomsbury Publishing, (London, 2020)]

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Macaulay Nicola
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Advisory Groups ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Right Wing Extremism

This is a book review of the book by Julia Ebner (2020), Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists, Bloomsbury Publishing. Published - 20 Feb 2020 Published by - Bloomsbury Publishing (London, 2020) Format - Hardback ISBN - 9781526616784 368 pages Reviewed by Nicola Macaualy Julia Ebner is a journalist and research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in the United Kingdom. Her expertise in online networking and communications methods of right-wing extremism informs a number of advisory groups, governments, NATO, the UN and the World Bank and has also resulted in several publications to date. This thought-provoking book titled ‘Going Dark’ is Ebner’s latest release and highlights key social and technological drivers behind modern-day political activism, radicalisation and terrorism online and is written in a style that is both compelling and easy to follow. As such it is equally accessible to passively interested readers as well as researchers and those employed in cyber security and counterterrorism.

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