David Toews
Biographic Data
| ID | 265965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Toews |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Toews |
| SIGNATURE | TOEWS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3770-264X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pluralism and Relationalism in Social Theory
Social Life and Political Life in the Era of Digital Media
Digital technology has vastly broadened and complexified social life, levelling opportunities for communication and producing a new awareness of the importance of diversity of social relations, as well as of life on the planet. This book explores the ways in which social media, by encouraging human curiosity and sociability in relation to these developments, has highlighted for users their own nature as social beings who have discovered new ways …
Online Communities (Virtual Communities)
Widespread use of the Internet has led to the use of the term online communities to describe a sensibility of digitally mediated social life distinct from traditional or offline social life. The oldest online communities are premised on a strong sense of techno‐communalist virtual community , but today most online communities do not imagine digital technology represents a radical break with the past, and are more about involving new forms of medi…
T arde, G abriel
Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904) was a founder of sociology. Attentive to differences and repetitions as revealed in statistics, sociology was to represent, in his view, a higher evolution and universalization of scientific method that would finally expel ontologized conceptions of community and reject what Bergson, following Tarde, would later term “intellectualism”: the tendency to build analysis on reifications. In the end, Tarde's vision was denied …
Digital Media
Digital media employs digitization to gather information and process and disseminate texts, sounds, and images. Its technical power contributed to an imaginary of absent social constraints. Social media, social networking, and digital game culture continue to spread enthusiasm for digital media. Yet passions have been tempered by digital media's domestication and integration in ordinary everyday social life. A variety of scholarly paradigms for t…
Convergence Culture
Convergence culture is a concept coined by Henry Jenkins that describes popular cultural norms that have emerged in response to media convergence. Such cultural norms are concentrated around the affirmation of the practice of combining various forms of communication. Convergence culture is made possible by digital media. It refers to attitudes on the part of ordinary people of active engagement with, as well as resistance to, the ways in which po…
De plus hautes diversités
En plusieurs endroits de son œuvre, à la fois dans ses écrits théoriques et ses œuvres de fiction, Tarde revient sur le thème du futur. Dans Monadologie et sociologie, il émet l'hypothèse qu'en raison de la façon dont la science moderne « pulvérise » l'univers, le futur est susceptible de représenter une forme plus élevée de diversité. Tarde soutient que cette destruction et cette création, en se répandant dans la société, impliqueront la fin de …
Simon Susen, ‘The ‘Postmodern Turn’ in the Social Sciences
Tarde's sociology of difference
Digital Dead End
A Socially-Just Internet
This article argues that while modes of scholarship stressing structural insights into the digital divide and ethnographic insights into online communities each give us important information about current uses of the internet, for the sake of a unified social justice principle it is necessary to interpret these forms of knowledge in terms of what could be. Marx’s formula ‘the development of each as a condition for the development of all’ is put f…
The New Tarde
The early 20th-century French sociologist and philosopher Gabriel Tarde was an important critic of Durkheim's ontology of the social. Tarde developed a microsociological and ontological critique of the philosophical problems of resemblance and of variation underlying Durkheim's comparative sociology. Recently, thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour and Éric Alliez have begun to revisit Tarde and to develop a theme of the significance of Ta…
The New Tarde
The early 20th-century French sociologist and philosopher Gabriel Tarde was an important critic of Durkheim's ontology of the social. Tarde developed a microsociological and ontological critique of the philosophical problems of resemblance and of variation underlying Durkheim's comparative sociology. Recently, thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour and Éric Alliez have begun to revisit Tarde and to develop a theme of the significance of Ta…
Tarde's sociology of difference
The New Tarde
The early 20th-century French sociologist and philosopher Gabriel Tarde was an important critic of Durkheim's ontology of the social. Tarde developed a microsociological and ontological critique of the philosophical problems of resemblance and of variation underlying Durkheim's comparative sociology. Recently, thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour and Éric Alliez have begun to revisit Tarde and to develop a theme of the significance of Ta…
A Socially-Just Internet
This article argues that while modes of scholarship stressing structural insights into the digital divide and ethnographic insights into online communities each give us important information about current uses of the internet, for the sake of a unified social justice principle it is necessary to interpret these forms of knowledge in terms of what could be. Marx’s formula ‘the development of each as a condition for the development of all’ is put f…
Digital Dead End
Tarde's sociology of difference
Simon Susen, ‘The ‘Postmodern Turn’ in the Social Sciences
Online Communities (Virtual Communities)
Widespread use of the Internet has led to the use of the term online communities to describe a sensibility of digitally mediated social life distinct from traditional or offline social life. The oldest online communities are premised on a strong sense of techno‐communalist virtual community , but today most online communities do not imagine digital technology represents a radical break with the past, and are more about involving new forms of medi…
T arde, G abriel
Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904) was a founder of sociology. Attentive to differences and repetitions as revealed in statistics, sociology was to represent, in his view, a higher evolution and universalization of scientific method that would finally expel ontologized conceptions of community and reject what Bergson, following Tarde, would later term “intellectualism”: the tendency to build analysis on reifications. In the end, Tarde's vision was denied …
Digital Media
Digital media employs digitization to gather information and process and disseminate texts, sounds, and images. Its technical power contributed to an imaginary of absent social constraints. Social media, social networking, and digital game culture continue to spread enthusiasm for digital media. Yet passions have been tempered by digital media's domestication and integration in ordinary everyday social life. A variety of scholarly paradigms for t…
Convergence Culture
Convergence culture is a concept coined by Henry Jenkins that describes popular cultural norms that have emerged in response to media convergence. Such cultural norms are concentrated around the affirmation of the practice of combining various forms of communication. Convergence culture is made possible by digital media. It refers to attitudes on the part of ordinary people of active engagement with, as well as resistance to, the ways in which po…
De plus hautes diversités
En plusieurs endroits de son œuvre, à la fois dans ses écrits théoriques et ses œuvres de fiction, Tarde revient sur le thème du futur. Dans Monadologie et sociologie, il émet l'hypothèse qu'en raison de la façon dont la science moderne « pulvérise » l'univers, le futur est susceptible de représenter une forme plus élevée de diversité. Tarde soutient que cette destruction et cette création, en se répandant dans la société, impliqueront la fin de …
Pluralism and Relationalism in Social Theory
Social Life and Political Life in the Era of Digital Media
Digital technology has vastly broadened and complexified social life, levelling opportunities for communication and producing a new awareness of the importance of diversity of social relations, as well as of life on the planet. This book explores the ways in which social media, by encouraging human curiosity and sociability in relation to these developments, has highlighted for users their own nature as social beings who have discovered new ways …
Sociology (11 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Emile Durkheim and Sociology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Social science (4 works)