Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it.

Part 1: Everyday Life and The Digital
Chapter 1: The Digital Sociological Imagination - Jessamy Perriam
Chapter 2: The Presentation of Self in Digital Spaces - Jessamy Perriam
Part 2: Society, Technology, Citizens and Cities
Chapter 3: Planning the Cities of the Future - Liz McFall and Darren Umney
Chapter 4: Migration, Diaspora and Transnationalism in the Digital Age - Marie Gillespie and Rhys Crilley
Chapter 5: Transnational Digital Networks: families and religion - Umut Erel and John Maiden
Part 3: Humans and Machines
Chapter 6: Autonomous Digital Objects: between humans and machines - Simon Carter
Chapter 7: Freedom, Fetishes and cyborgs - Paul-Francois Tremlett
Chapter 8: Health and Digital Technologies: the case of walking and cycling - Simon Carter
Part 4: Uses and Abuses of the Digital
Chapter 9: Material Digital Technologies - Jessamy Perriam and Simon Carter
Chapter 10: Disinformation, 'fake news' and Conspiracies - David Robertson
Chapter 11: Cybersecurity, Digital Failure and Social Harm - Jessamy Perriam and Simon Carter
Chapter 12: Too Much, Too Young? Social media, moral panics and young people's mental health - Peter Redman
Chapter 13: Algorithms - Simon Carter and Jessamy Perriam