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title: Digital Communication
description: Digital communication examines how information is created, transmitted, and received via digital platforms. You will understand the social and psychological impacts of social media, online communities, and digital media networks, as well as how to analyze digital communication patterns.
category: social-sciences
subcategory: communication-studies
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/digital-communication
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# Digital Communication

Digital communication examines how information is created, transmitted, and received via digital platforms. You will understand the social and psychological impacts of social media, online communities, and digital media networks, as well as how to analyze digital communication patterns.

## Available Resources

4 Books • 1 Courses • 2 Websites

## Books

### 1. The Culture of Connectivity

**Author:** José van Dijck

Van Dijck traces how Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Wikipedia evolved between 2001 and 2012, treating each as a techno-cultural construct and socioeconomic structure. Readers gain a framework for analysing how platform design shapes sociality and public values.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199970785?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, communication-studies

### 2. Reclaiming Conversation

**Author:** Sherry Turkle

Turkle argues that constant device use erodes face-to-face talk, drawing on interviews in families, schools and workplaces to trace effects on solitude, empathy and attention. Readers come away with evidence-based reasons to redesign their own conversational habits.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143109790?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, communication-studies

### 3. Networked

**Author:** Lee Rainie, Barry Wellman

Rainie and Wellman use Pew survey data to argue that the internet, mobile phones and social networks moved people from tight groups into loose personal networks. Readers gain the networked-individualism framework for interpreting contemporary social ties.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262526166?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, communication-studies

### 4. The Shallows

**Author:** Nicholas Carr

Carr combines media history with neuroscience to argue that reading online rewires attention toward skimming and away from deep, linear concentration. Readers gain a historical account of how writing technologies, from the alphabet to hypertext, reshape thought.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1848872275?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, communication-studies

## Courses

### 1. Digital Communication

Arizona State University course on handling emotion in online communication. Covers the communication process, expressing feeling in text, choosing an appropriate channel, and repairing misunderstandings. Learners finish able to defuse emotionally charged digital exchanges and respond professionally.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/digitalcommunicationandemotion

**Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, communication-studies

## Websites

### 1. sherryturkle.com

Sherry Turkle's site explores how digital technology affects human connection and communication. It features her biography, research, publications, books, talks, interviews, and essays on technology's impact on relationships and society.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://sherryturkle.com

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, communication-studies

### 2. aoir.org

AOIR.org is the website for the Association of Internet Researchers, a professional community focused on the study of digital communication and internet research methods. It offers information about membership and events, along with ethics guidelines, publications, and resources for conducting ethical internet research.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://aoir.org

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, communication-studies

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