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The digital revolution increasingly influences every aspect of our lives. As such, the presence of digital communications and devices, artificial intelligence, robotics, big data analysis, intensified surveillance and digital inequalities within the book is larger than ever before. The main discussions of these subjects are as follows:

Chapter 2, ‘Asking and Answering Sociological Questions’ – the new field of digital sociology

Chapter 4, ‘Globalization and Social Change’ – the development of digital infrastructure, digital technology’s role in globalization, social media use in Kuwait

Chapter 10, ‘Health, Illness and Disability’ – new health technologies, pandemics and big data analysis

Chapter 12, ‘Social Interaction and Daily Life’ – social media and online interactions, cyberbullying, integration of digital devices in everyday life, online interaction norms and ‘netiquette’

Chapter 13, ‘Cities and Urban Life’ – digitally smart cities, digital technology in the shift to sustainable cities

Chapter 16, ‘Education’ – the digitization of learning, digital classrooms, the digital divide in education

Chapter 17, ‘Work and Employment’ – digitization and the knowledge economy, digital technology and the ‘end of work’, platform capitalism and the gig economy

Chapter 19, ‘The Media’ – the digital revolution and its impact on television, music, newspapers and other media, social media and fake news, digital divides and inequality, digital media and censorship, participatory cultures

Chapter 20, ‘Politics, Government and Social Movements’ – social movement organizations and social media, Castells on networked social movements

Chapter 21, ‘Nations, War and Terrorism’ – digital technology and terrorism

Chapter 22, ‘Crime and Deviance’ – AI and predictive policing, cybercrimes and cybersecurity