From the Editors

Elena Esposito — Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna; Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University — Contact: elena.esposito9@unibo.it — https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/elena.esposito9
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3075-292X

Elena Esposito is Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University and the University of Bologna. Her current research on algorithmic prediction is supported by a five-year Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (https://tinyurl.com/ypxfsav6). Her latest book is Artificial Communication. How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (MIT Press, 2022; Egea, 2022; Shanghai Jiaotong University Press, 2023).

Ivana Pais — Department of Sociology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore — https://docenti.unicatt.it/ppd2/it/docenti/14070/ivana-pais/profilo
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5125-8701

Ivana Pais is Full Professor of Economic Sociology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. She is the Director of TRAILab – Transformative Actions Interdisciplinary Laboratory. She is the principal investigator of the ORIGAMI project – Home Care Digital Platforms and Industrial Relations (2023–2025) funded by DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusions and the principal investigator of the WePlat project Welfare systems in the age of platforms: drivers of change for users, providers and policy makers (2021–2023), funded by Fondazione Cariplo.

David Stark — Department of Sociology, Columbia University — https://davidcstark.net/
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2435-9619

David Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. Columbia University Press will publish his new edited collection, Practicing Sociology: Tacit Knowledge of the Sociological Craft. Recent publications include The Performance Complex: Competition and Competitions in Social Life (Oxford University Press, 2020), “Moments of Identity: The Dynamics of Artist, Persona, and Audience in Electronic Music” (Theory & Society, 2021), and “Racial Attention Deficit” (Science Advances, 2021).

Submitted: 2023-07-14 – Published: 2023-07-24

We are pleased to announce our new publishing initiative: Sociologica Curated. In this ebook format you can find thematic collections of articles published in Sociologica. The typical ebook is organized around one of our special issues, but often includes other pieces from the journal on that topic.

We hope this ebook format will be useful as learning materials in classes or as a support for students and researchers doing a literature review on a topic.

Sociologica Curated is available as a menu item on the same page where you find our current and back issues. https://sociologica.unibo.it/pages/curated. The format is user-friendly, allowing you to download the entire pdf and then click on the items in the Table of Contents to access a particular article.

Three ebooks are currently available:

Power and Control in Platform Monopoly Capitalism, edited by Ivana Pais and David Stark.
Doing Social Science via Comics and Graphic Novels, edited by Eduardo Barberis and Barbara Grüning.
Journalistic Culture in the 21^st Century, edited by Christopher W. Anderson.

Be sure to check this page regularly because we will soon be posting other ebooks, including, for example, a collection of recent interviews with prominent sociologists previously published in the journal. Enjoy the reading!