Part of the reason I left sociology to come over to communications & cultural studies is that this latter discipline makes no noises about wanting to be a science. And it seems to me that the study of digital culture needs a nuanced, multi-layered exploration that escapes the rigid instrumental reason of positivist science.
I'm not so happy, then, about Tim Berners-Lee making the pronouncement recently that the study of the web needs to be scientized.
History has shown me that, to date, sociological phenomenon and scientific methodologies are not good ontological and epistemological partners.
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