What People Leave Behind

- 1. Toward a Sociology of Traces. - Part I Traces Between Space, Interaction, and Symbols. - 2. Leaving a Trace: Donor Plaques as Material Evidences of Generosity?. - 3. Rethinking Cultural Probes in Community Research and Design as Ethnographic Practice. - 4. Traces of Social Binding: Interpretive Tracing as a Bridging Concept. - 5. Clues of Displacement: The Gentrification of Silver Hill. - 6. What Do Museum Visitors Leave Behind? The New Experience and the New Visitor in the Twenty-First Century. - Part II Algorithms, Social Media, and Online Footprints. - 7. Investigating Exhaust Data in Virtual Communities. - 8. Retracing Algorithms: How Digital Social Research Methods Can Track Algorithmic Functioning. - 9. Visible and Invisible Traces: Managing the Self on Social Media Platforms. - 10. Performative Intermediaries Versus Digital Regulation. A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Power of Algorithms. - Part III Traces and Political Sphere: Capitalism, Surveillance, Personal Rights, and Moral Concerns. - 11.  Surveilling the Surveillants: From Relational Surveillance to WikiLeaks. - 12. When the Footprint Is a Carbon One: A Sustainable Paradigm for the Analysis of the Contemporary Society. - 13. Material Traces of a Cumbersome Past: The Case of Italian Colonial History. - 14. Video Surveillance and Public Space: Surveillance Society Vs. Security State. - 15. The Right to be Forgotten in the Digital Age. - 16. Countering "Surveillance Capitalism." The Intertwining of Objective and Subjective Factors. - Part IV Traces as Strategic Research Materials. - 17. Traces and Their (In)significance. - 18. Traces and Algorithms as Socio-digital Objects. - 19. "Personal Influence" and Influencer Logic: A Theoretical and Methodological Comparison. - 20. What People Leave Behind

Francesca Comunello (PhD) is a Full Professor at the Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome. Her research and publications focus on the intersections between digital technology and society, including digitally mediated social relations, ageing and digital communication, gender and ICT, civic engagement, digital platforms and disaster communication. She has been a member of several national and international research projects and research networks (including European Commission-funded projects); she has also been the PI of several research projects focusing on digital media. She has held a 2-year fellowship at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain), and was awarded a 5-week "Media and Communication Fellowship" by the School of Languages, Social and Political Sciences (LSAP), University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her work has been published in highly ranked journals such as: New Media and Society, Information Communication and Society, Media Culture and Society, The Sociological Review, The Communication Review, Ageing and Society, American Behavioral Scientist, Violence Against Women, and International Journal of Press/Politics. She has authored 3 books: the most recent one (with Simone Mulargia) is Social Media in Earthquake-Related Communication (Emerald, 2018).

Fabrizio Martire (PhD) is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome. Among his main scientific interests: sociological theory, history of sociology and social researches, methodology of social researches (with a specific focus on data collection strategies and techniques), public opinion analysis, evaluation (with a specific focus on quality of social research outputs). On these issues he has organized and supervised several scientific projects, publishing almost 70