Cybersecurity and Society - (Digital Society) by Tilo Grenz & Daniel Guagnin & Sezgin Sönmez & Basil Wiesse (Paperback)

About the Book

A detailed study of how cybersecurity shapes the ways we live, work, and interact in a heavily digitalised present.

Book Synopsis

Social processes are increasingly shaped by modern communication technologies, consequently making them subject to the challenges and fragilities of cybersecurity matters. Conversely, cybersecurity experts more and more acknowledge that human action, practices, social norms, institutional routines, and political expectations play a major role in both causing and preventing digital threats. Expanding on the burgeoning field of social scientific studies of cybersecurity, the contributors from sociology, informatics, and science and technology studies explore transdisciplinary insights about how cybersecurity affects society: how it shapes the ways we live, work, and interact in a heavily digitalised present.

About the Author

Tilo Grenz (Edited by)

Tilo Grenz, born in 1981, is a sociologist, lecturer, and research coordinator at Pädagogische Hochschule Thurgau. Previously, he served as a tenure track assistant professor at Bertha von Suttner Privatuniversität and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at Universität Wien. He earned his PhD from Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) in 2014. His research focus lies in advancing the debate on the digital risk society by framing platform contestation and cybersecurity as genuine sociological fields for the reconstruction of infrastructural dynamics. Methodologically, he specializes in processual analysis and the development of »Interpretative Tracing«.


Daniel Guagnin (Edited by)

Daniel Guagnin heads the »Networks and Society« division at the nexus Institute in Berlin, where he coordinates interdisciplinary research projects and advises companies on data protection, IT security, technology assessment, digitalization, and AI governance. He has been researching the social impacts of technology since 2010 and teaches participatory technology development. He combines his practical experience in IT administration, programming, and IT support with sociological research, focusing on the transfer of science into practice.

Sezgin Sönmez (Edited by)

Sezgin Sönmez, born in 1983, is a sociologist and postdocotoral researcher at Technische Universität Berlin, where he also received his PhD in 2023. He is a research associate at the Collaborative Research Center 1265 »Re-Figuration of Spaces«, which studies changes in the socio-spatial order since the late 1960s. His research interests include the sociology of knowledge, discourse analysis, digitalisation, and cybersecurity.


Basil Wiesse (Edited by)

Basil Wiesse, born in 1985, works as a sociologist at Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, where he also received his PhD in 2020 with a monograph on situation and affect theory. His research focuses on epistemology, theories of practice, qualitative methods and methodologies, and digitalisation.