Sociodigital Futures Book Series

CenSoF, together with Bristol University Press (BUP), have established the Sociodigital Futures book series. This exciting new series publishes pioneering research on digital technologies, society and futures in the making. This is a rapidly emerging field of interdisciplinary enquiry that is attracting growing academic, political and public interest.

The series forms part of BUP’s world-leading Science, Technology and Society subject list. 

There are currently ten books under contract and due for publication during 2026-27.

The authors and (provisional) titles are:

  1. Biagio Aragona, Knowing Digital Technologies: The Futures of Social Research
  2. Sarah Pink., Martin Berg., Maria Engberg and Bertil Rolandsson Speculative Ethnography at Work: Imagining, Performing, and Sensing Possible Futures
  3. Jo Bates, Disappointing Data: Disappointing Data: Finding Hope Among Data’s Broken Promises
  4. Debbie Watson, Dan McQuillan and Lise May Thomas, Beyond Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare
  5. Matt Dowse and Martin Parker, What is Community Technology? Activists Shaping Futures
  6. Ted Schatzki, Some Things, Not Everything: On What is Fundamentally New About Digitalizing Societies
  7. Rebecca Coleman, Susan Halford, Jessica Ogden, Biagio Aragona, Laurene Chelan, Marisela Gutierrez-Lopez, Richard Owen and Em Spiers Sociodigital Futures Research Methods: Themes, Challenges and Directions
  8. David M. Evans, Dale Southerton and Yolande Strengers, Beyond the Smart Home: Reimagining Domestic Future
  9. Jessica Pykett, Keri Facer and Carolina Valladares-Celis, Immersive Public Futures: The Places and People Shaping Collective Imagination
  10. Susan Halford and Dale Southerton, Sociodigital Futures: Practice Connections Through Space and Time
More information and details will be available as the books are published. 
For more information, or if you are interested in submitting a proposal, please see the series page on the Bristol University Press website.