Felicia Wu Song
Felicia Wu Song is a cultural sociologist who studies the social effects of digital technologies on community and identity in contemporary life. Trained in history, communication studies, and sociology from Yale, Northwestern and University of Virginia, she is Professor of Sociology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA. She is author of Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age (Intervarsity Press Academic 2021). This book explores how our contemporary digital habits fundamentally form us in ways that shape loves and imaginations of what it means to be human. This book binds sociology and theology together, arguing that both are needed for understanding how to live wisely in a digitally saturated society Her prior research includes her first book, Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together (2009) which explored the democratic efficacy of online communities, and other studies on expectant women’s online information-seeking habits and the evolution of “mommy bloggers.”