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In Digital Sociology Noortje Marres invites us to ponder over the impact of social media research on sociology and over how sociology is transformed by digital research methods. She does this by opening up a conversation with classic voices in sociology, Durkheim, Weber, Garfinkel, and others, whereby she off ers insights into some of the methodological roots of digital methods. The book is guided by a desire to explore and clarify what research, with and against digital infrastructures might mean for contemporary sociology, media studies and STS. One of the central tenets is that innovation in big data and computational social science needs sociology’s capacity for methodological innovation. In the book, digitized social research is exemplified through cases and research conducted by Marres and colleagues over the past 5-8 years. Descriptions of to teaching situations and workshops off er lightness and liveliness to the theoretical argument. Only little is presented with regards to specifi cation on how to design or carry out digitized social inquiry. Still, Digital Sociology comes across as a practical book, which is quite an achievement given its theoretical ambition. This is clearly an eff ect of Marres’ capacities as a writer and of her skill in bringing digital technologies to life in text. But the book’s practice-orientation touches on a more profound issue. To this reader it is a ‘factoid’ (Haraway, 2015) of social research of infrastructures more generally. Digital infrastructures are recursive in the sense that they are simultaneously social phenomena worth of exploration and offer means of researching such phenomena (see also Jensen and Winthereik, 2013). Thus, we are required to work with their embedded capacities and shortcomings and make them into research tools and objects of inquiry. This is not unlike ethnography where the means of achieving knowing about sociality hinge on skills that are themselves ‘social’, like conversation and observation. Conceptually, Marres specifi es social research with and against digital infrastructures as interface methods. Rather than a set of methodological guidelines, interface methods is an approach that recognizes how, in the words of Marres:

Noortje Marres (forthcoming, March 2017) Digital Sociology: The reinvention of social research. Cambridge: Polity Press.