Felicia Wu Song

Felicia 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, published in 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 (Peter Lang, 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”. When she is not working, she enjoys tending the garden, learning to bake bread, and daydreaming about becoming proficient with the bass guitar.