Technology in Everyday Life

Smartphones, social media, digital applications, and the Internet are intrinsic to everyday life in the modern society. The volume People, Technology, and Social Organization: Interactionist Studies of Everyday Life, edited by Dirk vom Lehn, Will Gibson, and Natalia Ruiz-Junco (2024), makes a timely contribution to research on technology use. According to the editors, the aim of the volume was to “investigate social life in a technological world” (p. 12). A reader who seeks an insight into what social life looks like in a world full of technology will not be disappointed. However, the reader should not expect an exhaustive or systematic account of technology in human life. Rather, the volume offers an exciting sample of astute observations on the routine use of technological tools.