Profiles

Felicia Song is a sociologist who studies the social and cultural 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 has taught at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University and been a 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 examined the democratic efficacy of online communities, and other studies on expectant women's online information-seeking habits and the evolution of "mommy bloggers".

She recently moved to Portland Oregon, but speaks, teaches, and consults around the world with Christian faith communities and leaders, universities, and seminaries on how we can work collectively towards living more humane lives in a digitally-saturated and consumer-oriented society. When she is not working, she enjoys finding good bagels, donuts, shaved ice shops, and food trucks with her husband and two teenaged children and daydreams about becoming proficient with the bass guitar.