ABSTRACT
This chapter begins the process of theorising digital modernity, resisting the temptation to view it as a monolithic outgrowth of Europe. We can achieve this by acknowledging the existence of multiple digital modernities, extending twentieth-century sociological theories to support postcolonial perspectives. These geographically dispersed assemblages range from tiny groups engaged in crime on the dark web to vast national and transnational milieux enabled by digital platforms. They include non-human and human actors and can take reactionary (antimodern) and liberatory forms.
