- 1. Toward a Sociology of Traces. - Part I Traces Between Space, Interaction, and Symbols. - 2. Leaving a Trace: Donor Plaques as Material Evidences of Generosity?. - 3. Rethinking Cultural Probes in Community Research and Design as Ethnographic Practice. - 4. Traces of Social Binding: Interpretive Tracing as a Bridging Concept. - 5. Clues of Displacement: The Gentrification of Silver Hill. - 6. What Do Museum Visitors Leave Behind? The New Experience and the New Visitor in the Twenty-First Century. - Part II Algorithms, Social Media, and Online Footprints. - 7. Investigating Exhaust Data in Virtual Communities. - 8. Retracing Algorithms: How Digital Social Research Methods Can Track Algorithmic Functioning. - 9. Visible and Invisible Traces: Managing the Self on Social Media Platforms. - 10. Performative Intermediaries Versus Digital Regulation. A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Power of Algorithms. - Part III Traces and Political Sphere: Capitalism, Surveillance, Personal Rights, and Moral Concerns. - 11.  Surveilling the Surveillants: From Relational Surveillance to WikiLeaks. - 12. When the Footprint Is a Carbon One: A Sustainable Paradigm for the Analysis of the Contemporary Society. - 13. Material Traces of a Cumbersome Past: The Case of Italian Colonial History. - 14. Video Surveillance and Public Space: Surveillance Society Vs. Security State. - 15. The Right to be Forgotten in the Digital Age. - 16. Countering "Surveillance Capitalism." The Intertwining of Objective and Subjective Factors. - Part IV Traces as Strategic Research Materials. - 17. Traces and Their (In)significance. - 18. Traces and Algorithms as Socio-digital Objects. - 19. "Personal Influence" and Influencer Logic: A Theoretical and Methodological Comparison. - 20. What People Leave Behind Online: Digital Traces and Web-Mediated Documents for Social Research. - 21. Trace and Traceability in/of the Face: A Semiotic Reading through Art. - 22. Shameful Traces and Image-Based Sexual Abuse: The Case of Tiziana Cantone.