• aesop waits – tom shall pass (aesop rock vs tom waits)

• welcome to nerd rap

• the cruel optimism of the nine to fivers anthem

• interrogating internships: unpaid work, creative industries, and higher education

• fiction and the social imaginary

• surviving life in the accelerated academy: prospects and problems for digital scholarship

• the capture of the political class 

• the distracted people and fragile movements of digital capitalism

• call for papers: qualitative methods and data in digital societies

• things I’ve been reading recently #13

• register for the accelerated academy

• digital social science essay competition

• Digital footprints

• good cafes in manchester to work in

• the sociology of the camp

• if I can’t stick around here and fight them, I’ll take my last fucking breath to my grave just to spite them

• registration now open: power, acceleration and metrics in academic life

• Felix & Adelita

• the astroturfing industry 

• on fragile movements

• the agonistic politics of anonymous 

• the pervasive cottage industry on the borders of academia 

• ‘The UK is finished’: Owen Jones meets Peter Hitchens

• things I’ve been reading recently #12

• the intensification of work in the creative industries

• upwards over the mountain

• The fiction future of faculty: September 16th in Manchester

• the ecology of content 

• the horatio alger myth

• the origins of digital capitalism 

• this is not a pipe