• Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges

• Moving Beyond the Linear Model: The Role of Mixed Methods Research in an Age of Complexity

• Toward a typology of participation in crowd work

• the palestinian solidarity campaign and the growing climate of political repression in the uk

• the acceleration of viruses and malware 

• international journal of social research methodology: ask the editors @ijsrm! TOMORROW at 11am

• an introduction to social acceleration in 18 minutes

• Michel Foucault – The Culture of the Self

• Call for papers: digital gaming (cc @TGJBrock)

• Call for Papers: The contemporary relevance of the work of Pierre Bourdieu

• an introduction to social ontology

• neil gaiman’s 8 rules of writing

• what makes human beings distinctive amongst animals?

• new songs from brian fallon’s impending solo album

• research blogs as monuments to treating ideas seriously

• are you conducting research on reflexivity?

• a question about cultural globalisation

• international journal of social research methodology: ask the editors @ijsrm! december 1st at 11am

• things I’ve been reading recently #16

• the grateful serfs of the sharing economy

• social psychological approaches to understanding why people are blasé about data security

• voluntarily disclosed personal information online and susceptibility to manipulation 

• why dehumanisation matters 

• the liquid warfare of ISIS

• cfp: the dehumanisation of contemporary societies

• reflections on six years spent studying asexuality 

• Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance

• the 2016 international association of critical realism conference 

• Crowd Dynamics: Exploring Conflicts and Contradictions in Crowdsourcing 

• why are we not boycotting academia.edu?

• “world of warcraft is the new golf”

• what terms would you like to see included in a glossary of social ontology?

• social media and constraints upon personal morphogensis 

• I’m talking about asexuality at this book launch on Friday 

• what ‘freedom’ will mean in a gamified world

• digital dilemmas: transforming gender identities and power relations in everyday life

• social media and social science research ethics

• the right-wing plot to overthrow FDR and install a dictator in the US (and more on the potential for fascism in the united states)

• techno-fascism and six factors which could bring it about

• social media in the accelerated academy: march 2nd @CIMethods

• images of the human in digital social science

• “the easy hybridization of social network analysis and social psychology experimentation”

• got an idea for a monograph? submit to @thesocreview monograph call

• places available: the challenge of sociological writing

• call for blog posts: #digitalsociology and the future of the discipline

• follow @accelerateduni for accelerated academy updates

• international journal of social research methodology: ask the editors @ijsrm! december 1st at 11am

• CfP: Data Literacy Special Issue

• Visiting Scholar Program – Ryerson University Social Media Lab

• call for proposals: @thesocreview seminar competition

• the slippery slope towards techno-fascism

• the two ontological orientations to technology prevalent within digital capitalism

• southpark on the vertigo of the filter bubble

• digital wildfire: project showcase on jan 12th

• call for papers: the rapid spread of provocative content on social media

• cyber war between non-state actors 

• CfP: Political Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy

• the future of transparency in the civil service?

• CfP: Demystifying Blockchain Through an STS Lens

• digital micro-politics and digital macro-politics 

• peter thiel on the first silicon valley gold rush

• the ascendancy of the quants 

• it (literally) pays to visit an open day 

• the politics of stupidity

• the next front in the war on ad blocking 

• the old world of banking 

• the digital repression that a trump presidency would bring 

• digital capitalism and the search for work

• Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science

• CFP: Transhumanist Education, Politics, and Design

• BSA Sociology and Feminism Event

• the origins of apple as a luxury goods company 

• organisational minimalism

• cognitive triage and the acceleration of design

• deadline tomorrow to register for the accelerated academy!

• giddens on digital tech

• from risk to resilience: responsible citizens for uncertain times

• call for proposals: @thesocreview monograph series

• funding call: @thesocreview seminar competition 2016/2017

• mike savage on ‘making sense of big data’

• large environmental protest in paris banned

• rough sleeper

• tech giants and the possibility of craft

• Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition and Intelligent Devices

• imagining the apple ecosystem 

• the joys of being-in-the-zone

• the politics of denying causal power to objects 

• a relational theory of addiction 

• manufacturing certainties in response to systemic uncertainties 

• the one where erving goffman works as a pit boss in vegas

• the sociology of ‘blotting out’ experience 

• price of my asexuality book has dropped to £25

• david willetts rehearsing his speech for an important meeting with google

• karl marx’s end of year departmental assessment

• four days left to register for the accelerated academy! deadline nov 20th

• a sociological podcast about culture

• “we know you’re a cheat and you should kill yourself” 2.0

• it goes boom boom boom

• the stupidity of auto-correction in the new OS X

• an accelerated academy reading list