• Facebook’s advertising campaign

• Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?

• Institutionalised depoliticisation at the IMF 

• Murmuration

• Trans/Gender-Nonconforming College Students Project

• Ford’s Sociological Department

• What makes the sharing economy go round?

• On Digital Qualitative Research

• Social media for academics and the risk of becoming ‘TED heads’

• The Janus-faced ideology of philanthropic elites

• Social Media and Academic Labour

• Philanthrocapitalism as an assembly device for elites 

• The growth of elite philanthropy 

• Hip hop culture, philanthrocapitalism and getting shit done 

• Hip hop culture, philanthrocapitalism and getting shit done 

• Who are the world’s 950 billionaires?

• Transformative Horizons

• Sociology Social Media Assistant CfA

• Digital Market Populists as Intellectually Committed Chaos-Merchants

• Ideas for action from Teela Sanders and @RuthPatrick0

• Interned Professionals and Defensive Elites

• Credentials, recruitment and big data 

• The Zero Marginal Cost Society

• Making the Most of Social Media

• A couple of places left for the Morphogenetic Approach workshop on Tuesday @SocioWarwick

• Great Expectations

• What are the risks of social media for academics?

• What scholarly activities have you engaged in over the last week?

• Three computational sociologies

• CfP: Anarchist Technologies Repair Manual

• A Decade of Web 2.0: Reflections, Critical Perspectives, and Beyond

• UCU workload survey report

• Value and Values

• The Intern Army on Which Washington Depends

• Digital capitalism and the imperative to be noticed 

• Boredom and the challenge of interdisciplinarity

• things I’ve been reading recently #23

• What might Trumpist authoritarianism look like?

• A wonderful analogy by @Elinor_Carmi

• The Celebrity Millionaires of Competitive Gaming

• Data science for progressive governance

• Are exploitative professors breaking the law by recruiting student interns?

• Vintage social media

• The growth of the Twinterns

• Magical thinking as occupational opportunities contract 

• A sign of how messed up expectations about taxation have become in the last few decades

• What would experimental closure look like outside of a lab?

• Algorithmic pricing predates online retail

• A behavioural economic critique of Uber’s surge pricing

• Elon Musk responds to the satirisation of #DigitalElites in Silicon Valley

• Call for Papers: The Accelerated Academy

• The Internal Conversations of Behavioural Scientists

• Forces of Victory

• Laziness as a virtue 

• Picturing the Social

• Work Life Balance + Digital Conference

• Billionaires are people, too

• Practical Sociology: Agenda for Action

• What is Digital Hygiene?

• Digital Social Science and the Challenge of Reflexivity

• From the mass surveillance state to techno-fascism

• What do universities know about our sexual orientations?

• Using @IFTTT and Twitter to curate material for research projects

• The Moral Reasoning of Edward Snowden

• I lied about being the outdoor type