• How growth hacking is leading to a pandemic of amplification-itis on social media platforms

• I’ve finally finished the second edition of Social Media for Academics

• The long, slow decline of organic reach on social media

• The tightness of engineering constraints and the organisational sociology of tech startups

• The awkward silences of digital elites

• The security apparatus of digital elites

• Open science and platform capitalism: a love story?

• The ontology of toxicity

• Critics of Amazon don’t understand how popular it is

• 😪 How not to prepare the second edition of a book 😪

• But you can recognise me because I’m you

• The governance of platforms

• The Data Science & Society Institute

• The tragedy of the academic commons: when abstraction makes us passive

• Breathe Me

• Mark Fisher on using social media rather than being used by it

• Experts, knowledge and criticality in the age of ‘alternative facts’: re-examining the contribution of higher education