• 📚Assessment, Learning and Institutional Capacity: an evidence resource to accompany The AI Crisis in Higher Education

• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• A machinery for producing rationalisations

• How machine learning veils human bias

• The Great Disruptive Project of Uber

• The economics of attention vs the sociology of attention

• The paradox of the liberal contrarian

• The promise of the ‘passion economy’

• Upcoming Critical Realism webinars

• Social Media for Academics: The Changing Landscape of Scholarship

• The outlook of the digital technocrat

• An agenda for Digital Sociology

• A machine for killing relationality

• The Digital Condition: The Practical Order as Pivotal

• Medium as a forum for warring digital elites

• The vested interests of the media in Trump

• The Journal of Digital Social Research has launched!

• Social Media for Academics 2

• Whose university? Our university

• The acceleration of journalism

• Were you a fan of Sociological Imagination?

• The nostalgia of centrism

• The Platform University 2

• The first and second wave of viral publishers

• CfP: Data Literacy in Higher Education

• Vice’s ‘non-traditional’ working environment

• Recension Day

• Viral populism: what happens when isomorphism through algorithm hits politics?

• CfP: PostDigital Humans

• A sketchy first draft of my PhD proposal

• The Goods Yard, Kings Cross, London, UK

• The scholarly career of BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti

• The gamification of virality and the pleasures it brings

• Staying small in order to grow

• A few notes the digital aristocracy

• Apps and their users: a few initial ontological thoughts

• Never say Amazon in a bookstore

• Human Tetris

• The Poetics of Data Analytics

• The situational geography of everyday life

• The rise of platform studies

• The cynical lure of online celebrity

• The supersurfaces of social media

• Why slowness and attentiveness aren’t the same thing

• Call for video entries: city and night

• On Manchester

• We were always waiting for something to happen

• Showing up, standing, breathing, moving

• Social media and improvising our careers

• Social media and academic flying

• On sociological walking, without obsessing about the ‘sociological’

• The spiritual death of the digital age

• Should we read the platform in post-human terms?

• Your authorial fingerprint