• 📚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

• Can social media firms remain popular while being perceived as untrustworthy?

• The ceaseless interpellation of digital capitalism

• The pre-crime assemblage: building the machine that eats bad people

• One rule for Zuckerberg, another rule for everyone else

• Talking to people on trains

• Escaping the Impact Machine: a sociological boardgame #TSRBoardGame

• Algorithms and institutional isomorphism

• Ataraxia as a solution to the problems of social media 

• Digital capitalism and the global police state

• The perils of being a source of friction in a company that wants to move fast and break things 

• Social theory as sociology’s meta-conversation

• Tech Platforms and the Knowledge Problem

• The anxiety of inertia: binge watching as death drive 

• Are there any safeguards against Amazon using AWS to monitor competitors? 

• The intimacy of writing

• Social media as a living CV for academics

• The institutionalisation of behavioural surplus: a quick recap on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

• What images do universities use on Twitter and Instagram?

• 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

• For a whole range of reasons, I’m finding social media extremely tiresome at the moment. Hence I’ll just be here on my blog for the foreseeable future.

• The Cambridge approach to social ontology

• Sociology and anarchism

• The promise of university bureaucracy: academic neoliberalism as project rather than outcome

• CfP: Political epistemologies of Big Data

• How Should STS Address Inequality? As a Subject, a (Dis)Value)? Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

• The Politics of Big Data: Social Listening and Reclaiming the Future

• Capturing the classroom: the Google Agenda

• Who are the super-rich and what do they want?

• Social Media, Global Social Theory and Sociological Activism: An Interview with Gurminder K. Bhambra

• Are you interested in sociological fiction?

• Everything’s connected, right? Everything’s connected

• How does one become a competitive Rubiks cube player?

• A few questions about Marvel’s Secret Wars

• Are you interested in blogging about social science methodology?

• Why doesn’t technocrat have an antonym?

• Towards a neo-Khaldunian digital sociology: @morteza_hm on the Bedouins of Silicon Valley