• 📚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

• Building the cult of airbnb

• Performing your faith in the great disruptive project

• Airbnb and the Myth of ‘Us’

• Uber’s first experiment in mobilising their users

• Technology, regulation and disruption

• What does techno-fascism look like?

• Educational technology in an age of Trump: a risk to students?

• Removing Statute 24 constitutes a seismic shift in job security for all Warwick university employees

• Liberating discretionary effort by robbing your staff of a personal life

• Uber as a moral project

• The Workation

• The Internet Beyond Numbers

• Micro-tasking political activism

• The spammy origins of Airbnb 

• Beyond fast and slow scholarship

• The ‘injustice’ that motivated Uber

• The cultural lure of Silicon Valley

• The most absurd television adverts of the dot-com boom

• What does it mean to be a public sociologist in the era of @realDonaldTrump?

• DIGITAL EXISTENCE II: Precarious Media Life – Call for contributions

• CfP: Digital Inequalities and Discrimination in the Big Data Era

• things I’ve been reading recently #31

• Epochal theorising and business bullshit

• The marketing case for radical university leadership, or at least the pretence thereof

• Cultural representations of finance 

• Cartoons about the impact agenda 

• What does it mean to be an intellectual in an age of social media?

• “Open, good. Closed, bad. Tattoo it on your forehead”: Placing the technology sector in social and economic history

• Three projects about the future of data

• On Social Acceleration

• The Importance of Business Culture

• The Banal Bullshit of Thomas Friedman

• Denial and the Antinomies of (Post)Truth

• The Sociology of Predatory Publishing

• CfP: Public sociology and the role of the researcher

• pirate philosophy in (and for) the digital university

• Out trolling the trolls

• The Launch of the Digital Geographies Group

• trying to write when you’re triaging

• Eric Schmidt’s Predictions for the Next Decade

• some thoughts on the poetics of impact

• Pascalian Meditations on the Digital University

• Devushkin as the Eviscerated Human

• Social media for academics and the increasing toxicity of the online ecology

• “Scholar? Nah, I’m a grants factory…”

• Writing prompts for a PhD journal

• The MOOC as a trojan horse

• Social Media For Academics: Things To Try

• The epistemology of democracy’s death

• Online Harassment

• The Eschatology of Technology

• The Evisceration of the Human