• 📚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

• The intensification of work and the death of imagination

• Reducing structural problems to lifestyle issues 

• Historicizing the Digital: language practices in new and old media

• The Power of Digital Media to Shape False Narratives

• Is there a point of no return with entrenched elites?

• Sociology and fiction: a round up of the @thesocreview project so far

• Why do you find social media useful as an academic?

• Pity those ‘trapped by their wealth’

• Digital Capitalism and the Platform Wars

• The Fatalism of the Multitude

• The capacity of elites to combine voice and exit

• The Ambivilance of the Abject

• ‘The people who own the country should rule it’

• Declining political literacy as a vector of post-democratisation

• The Materiality of the Digital

• Photos from protests in Reykjavik

• Crafting an online identity

• So what is ‘networking’?

• Why should academics blog about their research? An answer in pictures

• The Fictional Conference

• Two free workshops at the Centre for Social Ontology @SocioWarwick

• The Absent Horizon of Mortality

• Zygmunt Bauman’s Chronopolitics

• Mood – Aesthetic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives

• Academic Social Media in the Research Economy

• Why digitalisation gives rise to ‘memory wars’

• Isomorphic Inequalities

• Uber’s managed labor force

• Bauman’s weirdly illiquid conception of liquidity, or, what happens when you confuse ontology and epistemology

• The new cheapest place to order Social Media for Academics online

• Would you like to recommend Social Media for Academics to your library?

• What people who ordered Social Media for Academics also bought

• Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

• Like air, ideas are incapable of being locked up and hoarded

• Rich nations as entropy hubs 

• CfP: 2016 Learning with MOOCs Conference, October 6-7, 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania

• Using Social Media to Manage Information

• CfP: Persistent Conversation

• The Growth of Political Consultancy

• The Aristocracy of the Digital Celebrities and the Magical Thinking That Props It Up

• How to ‘network’ without chipping away at your soul

• Tweets about Social Media for Academics

• Slack and Basecamp for Academics

• Patience for the epigrammatic, but brief

• Aaron Swartz on digital business models

• What would a socialist version of Netflix look like?

• The Difference Between Stealing and Copying

• Call for papers: the politics of identity 

• #BritSoc16 fringe event: ‘Radical Education Inside and Outside the Neoliberal University’

• On Redundancy 

• Digital Data, Epistemic Gain and Epistemic Loss: we need to stop seeing digitalisation in epochal terms

• Self-pimping as the prevailing social and business imperative