• 📚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

• CFP for the themed issue of ‘Subjectivity’ on Radical Negativity

• The Skilled Demagoguery of Donald J. Trump

• The State of Digital Research Methods

• Forced migration & digital connectivity in Europe

• Silicon Valley: The New Welfare State?

• Special Issue of Discover Society on Digital Futures

• things that I’ve been reading recently #19

• 17 podcasts about realist social theory

• 35 podcasts about #digitalsociology

• the inanity of post-democratic political leaders

• Fictive Futures: Exploring Future Research Agendas

• Call for Papers: Cunning Knowledge and Media Technologi

• 6th annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics

• unpicking the political economy of digital cats

• Relating to data through visualisation: three funded PhD studentships in the UK

• modern life has let me down

• Technology, Self and Society in an Era of Digital Rankings

• moderating social media and the challenge of normativity

• Call for Abstracts: Themed Issue on Body Weight and Digital Media

• Should academics blog? Rather unsurprisingly I suggest that they should

• Call for Papers: A workshop on Competition(s)

• Special issue on Digital Evidence for Philosophy & Technology

• business for rappers

• the peak experiences of intensified work

• Sing, Sing, Sing

• The Epistemic Consequences of Technological Privilige

• the messianic zeal of Eric Schmidt

• things that I’ve been reading recently #18

• the carefully cultivated public persona of Eric Schmidt

• Towards Digital Social Ontology

• theorising socio-materiality: strong and weak processes

• the creative destruction of intra-organisational conflict

• business for punks from the bottom-up

• CfP: Freedom and Control of Expression in the Digital Aftermath of the 2015 Paris Attacks

• About Today

• How Google models itself on graduate school

• the obsessive secrecy of Apple

• the psychology of business for punks

• The Platform Wars

• on nihilism and hope

• FutureVision?! Which life do we want?

• Making The Familiar Strange: A Festival of Critical Social Thought

• the discourse of ‘burn out’ in silicon valley

• anonymity, velocity, extensity and traceability as characteristics of online action

• The origin of the phrase “cloud computing”

• Critical Realism 2016 reminder

• Geoblocking and Global Video Culture

• Social Science History Association 2016 CFP

• Call for Applications: International Visiting Fellowships in Critical Digital & Social Media Research

• No Surrender

• Love, Ire & Song

• the reality of ‘20% time’ at Google