• 📚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

• on ‘disruption’ and ‘innovation’

• the intensification of demands upon managers 

• the traditional model of information flow within organisations

• the sociology of executive coaching

• the ‘via’ link as a continuation of established social practices 

• Eric Schmidt on the century of the data scientists

• UCU’s recent anti-casualisation work 

• Interesting communications summer school for PhD students 

• CfP: Manchester Social Movements conference

• Wed, Jan 27, LSE: Emergencies of Peace: The Exceptional State of (Academic) Affairs in Contemporary Turkey

• Workshop: Multimodality in Social Media and Digital Environments

• The politics and economics of Chinese new media industries

• Collaborative Work and Social Media: Responding to the rapid spread of provocative content

• Reflecting on Digital Wildfire

• against a consensual theory of conventions

• Rocky V + Rock II = Rocky VII, Adrian’s Revenge

• the failed promise of ‘cyber politics’, the empowerment of defensive elites and the death of liberal democracy

• flagging Facebook users showing signs of radicalisation 

• What does punk mean?

• CFP: Digital Media, Psychoanalysis and the Subject

• the practical mastery of animals

• Perhaps having deconstructed everything, we should be thinking about putting everything back together?

• EPIC 2016 CfP

• why did something like Google not emerge earlier in the web’s history?

• the feudal characteristics of tech firms 

• don’t give money to anyone wearing a suit!

• The obsessive homogeneity of digital elites 

• The genesis of the PayPal Mafia

• don’t let the fuckers get you down

• CfP: Citizen Science: Beyond the Laboratory

• The meritocratic elitism of Google 

• when digital capitalism explicitly models itself on digital social science

• an interview with Christian Smith about the need for sociology to do ontology

• the political economy of outsourcing

• life planning as navigational guide rather than existential blueprint

• Gaming Metrics: Innovation & Surveillance in Academic Misconduct (via @claudiakincaid)

• “You will grow to be something dynamic and impressive; You are patient, you are gallant, you are festive”

• spammers as the avant-garde of digital capitalism 

• the sociology of corporate perks

• CfP: Workshop on Challenges and Futures for Ethical Social Media Research

• Cf Papers & Panels: “Internet & Politics: from Local to Global Politics”

• Call for chapters: digital existence 

• CFP: Critical Data Studies track at 4S/EASST

• the tinderization of everyday life

• Roberto Unger on Flaws in the Human Condition

• Complexity and Collective Behaviour

• Call for Papers: Political Citizenship and Social Movements

• the ultimate Rocky training montage

• Violent Abandonment: researching the Calais Refugee Camp – @SocioWarwick Seminar Wednesday 20 January

• social theorising is more important than social theory

• Social Media in the Accelerated Academy, March 2nd @CIMethods @SocioWarwick

• Are social media algorithms killing online activism?