• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• The perpetual warfare of the populist president

• Inviting regulation once you’ve already won

• The immersive challenge of the hyperserial narrative

• The macro-economic costs of distraction

• How BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti literally discovered viralityx.

• The Transformation of Higher Education: Acceleration, Platformisation and Digitalisation

• The arms race of celebrity

• The problem of British towns

• Durkheim on bounding variety

• AOL as the first mass commercial social media

• When does an immersive video game become an addictive one?

• Wikibombing

• The quality of attention

• Durkheim on individualisation and the weakening of collective experience

• Durkheim on the origin of reflexivity

• Digital Anthropology, Digital Geography and Digital Sociology

• Thematic issue in Digital Capitalism

• Andrew Chadwick on Donald Trump’s social media engagement advantage

• Durkheim’s argument about social contagion is immensely relevant to contemporary discussions of ‘fake news’ and computational propaganda

• Fascism and the pleasures of joining in

• The widespread sense of homo distractus

• An Agenda for Platformisation Studies v1.1

• Why social media matters for academics

• Durkheim on neuropathy and the inability to settle into a stable life

• To what extent is political Twitter pointless?

• Do you edit an academic journal?

• Liberating ‘digital’ from ‘technology’

• The micro-foundationalism of Erich Fromm

• Encouraging a collective identity in the absence of organisational mechanisms

• The future of the influencer amidst declining engagement rates

• Durkheim’s account of the boundary between the psychological and sociological

• Knowing when to end projects

• The unsustainability of 5G and the growth of tech nationalism

• How big tech perceives China

• Artificial intelligence as the perfect servant

• The institutional users of platforms and their intra-organisational dynamics

• Robot, experience this tragic irony for me

• Machine learning and authoritarianism

• Big tech is now too-big-to-fail

• The things I’ve published in late 2019

• The Platform Ecoystem

• Bernard Lahire’s philosophical sociology

• The place of ontological reasoning in platform studies

• Ivan Illich on the myth of limits

• CfP: Addressing Violent Youth Radicalisation in Europe

• A few thoughts on the election

• The politics of being well-organised

• Political information cycles and the political economy of time

• Taking tech firms seriously as sources of moral ideas

• Wikileaks and the avant-garde of data strategy

• Election 2019 and journalism

• Google’s astroturfing operation