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• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• So this is why we try? We bet it all on hopeless?

• Ontological junctures

• The man instead of seeking a kind of…

• Online != Grassroots

• The role of sovereign wealth funds in big tech

• The similarity between the dot com boom and the present tech bubble

• The highly structured centralised system of the grassroots campaign

• The torrents of audience feedback which are reshaping the media

• Sampling a range of settings in qualitative interviewing

• On Live Ethnography

• Big Tech, Nationalism and Globalisation

• Automation and the reproduction of knowledge

• A video introduction to Social Media for Academics

• Most recently Amazon has gotten into healthcare—a $…

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• We’re striking

• Connecting with what I’m actually interested in #exhaustionrebellion

• This was drawn by Patrick Tresset’s robot It…

• Why I’ve deleted my Twitter account #exhaustionrebellion

• The promise of the populist president

• Some screenshots from Social Media for Academics 2

• The logic of co-operation in the influencer economy

• Thinking with dichotomies: ‘old’ and ‘new’ media

• How to take a social media sabbatical as an academic

• Social media, attention economies and the future of the university

• Humans as blackboxes, machines as transparent

• The end of the opaque classroom

• A machinery for producing rationalisations

• How machine learning veils human bias

• The Great Disruptive Project of Uber

• The economics of attention vs the sociology of attention

• The paradox of the liberal contrarian

• The promise of the ‘passion economy’

• Upcoming Critical Realism webinars

• Social Media for Academics: The Changing Landscape of Scholarship

• The outlook of the digital technocrat

• An agenda for Digital Sociology

• A machine for killing relationality

• The Digital Condition: The Practical Order as Pivotal

• Medium as a forum for warring digital elites

• The vested interests of the media in Trump

• The Journal of Digital Social Research has launched!

• Social Media for Academics 2

• Whose university? Our university

• The acceleration of journalism

• Were you a fan of Sociological Imagination?

• The nostalgia of centrism

• The Platform University 2

• The first and second wave of viral publishers

• CfP: Data Literacy in Higher Education

• Vice’s ‘non-traditional’ working environment

• Recension Day