• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• 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

• 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 $…

• Hampered by the need to defend the EU…

• 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