• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Viral populism: what happens when isomorphism through algorithm hits politics?

• CfP: PostDigital Humans

• A sketchy first draft of my PhD proposal

• The Goods Yard, Kings Cross, London, UK

• The scholarly career of BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti

• The gamification of virality and the pleasures it brings

• Staying small in order to grow

• A few notes the digital aristocracy

• Apps and their users: a few initial ontological thoughts

• Never say Amazon in a bookstore

• Human Tetris

• The Poetics of Data Analytics

• The situational geography of everyday life

• The rise of platform studies

• The cynical lure of online celebrity

• The supersurfaces of social media

• Why slowness and attentiveness aren’t the same thing

• Call for video entries: city and night

• On Manchester

• We were always waiting for something to happen

• Showing up, standing, breathing, moving

• Social media and improvising our careers

• Social media and academic flying

• On sociological walking, without obsessing about the ‘sociological’

• The spiritual death of the digital age

• Should we read the platform in post-human terms?

• Your authorial fingerprint

• The sub-hegemonic power of social media

• Rethinking the craft of social research

• The impact of social theory

• Sociological Images: Blogging as Public Sociology

• The Political Economy of Publishing Social Theory

• Your ‘daily dose of Sociological Imagination’: reflections on social media and public sociology

• Big Data and the ‘‘Book of Society”

• Rethinking Empirical Social Science

• Sociology and, of and in Web 2.0

• The Founder

• The fractal fascism taking shape around us

• The attention sinks which stop us dreaming

• Our tributes to the power the machine has over us

• Why social media shouldn’t be ignored by research policy

• George Soros on the threat of techno-fascism

• Becoming ourselves through the media

• The political significance of realism

• What is an institution?

• The overaffectation of the crowd

• Knowing neoliberalism, or, why doesn’t talking about it make it better?

• The Digital Condition: An Experiment in Mediated Dialogue

• Boris the introvert

• This is how it works

• A few sketchy thoughts on how theory is accelerating

• CfP: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University