• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Datafication and discipline in educaiton

• Gobal Personhood in Education

• The environmental impact of Bitcoin

• What comes after 2100?

• The ontology of (digital) testing

• The movement of people around an uninhabitable earth

• Does social media make young people unhappy?

• The Platform University

• Platform Surveillance

• The three essential steps for any thought leader

• The alliance between the billionaires and the thought leaders

• The birth of machinology

• When political theory restages the ‘Corbynism is a cult’ trope

• What is digital literacy and how do you teach it?

• Academics like the idea of Twitter in the classroom but what do students think?

• The cultural entrepreneurs behind your favourite thought leaders 

• Technology and the billionaire class

• Why education and technology is full of bullshit

• Who would be against the people?

• Social media and education… now the dust has settled

• The dark possibilities incipient with Universal Basic Income

• Collectivising public sociology

• Is digital upskilling the next generation our ‘pipeline to prosperity’?

• The performance of critique and why it frustrates me 

• The political adulthood of the Occupy generation

• You can’t have your ‘facts’ back

• The consequences of our expectations

• The concept of ‘mobile literacy’

• The sociology of expectations (and platform imaginaries)

• A manifesto for writing and publishing differently

• Taking back control: what happens when people realise they were lied to?

• Theorising as self-work: the case of heuristics

• Externalisation as defence mechanism

• The components of digital literacy

• Lateral vs vertical evaluation of sources

• Corbynism without Corbyn

• The Kardashian index: social media and academic celebrity

• When the venture capitalists tried to get to Edward Snowden

• And who are you supposed to be?

• Optimism as a political factor in Brexit Britain

• How education imagines the future

• Austerity politics as reactionary populism

• Beyond the myth of the ‘cyberkid’

• It’s The Political Economy, Stupid

• The Great Disruptive Project

• Political science, epistemic snobbery and the Corbyn problem

• Do you have an idea for a sociological walk?

• The moral theories of platform engineers

• CfP: Planetary Magic – Elemental Engagements with (Chinese) Digital Infrastructures in an Age of Loss

• So you were born, and that was a good day

• CfP: Knowledge Socialism. The Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence

• Farewell @thesocreview, it has been a wonderful five years 👋😢