• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Making sense of visual digital data

• Game of Thrones: from sociological to psychological storytelling

• Climate change as doorstep politics

• Thinking on the Move: The Possibilities and Problems of Walking Sociologically

• The ecological limits of datafication

• Are you interested in the future of digital sociology?

• To what extent are intellectuals responsible for how their ideas are taken up?

• A social media sabbatical

• Interviews with Nature Index about social media

• The strange fate of ‘culture’

• The acoustics of social media

• Climate change and digitalisation

• Emerging computational mega structures

• The singular innovation which explains capitalism’s growth

• Unbundling the university

• The fantasies of wealthy city dwellers

• Should climate change be a master narrative?

• 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