• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• CfP: What do digital inclusion and data literacy mean today?

• Digital literacy as individual and collective empowerment

• What social theorists and their diagrams can learn from cyberneticians and their machines

• The real danger is to linger at the base of the thing

• Getting hold of ideas while they are clear: note taking as a creative practice

• The epistemological conservatism of the accelerated academy

• Organisational sociology and algorithms

• A cybernetics of distraction?

• Programming as Social Science: a case study of @pdbrooker’s surprisingly militant bots

• Driving robots mad 

• The strange performances of the brain

• The ontological gap between entities and interaction

• Cybernetics and the dual-edged sword of disciplinarity

• Call For Blog Posts: Reflections On Doing Sociology Outside The Global North

• “If you are for or against dictatorship, call in”: the terrifying turn in British politics

• Ontological veiling   

• Scholarly centres of gravity

• Big data and the future of sociological theory

• Have you attended a talk or workshop on social media I’ve done over the last few years?

• Cybernetics as a way of life

• Theorising the relationship between data and agency

• Call for papers: literature and sociology

• The dream of reducing learning to teaching

• lights are out, phones are dead and I’m the only thing that’s runnin in this city

• How do data come to matter?

• The coming supply crisis in UK higher education

• The Hegelian sociology of Gillian Rose

• Can social media firms remain popular while being perceived as untrustworthy?

• The ceaseless interpellation of digital capitalism

• The pre-crime assemblage: building the machine that eats bad people

• One rule for Zuckerberg, another rule for everyone else

• Talking to people on trains

• Escaping the Impact Machine: a sociological boardgame #TSRBoardGame

• Algorithms and institutional isomorphism

• Ataraxia as a solution to the problems of social media 

• Digital capitalism and the global police state

• The perils of being a source of friction in a company that wants to move fast and break things 

• Social theory as sociology’s meta-conversation

• Tech Platforms and the Knowledge Problem

• The anxiety of inertia: binge watching as death drive 

• Are there any safeguards against Amazon using AWS to monitor competitors? 

• The intimacy of writing

• Social media as a living CV for academics

• The institutionalisation of behavioural surplus: a quick recap on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

• What images do universities use on Twitter and Instagram?

• How growth hacking is leading to a pandemic of amplification-itis on social media platforms

• I’ve finally finished the second edition of Social Media for Academics

• The long, slow decline of organic reach on social media

• The tightness of engineering constraints and the organisational sociology of tech startups

• The awkward silences of digital elites

• The security apparatus of digital elites

• Open science and platform capitalism: a love story?