• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• 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?

• The ontology of toxicity

• Critics of Amazon don’t understand how popular it is

• 😪 How not to prepare the second edition of a book 😪

• But you can recognise me because I’m you

• The governance of platforms

• The Data Science & Society Institute

• The tragedy of the academic commons: when abstraction makes us passive

• Breathe Me

• Mark Fisher on using social media rather than being used by it

• Experts, knowledge and criticality in the age of ‘alternative facts’: re-examining the contribution of higher education

• For a whole range of reasons, I’m finding social media extremely tiresome at the moment. Hence I’ll just be here on my blog for the foreseeable future.

• The Cambridge approach to social ontology

• Sociology and anarchism

• The promise of university bureaucracy: academic neoliberalism as project rather than outcome

• CfP: Political epistemologies of Big Data

• How Should STS Address Inequality? As a Subject, a (Dis)Value)? Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

• The Politics of Big Data: Social Listening and Reclaiming the Future

• Capturing the classroom: the Google Agenda

• Who are the super-rich and what do they want?

• Social Media, Global Social Theory and Sociological Activism: An Interview with Gurminder K. Bhambra

• Are you interested in sociological fiction?

• Everything’s connected, right? Everything’s connected

• How does one become a competitive Rubiks cube player?

• A few questions about Marvel’s Secret Wars

• Are you interested in blogging about social science methodology?

• Why doesn’t technocrat have an antonym?

• Towards a neo-Khaldunian digital sociology: @morteza_hm on the Bedouins of Silicon Valley

• What happens when you meet a troll?

• The disappointing reality of using social media for public engagement

• The media must take responsibility for recent far right attacks on left wing journalists

• Why have generic, popular services proved so enticing for digital academics? From 2011 to 2019

• Call for Papers: Academics, Professionals and Publics: Changes in the Ecologies of Knowledge Work

• The intellectual legacy of Charles Taylor: securing the vantage point of (historical) philosophical anthropology

• When sociology becomes a source of legitimation rather than critique: the case of Anthony Giddens

• Social volatility and the shrinking time horizons of political life: the case of the Remain campaign’s war book