• 📣 Launching the Archer PhD & ECR Network

• 📚Assessment, Learning and Institutional Capacity: an evidence resource to accompany The AI Crisis in Higher Education

• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• When does an immersive video game become an addictive one?

• Wikibombing

• The quality of attention

• Durkheim on individualisation and the weakening of collective experience

• Durkheim on the origin of reflexivity

• Digital Anthropology, Digital Geography and Digital Sociology

• Thematic issue in Digital Capitalism

• Andrew Chadwick on Donald Trump’s social media engagement advantage

• Durkheim’s argument about social contagion is immensely relevant to contemporary discussions of ‘fake news’ and computational propaganda

• Fascism and the pleasures of joining in

• The widespread sense of homo distractus

• An Agenda for Platformisation Studies v1.1

• Why social media matters for academics

• Durkheim on neuropathy and the inability to settle into a stable life

• To what extent is political Twitter pointless?

• Do you edit an academic journal?

• Liberating ‘digital’ from ‘technology’

• The micro-foundationalism of Erich Fromm

• Encouraging a collective identity in the absence of organisational mechanisms

• The future of the influencer amidst declining engagement rates

• Durkheim’s account of the boundary between the psychological and sociological

• Knowing when to end projects

• The unsustainability of 5G and the growth of tech nationalism

• How big tech perceives China

• Artificial intelligence as the perfect servant

• The institutional users of platforms and their intra-organisational dynamics

• Robot, experience this tragic irony for me

• Machine learning and authoritarianism

• Big tech is now too-big-to-fail

• The things I’ve published in late 2019

• The Platform Ecoystem

• Bernard Lahire’s philosophical sociology

• The place of ontological reasoning in platform studies

• Ivan Illich on the myth of limits

• CfP: Addressing Violent Youth Radicalisation in Europe

• A few thoughts on the election

• The politics of being well-organised

• Political information cycles and the political economy of time

• Taking tech firms seriously as sources of moral ideas

• Wikileaks and the avant-garde of data strategy

• Election 2019 and journalism

• Google’s astroturfing operation

• So this is why we try? We bet it all on hopeless?

• Ontological junctures

• The man instead of seeking a kind of…

• Online != Grassroots

• The role of sovereign wealth funds in big tech

• The similarity between the dot com boom and the present tech bubble

• The highly structured centralised system of the grassroots campaign

• The torrents of audience feedback which are reshaping the media

• Sampling a range of settings in qualitative interviewing

• On Live Ethnography