• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• E-mails outside of office hours

• Can we have platform capitalism without computational politics? 

• Exercising control over representations of yourself

• Preparing to think in order to prepare to speak: from routine to challenge

• The quiet revolution of deindustrialization

• How do politicians understand their own status?

• A quick guide to managing organisational social media accounts

• Who owns Digital Capitalism? Notes for the Platform Capitalism reading group

• things I’ve been reading recently #41

• From homo economicus to homo digitalis

• Who are we if we can’t protect them?

• ALW2: 2nd Workshop on Abusive Language Online

• If you’re in or near Cambridge over the next couple of months

• What does it mean to claim people were ‘doing sociology’?

• What does it mean to have a professional identity in an age of social media?

• Why would senior managers feel contemptuous of their expert staff?

• Platform Capitalism Reading Group at the University of Cambridge

• Digital social science as a meta-field

• Xerox PARC and the challenge of building a community of inquiry

• The Dark Side of (Digital) Public Engagement

• CfP AAA2018 San Jose: Panel Digital Infrastructures

• Minitrack: Collective Intelligence and Crowds

• CfP HICSS-52 (2019) minitrack: Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Technologies

• The Intellectual Self-Defence of #USSStrikes: Social Media, Critique and Collective Intellectuals

• ‘Student Experience’ and the social ontology of the student

• Social media, #USSStrikes and Digital Sociology

• things I’ve been reading recently #40

• Collective action and the realisation of your own smallness

• The intellectual adventure of slaying the neoliberal beast

• The Sociology of Trolling

• Social media strategy and #USSStrikes

• Are you interested in the political sociology of Corbynism?

• Are you interested in Graphic Social Science?

• Social Media and The Demotic Imaginary

• CfP: Workshop “We are on a mission”. Exploring the role of future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology, Berlin, 27 April 2018

• Answering social science questions with social media data

• CfP Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation Workshop 2018

• ‘Social Listening’ Workshop: building qualitative skills in social media research

• The value of graphic social science

• Two important initiatives for social media in higher education

• A call for sociological micro-fiction!

• CfP: Understanding the political economy of digital technology

• The epistemic privilege of platforms

• Social listening and reclaiming the future

• Using social media as a social theorist

• Social media fosters egotism rather than individualism

• The changing character of the academic game

• The dynamics of discipline formation

• When sociologists meet organised politics

• Answering social science questions with social media data, March 8th in London

• What the lost tradition of classical British social theory can teach us about the dangers of charismatic leadership

• One of my favourite closing scenes to a film