• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Emerging technologies, academic celebrities and the social organisation of disciplines

• The Alt-Right and the Reactionary Politics of Transgression

• Getting beyond pro and anti in our thinking about technology

• Before the culture war on universities, there was a culture war on schools

• Trump and the ascent of the spiralists

• 10 reasons you should publish on Medium

• Post-Truth as Personal Incapacity

• CFP EASST2018: “Data Worlds? Public Imagination and Public Experimentation with Data Infrastructures”

• Workshop: The Turn To AI in Content Moderation and Communication Governance

• CfP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research

• CfP: Articulating Voice

• Content Producers: Incentives, Motivations, and Value Creation18

• Ontological bias and social knowledge in a post-truth era

• Using social media as a social theorist

• On the Rat Race

• The problem of abundance and the political economy of digital knowledge

• The material interests of Big Tech

• Proposal for a Concept Lab

• Social ontology and the challenge of suitcase words

• Social media and the impact agenda

• CfP: Accelerated Academy

• CfP: Digital transformation of social theory

• Towards Common Process Understanding in Collective Welfare

• What function do learned societies serve in a digital age?

• The missing history of the practical intellectuals

• The global fourth estate

• Towards a cultural sociology of the toaster 

• Margaret Archer as neo-classical British social theorist

• Three discursive predicaments I wish there were terms for

• Trump as a tactician of post-truth

• Narrative as interface between the subjective and the objective 

• Social media and the half dozen grasshoppers 

• CfP: Overcoming Inequalities in Internet Governance: framing digital policy capacity building strategies

• Against university marketing

• Some thoughts on the bullet journal, omnifocus and getting things done

• CfP: What is universe? Communication, complexity, coherence

• The digital academic as autobiographical actor

• A renewed engagement with the past could be a powerful means through which the critical tradition in British sociology could fortify itself for a difficult future

• In defence of the individual

• Helen Margetts: How social media (and other platforms) can promote equality in 2027

• The (slow) private life of homo academicus

• Google’s next billion users

• The outrage of billionaires about invoking the existence of billionaires

• Call for speakers: Answering social science questions with social media data

• Craft and exploitation in the digital university

• Social acceleration and the possibility of the sacred 

• Things I learned from trying and failing at #NaNoWriMo

• The coming of neoliberal populism: comparing Trump and Macron

• Are some political tactics more adaptable to intensified social change than others? 

• CFP: Alternative Social Media special issue of Social Media + Society

• The Public Sociology of Patrick Geddes and Victor Branford

• There once was a ‘sociology movement’: could there be one again?