• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Creative Methods for Research and Community Engagement Summer School

• Miniconference on post-truth and digital media in Reading UK coming up

• Social Imaginaries: The re-invention of social research

• Why it’s fine to ‘broadcast’ on Twitter

• The Sociological Review Annual Public Lecture 2017: Cities and the Political Imagination

• The Ontology of Fake News

• Youth employment in the ‘gig’ economy, isolation and @youthloneliness

• things I’ve been reading recently #33

• CfP: Queer Studies Conference

• The Porous University – A critical exploration of openness, space and place in Higher Education

• The Impact of Social Theory

• Defensive Elites

• The Uberfication of the University: the Digital Studienbuch and the 21st Century Privatdozent

• Public engagement, social media and university boundaries

• Keeping the conversation going in an age of scholarly abundance

• Marketing the Digital University

• The Cesspool of YouTube

• On Irritation, Or, How Social Networks Tend To Make Us Slightly More Assholic

• What is compound distraction?

• The Social Challenge of Platform Proliferation

• Cities and the Political Imagination

• things I’ve been reading recently #32

• The Technology of Intellectual Work

• Collateral consequences 

• The Ontology of Fateful Moments

• The ‘Sharing Economy’ as Disembedding Mechanism

• Bloggers and their role in the dissemination of scholarly information

• Margaret Archer and Bernard Lahire as post-Bourdieusian social theorists

• Some really interesting theory reading lists

• Digital Methodologies

• Perfecting the work/life blend

• Dealing with online harassment: guidance for academics

• If uber are acting like this now, how would they act if they had a monopoly?

• Social media didn’t create the ambition to rethink scholarly communication, it gave us the tools to do it effectively

• The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine

• Pierre Bourdieu, liberal thought and the ontology of collectives

• Pierre Bourdieu, post-war Algeria and the existential conditions for collective action

• The new frontiers of monitoring your students

• Digital labour and the epistemic fallacy 

• The cultural significance of blogging

• To understand social media for academics, we have to kill the idea of social media for academics 

• Speculative thoughts about the phenomenology of digitalisation

• CFP: Alternative Facts: Constructing Truth in Civil Societies

• The ambivalent promise of higher education

• A conversation between myself and @benjamingeer about a Bourdieusian approach to understanding alt-academia

• Donald Trump: Everyday Tactics of Post-Truth

• A Domain of One’s Own

• The centralisation of the web and the constraints on academic speech

• The Future of ‘Impact’ in the UK

• The Morphology of Public Engagement

• The (Coming) Crisis of Free Speech in the Digital University

• The Sociological Review Early Career Researcher Event: Senior Seminar with Rivke Jaffe