• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• The Silicon Valley Narrative

• The epistemic implications of platform proliferation and platform death

• Call for AoIR Tartu panel participants on Algorithmic Agency

• Abundance and austerity 

• The myths of academic life

• The Good Intentions of Engineers

• An STS approach to ‘post-truth’

• Managing ‘us’ to preserve the myth

• Platform capitalism or sharing economy?

• Platform capitalism or sharing economy?

• The embedded digital economy 

• The Politics of #MeetUp

• The meaning of scientific participation in an age of crowd work

• The duality of the platform: users and workers

• From the crowd-as-threat to crowd-as-resource 

• The knowledge economy and imagined freedom from material constraint 

• Social media and populism 

• An Introduction to the Accelerated Academy: by me and @Filvos

• Fighting for ‘political correctness’ in an age of Trump

• CfP: Digital Netizens at the crossroads of sharing and privatising

• CfPs: ‘Big Data from the South’/’Big Data desde el sur

• What is platform cooperativism?

• Mobilising a sharing economy revolution

• Charles Taylor: Ways Democracy Can Slip Away

• God View

• The Political Economy of Attention

• Building the cult of airbnb

• Performing your faith in the great disruptive project

• Airbnb and the Myth of ‘Us’

• Uber’s first experiment in mobilising their users

• Technology, regulation and disruption

• What does techno-fascism look like?

• Educational technology in an age of Trump: a risk to students?

• Removing Statute 24 constitutes a seismic shift in job security for all Warwick university employees

• Liberating discretionary effort by robbing your staff of a personal life

• Uber as a moral project

• The Workation

• The Internet Beyond Numbers

• Micro-tasking political activism

• The spammy origins of Airbnb 

• Beyond fast and slow scholarship

• The ‘injustice’ that motivated Uber

• The cultural lure of Silicon Valley

• The most absurd television adverts of the dot-com boom

• What does it mean to be a public sociologist in the era of @realDonaldTrump?

• DIGITAL EXISTENCE II: Precarious Media Life – Call for contributions

• CfP: Digital Inequalities and Discrimination in the Big Data Era

• things I’ve been reading recently #31

• Epochal theorising and business bullshit

• The marketing case for radical university leadership, or at least the pretence thereof

• Cultural representations of finance 

• Cartoons about the impact agenda