• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• 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

• 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