• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• 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 

• What does it mean to be an intellectual in an age of social media?

• “Open, good. Closed, bad. Tattoo it on your forehead”: Placing the technology sector in social and economic history

• Three projects about the future of data

• On Social Acceleration

• The Importance of Business Culture

• The Banal Bullshit of Thomas Friedman

• Denial and the Antinomies of (Post)Truth

• The Sociology of Predatory Publishing

• CfP: Public sociology and the role of the researcher

• pirate philosophy in (and for) the digital university

• Out trolling the trolls

• The Launch of the Digital Geographies Group

• trying to write when you’re triaging

• Eric Schmidt’s Predictions for the Next Decade

• some thoughts on the poetics of impact

• Pascalian Meditations on the Digital University

• Devushkin as the Eviscerated Human

• Social media for academics and the increasing toxicity of the online ecology

• “Scholar? Nah, I’m a grants factory…”

• Writing prompts for a PhD journal

• The MOOC as a trojan horse

• Social Media For Academics: Things To Try

• The epistemology of democracy’s death

• Online Harassment

• The Eschatology of Technology

• The Evisceration of the Human

• Moral Responsibility in an Age of Distraction

• Against ‘openness’

• The forward-facing ideology of technology: erasing history and context 

• How universities shape the technology developed for them

• Social media for academics and the dangers of a “content delivery” mindset

• The Banal Reality of Democracy’s Death

• Deadline soon! @TheSocReview ECR Essay Competition

• ‘Disruption’ as the last refuge of the Third Way

• a bleak social theory for bleak times