• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• What do you do when people you like act offensively online?

• Fragile movements and their political cultures 

• From Platform Capitalism to Protocol Communism

• The coming army of American demagogues

• The Geographical Dynamics of Winner-Takes-Most

• When did optimism become a characteristic possessed by the right and lacked by the left?

• Post-democratic decision making in the EU

• Academic video blogs: 5 tips for getting started

• Constraining the dreams of (aspiring) #digitalelites

• The economic limitations of the attention economy

• Something has ended and everyone can feel it

• What is a ‘strike’ and what is a ‘riot’?

• Symposium: Anxiety and Work in the Accelerated Academy

• The Return of the Riot

• I Could’a Been A Contender

• The future of digital corporate personhood

• The coordinates of the austerity consensus are disintegrating

• The limitations on learning to code as a labour market strategy

• things I’ve been reading recently #25

• The end game of the American free-market right 

• Understanding the rage of the Labour right

• The tragically incompetent elites of the centre left

• The radicalisation of reactionaries

• The fantasistic political ontologies which emerge under post-democracy

• The Myth of Elite Cosmopolitanism

• Stories of the River Irwell

• Rhetorical rapture-races and contemporary fragile movements 

• Reviews of Social Media for Academics

• The (American) dreams of defensive elites

• The expert-celebrity axis and the legitimation of technocracy 

• The defensive elites of the cultural industries 

• An interview with Inside Higher Ed about Social Media for Academics

• Designing platforms to mitigate power law effects

• How digitalisation reduces cultural variety 

• A fantastic podcast discussion about social media for academics

• Social media: singular or plural?

• The Intensified Work of Start-Ups

• Call for blog posts: the lived experience of interdisciplinarity in social research

• Interesting material on data science ethics

• The Importance of Disappointment

• An infopolitical critique of lazy applications of ‘panopticism’

• Against craft capitalism 

• The Idiots Who Make History

• Biographical Approaches to Studying Digital Capitalism

• The Lived Reality of Work in Tech Firms

• Things I’d like to include in a potential second edition of Social Media for Academics

• The global ambitions of tech giants

• Two documentaries about the super-rich

• Social Media and Academic Labour

• Take the time to make some sense of what you want to say

• things I’ve been reading recently #24

• The ideological function of open data