• 📣 Launching the Archer PhD & ECR Network

• 📚Assessment, Learning and Institutional Capacity: an evidence resource to accompany The AI Crisis in Higher Education

• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 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 

• 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