• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• My highlights from #RPten (and the most interesting stuff I missed)

• How life coaching spreads in corporate cultures

• Predictive analytics and the intensification of work

• The Accelerative Ethos of Steve Jobs

• A cautionary tale for independent researchers

• The size of social networks and the size of nation states

• What happens in an internet minute?

• Call for Applications: The Inaugural CUHK Research Summit: Digital Methods & Social Development

• What would techno-fascist punishment look like?

• Call for Papers: Communities of Practice: Toward a Local and Global Digital Humanities

• The Second Accelerated Academy

• Music to catch up on work to #1

• Imposing impossible demands as a management strategy

• When phones became computers

• Using social media to map scholarly literatures

• The Sociology of Patent Trolling

• It’s not you, it’s capitalism

• The London Radical Book Fair at Goldsmiths, this Saturday 7th May

• Symposium: Reorientating Sociological Thought

• CFP: Studying Politics across Platforms

• Workshop: Using the Morphogenetic Approach

• The Discursive Preconditions for the Acceleration of Publishing, or, Why Scholasticism and Positivism are Now Everwhere

• Computational Social Science and the Collapse of Sociology

• Lucy Powell on Conservative anti-Semitism in the last election

• The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

• The Social Life of Theory: Partiality, Conflict and Innovation

• Symposium: Reorientating Sociological Thought

• Jeffrey Alexander on the Individualist’s Dillema

• Breathe for me: interesting performance event in collaboration with @sociowarwick

• Obama’s Best Comebacks and Rebuttals

• The Entlastung of the Quantified Self

• Media Archaeology summer school, Uni of Pisa, July 4-8

• A Lockean case for the ownership of personal data 

• The multiplication of communication channels

• Every time you open an account online, the filter bubble expands 

• Crowd sourcing technical support: why do user helps corporations?

• A podcast about Social Media for Academics

• the challenge of cultural abundance

• Citizen science as the mass recruitment of shadow research assistants 

• The Temporal Cost of the Commute

• 40 reasons why you should blog about your research

• Special Issue on Digital Media Research Methods

• Has there ever been a Presidential hopeful who has appeared in so many tacky TV adverts?

• The creepiness of ‘networking’ discourse and the WikiHow-ification of academic career advice

• The Centre for Public Imagination

• Seeing Like a University: The Need for an Academic Caesar

• The Liberal Imagination of Barack Obama

• What does Economic Sociology have to say about declining productivity?

• Understanding the Features of Different Social Media Platforms

• Creating an ‘idea index’

• Convenience rather than urgency as a driver of constant connectivity

• Capitalism will eat democracy – unless we speak up