• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Why I’m never buying another @Jawbone product & wonder if the wearables bubble will soon burst

• CfP: Data Friction

• The Pathology of the Super-Rich

• CfP: Contemporary Political Youth Culture and Communication

• On Techno-Fascism

• The Coming Monopolies of Digital Capitalism

• Viral lift

• The Videos from @AcceleratedUni

• CfP: Digital Health & Digital Capitalism

• Turn Those Clapping Hands Into Angry Balled

• CFP: AOIR 2016 panel – ‘the playful web’

• Engaging with participation, activism and technologies

• Everyday analytics: The politics and practices of self-monitoring

• Say More Fire

• CfP for AOIR2016: Panel/Roundtable on “Aging in a Digital World”

• The Escalation Dynamics of Social Media

• Contempt for the social sciences and the new positivism

• Call for Papers: “Digital Traces in Context”

• Open access as a mechanism for the acceleration of higher education

• The imposter syndrome of the young Neil Gaiman

• Call for Papers: Political Citizenship and Social Movements

• CFP for the themed issue of ‘Subjectivity’ on Radical Negativity

• The Skilled Demagoguery of Donald J. Trump

• The State of Digital Research Methods

• Forced migration & digital connectivity in Europe

• Silicon Valley: The New Welfare State?

• Special Issue of Discover Society on Digital Futures

• things that I’ve been reading recently #19

• 17 podcasts about realist social theory

• 35 podcasts about #digitalsociology

• the inanity of post-democratic political leaders

• Fictive Futures: Exploring Future Research Agendas

• Call for Papers: Cunning Knowledge and Media Technologi

• 6th annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics

• unpicking the political economy of digital cats

• Relating to data through visualisation: three funded PhD studentships in the UK

• modern life has let me down

• Technology, Self and Society in an Era of Digital Rankings

• moderating social media and the challenge of normativity

• Call for Abstracts: Themed Issue on Body Weight and Digital Media

• Should academics blog? Rather unsurprisingly I suggest that they should

• Call for Papers: A workshop on Competition(s)

• Special issue on Digital Evidence for Philosophy & Technology

• business for rappers

• the peak experiences of intensified work

• Sing, Sing, Sing

• The Epistemic Consequences of Technological Privilige

• the messianic zeal of Eric Schmidt

• things that I’ve been reading recently #18

• the carefully cultivated public persona of Eric Schmidt

• Towards Digital Social Ontology

• theorising socio-materiality: strong and weak processes