• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• the creative destruction of intra-organisational conflict

• business for punks from the bottom-up

• CfP: Freedom and Control of Expression in the Digital Aftermath of the 2015 Paris Attacks

• About Today

• How Google models itself on graduate school

• the obsessive secrecy of Apple

• the psychology of business for punks

• The Platform Wars

• on nihilism and hope

• FutureVision?! Which life do we want?

• Making The Familiar Strange: A Festival of Critical Social Thought

• the discourse of ‘burn out’ in silicon valley

• anonymity, velocity, extensity and traceability as characteristics of online action

• The origin of the phrase “cloud computing”

• Critical Realism 2016 reminder

• Geoblocking and Global Video Culture

• Social Science History Association 2016 CFP

• Call for Applications: International Visiting Fellowships in Critical Digital & Social Media Research

• No Surrender

• Love, Ire & Song

• the reality of ‘20% time’ at Google

• on ‘disruption’ and ‘innovation’

• the intensification of demands upon managers 

• the traditional model of information flow within organisations

• the sociology of executive coaching

• the ‘via’ link as a continuation of established social practices 

• Eric Schmidt on the century of the data scientists

• UCU’s recent anti-casualisation work 

• Interesting communications summer school for PhD students 

• CfP: Manchester Social Movements conference

• Wed, Jan 27, LSE: Emergencies of Peace: The Exceptional State of (Academic) Affairs in Contemporary Turkey

• Workshop: Multimodality in Social Media and Digital Environments

• The politics and economics of Chinese new media industries

• Collaborative Work and Social Media: Responding to the rapid spread of provocative content

• Reflecting on Digital Wildfire

• against a consensual theory of conventions

• Rocky V + Rock II = Rocky VII, Adrian’s Revenge

• the failed promise of ‘cyber politics’, the empowerment of defensive elites and the death of liberal democracy

• flagging Facebook users showing signs of radicalisation 

• What does punk mean?

• CFP: Digital Media, Psychoanalysis and the Subject

• the practical mastery of animals

• Perhaps having deconstructed everything, we should be thinking about putting everything back together?

• EPIC 2016 CfP

• why did something like Google not emerge earlier in the web’s history?

• the feudal characteristics of tech firms 

• don’t give money to anyone wearing a suit!

• The obsessive homogeneity of digital elites 

• The genesis of the PayPal Mafia

• don’t let the fuckers get you down

• CfP: Citizen Science: Beyond the Laboratory

• The meritocratic elitism of Google