• 📣 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

• Overlapping categories and the problem of abundance

• Coping with acceleration: triaging strategies and the new empiricism

• Workshop: Using the Morphogenetic Approach

• The death of cyberspace

• The myth of user generated content

• The misleading concept of ‘the blogosphere’

• Challenging Citizenship: Social Media and Big Data

• 2016 Challenging Media Landscapes conference, November 2016

• The Utopian Promise of Cyberspace

• Critiquing ‘virtuality’

• Places Still Available: The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

• Conceptualising ‘distraction’

• Interested in the internal conversation? Come to this symposium @SocioWarwick on May 24th

• The Great Divide: Sociology, Anthropology, and Race in France since Lévi-Strauss

• 19 interesting ways to communicate knowledge

• “They were stalking the corridors, the lecture rooms, the offices…”: open research, ethics and impact

• things I’ve been reading recently #22

• Culture and politics of data visualisation: a one-day conference, 11th October 2016, University of Sheffield

• Digital methods/data activism summer school

• Open research projects

• What’s it like to be a corporate executive receiving an order to cooperate with an authoritarian government?

• Interested in the internal conversation? Come to this symposium @SocioWarwick on May 24th

• 28,100 journals publishing 2.5 million articles a year

• Before WhatsApp there was BBM

• The King of Kong: a documentary about celebrity gamers

• 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