• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• when digital capitalism explicitly models itself on digital social science

• an interview with Christian Smith about the need for sociology to do ontology

• the political economy of outsourcing

• life planning as navigational guide rather than existential blueprint

• Gaming Metrics: Innovation & Surveillance in Academic Misconduct (via @claudiakincaid)

• “You will grow to be something dynamic and impressive; You are patient, you are gallant, you are festive”

• spammers as the avant-garde of digital capitalism 

• the sociology of corporate perks

• CfP: Workshop on Challenges and Futures for Ethical Social Media Research

• Cf Papers & Panels: “Internet & Politics: from Local to Global Politics”

• Call for chapters: digital existence 

• CFP: Critical Data Studies track at 4S/EASST

• the tinderization of everyday life

• Roberto Unger on Flaws in the Human Condition

• Complexity and Collective Behaviour

• Call for Papers: Political Citizenship and Social Movements

• the ultimate Rocky training montage

• Violent Abandonment: researching the Calais Refugee Camp – @SocioWarwick Seminar Wednesday 20 January

• social theorising is more important than social theory

• Social Media in the Accelerated Academy, March 2nd @CIMethods @SocioWarwick

• Are social media algorithms killing online activism?

• Living by numbers: big data & society

• Amongst Algorithms: Technical Fieldwork between Software Studies and Digital Methods

• Call for Blog Posts: the Rise of the Superstar Professor

• Work in the Digital Society

• WBS Paytech 2016: Technologies of Exchange in a Digital Economy

• UP2016 : Following User Pathways: Cross Platform and Mixed Methods Analysis in Social Media Studies

• will capitalism die? or merely trundle on in an ever more authoritarian way?

• The Ontology of Corporate Grievance

• CfP: Technology and Culture – Policing Crises Now

• Call for Papers: Digital Methodologies – Beyond Big & Small Data

• Digital Social Science Essay Competition

• International Conference for Critical Realism 2016 in Cardiff: registration open

• Moral Economies of the Digital

• On Fire

• songs from Brian Fallon’s new solo album

• Google’s war against latency

• Page’s Law as a counter-point to acceleration theory

• Devil’s Medicine

• Workshop: Conceptual Challenges in Interdisciplinary Social Media Research

• the rise of human centred data science at facebook

• the burden of chrono-reflexivity at work

• the winner-takes-all dynamic of digital capitalism

• the challenge of life planning in a digital age

• Google Anything, So Long as It’s Not Google

• the corporate housewife, eliminating the need for mundane reflexivity

• the intellectual elitism of Silicon Valley

• “now listen you queer!”: the origins of contemporary political punditry

• one month left: the @bigdatasoc & @digitalsocsci essay competition

• dear PhDs/ECRs: need funding to go to a conference? @thesocreview can help

• 2 weeks left to submit: digital methodologies, beyond big & small data

• my plans for 2016