• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• 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 

• 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