• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• 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

• the demand for data science

• grooming the next generation of the digital elite

• the political psychology of the super rich

• the best description of Corbynism I’ve encountered 

• enjoying it: candy crush and capitalism

• I’ve never had a contract with @VirginMedia, yet they’re sending me details of my ‘spending’

• Calling PhDs & ECRs: @thesocreview conference funding competition is now open!

• things I’ve been reading recently #17

• the most read posts on my blog in 2015

• imagining an academy in which academics were paid not to write

• bruno latour’s philosophical sociology

• digital capitalism and digital social science

• digital data and ‘the utopia of total social legibility’

• institutionalised goal setting in tech firms 

• killer mike from run the jewels interviews bernie sanders

• ever wondered how to drink beer properly?

• what if we talked of digital ‘weeds’ rather than ‘viruses’?

• the problem of ‘community’

• is Twitter making the Internet local again?

• the geopolitics of phone sex

• CfP: Mediated Intimacies

• CfP: Making Sense of Microposts

• CFP: CSCW’16 Workshop on Algorithms at Work

• CfP: The Power of Presence – Preconference for ICA 2016 in Japan

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#22)

• want to lose all faith in the future of higher education?

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#21)

• “in an ideal world, American sociology would look like British sociology before it became Americanised”

• Dynamics of Virtual Work: Book series launch