• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Deadline Jan 8th: Mapping Alternative Routes out of Capitalism

• #DigitalSociology and the Future of the Discipline

• Social Science as Communication

• smart phones and work place repression

• the deroutinisation of work

• CFP Special Issue of Popular Communication: Self-(Re)presentation Now

• Ann Oakley on the psychology of the academic male

• CfP: From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism

• special issue of @bigdatasoc on data and agency

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#20)

• 2 PhD scholarships in digital labour analysis & digital ideology critique

• the new frontier of computational politics

• Donald Trump: The Reluctant Fascist

• the riddle of society 

• the idiocy of defensive elites

• Techno-Religions and Silicon Prophets

• the need for digital social ontology 

• some thoughts on responsibility

• CfP: Social Theory in Information Systems

• Silicon Valley: The Invisible Trap. Evgeny Morozov on How to beat bureaucracy

• some thoughts about the accelerated academy

• technological drivers of institutional isomorphism

• What will the Millennial Fascist look like?

• six ways till sunday

• Found in Nigel Thrift’s book from the Warwick library

• the appalling state of @crosscountryuk trains

• research as a mode of resistance 

• bureaucratic bloat as a defining feature of digital capitalism

• critical realism as the natural ontological attitude of physicians?

• the irreducibility of interpretation in socio-technical systems

• from governing the body to governing the mind

• self-tracking to pre-empt social tracking

• judith butler lecturing on the performativity of assembly

• Everyday analytics: The politics and practices of self-monitoring

• human centred data science

• animals being amazed by magic tricks

• a taxonomy of corporate monitoring software

• The Lives and Deaths of Data

• buzzfeed explain #asexuality and it’s surprisingly good

• the Japanese recovery of participatory Taylorism

• soft flexibility vs hard flexibility  

• Academic life in the measured university: pleasures, paradoxes and politics

• Inside the Lives of the 1% – How Power and Inequality Operate in Britain

• the opaque subject and the elusive activity

• how much time do workers spend worrying?

• algorithms, situated judgements and imposed patterns

• skill complementarity, skill substitution and skill debilitation 

• the distinction between ‘ambivalence’ and ‘mixed feelings’

• the digitally-facilitated intensification of work

• CfP: Surveillance and Security in the Age of Algorithmic Communication 

• CFP: Machine Communication

• CfP: Political Theory on Refugees