• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• southpark on the vertigo of the filter bubble

• digital wildfire: project showcase on jan 12th

• call for papers: the rapid spread of provocative content on social media

• cyber war between non-state actors 

• CfP: Political Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy

• the future of transparency in the civil service?

• CfP: Demystifying Blockchain Through an STS Lens

• digital micro-politics and digital macro-politics 

• peter thiel on the first silicon valley gold rush

• the ascendancy of the quants 

• it (literally) pays to visit an open day 

• the politics of stupidity

• the next front in the war on ad blocking 

• the old world of banking 

• the digital repression that a trump presidency would bring 

• digital capitalism and the search for work

• Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science

• CFP: Transhumanist Education, Politics, and Design

• BSA Sociology and Feminism Event

• the origins of apple as a luxury goods company 

• organisational minimalism

• cognitive triage and the acceleration of design

• deadline tomorrow to register for the accelerated academy!

• giddens on digital tech

• from risk to resilience: responsible citizens for uncertain times

• call for proposals: @thesocreview monograph series

• funding call: @thesocreview seminar competition 2016/2017

• mike savage on ‘making sense of big data’

• large environmental protest in paris banned

• rough sleeper

• tech giants and the possibility of craft

• Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition and Intelligent Devices

• imagining the apple ecosystem 

• the joys of being-in-the-zone

• the politics of denying causal power to objects 

• a relational theory of addiction 

• manufacturing certainties in response to systemic uncertainties 

• the one where erving goffman works as a pit boss in vegas

• the sociology of ‘blotting out’ experience 

• price of my asexuality book has dropped to £25

• david willetts rehearsing his speech for an important meeting with google

• karl marx’s end of year departmental assessment

• four days left to register for the accelerated academy! deadline nov 20th

• a sociological podcast about culture

• “we know you’re a cheat and you should kill yourself” 2.0

• it goes boom boom boom

• the stupidity of auto-correction in the new OS X

• an accelerated academy reading list

• the need for the social sciences to reclaim their intellectual authority 

• academia is killing my friends

• the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity

• things I’ve been reading recently #15