• Socialising the machines

• The (creepy) spirit of digital capitalism

• CfP: Going Live: Exploring Live Digital Technologies and Live Streaming Practices

• Platform capitalism and the future of education

• Why would senior managers feel contemptuous of their expert staff?

• Xerox PARC and the challenge of building a community of inquiry

• Workshop: The Turn To AI in Content Moderation and Communication Governance

• The problem of abundance and the political economy of digital knowledge

• The material interests of Big Tech

• CfP: Overcoming Inequalities in Internet Governance: framing digital policy capacity building strategies

• Google’s next billion users

• CFP: Alternative Social Media special issue of Social Media + Society

• Vested interests in ‘openness’

• Why the left needs to reject the ideology of networked socialism

• From cyberspace to constant connectivity: the social ontology of socio-technical change

• CFP: Platform Urbanism

• CFP: Storing and Sharing Special Issue of New Media & Society

• The Ideal of the Digital Nomad

• Conduits for variety

• The rhetoric and reality of user generated content 

• The dark future of mediatization

• The precursors to curation

• The Conspiracy of Cars

• The Uberfication of the University: the Digital Studienbuch and the 21st Century Privatdozent

• The ‘Sharing Economy’ as Disembedding Mechanism

• The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine

• The cultural significance of blogging

• The centralisation of the web and the constraints on academic speech

• The embedded digital economy 

• The duality of the platform: users and workers

• The knowledge economy and imagined freedom from material constraint 

• The Political Economy of Attention

• Airbnb and the Myth of ‘Us’

• Technology, regulation and disruption

• The cultural lure of Silicon Valley

• The most absurd television adverts of the dot-com boom

• Cultural representations of finance 

• “Open, good. Closed, bad. Tattoo it on your forehead”: Placing the technology sector in social and economic history

• The Banal Bullshit of Thomas Friedman

• The forward-facing ideology of technology: erasing history and context 

• ‘Disruption’ as the last refuge of the Third Way

• Notes on Platform Capitalism

• The ontology of data, the ideology of data 

• Metrics and the death of imagination

• The bureaucratic origins of algorithmic authoritarianism

• 3 dystopian visions of the future of gaming (and capitalism)

• From Platform Capitalism to Protocol Communism

• The limitations on learning to code as a labour market strategy

• Designing platforms to mitigate power law effects

• Biographical Approaches to Studying Digital Capitalism

• The global ambitions of tech giants

• The ideological function of open data

• CfP: Anarchist Technologies Repair Manual

• A Decade of Web 2.0: Reflections, Critical Perspectives, and Beyond

• Algorithmic pricing predates online retail

• What is Digital Hygiene?

• The infrastructural ambitions of technology companies

• The Blizzard of Photography

• Varoufakis on contemporary capitalism’s preposterous reversal of the truth

• Why We Post: The Anthropology of Social Media

• The Scale of Data Brokerage

• The Emergence of Digital Capitalism 

• The death of cyberspace

• The myth of user generated content

• The Utopian Promise of Cyberspace

• Critiquing ‘virtuality’

• Before WhatsApp there was BBM

• The King of Kong: a documentary about celebrity gamers

• The size of social networks and the size of nation states

• When phones became computers

• The Sociology of Patent Trolling

• CFP: Studying Politics across Platforms

• Media Archaeology summer school, Uni of Pisa, July 4-8

• Every time you open an account online, the filter bubble expands 

• Crowd sourcing technical support: why do user helps corporations?

• Convenience rather than urgency as a driver of constant connectivity

• The foundational lie of digital capitalism

• The Dual-Edged Character of Digital Freedom

• The entrepreneurial journalist

• Historicizing the Digital: language practices in new and old media

• Digital Capitalism and the Platform Wars

• Why digitalisation gives rise to ‘memory wars’

• Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

• Aaron Swartz on digital business models

• Digital Data, Epistemic Gain and Epistemic Loss: we need to stop seeing digitalisation in epochal terms

• A capitalism-friendly version of social mobility

• The Politics of the Platform Society

• Why Digitalization is Prior to Financialization

• YouTube Conference: Call for Papers

• Why I’m never buying another @Jawbone product & wonder if the wearables bubble will soon burst

• unpicking the political economy of digital cats

• Technology, Self and Society in an Era of Digital Rankings

• moderating social media and the challenge of normativity

• The Epistemic Consequences of Technological Privilige

• The Platform Wars

• anonymity, velocity, extensity and traceability as characteristics of online action

• The origin of the phrase “cloud computing”

• Geoblocking and Global Video Culture

• the ‘via’ link as a continuation of established social practices 

• Eric Schmidt on the century of the data scientists