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  • What does a sociological rather than philosophical approach to thought experiments look like? The example of the Metaverse

  • Clive Lawson’s Technology & Isolation (ch 1-3)

  • Accelerating into the singularity 

  • The original sin of the digital utopians

  • CfP: The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion into Critical AI Studies

  • Some brief thoughts on chronopolitics

  • Call: Moral Machines: Ethics and Politics of the Digital World

  • CfP: AI, Robotics and Responsibility

  • Putting agents, ethics and politics at the heart of our account of platform capitalism

  • From homo economicus to homo digitalis

  • CfP AAA2018 San Jose: Panel Digital Infrastructures

  • Social Media and The Demotic Imaginary

  • CfP: Workshop “We are on a mission”. Exploring the role of future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology, Berlin, 27 April 2018

  • The epistemic privilege of platforms

  • Social media fosters egotism rather than individualism

  • Emerging technologies, academic celebrities and the social organisation of disciplines

  • Getting beyond pro and anti in our thinking about technology

  • CFP EASST2018: “Data Worlds? Public Imagination and Public Experimentation with Data Infrastructures”

  • CfP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research

  • CfP: Articulating Voice

  • Social ontology and the challenge of suitcase words

  • Social media and the half dozen grasshoppers 

  • CfP: What is universe? Communication, complexity, coherence

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

  • CFP – Intersectionalities and Media Archaeologies

  • Call for Abstracts – Lives of Data v2.0: Computing, Money, Media Workshop

  • CFP: Platform Urbanism

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

  • The phenomenology of cultural bingeing

  • “So you thought about it one day and started the next morning?”

  • The question of the human in philosophy of technology 

  • The dark future of mediatization

  • “Help! Help! Here comes everybody!”: Social Media and Corbynism

  • The precursors to curation

  • The meaning of @realdonaldtrump

  • Digital media and ontological security 

  • What does distraction mean for political theory and political philosophy?

  • On Irritation, Or, How Social Networks Tend To Make Us Slightly More Assholic

  • The ‘Sharing Economy’ as Disembedding Mechanism

  • Call for AoIR Tartu panel participants on Algorithmic Agency

  • The embedded digital economy 

  • Airbnb and the Myth of ‘Us’

  • Technology, regulation and disruption

  • Denial and the Antinomies of (Post)Truth

  • The Eschatology of Technology

  • The Evisceration of the Human

  • Against ‘openness’

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

  • a bleak social theory for bleak times

  • The cosmopolitan self vs the endurance self

  • Liberation and coercion

  • The Dispositions of the Metricised

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

  • An infopolitical critique of lazy applications of ‘panopticism’

  • Biographical Approaches to Studying Digital Capitalism

  • Picturing the Social

  • Overlapping categories and the problem of abundance

  • Challenging Citizenship: Social Media and Big Data

  • The Utopian Promise of Cyberspace

  • Critiquing ‘virtuality’

  • Digital methods/data activism summer school

  • CFP: Studying Politics across Platforms

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

  • A Lockean case for the ownership of personal data 

  • Convenience rather than urgency as a driver of constant connectivity

  • The foundational lie of digital capitalism

  • Steve Fuller on information overload

  • The Power of Digital Media to Shape False Narratives

  • Like air, ideas are incapable of being locked up and hoarded

  • CfP: Persistent Conversation

  • What would a socialist version of Netflix look like?

  • The Difference Between Stealing and Copying

  • Claude Shannon – Father of the Information Age

  • YouTube Conference: Call for Papers

  • CfP: Data Friction

  • CFP: AOIR 2016 panel – ‘the playful web’

  • 6th annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics

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

  • moderating social media and the challenge of normativity

  • Call for Papers: A workshop on Competition(s)

  • Special issue on Digital Evidence for Philosophy & Technology

  • The Epistemic Consequences of Technological Privilige

  • Towards Digital Social Ontology

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

  • against a consensual theory of conventions

  • spammers as the avant-garde of digital capitalism 

  • Call for chapters: digital existence 

  • the tinderization of everyday life

  • Roberto Unger on Flaws in the Human Condition

  • Page’s Law as a counter-point to acceleration theory

  • is Twitter making the Internet local again?

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

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

  • special issue of @bigdatasoc on data and agency

  • some thoughts on responsibility

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

  • The Lives and Deaths of Data

  • the opaque subject and the elusive activity

  • algorithms, situated judgements and imposed patterns

  • CFP: Machine Communication

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