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  • RIP Michael Burawoy

  • Can ChatGPT do public sociology? Sociological Practice, AI and Platform Capitalism

  • Lovely review of The Public and their Platforms

  • ‘The Public and Their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media’ is now open access

  • A Book Discussion on The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media 

  • Why academics need to organise, collectivise, and ‘socialise’ social media

  • Why do platforms matter for public sociology?

  • New Book: The Public and their Platforms

  • We won’t have digital scholarship until we rethink outputs, expertise and knowledge

  • Your ‘daily dose of Sociological Imagination’: reflections on social media and public sociology

  • Collectivising public sociology

  • Escaping the Impact Machine: a sociological boardgame #TSRBoardGame

  • Social Media, Global Social Theory and Sociological Activism: An Interview with Gurminder K. Bhambra

  • Call for Papers: Academics, Professionals and Publics: Changes in the Ecologies of Knowledge Work

  • When sociology becomes a source of legitimation rather than critique: the case of Anthony Giddens

  • Against spontaneous sociology: Michael Burawoy’s attempt to rescue Bourdieu from Matthew Desmond and what it means for public sociology

  • The intellectual sclerosis of the superstar intellectual

  • The incredible shrinking scope of the celebrity intellectual

  • CFP: Imagining Radical Futures, Princeton Oct. 5th

  • What does it mean to claim people were ‘doing sociology’?

  • The value of graphic social science

  • A call for sociological micro-fiction!

  • When sociologists meet organised politics

  • The missing history of the practical intellectuals

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

  • The Public Sociology of Patrick Geddes and Victor Branford

  • How can Sociology be inspired by its own archive?

  • Towards a sociological curatorial journalism 

  • What does public sociology have to say about sociologists who are ‘merchants of doubt’?

  • Intellectual diversity, disciplines and public engagement

  • What does it mean to be a public sociologist in an age of Donald Trump?

  • CfP: Public sociology and the role of the researcher

  • Five propositions about #publicsociology

  • Social Media and Public Sociology

  • The Practice of Public Sociology: Sociological Review Early Career Event

  • What does public sociology mean in an age of social media?

  • Opening up @soc_imagination as a platform for public engagement

  • Digital sociology and the coming crisis of qualitative research

  • The Uncompromising Pessimism of Public Sociology

  • The Public Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (part 2)

  • Bourdieu meets Marx, Gramsci, Fanon, Freire, Beauvoir and Mills (in Burawoy’s imagination)

  • The Public Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (part 1)

  • The Privacy of Public Sociology

  • Not Your Typical Call for Papers (cc @idlEthnographer)

  • Are some disciplines more sociable than others? (CC @CreatingPublics)

  • CfP: Discover Society

  • Creative methods in gender and sexuality research & public engagement

  • CfP: Discover Society

  • CfP: Discover Society

  • An Invitation to Digital Public Sociology? Some initial thoughts

  • What the other social sciences can learn from economics

  • Being Stuck Between Public Sociology and Public Engagement

  • “Where the fuck do they get their shit from!?”: Reality Television, Austerity Politics and Digital Public Sociology

  • Public Sociology In an Age of Austerity – Michael Burawoy and John Holmwood in Dialogue

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