• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• The radicalisation of reactionaries

• The fantasistic political ontologies which emerge under post-democracy

• The Myth of Elite Cosmopolitanism

• Stories of the River Irwell

• Rhetorical rapture-races and contemporary fragile movements 

• Reviews of Social Media for Academics

• The (American) dreams of defensive elites

• The expert-celebrity axis and the legitimation of technocracy 

• The defensive elites of the cultural industries 

• An interview with Inside Higher Ed about Social Media for Academics

• Designing platforms to mitigate power law effects

• How digitalisation reduces cultural variety 

• A fantastic podcast discussion about social media for academics

• Social media: singular or plural?

• The Intensified Work of Start-Ups

• Call for blog posts: the lived experience of interdisciplinarity in social research

• Interesting material on data science ethics

• The Importance of Disappointment

• An infopolitical critique of lazy applications of ‘panopticism’

• Against craft capitalism 

• The Idiots Who Make History

• Biographical Approaches to Studying Digital Capitalism

• The Lived Reality of Work in Tech Firms

• Things I’d like to include in a potential second edition of Social Media for Academics

• The global ambitions of tech giants

• Two documentaries about the super-rich

• Social Media and Academic Labour

• Take the time to make some sense of what you want to say

• things I’ve been reading recently #24

• The ideological function of open data

• Facebook’s advertising campaign

• Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?

• Institutionalised depoliticisation at the IMF 

• Murmuration

• Trans/Gender-Nonconforming College Students Project

• Ford’s Sociological Department

• What makes the sharing economy go round?

• On Digital Qualitative Research

• Social media for academics and the risk of becoming ‘TED heads’

• The Janus-faced ideology of philanthropic elites

• Social Media and Academic Labour

• Philanthrocapitalism as an assembly device for elites 

• The growth of elite philanthropy 

• Hip hop culture, philanthrocapitalism and getting shit done 

• Hip hop culture, philanthrocapitalism and getting shit done 

• Who are the world’s 950 billionaires?

• Transformative Horizons

• Sociology Social Media Assistant CfA

• Digital Market Populists as Intellectually Committed Chaos-Merchants

• Ideas for action from Teela Sanders and @RuthPatrick0

• Interned Professionals and Defensive Elites

• Credentials, recruitment and big data