• A conversation with Phil Brooker about Programming-as-Social Science

• Two approaches to musical performance

• I’ve got two books coming in 2021

• What is a platform?

• Platform-based elicitation methods in qualitative research

• A Conversation with Neil Selwyn: Do We Need a Digital Sociology of Higher Education?

• What can social reconstruction teach us about imaging post-pandemic society?

• The Digital Condition: an informal discussion group

• Outflanking Platitudes: Theorising the Pandemic

• The films I’ve watched in the last 3 years

• Are you reading this blog?

• This machine eats normativity

• The light we steal when we learn

• Zygmunt Bauman’s early career as a professional ideologist

• The epochal theorising of Zygmunt Bauman

• The Old Vicarage, Grantchester, Rupert Brooke

• The lumpen-libertarian uprising

• Hold your own

• The Masterplan

• Winter is coming

• The growing divide in educational technology

• The suspended futures of Covid-19

• Post-Pandemic Digital Scholarship

• Why is mass commercial social media ‘mass’ and ‘commercial’?

• Hold your own

• Are we seeing a turn back towards the Open Web?

• It’s easy to forget the thrill of self-publishing, given the dark banality of social media in 2020

• The strangely coherent eclecticism of our inner experience

• Fragile movements and social media

• The infinite lecture hall model

• The campus as a learning infrastructure

• Best practice for communicating with delegates during online conferences

• Some thoughts on blogging during a pandemic

• The coming fascism

• Social media for academics and Covid-19

• Inhabited institutionalism

• Civic decline and the valorisation of debate

• The orthodox narrative of civic decline

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

• Social media in the Post-Pandemic University: a bootcamp for graduate students

• Silicon Valley’s cult of work

• Trump’s regrets about Twitter

• Time is a cycle, not a line

• Deadline soon! CfP: the Post-Pandemic University

• Platform Epistemics, Slavoj Žižek and Digital Reflexivity

• What does social media do to the civil sphere?

• What is participation?

• Covid-19, lockdown and the kinetic utopia of modernity

• Recognising the need which Jordan Peterson is serving

• The possibility of a digital police state: Hegel, Fichte, Mejias, Couldry, Bauman and Sloterdijk

• The importance of what we don’t (and can’t) say

• What will it be like to work on Elon Musk’s Mars colony?

• Žižek on asexuality

• Elon Musk as the intersection between influencer culture and the stock market

• The terrifying horizon of (digitalised) social order

• Big Tech and sustainability: the current state of play

• The monthly Digital Sociology discussion group

• What is a stereotype?

• Twitter and the structure of polarisation

• Is capitalism too big to fail?

• What is ‘modernising zeal’?

• Call for Papers: Digital Technology, Lockdown and the Post-Pandemic University

• Social media governance within higher education

• “The more closely you look at a word, the more distantly it stares back at you”

• Call for Papers: Building the Post-Pandemic University

• Neoliberalism and its dependence upon oil

• Why I’m so fascinated by education

• The potential virtues of online education during Covid-19

• Theoretical interventions as events

• To see the machine we need to dispense with the Weberian legacy on technology

• Situating digital education in the longue durée of educational restructuring

• A bleakly plausible future for post-pandemic labour

• The dark side of social media and what it means for academics

• In defence of lurid curiosity about the lives of the rich and powerful

• I don’t mind if I’m with you

• Ulrich Beck’s bleak vision of a future Europe battling against immigration

• Beck on two forms of social integration

• And why the hell, if there are real enemies, shouldn’t I be allowed to insult them?

• Being an intellectual outside the academy: the sociology of branding strategies

• Keeping our intellectual communities going during lockdown: a show and tell workshop

• The private symposia of the rich and powerful

• The disruption of routines and new consumer behaviours

• there are no new beginnings until everybody sees that the old ways need to end

• Running an online conference

• Zuckerberg on the three types of video chat

• The internet and the return of multimodal literacy

• The patterns of life that modernity engenders can only be practiced by a small minority of the world’s population

• The rich have much to lose, the poor do not

• The uncanny remembrance of the non-human

• The materiality of resources and the social forms they give rise to

• “A life. A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the shit that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come”

• The sociology of civilisational collapse

• Now we’re apart. Though not through choice. Do we stay mute? Or raise our voice?

• Could science fiction be a research method?

• The downward mobility of intellectuals

• Ian McEwan on the mundane reality of reflexivity

• The agricultural origins of pandemics

• The irreducibility of hope

• What is ‘post-truth’?

• The Isolation Pod: Theorising in/of Covid-19