• How Corbyn hacked the media

• When Tweets Turn Sour: Avoiding Legal Pitfalls on Social Media

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

• Public intellectuals as guides to the political flux, Or, “who can tell us what the fuck is going on?”

• CfP: Japan in the Digital Age

• Political speeches, relational authoriality and fetishising ‘strong leadership’

• How do we explain the election of Donald Trump?

• The precursors to curation

• Social morphogenesis and the limitations of political modelling 

• On the Spiralists

• The meaning of @realdonaldtrump

• CfP – “Youtubers” Conference – deadline June 15

• CfP: ‘Social Research in a Sceptical Age’

• Trolling, public engagement and the sociology of knowledge 

• Call for Participants: The Practice of Social Theory

• Online Othering: Exploring the Dark Side of the Web

• The Political Economy of Student Housing

• Digital media and ontological security 

• Why do I write?

• What would a materialist phenomenology of ‘post-truth’ look like?

• #SocMedHE17: Making an impact

• Do you want your research to produce more impact?

• Help us forge UK applied sociology

• The Personal Morphogenesis of Francis Begbie

• Time-packing and space-packing

• CfP Special Issue: The Platformization of Chinese Society

• The causal powers of media

• Special Issue on Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data

• Social Media and the Impact Agenda: making an impact with your research 

• The fortress city scenario 

• The Technolibertarian King 

• The Sociology of Platforms

• What’s the difference between academia and politics?

• Making an Impact with Social Media

• Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy

• What will Macron be like in government?

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

• Intellectual diversity, disciplines and public engagement

• The technocratic oath

• How can Arendt and Heidegger help us think about distraction?

• Public Engagement and Social Media

• The Politics of Agency

• Anticipatory Urgency

• The transformation of academic writing and the challenge of ephemera

• things I’ve been reading recently #34

• Anthem for a Planet’s Children

• The Jeremy Hunt Rhyming Song

• The ennui of the academic celebrity

• What is a research technologist?

• Marshall Berman on Jaytalking

• Will social media lead to the return of the general intellectual?

• The Conspiracy of Cars

• What is a wonk?

• “We are already in a position where we have to engage with digital media”

• Call for Papers: The Journal of Repressive Social Theory

• How can the social sciences keep up with socio-technical change?

• Too busy to care for your cat?

• Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens

• Sociological Fiction Zine

• “I was being a complete asshole to people for nothing more than scoring points to look good inside an echo chamber”

• Social Morphogenesis: Five Years of Inquiring Into Social Change

• In defence of ‘curation’

• Using graphic novels to communicate your research

• How to attribute authorship on @soc_imagination?

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#25)

• “A new kind of intellectual”: Pierre Bourdieu’s tribute to Michel Foucault

• The Polysemic University

• Speaking and listening on social media

• Persistance, Searchability and Incivility

• Fuck virality, I want my ideas to be radioactive

• Techno-Galactic Software Observatory

• Social Media Training Workshop

• My new chapter on the digitalisation of the archive

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

• Do academics write badly because they’re rushing?

• Creative Methods for Research and Community Engagement Summer School

• Miniconference on post-truth and digital media in Reading UK coming up

• Social Imaginaries: The re-invention of social research

• Why it’s fine to ‘broadcast’ on Twitter

• The Sociological Review Annual Public Lecture 2017: Cities and the Political Imagination

• The Ontology of Fake News

• Youth employment in the ‘gig’ economy, isolation and @youthloneliness

• things I’ve been reading recently #33

• CfP: Queer Studies Conference

• The Porous University – A critical exploration of openness, space and place in Higher Education

• The Impact of Social Theory

• Defensive Elites

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

• Public engagement, social media and university boundaries

• Keeping the conversation going in an age of scholarly abundance

• Marketing the Digital University

• The Cesspool of YouTube

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

• What is compound distraction?

• The Social Challenge of Platform Proliferation

• Cities and the Political Imagination

• things I’ve been reading recently #32

• The Technology of Intellectual Work

• Collateral consequences 

• The Ontology of Fateful Moments