• Protest and Performance Week @WarwickUni

• On Subculture

• “feeling more or less alive on different days”

• Two upcoming events @socialontology @sociowarwick

• The Vertigo of the Accelerated Academy

• John McDonnell’s New Socialism

• The Sex Myth

• The Feral Interdisciplinarian

• There are no strings on me

• Why I’m never buying another @Jawbone product & wonder if the wearables bubble will soon burst

• CfP: Data Friction

• The Pathology of the Super-Rich

• CfP: Contemporary Political Youth Culture and Communication

• On Techno-Fascism

• The Coming Monopolies of Digital Capitalism

• Viral lift

• The Videos from @AcceleratedUni

• CfP: Digital Health & Digital Capitalism

• Turn Those Clapping Hands Into Angry Balled

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

• Engaging with participation, activism and technologies

• Everyday analytics: The politics and practices of self-monitoring

• Say More Fire

• CfP for AOIR2016: Panel/Roundtable on “Aging in a Digital World”

• The Escalation Dynamics of Social Media

• Contempt for the social sciences and the new positivism

• Call for Papers: “Digital Traces in Context”

• Open access as a mechanism for the acceleration of higher education

• The imposter syndrome of the young Neil Gaiman

• Call for Papers: Political Citizenship and Social Movements

• CFP for the themed issue of ‘Subjectivity’ on Radical Negativity

• The Skilled Demagoguery of Donald J. Trump

• The State of Digital Research Methods

• Forced migration & digital connectivity in Europe

• Silicon Valley: The New Welfare State?

• Special Issue of Discover Society on Digital Futures

• things that I’ve been reading recently #19

• 17 podcasts about realist social theory

• 35 podcasts about #digitalsociology

• the inanity of post-democratic political leaders

• Fictive Futures: Exploring Future Research Agendas

• Call for Papers: Cunning Knowledge and Media Technologi

• 6th annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics

• unpicking the political economy of digital cats

• Relating to data through visualisation: three funded PhD studentships in the UK

• modern life has let me down

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

• moderating social media and the challenge of normativity

• Call for Abstracts: Themed Issue on Body Weight and Digital Media

• Should academics blog? Rather unsurprisingly I suggest that they should

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

• Special issue on Digital Evidence for Philosophy & Technology

• business for rappers

• the peak experiences of intensified work

• Sing, Sing, Sing

• The Epistemic Consequences of Technological Privilige

• the messianic zeal of Eric Schmidt

• things that I’ve been reading recently #18

• the carefully cultivated public persona of Eric Schmidt

• Towards Digital Social Ontology

• theorising socio-materiality: strong and weak processes

• the creative destruction of intra-organisational conflict

• business for punks from the bottom-up

• CfP: Freedom and Control of Expression in the Digital Aftermath of the 2015 Paris Attacks

• About Today

• How Google models itself on graduate school

• the obsessive secrecy of Apple

• the psychology of business for punks

• The Platform Wars

• on nihilism and hope

• FutureVision?! Which life do we want?

• Making The Familiar Strange: A Festival of Critical Social Thought

• the discourse of ‘burn out’ in silicon valley

• anonymity, velocity, extensity and traceability as characteristics of online action

• The origin of the phrase “cloud computing”

• Critical Realism 2016 reminder

• Geoblocking and Global Video Culture

• Social Science History Association 2016 CFP

• Call for Applications: International Visiting Fellowships in Critical Digital & Social Media Research

• No Surrender

• Love, Ire & Song

• the reality of ‘20% time’ at Google

• on ‘disruption’ and ‘innovation’

• the intensification of demands upon managers 

• the traditional model of information flow within organisations

• the sociology of executive coaching

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

• Eric Schmidt on the century of the data scientists

• UCU’s recent anti-casualisation work 

• Interesting communications summer school for PhD students 

• CfP: Manchester Social Movements conference

• Wed, Jan 27, LSE: Emergencies of Peace: The Exceptional State of (Academic) Affairs in Contemporary Turkey

• Workshop: Multimodality in Social Media and Digital Environments

• The politics and economics of Chinese new media industries

• Collaborative Work and Social Media: Responding to the rapid spread of provocative content

• Reflecting on Digital Wildfire

• against a consensual theory of conventions

• Rocky V + Rock II = Rocky VII, Adrian’s Revenge

• the failed promise of ‘cyber politics’, the empowerment of defensive elites and the death of liberal democracy

• flagging Facebook users showing signs of radicalisation