• what terms would you like to see included in a glossary of social ontology?

• social media and constraints upon personal morphogensis 

• I’m talking about asexuality at this book launch on Friday 

• what ‘freedom’ will mean in a gamified world

• digital dilemmas: transforming gender identities and power relations in everyday life

• social media and social science research ethics

• the right-wing plot to overthrow FDR and install a dictator in the US (and more on the potential for fascism in the united states)

• techno-fascism and six factors which could bring it about

• social media in the accelerated academy: march 2nd @CIMethods

• images of the human in digital social science

• “the easy hybridization of social network analysis and social psychology experimentation”

• got an idea for a monograph? submit to @thesocreview monograph call

• places available: the challenge of sociological writing

• call for blog posts: #digitalsociology and the future of the discipline

• follow @accelerateduni for accelerated academy updates

• international journal of social research methodology: ask the editors @ijsrm! december 1st at 11am

• CfP: Data Literacy Special Issue

• Visiting Scholar Program – Ryerson University Social Media Lab

• call for proposals: @thesocreview seminar competition

• the slippery slope towards techno-fascism

• the two ontological orientations to technology prevalent within digital capitalism

• southpark on the vertigo of the filter bubble

• digital wildfire: project showcase on jan 12th

• call for papers: the rapid spread of provocative content on social media

• cyber war between non-state actors 

• CfP: Political Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy

• the future of transparency in the civil service?

• CfP: Demystifying Blockchain Through an STS Lens

• digital micro-politics and digital macro-politics 

• peter thiel on the first silicon valley gold rush

• the ascendancy of the quants 

• it (literally) pays to visit an open day 

• the politics of stupidity

• the next front in the war on ad blocking 

• the old world of banking 

• the digital repression that a trump presidency would bring 

• digital capitalism and the search for work

• Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science

• CFP: Transhumanist Education, Politics, and Design

• BSA Sociology and Feminism Event

• the origins of apple as a luxury goods company 

• organisational minimalism

• cognitive triage and the acceleration of design

• deadline tomorrow to register for the accelerated academy!

• giddens on digital tech

• from risk to resilience: responsible citizens for uncertain times

• call for proposals: @thesocreview monograph series

• funding call: @thesocreview seminar competition 2016/2017

• mike savage on ‘making sense of big data’

• large environmental protest in paris banned

• rough sleeper

• tech giants and the possibility of craft

• Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition and Intelligent Devices

• imagining the apple ecosystem 

• the joys of being-in-the-zone

• the politics of denying causal power to objects 

• a relational theory of addiction 

• manufacturing certainties in response to systemic uncertainties 

• the one where erving goffman works as a pit boss in vegas

• the sociology of ‘blotting out’ experience 

• price of my asexuality book has dropped to £25

• david willetts rehearsing his speech for an important meeting with google

• karl marx’s end of year departmental assessment

• four days left to register for the accelerated academy! deadline nov 20th

• a sociological podcast about culture

• “we know you’re a cheat and you should kill yourself” 2.0

• it goes boom boom boom

• the stupidity of auto-correction in the new OS X

• an accelerated academy reading list

• the need for the social sciences to reclaim their intellectual authority 

• academia is killing my friends

• the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity

• things I’ve been reading recently #15

• expedia and communicative escalation 

• fear of failure and the coding skills bubble

• glenn beck as the apotheosis of correlational thinking 

• a dystopian vision of where the infoglut is leading us 

• further communicative escalation from expedia (yay!)

• a question about digital social science

• call for proposals: social media & society in london

• I only leave the territory, when there’s nothing left to be said

• digital capitalism and the bestiary of the imagination 

• the affective basis of techno-fascism?

• digital capitalism, fetishistic disavowal and faux-collectives 

• dealing with ‘detractors’

• ten post docs (!) on temporality 

• your attention please! digital capitalism and communicative escalation  

• more spam directed at international event organisers

• are any other event organisers getting emails like this?

• distinct digital-advertising landscapes are increasingly drawn on socioeconomic lines

• the ‘soft coup’ currently taking place in portugal 

• the ‘religion’ of digital elites 

• from corporation to social movement: the future of lobbying in the sharing economy 

• a working group to create a realist sociology of flourishing

• what would techno-fascist public space be like?

• using the national gallery for public order policing

• the irresistible temptation for algorithmic function creep 

• big data and the politics of austerity 

• big data, post-democracy and boardroom liberalism

• the big data divide