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  • the most read posts on my blog in 2015

    Looking for an Evernote alternative? Centrallo might be what you’re looking for Productivity culture, cognitive triage and the pseudo-commensurability of the to-do list Human Beings, Social Agents and Social Actors The Rise of the Self-Funded Studentship and What It Says About Academia (and Academics) The myth of ‘us’ in a digital age why are we…

  • imagining an academy in which academics were paid not to write

    From Ann Oakley’s satirical novel Overheads. A remarkable rant from a professor who has just been discovered to have fabricated the vast majority of his publications list: The thing is, Lydia, few people realise how few books or articles are ever read by anybody. The average number of people who read an academic article is 4.6.…

  • institutionalised goal setting in tech firms 

    How companies institutionalise certain forms of (quantifiable) reflexivity. From Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! pg 10: Starting in 1999, Google management used a system called Objectives and Key Results, or OKRs, to measure the effectiveness of its employees, divisions, and the company overall. The idea for OKRs came from Google investor John…

  • killer mike from run the jewels interviews bernie sanders

    And it’s really good. Though I’d like to understand the everyday intuitive and peculiarly American sense of ‘capitalism’ used by Killer Mike here.

  • ever wondered how to drink beer properly?

     Well now you know. Courtesy of @thebeerhawk.

  • what if we talked of digital ‘weeds’ rather than ‘viruses’?

    From Spam, by Finn Brunton, pg 89: “Alan Solomon . . . a veteran antivirus researcher with a PhD in economics, critiqued the virus metaphor, suggesting that this medical/ biological metaphor of ‘virus’ is ‘too emotive’ . . . Instead, he proposed ‘weeds’ as a more appropriate concept for describing the threat of computer code.”…

  • the problem of ‘community’

    From Spam, by Finn Brunton, pg 6-7: Two qualities unite these disparate uses of “community.” First, deep uncertainties about properties and edges: is community about location and face-to-face proximity, or does it consist of affective bonds that can be established by a text message as they are by an embrace? Does it encompass huge swathes…

  • is Twitter making the Internet local again?

    In his fascinating book Spam: a Shadow History of the Internet, Finn Brunton offers an example on pg 23-24 of how the early ARPANET was local in a way that is no longer the case. in September 1973, computer scientist Leonard Kleinrock used his ARPANET connection in Los Angeles to get back the electric razor…

  • the geopolitics of phone sex

    From Spam, by Finn Brunton, pg 67-68: The business of phone sex is structured around arbitraging the different settlement rates—how much it costs to call a given country from the United States. A company in the United States leases lines in another country to route the calls and takes a per-minute cut of the settlement…

  • CfP: Mediated Intimacies

    This looks great: CFP Mediated Intimacies DEADLINE EXTENDED Mediated Intimacies Call for Papers: Special Issue of Journal of Gender Studies to be published in March 2017 edited by Feona Attwood, Jamie Hakim, Alison Winch EXTENDED DEADLINE – 30th January 2016 In what ways does media convergence culture represent, intervene in, exploit and enable intimate relations?…

  • CFP: CSCW’16 Workshop on Algorithms at Work

    CALL FOR PAPERS CSCW 2016 workshop on Algorithms at Work CSCW: http://cscw.acm.org/2016 <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fcscw.acm.org%2f2016&data=01%7c01%7cJAONEIL%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7c4e6487c269ac451ce5b208d30086852e%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=lQc4OuFfiFbq1ebRUi9jI8iIczHE0eDOYVgWKYt4y90%3d> Sunday, February 28th, 2016 San Francisco, CA, USA Workshop website: algorithmsatwork.wordpress.com <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2falgorithmsatwork.wordpress.com&data=01%7c01%7cJAONEIL%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7c4e6487c269ac451ce5b208d30086852e%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=SCkHceRw2eFmloSogO64R%2ffM4pbsHkGU7GG%2f437VulA%3d> Submission deadline for a short position paper (1-4 pages): December, 30th, 2015 Notification deadline: January 5th, 2016 WORKSHOP The algorithms at work workshop critically discusses computational algorithms and the diverse ways in which humans…

  • music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#22)

  • want to lose all faith in the future of higher education?

    Then read through the comments that have accumulated on this morning’s Anonymous Academic post on the Guardian. Or don’t actually. Perhaps I just want others to share in my misery after having read through the whole set. Possibly the most depressing thing I’ve read all year. As I made my way to my office at…

  • music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#21)

  • “in an ideal world, American sociology would look like British sociology before it became Americanised”

    A really nice interview with Doug Porpora by Tim Rutzou. But it ends on a jarring suggestion: “in an ideal world, American sociology would look like British sociology before it became Americanised”.

  • Dynamics of Virtual Work: Book series launch

    How good do these look? A potentially really important book series: Dynamics of Virtual Work Book Series Launch University of Westminster 309 Regent Street, W1B 2HW, London January 21, 2016, 18:00-20:00 http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/events/dynamics-of-virtual-work Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dynamics-of-virtual-work-tickets-19751489236 Sponsored by the University of Westminster’s Communications and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), the University of Hertfordshire and Palgrave MacMillan, this event will…

  • Deadline Jan 8th: Mapping Alternative Routes out of Capitalism

    Really interesting project by Phoebe Moore: See below a call for panels and papers for a section in the EISA conference, Izmir, Turkey, 7-10 September 2016. The section seeks panels and papers on alternatives to capitalism, and how we might achieve them, both within the capitalist present and on the route to a post-capitalist society. We…

  • #DigitalSociology and the Future of the Discipline

    I’m quite pleased with this little collection I curated for The Sociological Review: Sociological Imagination: Digital Sociology and the Future of the Discipline by Kate Orton-Johnson, Nick Prior and Karen Gregory Should Digital Technology Lead Us to Reconceptualise the Social? by Jessica Heal Sociology and Human-Computer Interaction: A Call to Arms for Greater Collaboration by Effie Le Moignan Disruptive Technologies, Social…

  • smart phones and work place repression

    A really interesting BuzzFeed article about the use of smart phones on building sites to increase efficiency (the 30% of on-site time that is regarded idle, for reasons attributed to ‘miscommunication and disorganisation’) and their implications for workplace surveillance. What’s particularly striking is that inefficiencies are often the result of the complex subcontracting arrangements now…

  • the deroutinisation of work

    What other practices are there which should be added to this list? From The Pathology of Communicative Capitalism by David Hill, loc 877: For example, ‘alternative officing’, the business practice of having workers frequently change the location they occupy, is designed to add spontaneity to the work day in order to facilitate creative new collaborations.…

  • CFP Special Issue of Popular Communication: Self-(Re)presentation Now

    This looks really interesting: Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture Special Issue: Self-(Re)presentation Now Guest Editor: Nancy Thumim *Call for Papers* The editors of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture invite submissions for a special issue on the topic of Self-(Re)presentation. We welcome critical approaches in new media, film,…

  • Ann Oakley on the psychology of the academic male

    From her wonderful novel Over Heads, pg 13: Like most academic men, he regarded equal opportunities and gender as something of a turn-off. But one wasn’t supposed to say so. Gone were the days when one could happily ridicule women for being interested in themselves, confident of not getting the rejoinder that in a patriarchal world…

  • CfP: From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism

    From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism Call for Abstracts/Contributions Special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society Special Issue Editors: Todd Wolfson, Rutgers University, US Emiliano Treré, Autonomous University of Querétaro, Mexico / Lakehead University, Canada Paolo Gerbaudo, King’s College London, UK…

  • music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#20)

  • 2 PhD scholarships in digital labour analysis & digital ideology critique

    This looks like a really good opportunity: 2 PhD scholarships in digital labour analysis & digital ideology critique 2 PhD scholarships in digital labour analysis & digital ideology critique University of Westminster: Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies & Comunication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) Three years, full time £16,000 annual stipend plus fee waiver http://www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/research-degrees/research-areas/media-arts-and-design/research-studentships/westminster-institute-for-advanced-studies-research-studentship…

  • Donald Trump: The Reluctant Fascist

    Until relatively recently, I’d assumed that Donald Trump’s political ambitions amounted to little more than self-promotion, not unlike Sarah Palin’s post-2008 career trajectory. Sean Illing suggests this is still the case and that Trump’s recent pronouncements can be seen as increasingly desperate attempts to disqualify himself while creating a media storm: Like almost everyone else in…

  • the riddle of society 

    From pg 165 of Margaret Archer’s Realist Social Theory: What is it that depends on human intentionality but never conforms to anyone’s intentions?  What is it that relies upon people’s concepts but which they never fully know?  What is it that depends upon human activity but never corresponds to the actions of even the most…

  • the idiocy of defensive elites

    As over-the-top rants go, this one’s a doozy. It’s possible this is all a contrivance but why would a senior lobbyist come out with something so contrary to his industry’s interests? I’m really interested in the defensiveness creeping in amongst elites who see themselves as embattled, as well as the possible courses of action this might…

  • Techno-Religions and Silicon Prophets

    A really interesting talk via the BSA Digital Sociology group:

  • some thoughts on responsibility

    At an event in Liverpool last week, I was asked by Steve Fuller about what I understood responsibility to mean in a sociological sense. He was sceptical that I could support claims of responsibility given my understanding of human agency as situationally performative but biographically continuous. In essence I understood him to be asking: do I think there’s something about…

  • Silicon Valley: The Invisible Trap. Evgeny Morozov on How to beat bureaucracy

  • some thoughts about the accelerated academy

    Saved here for my own reference: https://twitter.com/mark_carrigan/status/672108416530259968 https://twitter.com/mark_carrigan/status/672108934115774465 https://twitter.com/mark_carrigan/status/672109317504557057 https://twitter.com/mark_carrigan/status/672109675140247552 https://twitter.com/mark_carrigan/status/672109928807538688 https://twitter.com/mark_carrigan/status/672110744947859456 https://twitter.com/mark_carrigan/status/672111381127299072 https://twitter.com/mark_carrigan/status/672111910565888000

  • technological drivers of institutional isomorphism

    From The New Ruthless Economy, by Simon Head, loc 1972: Companies should give up trying to create their own reengineered processes and instead buy them off the shelf from ERP vendors such as SAP and Oracle. cle. In the words of Chris Deacon, a senior ERP specialist at the consultancy sultancy Computer Science Corporation (CSC),…

  • What will the Millennial Fascist look like?

    I love this post by David Banks on Cyborgology: the future Millennial fascist will need to employ a highly adaptive messaging system enabled by what Zeynep Tufekci has called “computational politics”. Computational politics allows political leaders to portray themselves very differently depending on whom they are talking to. By using finelytuned algorithms fed by enormous databases of our…

  • six ways till sunday

    The years unfold in one moment The voices that we heard so loud Are now suddenly silenced Inside this crowd And you’re surrounded by the lives Of those who found something to hold So bringing everybody down Is all you know You’ve been hiding so long You can’t find yourself In this sheltered life you…

  • Found in Nigel Thrift’s book from the Warwick library

    Ironically, I’m pretty sure this is exactly the sort of political intervention he (theoretically) applauds:     

  • the appalling state of @crosscountryuk trains

    Half the toilets were out of order as per usual. Once I squeezed myself through an astonishingly overcrowded train, this was the state of the other toilet. The floor was pretty awful but thought it was nicer not to photograph it:      

  • bureaucratic bloat as a defining feature of digital capitalism

    In The New Ruthless Economy, by Simon Head, there’s a great discussion of the expansion of bureaucracy in American healthcare. From loc 1728-1737: Between 1968 and 1993, the number of managers and administrators tors in U.S. health care rose fourfold from 719,000 to 2,792,000, outstripping the growth in the number of physicians, which less than…

  • critical realism as the natural ontological attitude of physicians?

    A thought I had when reading this description of medical decision making in The New Ruthless Economy loc 1842. Medical diagnosis is a form of causal reasoning, alive to its own provisionality and fallibility, seeking to identify real mechanisms which explain events that have manifested empirically: Physicians constantly have to make decisions based on incomplete…

  • the irreducibility of interpretation in socio-technical systems

    A really interesting example discussed in The New Ruthless Economy, by Simon Head, loc 1398-1407. CasePoint was a system which aimed to remove expertise from the customer-facing service function by turning the call centre operator into an ‘information conduit’. But inevitably interpretation was necessary and the assumption that it could be avoided produced all sorts of unintended consequences: CasePoint’s…

  • from governing the body to governing the mind

    Another interesting bit from The New Ruthless Economy about the transition from a Taylorism of the body to a Taylorism of the mind. It’s important that we see algorithmic and quantified control in this longer-term historical context. From loc 1382-1390: Ford and Taylor were mostly intent on controlling the bodily movements of workers tied to machine…

  • self-tracking to pre-empt social tracking

    I came across an interesting extract in The New Ruthless Economy, by Simon Head, which shone an interesting light on the relationship between self-tracking and social tracking. From loc 1318: Paula Dabbart, an employee ployee at an American Airlines reservations center in Tucson, said that she wore a stopwatch on a string around her neck to time each…

  • judith butler lecturing on the performativity of assembly

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

    Everyday analytics: The politics and practices of self-monitoring Self-monitoring is a pervasive part of contemporary life, entwined in many spheres of the everyday, for example work, health, fitness, energy consumption, finance. The analysis of these activities, once the preserve of scientific, professional and technology experts, is expanding, as the scanning, recording, memorising and tracking of…

  • animals being amazed by magic tricks

    I just came across this lovely video on Twitter: This is the best thing I've seen today. pic.twitter.com/HwhY29TALj — Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) December 9, 2015 This has turned into a whole genre of YouTube video:

  • a taxonomy of corporate monitoring software

    From The New Ruthless Economy, by Simon Head, loc 1209. I wonder what ‘innovations’ have emerged in the ten years since this was book was published? There are at least five distinct types of monitoring software. First, there are what might be called “classic” monitoring products, software that embodies the Taylorist preoccupation with timing and…

  • The Lives and Deaths of Data

    This looks superb: Open Track: The Lives and Deaths of Data Convenors: Sabina Leonelli and Brian Rappert, Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology & Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis), University of Exeter, UK (see also the Exeter Data Studies group: http://www.datastudies.eu)  Abstract: This track investigates the relational constitution of data:…

  • buzzfeed explain #asexuality and it’s surprisingly good

  • the Japanese recovery of participatory Taylorism

    From The New Ruthless Economy, by Simon Head, loc 630-647. Taylor’s  experience of industrial resistance to his methods led him to replace this participatory aspect with an elaborate system of inspection and control: But perhaps the most important portant contribution of Japanese manufacturers to the theory and practice tice of scientific management has been to…

  • soft flexibility vs hard flexibility  

    From The New Ruthless Economy, by Simon Head, loc 704: Soft flexibility ibility involves changes to the appearance and styling of a product, such as occurred on the auto assembly line at Nissan, with its variety of dashboards, boards, seats, radios, and carpets. This flexibility can easily be accommodated modated by a work regime that…

  • Academic life in the measured university: pleasures, paradoxes and politics

    Via Janice Malcolm: Submissions To submit CLICK HERE Submissions are due by Friday 15 January 2016.   Themes The conference welcomes submissions from staff and students (especially collaborations among students, and between staff and students), across the full spectrum of disciplinary lenses on the themes described below. We are especially keen on receiving submissions that address…

  • Inside the Lives of the 1% – How Power and Inequality Operate in Britain

    I really wish I could be in London that day. I can’t wait to read more about this project: Inaugural lecture by Prof Aeron Davis, Co-Director of PERC 5.30-7.30pm, 26th January Over two decades Aeron Davis has interviewed some 350 elite subjects from the worlds of business, finance, politics and media: from Nigel Lawson to Jeremy…

  • how much time do workers spend worrying?

    This extremely useful little book introduced me to this consideration recently. It’s very important to my developing argument about the intensification of work: the escalation of demands placed upon workers, their mediation through the internal conversations of individual workers and its implications for how they exercise their reflexivity in the workplace. Here’s the data I’ve just been…

  • algorithms, situated judgements and imposed patterns

    An interesting case discussed on pg 85 of Unforbidden Pleasures, by Adam Phillips: We may live in the aftermath of the myth of the Fall, and the even longer aftermath of the myth of Oedipus, but the first traffic lights were invented in the United States after the First World War. The traditional mutual accommodation travellers had been…

  • skill complementarity, skill substitution and skill debilitation 

    From The New Ruthless Economy, by Simon Head, loc 208-219: Economists use the term “skill complementarity” to describe how information formation technology enhances the skills of high-income workers such as architects and engineers. They speak of “skill substitution” when technology eliminates the jobs of telephone operators or bank tellers. The examples of the physician and…

  • the distinction between ‘ambivalence’ and ‘mixed feelings’

    This is a really interesting distinction. From Unforbidden Pleasures, by Adam Phillips, pg 85: Ambivalence does not, in the Freudian story, mean mixed feelings, it means opposing feelings. ‘Ambivalence has to be distinguished from having mixed feelings about someone,’ Charles Rycroft writes, in his appropriately entitled A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (as though an ‘Uncritical’…

  • the digitally-facilitated intensification of work

    From The New Ruthless Economy, by Simon Head, loc 149-164 From the early 1990s onward, the twin phenomena of”reengineering” and “enterprise resource planning” (ERP) have been prime examples of workplace practices built around new information technologies. Relying ing on computers and their attendant software, reengineering and ERP automate, simplify, join together, and speed up business…

  • CfP: Surveillance and Security in the Age of Algorithmic Communication 

    Surveillance and Security in the Age of Algorithmic CommunicationAn IAMCR 2016 pre-conference University of Leicester 26 July 2016 Deadline for abstracts: (500 words): January 15, 2016 More information: http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/algorithmic-surveillance The call as pdf: Click to access AlgoSurveillancePreconferenceCfP_0.pdf The Snowden leaks have put mass surveillance on the public and academic agendas. Data collection, interception and analysis…

  • CfP: Political Theory on Refugees

    This looks really interesting: Call for Papers University of Augsburg, 17-18 November 2016 CONFERENCE: POLITICAL THEORY ON REFUGEES Working Groups: Democracy and Flight: Political Theories on Refugees and the transcultural and comparative political theory group  Convenors: Sybille De La Rosa (Heidelberg University), Melanie Frank (University of Augsburg) and Viktoria Hügel (University of Brighton) Keynote speaker:…

  • against ‘hybrid beings’ as a way of understanding our entanglement with digital tech 

    Notes for a talk later this week  My objection to the notion that we should understand the ubiquity of digital technology within person life in terms of ‘hybrid beings’ is a fundamentally methodological one. At the level of social theory, I find it relatively unobjectionable as an attempt to conceptualise the entanglement of human beings…

  • why would anyone use Hootsuite rather than Buffer?

    I’ve just tried using Hootsuite for the first time and I’m utterly baffled by it. I may be missing something obvious, but the software seems designed to be cumbersome and time consuming: Contrast this to the clarity of Buffer. If you’re using Hootsuite and haven’t yet tried Buffer, I can’t recommend it enough. It will…

  • Charting the Digital: Play, Discourse, Disruption

    This looks interesting: 8-9 October 2016, Venice (Italy) First call for papers Organised by the ERC funded Charting the Digital team: Sybille Lammes (Principal Investigator), Chris Perkins (Senior Research Fellow), Sam Hind (PhD candidate), Alex Gekker (PhD candidate) and Clancy Wilmott (PhD candidate and Research Fellow). ____ Whether a navigation device that adjusts its route-display…

  • Charles Babbage’s precursor to Mechanical Turk 

    From The Innovators, by Walter Isaacson, lol 474-491: Babbage knew of the devices of Pascal and Leibniz, but he was trying to do something more complex. He wanted to construct a mechanical method for tabulating logarithms, sines, cosines, and tangents. To do so, he adapted an idea that the French mathematician Gaspard de Prony came…

  • the recursive loop of technological metaphors for subjectivity

    One of my major irritants is technological metaphors for subjectivity, not least of all because I slip into invoking them myself when I use terms like ‘cognitive load’. The underlying idea that ‘the brain is like a computer’, as well as the complex network of associated metaphors leading from it, frustrates me because it seems…

  • the early music of brian fallon

    For some reason I’ve come back from Prague with a desire to listen to this stuff on endless repeat. The earliest band, Cincinnati Rail Tie: This Charming Man: Random Stuff:

  • AoIR 2016: Call for Proposals (anyone interested in proposing a #digitalsociology session?)

    Workshops: 5 October 2016 Main Conference: 6-8 October 2016 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany AoIR 2016 is the 17th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, a transdisciplinary gathering of scholars interested in the place of networked technologies in social processes. AoIR 2016 will emphasize the relevance of the Internet in today’s culture and politics.…

  • putting together an AoIR panel on Instagram

    This seems like a really important initiative: Instagram – the new(isn) kid on the social media bloc For the AoIR 2016 we, Jakob Svensson (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Uta Russmann (FHWien University of Applied Sciences, Vienna, Austria), are putting together a panel proposal on Instagram and its relevance in today’s communication. We are looking for…

  • The Challenge of Sociological Writing w/ @AcademicDiary, @thesiswhisperer & @ThomsonPat

    Register here: HTTPS://WWW.EVENTBRITE.COM/E/THE-CHALLENGE-OF-SOCIOLOGICAL-WRITING-TICKETS-19080409017 In this event organised by The Sociological Review’s Early Career Forum, a panel of accomplished writers with a long history of supporting younger scholars reflect on the challenges of sociological writing. Each participant will give a short talk, discussing a particular aspect of the challenge of writing, before the panel opens up for a general discussion…

  • Digital Health/Digital Capitalism One Day Conference CfP 4th July 2016

    Really interesting looking conference organised by Chris Till: Digital Health/Digital Capitalism One Day Conference CfP 4th July 2016 Digital technologies have had a profound impact on the ways in which people live their lives, relate to one another and think about themselves and their capacities. This event will bring together scholars who are interested in…

  • mapping the post-capitalist paradigm and its thinkers

    An interesting link via @samoore_. There’s some stuff one could take issue with but I think it’s an interesting exercise and the project as a whole looks extremely worthwhile.

  • Mediatization: Digital Revolution and the Chinese Setting

    Mediatization: Digital Revolution and the Chinese Setting* *Call for Papers* The 2016 International Communication Association Post-Conference and 14th Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC), with the theme of “Mediatization: Digital Revolution and the Chinese Setting”, will be held on June 14 to 15, 2016, in the Journalism School of Fudan University. *Theme and Content* The convergence…

  • CfP: Mediated (Dis)Continuities: Contesting Pasts, Presents and Futures

    Conference theme: ‘Mediated (Dis)Continuities: Contesting Pasts, Presents and Futures’ Discontinuity is the far side of change. Late modernity – as the unstoppable flow of permanent changes – is haunted by the disparity of its various histories, geographies, ontologies and technologies. How are media and communication practices engaged in communicating across these divides? The theme heralding…

  • perspectives on the non-use of technology

    I just saw this fascinating new issue of First Monday. I think this is a hugely important topic and a collection on it is long overdue:

  • follow #fastuni for live tweeting from the accelerated academy

    There is little doubt that science and knowledge production are presently undergoing dramatic and multi-layered transformations accompanied by new imperatives reflecting broader socio-economic and technological developments. The unprecedented proliferation of audit cultures preoccupied with digitally mediated measurement, quantification of scholarship and the consolidation of business-driven managerialism and governance modes are commonplace in the contemporary academy. Concurently, the…

  • defending human rights in a digital age

    This looks great:

  • Toward a typology of participation in crowd work

    Second call for papersCSCW2016 workshop, February 28 Toward a typology of participation in crowd work Deadline for paper submissions December 7 http://ttpcw.blogs.dsv.su.se/ <http://ttpcw.blogs.dsv.su.se/&gt; The development of technologies and practices of broad public participation are changing the notion of the public. As the use of participatory and social media has become widespread in society and enabled…

  • the palestinian solidarity campaign and the growing climate of political repression in the uk

    As anyone who follows party politics in the UK will have noticed, the home secretary’s rhetoric on ‘extremism’ has been getting increasingly bellicose in recent months. While it remains an open question as to what extent she believes this, as opposed to simply positioning herself to the right of Osborne and Johnson for the coming…