• “work hard to find something that fascinates you”: richard feynman’s advice to students

• another special issue: social media and protest identity

• the acceleration of consumption 

• the pre-history of the internet of things 

• the preoccupations of life hackers

• before google and their staff perks, came microsoft and its free drinks

• the politics of discretionary effort 

• here we go, happy holidays

• the backstory to creative work

• workshop and symposium: the question of the human in social theory and social research

• the hostage taking capacity of banks 

• reasons for the commitment of capital to the european project

• how to normalise ubiquitous surveillance 

• another must read special issue: social media & society

• over-reach by unelected technocrats

• aesop waits – tom shall pass (aesop rock vs tom waits)

• welcome to nerd rap

• the cruel optimism of the nine to fivers anthem

• interrogating internships: unpaid work, creative industries, and higher education

• fiction and the social imaginary

• surviving life in the accelerated academy: prospects and problems for digital scholarship

• the capture of the political class 

• the distracted people and fragile movements of digital capitalism

• call for papers: qualitative methods and data in digital societies

• things I’ve been reading recently #13

• register for the accelerated academy

• digital social science essay competition

• Digital footprints

• good cafes in manchester to work in

• the sociology of the camp

• if I can’t stick around here and fight them, I’ll take my last fucking breath to my grave just to spite them

• registration now open: power, acceleration and metrics in academic life

• Felix & Adelita

• the astroturfing industry 

• on fragile movements

• the agonistic politics of anonymous 

• the pervasive cottage industry on the borders of academia 

• ‘The UK is finished’: Owen Jones meets Peter Hitchens

• things I’ve been reading recently #12

• the intensification of work in the creative industries

• upwards over the mountain

• The fiction future of faculty: September 16th in Manchester

• the ecology of content 

• the horatio alger myth

• the origins of digital capitalism 

• this is not a pipe

• the disruption of finance 

• the necessity of digital sociology

• social media and the promise of never again being alone 

• the threats of financial elites 

• the threats of financial elites 

• the totally weird subculture of 1980s mortgage traders 

• the masters of the universe and their delusions

• the meaning of scrounging in conservative britain 

• post-democratic political culture: how good leaders go bad

• the post-democratic judicial system

• spotify’s ultra-creepy new privacy policy

• “drag coefficient”: the creepiest human resources concept ever?

• the social expectations of the super-rich

• the self-congratulation of digital elites 

• markets are a machine for destroying the ego

• pride and pleasure in acceleration 

• data fetishism and the elites of digital capitalism 

• the culture of the ‘working rich’

• digital capitalism, the great levelling and the moral agency of elites

• we are all equal before Google

• the moral discourse of the ‘reasonable technocrat’

• viral media and unionisation

• what to do when a political party you instinctively support shows nothing but contempt for the things you believe?

• The fiction future of faculty: an afternoon of sociological design fiction

• attribution in live tweeting

• the circular tendency in digital capitalism

• blogging as an outboard brain

• on digital distraction

• negative solidarity is here to stay: the ‘greedy’ tube workers

• reflections on preparing to finish a book

• who’s more popular on twitter? the UK’s top research universities or academic blogs and viral feeds?

• things I’ve been reading recently #11

• social media and academic freedom

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#19)

• the best of bezos: the vitriolic putdowns of the amazon ceo

• the question no one seems willing to answer about university branding

• using big data to transform the classroom from the 19th century to the 21st

• the ethos of openness

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#18)

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#17)

• the pleasures of knowing where you stand 

• when people falsely impute research to you

• blogging your fieldwork

• social media and solidarity in higher education

• the coming copyright wars on twitter

• using snapchat in higher education

• how to evaluate your web page for accessibility

• what would a curricula for Networked Scholarship look like?

• Closing an open letter

• #TwitterGate: the ethics of live tweeting

• oppression and self-promotion on social media

• the creepy treehouse problem

• imagining post-capitalism and techno-fascism

• the politics of noise in historical perspective