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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • Post-Human Futures now out in paperback

  • Is there any future for academic Twitter?

  • The books ChatGPT thinks I already wrote and which I now think I should write

  • Against Social Media for Academics

  • On becoming mid career and post-disciplinary

  • Coming soon: Building the Post-Pandemic University

  • 📍Building the Post-Pandemic University: Imagining, Contesting and Materializing Higher Education Futures

  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on creativity and routine

  • LinkedIn as a replacement for academic Twitter: micro-blogs vs Twitter threads

  • Social Media for Public Engagement: Opportunities and Dilemmas

  • The increasingly hierarchical character of academic social media in 2023

  • Going on Strike from the Internet: A Plea for Disconnection

  • How to enjoy reading social theory

  • Why do some people enjoy social theory while others don’t?

  • But then why do you write? Nietzsche on the necessity of getting rid of your thoughts

  • What I’ll be working on over the next five years

  • Digital scholarship: from the soft problem of citation to the hard problem of authoriality

  • Publishing a compendium of chapters or going for the magnum opus

  • Requiem for a Tweet – Is there a future for the academic social capital held on the platform?

  • New Paper: Is it Paranoia? A Critical Approach to Platform Literacy

  • The unconscious fluency of writing

  • Podcasting in higher education

  • Should you write every day?

  • What’s the difference between a cult and a community?

  • Digital Scholarship after Covid-19: an overview of my next book

  • What do you do, exactly?

  • Academic developers as choreographers of professional reflexivity

  • An introvert’s guide to post-pandemic networking

  • How do you have rewarding conversations about social theory?

  • What is it that’s special about face to face events? Perspectives from Peter Sloterdijk and Randall Collins

  • What does sustainable (digital) scholarship look like for individual scholars?

  • Who maintains the social infrastructure we need for scholarship?

  • What am I trying to do with my research?

  • What is an intellectual community?

  • Some thoughts on intellectual community

  • What does it mean to be an academic leader?

  • An ecological approach to information overload

  • 14 tips for academics who are worried about Musk’s Twitter but don’t want to leave entirely

  • What is my research about?

  • How do you listen to audiobooks in a scholarly way?

  • A Book Discussion on The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media 

  • The drama of seeing real thinking

  • Three books that shaped my work

  • Music for thinking

  • What do you do? Intellectual biography as self-constitution

  • So you don’t want to be a normal journal any more?

  • Social media for academics and the circulation of expert concepts

  • I’ve been slowly developing a philosophy of academic development without realising this is what I was doing

  • Resources for organising online conferences

  • New Paper: Platforms and Institutions in the Post-Pandemic University

  • The Rise of Educational Audio

  • The flow of writing

  • The Beautiful Soul of the Critical Academic

  • If you want to provide your writing with a sense of occasion, listen to this in the background

  • Audiobook listening as scholarship

  • A comprehensive introduction to Social Media for Academics

  • How can I ensure I use social media in a careful and strategic way?

  • Four alternatives to Evernote

  • On being reflexive about how you e-mail

  • What does public engagement with academic research mean in an increasingly polarised society?

  • Are you a finisher or an abandoner? On the existential anxieties of the bibliophile

  • Why academics need to organise, collectivise, and ‘socialise’ social media

  • Being a digital scholar in the post-pandemic university

  • The pedagogical principles of the Python bootcamp

  • New Chapter: Growing Up in a World of Platforms

  • New Paper: Public Scholarship in the Platform University

  • The Somatechnics of Research

  • Nietzsche’s theory of dialogue and its implications for educational podcasting

  • The loneliness of knowledge production during a pandemic

  • Do you have an idea for a book about public sociology?

  • Why do platforms matter for public sociology?

  • From the Margins to the Centre: Defining New Mission and Vision for HCI Researchers in South Asia

  • What is my work about?

  • What do you do, exactly?

  • New Book: The Public and their Platforms

  • The importance of a chart is inversely proportional to its necessity to the argument

  • Being open to the world

  • Who is writing this blog?

  • Professor Bernhard Steinerhoff, Lecturer

  • The Project Graveyard

  • What’s it like to move from organising face-to-face conferences to organising online conferences?

  • Pragmatising Philosophy

  • What has a year of COVID-19 done to knowledge production?

  • Navigating research revolutions: big data, open research and post-truth

  • A quick guide to academic podcasting during a pandemic (part 1)

  • Post-Pandemic Scholarship: Some Initial Thoughts, April 22nd at 2pm GMT

  • A rough draft of a new intellectual biography

  • A conversation with Phil Brooker about Programming-as-Social Science

  • I’ve got two books coming in 2021

  • Platform-based elicitation methods in qualitative research

  • Are you reading this blog?

  • Post-Pandemic Digital Scholarship

  • It’s easy to forget the thrill of self-publishing, given the dark banality of social media in 2020

  • Best practice for communicating with delegates during online conferences

  • Some thoughts on blogging during a pandemic

  • Social media for academics and Covid-19

  • We won’t have digital scholarship until we rethink outputs, expertise and knowledge

  • Why I’m so fascinated by education

  • The dark side of social media and what it means for academics

  • Being an intellectual outside the academy: the sociology of branding strategies

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