• Breathe Me

• Mark Fisher on using social media rather than being used by it

• Experts, knowledge and criticality in the age of ‘alternative facts’: re-examining the contribution of higher education

• For a whole range of reasons, I’m finding social media extremely tiresome at the moment. Hence I’ll just be here on my blog for the foreseeable future.

• The Cambridge approach to social ontology

• Sociology and anarchism

• The promise of university bureaucracy: academic neoliberalism as project rather than outcome

• CfP: Political epistemologies of Big Data

• How Should STS Address Inequality? As a Subject, a (Dis)Value)? Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

• The Politics of Big Data: Social Listening and Reclaiming the Future

• Capturing the classroom: the Google Agenda

• Who are the super-rich and what do they want?

• Social Media, Global Social Theory and Sociological Activism: An Interview with Gurminder K. Bhambra

• Are you interested in sociological fiction?

• Everything’s connected, right? Everything’s connected

• How does one become a competitive Rubiks cube player?

• A few questions about Marvel’s Secret Wars

• Are you interested in blogging about social science methodology?

• Why doesn’t technocrat have an antonym?

• Towards a neo-Khaldunian digital sociology: @morteza_hm on the Bedouins of Silicon Valley

• What happens when you meet a troll?

• The disappointing reality of using social media for public engagement

• The media must take responsibility for recent far right attacks on left wing journalists

• Why have generic, popular services proved so enticing for digital academics? From 2011 to 2019

• Call for Papers: Academics, Professionals and Publics: Changes in the Ecologies of Knowledge Work

• The intellectual legacy of Charles Taylor: securing the vantage point of (historical) philosophical anthropology

• When sociology becomes a source of legitimation rather than critique: the case of Anthony Giddens

• Social volatility and the shrinking time horizons of political life: the case of the Remain campaign’s war book

• I hate to think I’ll make it to 70, potentially 75, and realise I’ve never been alive

• Call for Papers: Lies, Bullshit and Fake News Online: Should We Be Worried?

• Critical Pedagogy HE Teaching Practice (CPHETP) Lab

• Reclaiming the social from the platforms that are eviscerating it

• The social ontology of algorithms and the importance of ethnographic technique

• What does it mean to talk about work as dehumanising? A critical realist perspective

• Margaret Archer: The Catholic Church as a Social Movement

• An introduction to Emmanuel Lazega’s neo-structuralism

• Data Power 2019: anyone interested in putting together a digital universities panel?

• ‘Free speech’ as the unifying principle of a resurgent right

• Analogue and digital chronopower: the example of Trump university

• Overcoming the micro/macro divide

• Digital labour in the university: understanding the transformations of academic work in the UK

• The mundane reality of neo-fascism

• Cambridge as a platform city

• 🐈 The Skiathos Cats 🐈

• I bomb atomically, Socrates’ philosophies

• What the fuck!? The great question of our age

• A few videos on quantum computing and the physics of time I want to come back to later

• The social ontology of trans-human life

• Against spontaneous sociology: Michael Burawoy’s attempt to rescue Bourdieu from Matthew Desmond and what it means for public sociology

• Look at me now 

• Programming as practice

• Sally Rooney on Theory Anxiety

• Cultural studies of data mining

• Liberalism and neoliberalism in communications research

• The Flat Earth phenomenon and what it reveals about YouTube

• Beyond fast and slow: temporal ontology in critical higher education scholarship

• Social Media and Doing a PhD: what do you need to know?

• a machine that’ll speak for me

• Debates about the nature of education

• The origins of the micro/macro divide

• The social origins of educational systems 

• the school in the sky, the school between the cracks

• Nigel Farage the YouTube star 

• Masterclass: An Introduction to Machine Learning

• A really interesting cfp on media and time

• The Corporate Fortresses of Digital Capitalism

• Where is the agency which will reign in big tech?

• Who’s a Bully? Civility, Authoritarianism, and Power in the Contemporary Academy

• Thinking with your feet 

• Trying to exist in superposition

• CfP: Digital Resistance

• From gated communities to moated communities

• Off shore capital and the great inflation

• What will it mean when blogs are decades old?

• The Sociology of Escalation Effects

• Social media and the (im)possibility of tolerance as an epistemic virtue

• An accessible introduction to the (post-capitalist) future of scholarly publishing – Thursday afternoon in Cambridge

• Digital Futures? The #BSADigital Presidential Event

• Iain Sinclair on the self-importance of Cambridge

• The Sociology of Awkwardness: Being (very) human in a digital age

• Harvey Specter: a study in late modern sociopathy

• #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 3 – Data Futures

• #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 2 – Work Futures

• #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 1 – Youth Futures

• #BSADigital Live Blog: Introducing Digital Futures

• Engineer automaticity in digital capitalism: from Bauman’s gardening state to the synthetic biology corporation

• Repoliticising tech mythology

• Digital technology and facilitating corruption

• An industry for creating dynasties

• Margaret Archer’s social theory as a revulsion in the fact of empiricsm

• The Ontology of Software: From Batch Processing to Interactive Computing

• A masterclass in post-capitalist publishing with Gary Hall

• “They ruined the world”

• From political engagement to asset protection

• The collapse of the tech mythology

• CFP: Intersectional Automations

• The singular new risks of organisational IT projects

• The Vertigo of (Accelerated) Corruption

• How corruption makes history  

• The political economy of viral stars