• From a cult of youth to a cult of age

• Critical Realism and Object-Orientated Philosophy on the Status of Objects

• Archer and Harman on modes of reduction

• Call for Participation: Sociology and Social Media, Problems and Prospects

• The phenomenology of cultural bingeing

• Elites preparing for disaster

• Online armies at your command

• The populist right are demotic, rather than democratic

• The Surplus of Objects

• How widespread is shadow mobilisation?

• things I’ve been reading recently #36

• To Blog or Not to Blog: Research Projects, Centres and Networks

• Social Media and Social Order

• The rhetoric and reality of user generated content 

• The content density of a cultural producer 

• Towards a sociological curatorial journalism 

• Denaturalising digital capitalism

• “So you thought about it one day and started the next morning?”

• Agnotology, Science and Public Engagement

• The question of the human in philosophy of technology 

• The notion of a ‘playbook’

• The fortress city and what it may portend

• Politico-environmental crisis

• Public Intellectuals and the Shock Doctrine

• Brand Corbyn and Brand Trump

• A playbook for merchandising doubt

• The disruptive presidency of Donald Trump

• What does public sociology have to say about sociologists who are ‘merchants of doubt’?

• Two modes for becoming who we are 

• The data warriors and the electoral wars they wage

• What is Graphic Social Science?

• The revenge practices of plutocrats

• things I’ve been reading recently #35

• The dark future of mediatization

• The relative value of journalism and social philosophy

• From a politics of speed to a political sociology of speed

• Against the ‘political rulebook’

• The abuse Corbyn was subject to from Labour MPs

• How Corbyn hacked the media

• When Tweets Turn Sour: Avoiding Legal Pitfalls on Social Media

• “Help! Help! Here comes everybody!”: Social Media and Corbynism

• Public intellectuals as guides to the political flux, Or, “who can tell us what the fuck is going on?”

• CfP: Japan in the Digital Age

• Political speeches, relational authoriality and fetishising ‘strong leadership’

• How do we explain the election of Donald Trump?

• The precursors to curation

• Social morphogenesis and the limitations of political modelling 

• On the Spiralists

• The meaning of @realdonaldtrump

• CfP – “Youtubers” Conference – deadline June 15

• CfP: ‘Social Research in a Sceptical Age’

• Trolling, public engagement and the sociology of knowledge 

• Call for Participants: The Practice of Social Theory

• Online Othering: Exploring the Dark Side of the Web

• The Political Economy of Student Housing

• Digital media and ontological security 

• Why do I write?

• What would a materialist phenomenology of ‘post-truth’ look like?

• #SocMedHE17: Making an impact

• Do you want your research to produce more impact?

• Help us forge UK applied sociology

• The Personal Morphogenesis of Francis Begbie

• Time-packing and space-packing

• CfP Special Issue: The Platformization of Chinese Society

• The causal powers of media

• Special Issue on Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data

• Social Media and the Impact Agenda: making an impact with your research 

• The fortress city scenario 

• The Technolibertarian King 

• The Sociology of Platforms

• What’s the difference between academia and politics?

• Making an Impact with Social Media

• Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy

• What will Macron be like in government?

• What does distraction mean for political theory and political philosophy?

• Intellectual diversity, disciplines and public engagement

• The technocratic oath

• How can Arendt and Heidegger help us think about distraction?

• Public Engagement and Social Media

• The Politics of Agency

• Anticipatory Urgency

• The transformation of academic writing and the challenge of ephemera

• things I’ve been reading recently #34

• Anthem for a Planet’s Children

• The Jeremy Hunt Rhyming Song

• The ennui of the academic celebrity

• What is a research technologist?

• Marshall Berman on Jaytalking

• Will social media lead to the return of the general intellectual?

• The Conspiracy of Cars

• What is a wonk?

• “We are already in a position where we have to engage with digital media”

• Call for Papers: The Journal of Repressive Social Theory

• How can the social sciences keep up with socio-technical change?

• Too busy to care for your cat?

• Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens

• Sociological Fiction Zine

• “I was being a complete asshole to people for nothing more than scoring points to look good inside an echo chamber”

• Social Morphogenesis: Five Years of Inquiring Into Social Change

• In defence of ‘curation’