• Using graphic novels to communicate your research

• How to attribute authorship on @soc_imagination?

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#25)

• “A new kind of intellectual”: Pierre Bourdieu’s tribute to Michel Foucault

• The Polysemic University

• Speaking and listening on social media

• Persistance, Searchability and Incivility

• Fuck virality, I want my ideas to be radioactive

• Techno-Galactic Software Observatory

• Social Media Training Workshop

• My new chapter on the digitalisation of the archive

• What does it mean to be a public sociologist in an age of Donald Trump?

• Do academics write badly because they’re rushing?

• Creative Methods for Research and Community Engagement Summer School

• Miniconference on post-truth and digital media in Reading UK coming up

• Social Imaginaries: The re-invention of social research

• Why it’s fine to ‘broadcast’ on Twitter

• The Sociological Review Annual Public Lecture 2017: Cities and the Political Imagination

• The Ontology of Fake News

• Youth employment in the ‘gig’ economy, isolation and @youthloneliness

• things I’ve been reading recently #33

• CfP: Queer Studies Conference

• The Porous University – A critical exploration of openness, space and place in Higher Education

• The Impact of Social Theory

• Defensive Elites

• The Uberfication of the University: the Digital Studienbuch and the 21st Century Privatdozent

• Public engagement, social media and university boundaries

• Keeping the conversation going in an age of scholarly abundance

• Marketing the Digital University

• The Cesspool of YouTube

• On Irritation, Or, How Social Networks Tend To Make Us Slightly More Assholic

• What is compound distraction?

• The Social Challenge of Platform Proliferation

• Cities and the Political Imagination

• things I’ve been reading recently #32

• The Technology of Intellectual Work

• Collateral consequences 

• The Ontology of Fateful Moments

• The ‘Sharing Economy’ as Disembedding Mechanism

• Bloggers and their role in the dissemination of scholarly information

• Margaret Archer and Bernard Lahire as post-Bourdieusian social theorists

• Some really interesting theory reading lists

• Digital Methodologies

• Perfecting the work/life blend

• Dealing with online harassment: guidance for academics

• If uber are acting like this now, how would they act if they had a monopoly?

• Social media didn’t create the ambition to rethink scholarly communication, it gave us the tools to do it effectively

• The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine

• Pierre Bourdieu, liberal thought and the ontology of collectives

• Pierre Bourdieu, post-war Algeria and the existential conditions for collective action

• The new frontiers of monitoring your students

• Digital labour and the epistemic fallacy 

• The cultural significance of blogging

• To understand social media for academics, we have to kill the idea of social media for academics 

• Speculative thoughts about the phenomenology of digitalisation

• CFP: Alternative Facts: Constructing Truth in Civil Societies

• The ambivalent promise of higher education

• A conversation between myself and @benjamingeer about a Bourdieusian approach to understanding alt-academia

• Donald Trump: Everyday Tactics of Post-Truth

• A Domain of One’s Own

• The centralisation of the web and the constraints on academic speech

• The Future of ‘Impact’ in the UK

• The Morphology of Public Engagement

• The (Coming) Crisis of Free Speech in the Digital University

• The Sociological Review Early Career Researcher Event: Senior Seminar with Rivke Jaffe

• The Silicon Valley Narrative

• The epistemic implications of platform proliferation and platform death

• Call for AoIR Tartu panel participants on Algorithmic Agency

• Abundance and austerity 

• The myths of academic life

• The Good Intentions of Engineers

• An STS approach to ‘post-truth’

• Managing ‘us’ to preserve the myth

• Platform capitalism or sharing economy?

• Platform capitalism or sharing economy?

• The embedded digital economy 

• The Politics of #MeetUp

• The meaning of scientific participation in an age of crowd work

• The duality of the platform: users and workers

• From the crowd-as-threat to crowd-as-resource 

• The knowledge economy and imagined freedom from material constraint 

• Social media and populism 

• An Introduction to the Accelerated Academy: by me and @Filvos

• Fighting for ‘political correctness’ in an age of Trump

• CfP: Digital Netizens at the crossroads of sharing and privatising

• CfPs: ‘Big Data from the South’/’Big Data desde el sur

• What is platform cooperativism?

• Mobilising a sharing economy revolution

• Charles Taylor: Ways Democracy Can Slip Away

• God View

• The Political Economy of Attention

• Building the cult of airbnb

• Performing your faith in the great disruptive project

• Airbnb and the Myth of ‘Us’

• Uber’s first experiment in mobilising their users

• Technology, regulation and disruption

• What does techno-fascism look like?

• Educational technology in an age of Trump: a risk to students?

• Removing Statute 24 constitutes a seismic shift in job security for all Warwick university employees

• Liberating discretionary effort by robbing your staff of a personal life