• Uber as a moral project

• The Workation

• The Internet Beyond Numbers

• Micro-tasking political activism

• The spammy origins of Airbnb 

• Beyond fast and slow scholarship

• The ‘injustice’ that motivated Uber

• The cultural lure of Silicon Valley

• The most absurd television adverts of the dot-com boom

• What does it mean to be a public sociologist in the era of @realDonaldTrump?

• DIGITAL EXISTENCE II: Precarious Media Life – Call for contributions

• CfP: Digital Inequalities and Discrimination in the Big Data Era

• things I’ve been reading recently #31

• Epochal theorising and business bullshit

• The marketing case for radical university leadership, or at least the pretence thereof

• Cultural representations of finance 

• Cartoons about the impact agenda 

• What does it mean to be an intellectual in an age of social media?

• “Open, good. Closed, bad. Tattoo it on your forehead”: Placing the technology sector in social and economic history

• Three projects about the future of data

• On Social Acceleration

• The Importance of Business Culture

• The Banal Bullshit of Thomas Friedman

• Denial and the Antinomies of (Post)Truth

• The Sociology of Predatory Publishing

• CfP: Public sociology and the role of the researcher

• pirate philosophy in (and for) the digital university

• Out trolling the trolls

• The Launch of the Digital Geographies Group

• trying to write when you’re triaging

• Eric Schmidt’s Predictions for the Next Decade

• some thoughts on the poetics of impact

• Pascalian Meditations on the Digital University

• Devushkin as the Eviscerated Human

• Social media for academics and the increasing toxicity of the online ecology

• “Scholar? Nah, I’m a grants factory…”

• Writing prompts for a PhD journal

• The MOOC as a trojan horse

• Social Media For Academics: Things To Try

• The epistemology of democracy’s death

• Online Harassment

• The Eschatology of Technology

• The Evisceration of the Human

• Moral Responsibility in an Age of Distraction

• Against ‘openness’

• The forward-facing ideology of technology: erasing history and context 

• How universities shape the technology developed for them

• Social media for academics and the dangers of a “content delivery” mindset

• The Banal Reality of Democracy’s Death

• Deadline soon! @TheSocReview ECR Essay Competition

• ‘Disruption’ as the last refuge of the Third Way

• a bleak social theory for bleak times

• Quit social media

• Some recent videos of Harmut Rosa talking about social acceleration

• Two Visions of our Automated Retail Future

• Notes on Platform Capitalism

• The Digital Everyday: Exploration or Alienation?

• CfP: The Future Between Progress and Regression

• A reading list on interdisciplinarity, with a conceptual and digital bias

• The (un)productive chaos of disciplines

• The lost socio-technical architecture of qualitative research

• The ontology of data, the ideology of data 

• Some thoughts on platform capitalism, cash hoarding, innovation and ideology

• South Park’s theory of trolling: Trevor’s Axiom

• The Distraction of the Networked Writer

• Discipline and innovate 

• It looks like you’re trying to write a digital detox piece

• The self-importance of researchers

• Academic exceptionalism and the black-boxing of academic labour

• What did I do in 2016?

• The Elite Roots of the Alt-Right

• Why Academics Must Use Social Media

• Do celebrity academics crowd out other voices?

• What are ‘recognition triggers’ in scholarly publishing?

• Was Sloterdijk an early originator of contemporary right populism?

• On Teaching Theory

• The Happy Unemployment of Horses

• The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy, part 3

• The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy, part 2

• My 20 favourite graphic novels of 2016

• My 20 favourite books of 2016

• The proliferation of books

• things I’ve been reading recently #30

• Academic Celebrities and the Transformation of Publishing

• Carrying the weight of the world

• Metrics and the death of imagination

• The challenge of writing in the accelerated academy

• A collection of definitions of ‘Impact’

• The Impact Agenda as Paradigm Shift

• Bounded autonomy in the workplace

• The concept of ‘platform’ in publishing

• Next week in Oxford: Digital Sociology v STS

• Communism for the few

• Digital Capitalism and Guard Labour

• The Climate Agenda of Elites

• Living with theoretical pluralism

• The Political Economy of the American South

• This week: the second Accelerated Academy

• Why are there 3 philosophy magazines but no sociology one?

• Five propositions about #publicsociology