• Sublime imagined unity as a political factor

• Super-ego individualization

• Debt as an instrument of post-democratic control

• The Psychoanalytics of Temporising

• The paradox of personalisation 

• Freeing those who govern from the constraints of democracy

• Reclaiming ‘aspiration’ for the left 

• The lonely monads of digital capitalism

• The EU: a flawed democracy whose failures are fuelling the rise of fascism?

• The price fixing conspiracies of the platform economy 

• Call For Papers: The Precariat & The Professor

• Call for papers: everyday analysis 

• The Scale of Data Brokerage

• The Emergence of Digital Capitalism 

• Escaping the digital cage

• Data Fetishism

• The ontology of data

• Overlapping categories and the problem of abundance

• Coping with acceleration: triaging strategies and the new empiricism

• Workshop: Using the Morphogenetic Approach

• The death of cyberspace

• The myth of user generated content

• The misleading concept of ‘the blogosphere’

• Challenging Citizenship: Social Media and Big Data

• 2016 Challenging Media Landscapes conference, November 2016

• The Utopian Promise of Cyberspace

• Critiquing ‘virtuality’

• Places Still Available: The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

• Conceptualising ‘distraction’

• Interested in the internal conversation? Come to this symposium @SocioWarwick on May 24th

• The Great Divide: Sociology, Anthropology, and Race in France since Lévi-Strauss

• 19 interesting ways to communicate knowledge

• “They were stalking the corridors, the lecture rooms, the offices…”: open research, ethics and impact

• things I’ve been reading recently #22

• Culture and politics of data visualisation: a one-day conference, 11th October 2016, University of Sheffield

• Digital methods/data activism summer school

• Open research projects

• What’s it like to be a corporate executive receiving an order to cooperate with an authoritarian government?

• Interested in the internal conversation? Come to this symposium @SocioWarwick on May 24th

• 28,100 journals publishing 2.5 million articles a year

• Before WhatsApp there was BBM

• The King of Kong: a documentary about celebrity gamers

• My highlights from #RPten (and the most interesting stuff I missed)

• How life coaching spreads in corporate cultures

• Predictive analytics and the intensification of work

• The Accelerative Ethos of Steve Jobs

• A cautionary tale for independent researchers

• The size of social networks and the size of nation states

• What happens in an internet minute?

• Call for Applications: The Inaugural CUHK Research Summit: Digital Methods & Social Development

• What would techno-fascist punishment look like?

• Call for Papers: Communities of Practice: Toward a Local and Global Digital Humanities

• The Second Accelerated Academy

• Music to catch up on work to #1

• Imposing impossible demands as a management strategy

• When phones became computers

• Using social media to map scholarly literatures

• The Sociology of Patent Trolling

• It’s not you, it’s capitalism

• The London Radical Book Fair at Goldsmiths, this Saturday 7th May

• Symposium: Reorientating Sociological Thought

• CFP: Studying Politics across Platforms

• Workshop: Using the Morphogenetic Approach

• The Discursive Preconditions for the Acceleration of Publishing, or, Why Scholasticism and Positivism are Now Everwhere

• Computational Social Science and the Collapse of Sociology

• Lucy Powell on Conservative anti-Semitism in the last election

• The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

• The Social Life of Theory: Partiality, Conflict and Innovation

• Symposium: Reorientating Sociological Thought

• Jeffrey Alexander on the Individualist’s Dillema

• Breathe for me: interesting performance event in collaboration with @sociowarwick

• Obama’s Best Comebacks and Rebuttals

• The Entlastung of the Quantified Self

• Media Archaeology summer school, Uni of Pisa, July 4-8

• A Lockean case for the ownership of personal data 

• The multiplication of communication channels

• Every time you open an account online, the filter bubble expands 

• Crowd sourcing technical support: why do user helps corporations?

• A podcast about Social Media for Academics

• the challenge of cultural abundance

• Citizen science as the mass recruitment of shadow research assistants 

• The Temporal Cost of the Commute

• 40 reasons why you should blog about your research

• Special Issue on Digital Media Research Methods

• Has there ever been a Presidential hopeful who has appeared in so many tacky TV adverts?

• The creepiness of ‘networking’ discourse and the WikiHow-ification of academic career advice

• The Centre for Public Imagination

• Seeing Like a University: The Need for an Academic Caesar

• The Liberal Imagination of Barack Obama

• What does Economic Sociology have to say about declining productivity?

• Understanding the Features of Different Social Media Platforms

• Creating an ‘idea index’

• Convenience rather than urgency as a driver of constant connectivity

• Capitalism will eat democracy – unless we speak up

• #YesWeCode Initiative

• neo-progressive cat contemplates own existence

• The foundational lie of digital capitalism

• The Bechdel test for tech conferences

• ‘Economic Science Fictions’ – call for essays

• things I’ve been reading recently #21