• things that I’ve been reading recently #19

• 17 podcasts about realist social theory

• 35 podcasts about #digitalsociology

• the inanity of post-democratic political leaders

• Fictive Futures: Exploring Future Research Agendas

• Call for Papers: Cunning Knowledge and Media Technologi

• 6th annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics

• unpicking the political economy of digital cats

• Relating to data through visualisation: three funded PhD studentships in the UK

• modern life has let me down

• Technology, Self and Society in an Era of Digital Rankings

• moderating social media and the challenge of normativity

• Call for Abstracts: Themed Issue on Body Weight and Digital Media

• Should academics blog? Rather unsurprisingly I suggest that they should

• Call for Papers: A workshop on Competition(s)

• Special issue on Digital Evidence for Philosophy & Technology

• business for rappers

• the peak experiences of intensified work

• Sing, Sing, Sing

• The Epistemic Consequences of Technological Privilige

• the messianic zeal of Eric Schmidt

• things that I’ve been reading recently #18

• the carefully cultivated public persona of Eric Schmidt

• Towards Digital Social Ontology

• theorising socio-materiality: strong and weak processes

• the creative destruction of intra-organisational conflict

• business for punks from the bottom-up

• CfP: Freedom and Control of Expression in the Digital Aftermath of the 2015 Paris Attacks

• About Today

• How Google models itself on graduate school

• the obsessive secrecy of Apple

• the psychology of business for punks

• The Platform Wars

• on nihilism and hope

• FutureVision?! Which life do we want?

• Making The Familiar Strange: A Festival of Critical Social Thought

• the discourse of ‘burn out’ in silicon valley

• anonymity, velocity, extensity and traceability as characteristics of online action

• The origin of the phrase “cloud computing”

• Critical Realism 2016 reminder

• Geoblocking and Global Video Culture

• Social Science History Association 2016 CFP

• Call for Applications: International Visiting Fellowships in Critical Digital & Social Media Research

• No Surrender

• Love, Ire & Song

• the reality of ‘20% time’ at Google

• on ‘disruption’ and ‘innovation’

• the intensification of demands upon managers 

• the traditional model of information flow within organisations

• the sociology of executive coaching

• the ‘via’ link as a continuation of established social practices 

• Eric Schmidt on the century of the data scientists

• UCU’s recent anti-casualisation work 

• Interesting communications summer school for PhD students 

• CfP: Manchester Social Movements conference

• Wed, Jan 27, LSE: Emergencies of Peace: The Exceptional State of (Academic) Affairs in Contemporary Turkey

• Workshop: Multimodality in Social Media and Digital Environments

• The politics and economics of Chinese new media industries

• Collaborative Work and Social Media: Responding to the rapid spread of provocative content

• Reflecting on Digital Wildfire

• against a consensual theory of conventions

• Rocky V + Rock II = Rocky VII, Adrian’s Revenge

• the failed promise of ‘cyber politics’, the empowerment of defensive elites and the death of liberal democracy

• flagging Facebook users showing signs of radicalisation 

• What does punk mean?

• CFP: Digital Media, Psychoanalysis and the Subject

• the practical mastery of animals

• Perhaps having deconstructed everything, we should be thinking about putting everything back together?

• EPIC 2016 CfP

• why did something like Google not emerge earlier in the web’s history?

• the feudal characteristics of tech firms 

• don’t give money to anyone wearing a suit!

• The obsessive homogeneity of digital elites 

• The genesis of the PayPal Mafia

• don’t let the fuckers get you down

• CfP: Citizen Science: Beyond the Laboratory

• The meritocratic elitism of Google 

• when digital capitalism explicitly models itself on digital social science

• an interview with Christian Smith about the need for sociology to do ontology

• the political economy of outsourcing

• life planning as navigational guide rather than existential blueprint

• Gaming Metrics: Innovation & Surveillance in Academic Misconduct (via @claudiakincaid)

• “You will grow to be something dynamic and impressive; You are patient, you are gallant, you are festive”

• spammers as the avant-garde of digital capitalism 

• the sociology of corporate perks

• CfP: Workshop on Challenges and Futures for Ethical Social Media Research

• Cf Papers & Panels: “Internet & Politics: from Local to Global Politics”

• Call for chapters: digital existence 

• CFP: Critical Data Studies track at 4S/EASST

• the tinderization of everyday life

• Roberto Unger on Flaws in the Human Condition

• Complexity and Collective Behaviour

• Call for Papers: Political Citizenship and Social Movements

• the ultimate Rocky training montage

• Violent Abandonment: researching the Calais Refugee Camp – @SocioWarwick Seminar Wednesday 20 January

• social theorising is more important than social theory

• Social Media in the Accelerated Academy, March 2nd @CIMethods @SocioWarwick

• Are social media algorithms killing online activism?

• Living by numbers: big data & society

• Amongst Algorithms: Technical Fieldwork between Software Studies and Digital Methods