• songs from Brian Fallon’s new solo album

• Google’s war against latency

• Page’s Law as a counter-point to acceleration theory

• Devil’s Medicine

• Workshop: Conceptual Challenges in Interdisciplinary Social Media Research

• the rise of human centred data science at facebook

• the burden of chrono-reflexivity at work

• the winner-takes-all dynamic of digital capitalism

• the challenge of life planning in a digital age

• Google Anything, So Long as It’s Not Google

• the corporate housewife, eliminating the need for mundane reflexivity

• the intellectual elitism of Silicon Valley

• “now listen you queer!”: the origins of contemporary political punditry

• one month left: the @bigdatasoc & @digitalsocsci essay competition

• dear PhDs/ECRs: need funding to go to a conference? @thesocreview can help

• 2 weeks left to submit: digital methodologies, beyond big & small data

• my plans for 2016

• the demand for data science

• grooming the next generation of the digital elite

• the political psychology of the super rich

• the best description of Corbynism I’ve encountered 

• enjoying it: candy crush and capitalism

• I’ve never had a contract with @VirginMedia, yet they’re sending me details of my ‘spending’

• Calling PhDs & ECRs: @thesocreview conference funding competition is now open!

• things I’ve been reading recently #17

• the most read posts on my blog in 2015

• imagining an academy in which academics were paid not to write

• bruno latour’s philosophical sociology

• digital capitalism and digital social science

• digital data and ‘the utopia of total social legibility’

• institutionalised goal setting in tech firms 

• killer mike from run the jewels interviews bernie sanders

• ever wondered how to drink beer properly?

• what if we talked of digital ‘weeds’ rather than ‘viruses’?

• the problem of ‘community’

• is Twitter making the Internet local again?

• the geopolitics of phone sex

• CfP: Mediated Intimacies

• CfP: Making Sense of Microposts

• CFP: CSCW’16 Workshop on Algorithms at Work

• CfP: The Power of Presence – Preconference for ICA 2016 in Japan

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#22)

• want to lose all faith in the future of higher education?

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#21)

• “in an ideal world, American sociology would look like British sociology before it became Americanised”

• Dynamics of Virtual Work: Book series launch

• Deadline Jan 8th: Mapping Alternative Routes out of Capitalism

• #DigitalSociology and the Future of the Discipline

• Social Science as Communication

• smart phones and work place repression

• the deroutinisation of work

• CFP Special Issue of Popular Communication: Self-(Re)presentation Now

• Ann Oakley on the psychology of the academic male

• CfP: From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism

• special issue of @bigdatasoc on data and agency

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#20)

• 2 PhD scholarships in digital labour analysis & digital ideology critique

• the new frontier of computational politics

• Donald Trump: The Reluctant Fascist

• the riddle of society 

• the idiocy of defensive elites

• Techno-Religions and Silicon Prophets

• the need for digital social ontology 

• some thoughts on responsibility

• CfP: Social Theory in Information Systems

• Silicon Valley: The Invisible Trap. Evgeny Morozov on How to beat bureaucracy

• some thoughts about the accelerated academy

• technological drivers of institutional isomorphism

• What will the Millennial Fascist look like?

• six ways till sunday

• Found in Nigel Thrift’s book from the Warwick library

• the appalling state of @crosscountryuk trains

• research as a mode of resistance 

• bureaucratic bloat as a defining feature of digital capitalism

• critical realism as the natural ontological attitude of physicians?

• the irreducibility of interpretation in socio-technical systems

• from governing the body to governing the mind

• self-tracking to pre-empt social tracking

• judith butler lecturing on the performativity of assembly

• Everyday analytics: The politics and practices of self-monitoring

• human centred data science

• animals being amazed by magic tricks

• a taxonomy of corporate monitoring software

• The Lives and Deaths of Data

• buzzfeed explain #asexuality and it’s surprisingly good

• the Japanese recovery of participatory Taylorism

• soft flexibility vs hard flexibility  

• Academic life in the measured university: pleasures, paradoxes and politics

• Inside the Lives of the 1% – How Power and Inequality Operate in Britain

• the opaque subject and the elusive activity

• how much time do workers spend worrying?

• algorithms, situated judgements and imposed patterns

• skill complementarity, skill substitution and skill debilitation 

• the digitally-facilitated intensification of work

• the distinction between ‘ambivalence’ and ‘mixed feelings’

• CfP: Surveillance and Security in the Age of Algorithmic Communication 

• CFP: Machine Communication

• CfP: Political Theory on Refugees

• against ‘hybrid beings’ as a way of understanding our entanglement with digital tech 

• why would anyone use Hootsuite rather than Buffer?