• one month left : the @ijsrm seminar competition

• please tell early career scholars: the isrf social media essay competition

• a week left to register: the question of the human in social theory & social research

• an image I can’t get out of my mind

• the anxieties of ageing digital elites 

• the insular world of a technology giant

• the intensification of work and the competitive busyness of ceos

• the boss in your head: an unrecognised form of reflexivity?

• remembering cinemania: the history of digitalisation 

• german is such a wonderful language 

• a foretaste of the coming uber wars

• the rhetoric of the sharing economy and uber’s plans for world-domination

• the coding skills bubble

• the dangerous distraction of tech-utopianism

• my brain has too many tabs open: the problem of attention in digital capitalism

• algorithmic alienation of aspiring asylum seekers

• big data barbarism

• time use event in oxford

• rejecting the dependence of higher education upon flying 

• innovation through appropriation

• the challenge of sociological writing

• social media for academics: available for pre-order!

• digital distraction and human concern 

• towards a meta-critique of data science 

• the motivational culture of early microsoft 

• the fascinating crudeness of early digital rights management 

• upcoming bird la bird events in london

• why the left should not support the britain stronger in europe campaign

• a case of you

• the esoteric appeal of tony giddens

• how to shift sociological product: lessons from the career of tony giddens

• liberating yourself from leisure activities

• must not sleep, must warn others

• dear academic hive mind: help me produce a comprehensive list of critiques of margaret archer’s work

• the 2015/16 @sociowarwick seminar series

• workshop and symposium: the question of the human in social theory and social research

• the question of the human in social theory and social research

• the politics of data

• “work hard to find something that fascinates you”: richard feynman’s advice to students

• another special issue: social media and protest identity

• the acceleration of consumption 

• the pre-history of the internet of things 

• the preoccupations of life hackers

• before google and their staff perks, came microsoft and its free drinks

• the politics of discretionary effort 

• here we go, happy holidays

• the backstory to creative work

• workshop and symposium: the question of the human in social theory and social research

• the hostage taking capacity of banks 

• reasons for the commitment of capital to the european project

• how to normalise ubiquitous surveillance 

• another must read special issue: social media & society

• over-reach by unelected technocrats

• aesop waits – tom shall pass (aesop rock vs tom waits)

• welcome to nerd rap

• the cruel optimism of the nine to fivers anthem

• interrogating internships: unpaid work, creative industries, and higher education

• fiction and the social imaginary

• surviving life in the accelerated academy: prospects and problems for digital scholarship

• the capture of the political class 

• the distracted people and fragile movements of digital capitalism

• call for papers: qualitative methods and data in digital societies

• things I’ve been reading recently #13

• register for the accelerated academy

• digital social science essay competition

• Digital footprints

• good cafes in manchester to work in

• the sociology of the camp

• if I can’t stick around here and fight them, I’ll take my last fucking breath to my grave just to spite them

• registration now open: power, acceleration and metrics in academic life

• Felix & Adelita

• the astroturfing industry 

• on fragile movements

• the agonistic politics of anonymous 

• the pervasive cottage industry on the borders of academia 

• ‘The UK is finished’: Owen Jones meets Peter Hitchens

• things I’ve been reading recently #12

• the intensification of work in the creative industries

• upwards over the mountain

• The fiction future of faculty: September 16th in Manchester

• the ecology of content 

• the horatio alger myth

• the origins of digital capitalism 

• this is not a pipe

• the disruption of finance 

• the necessity of digital sociology

• social media and the promise of never again being alone 

• the threats of financial elites 

• the threats of financial elites 

• the totally weird subculture of 1980s mortgage traders 

• the masters of the universe and their delusions

• the meaning of scrounging in conservative britain 

• post-democratic political culture: how good leaders go bad

• the post-democratic judicial system

• spotify’s ultra-creepy new privacy policy

• “drag coefficient”: the creepiest human resources concept ever?

• the social expectations of the super-rich

• the self-congratulation of digital elites 

• markets are a machine for destroying the ego

• pride and pleasure in acceleration