• 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

• The meritocratic elitism of Google 

• when digital capitalism explicitly models itself on digital social science

• 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

• Are social media algorithms killing online activism?

• Living by numbers: big data & society

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

• Work in the Digital Society

• WBS Paytech 2016: Technologies of Exchange in a Digital Economy

• UP2016 : Following User Pathways: Cross Platform and Mixed Methods Analysis in Social Media Studies

• The Ontology of Corporate Grievance

• CfP: Technology and Culture – Policing Crises Now

• Call for Papers: Digital Methodologies – Beyond Big & Small Data

• Digital Social Science Essay Competition

• Moral Economies of the Digital

• Google’s war against latency

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

• 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

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

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

• the demand for data science

• grooming the next generation of the digital elite

• enjoying it: candy crush and capitalism

• digital capitalism and digital social science

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

• institutionalised goal setting in tech firms 

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

• is Twitter making the Internet local again?

• 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

• Dynamics of Virtual Work: Book series launch

• #DigitalSociology and the Future of the Discipline

• smart phones and work place repression

• the deroutinisation of work

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

• special issue of @bigdatasoc on data and agency

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

• the new frontier of computational politics

• Techno-Religions and Silicon Prophets

• the need for digital social ontology 

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

• technological drivers of institutional isomorphism

• bureaucratic bloat as a defining feature of digital capitalism

• from governing the body to governing the mind

• self-tracking to pre-empt social tracking

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

• human centred data science

• a taxonomy of corporate monitoring software

• The Lives and Deaths of Data

• the Japanese recovery of participatory Taylorism

• soft flexibility vs hard flexibility  

• algorithms, situated judgements and imposed patterns

• skill complementarity, skill substitution and skill debilitation 

• the digitally-facilitated intensification of work

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

• CFP: Machine Communication

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

• why would anyone use Hootsuite rather than Buffer?

• Charting the Digital: Play, Discourse, Disruption

• Charles Babbage’s precursor to Mechanical Turk 

• the recursive loop of technological metaphors for subjectivity

• AoIR 2016: Call for Proposals (anyone interested in proposing a #digitalsociology session?)

• putting together an AoIR panel on Instagram

• CfP: Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!

• Digital Health/Digital Capitalism One Day Conference CfP 4th July 2016

• Mediatization: Digital Revolution and the Chinese Setting

• CfP: Mediated (Dis)Continuities: Contesting Pasts, Presents and Futures

• perspectives on the non-use of technology

• Social Media Data for Social Research

• CfP: Radicalization and Media Logic: Surveillances and Self-Mediatization in Social Media and Politics

• 7th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media

• defending human rights in a digital age

• Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges

• Toward a typology of participation in crowd work

• the acceleration of viruses and malware 

• Call for papers: digital gaming (cc @TGJBrock)

• the grateful serfs of the sharing economy

• social psychological approaches to understanding why people are blasé about data security

• voluntarily disclosed personal information online and susceptibility to manipulation 

• Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance

• Crowd Dynamics: Exploring Conflicts and Contradictions in Crowdsourcing