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  • “world of warcraft is the new golf”

  • social media and constraints upon personal morphogensis 

  • social media and social science research ethics

  • techno-fascism and six factors which could bring it about

  • images of the human in digital social science

  • “the easy hybridization of social network analysis and social psychology experimentation”

  • call for blog posts: #digitalsociology and the future of the discipline

  • CfP: Data Literacy Special Issue

  • Visiting Scholar Program – Ryerson University Social Media Lab

  • the slippery slope towards techno-fascism

  • the two ontological orientations to technology prevalent within digital capitalism

  • southpark on the vertigo of the filter bubble

  • digital wildfire: project showcase on jan 12th

  • call for papers: the rapid spread of provocative content on social media

  • CfP: Political Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy

  • CfP: Demystifying Blockchain Through an STS Lens

  • digital micro-politics and digital macro-politics 

  • peter thiel on the first silicon valley gold rush

  • the next front in the war on ad blocking 

  • the digital repression that a trump presidency would bring 

  • digital capitalism and the search for work

  • Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science

  • CFP: Transhumanist Education, Politics, and Design

  • the origins of apple as a luxury goods company 

  • organisational minimalism

  • cognitive triage and the acceleration of design

  • giddens on digital tech

  • mike savage on ‘making sense of big data’

  • tech giants and the possibility of craft

  • Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition and Intelligent Devices

  • imagining the apple ecosystem 

  • david willetts rehearsing his speech for an important meeting with google

  • “we know you’re a cheat and you should kill yourself” 2.0

  • fear of failure and the coding skills bubble

  • glenn beck as the apotheosis of correlational thinking 

  • a dystopian vision of where the infoglut is leading us 

  • a question about digital social science

  • call for proposals: social media & society in london

  • digital capitalism and the bestiary of the imagination 

  • digital capitalism, fetishistic disavowal and faux-collectives 

  • dealing with ‘detractors’

  • your attention please! digital capitalism and communicative escalation  

  • distinct digital-advertising landscapes are increasingly drawn on socioeconomic lines

  • the ‘religion’ of digital elites 

  • from corporation to social movement: the future of lobbying in the sharing economy 

  • what would techno-fascist public space be like?

  • the irresistible temptation for algorithmic function creep 

  • big data and the politics of austerity 

  • big data, post-democracy and boardroom liberalism

  • the big data divide 

  • the micro-sociology of algorithmic authority 

  • Centre for Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Seminars

  • how the digital elites do festivals 

  • did bill gates predict the smart phone?

  • cfp: social media: connected cultures (via @hl_robertson)

  • southpark on the self-appointed digital elite of yelp

  • digital escapology: the consultancy growth sector of the 2020s?

  • call for contributions: the politics of data

  • call for papers: IPP2016 “the platform society” (via @claudiakincaid)

  • call for papers: digital methodologies – beyond big & small data

  • call for contributions: digital sociology and the future of the discipline

  • seminar on digital action repertoires 

  • mark zuckerberg’s philosophy of techno-fascism

  • loyalty to the facebook mission 

  • transparency and opacity in digital capitalism

  • the gift economy of the digital elite 

  • the emergency as a tool of labour discipline 

  • the motivational challenge of corporate success in tech

  • digital capitalism and the acceleration of bullshit

  • the extremely disturbing dreams of mark zuckerberg 

  • the turn away from contract labour in the sharing economy 

  • the multiple time regimes within facebook

  • you are always being ranked and it’s your job to perform 

  • the rituals of tech bros 

  • the creepy rituals of the facebook office

  • mark zuckerberg: domination or revolution!

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

  • social media and the noise it injects into daily life 

  • the eugenecist temptation for digital elites 

  • how many dancing billionaires are there at burning man?

  • a perpetual-motion machine that runs on a weird mix of dissatisfaction and eternal hope

  • digital capitalism and the form of social science it encourages

  • acronyms seriously suck 

  • the hiring rituals of tech companies 

  • interview with the founder and ceo of palantir

  • the pleasures of intensified work

  • the paypal mafia

  • the expanding ambitions of digital elites 

  • the first gold rush of digital capitalism 

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

  • the anxieties of ageing digital elites 

  • the insular world of a technology giant

  • remembering cinemania: the history of digitalisation 

  • 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

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