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  • innovation through appropriation

  • digital distraction and human concern 

  • the motivational culture of early microsoft 

  • the fascinating crudeness of early digital rights management 

  • the politics of data

  • 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

  • how to normalise ubiquitous surveillance 

  • another must read special issue: social media & society

  • the distracted people and fragile movements of digital capitalism

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

  • digital social science essay competition

  • Digital footprints

  • the agonistic politics of anonymous 

  • the intensification of work in the creative industries

  • the ecology of content 

  • the origins of digital capitalism 

  • the disruption of finance 

  • the necessity of digital sociology

  • social media and the promise of never again being alone 

  • spotify’s ultra-creepy new privacy policy

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

  • the self-congratulation of digital elites 

  • data fetishism and the elites of digital capitalism 

  • digital capitalism, the great levelling and the moral agency of elites

  • we are all equal before Google

  • viral media and unionisation

  • the circular tendency in digital capitalism

  • on digital distraction

  • who’s more popular on twitter? the UK’s top research universities or academic blogs and viral feeds?

  • social media and academic freedom

  • the best of bezos: the vitriolic putdowns of the amazon ceo

  • using big data to transform the classroom from the 19th century to the 21st

  • the pleasures of knowing where you stand 

  • social media and solidarity in higher education

  • the coming copyright wars on twitter

  • using snapchat in higher education

  • #TwitterGate: the ethics of live tweeting

  • oppression and self-promotion on social media

  • the creepy treehouse problem

  • the cognitive costs of escaping the filter bubble

  • The @_ISRF @DigitalSocSci and @BigDataSoc Essay Competition

  • freedom from self-imposed metrified tyranny: some thoughts on the moral psychology of self-tracking

  • memes are born free, but everywhere they are in chains

  • social engineers have never had so many options at their disposal

  • Towards a Digital Social Ontology: Free Day Symposium in London on July 8th

  • CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

  • CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

  • Using social media to destroy academic jargon

  • The Philosophy of Data Science

  • Is the murky world of internet marketing making me paranoid?

  • Data Big and Small: Past, Present and Future

  • Algorithmic Blacklisting: Big Data & Industrial Conflict

  • Distracted People and Fragile Movements: a relational realist theory of social movement in a digital age

  • Call for Papers – Scold’s to Trolls; Social and Legal Responses to Visible and Audible Women

  • Sociological questions about the coming era of data-driven privatised policing

  • CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

  • An initial attempt to critique co-evolutionary approaches to understanding the socio-technical

  • Reflexivity and the Social Production of Distraction

  • Big Data & Society – Early Career Researcher Forum

  • The place of sociology in the Second Machine Age

  • Videocast of the Algorithms and Accountability conference (cc @DALupton @SusanJHalford)

  • Call for Papers ECREA Symposium Political Agency in the Digital Age

  • CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

  • CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)

  • IFTTT just raised their game

  • Some brief thoughts about digital social ontology

  • The Social Ontology of Digital Data & Digital Technology, July 8th in London

  • From the quantified self to the quantified dog

  • Call for an Internet Social Forum

  • The Ethical Economy, w/ Adam Arvidsson – Middlesex University, 17 February 2015

  • Prosumption, appropriation and the ontology of economic form – TOMORROW @SocioWarwick

  • Prosumption, appropriation and the ontology of economic form – January 27th @SocioWarwick

  • Prosumption, appropriation and the ontology of economic form – January 27th @SocioWarwick

  • What is Digital Sociology?

  • Two digital sociology events @sociowarwick on January 13th

  • Reframing Media/Cultural Studies in the Age of Global Crisis

  • Two digital sociology events @sociowarwick on Jan 13th

  • Two digital sociology events @sociowarwick on Jan 13th

  • Social media and ambient intimacy

  • Call for papers: Internet of You: Data Big and Small

  • An Agenda for Digital Sociology

  • Computational social science conference in Helsinki

  • Social analytics as an agenda for digital sociology

  • The myth of ‘us’ in a digital age

  • The co-option of hacking

  • Digital Sociologist #6: Garry Crawford (@CultSociologist)

  • The causal power of (stupid) algorithms: why I’m leaving HSBC

  • Your ‘daily dose of Sociological Imagination’: reflections on social media and public sociology

  • Resonance and subjectivity on twitter

  • Data Science Fellowship Opportunity

  • Science Gallery Dublin – Lifelogging Lab CALL for Proposals for upcoming exhibition

  • How not to use twitter as an academic

  • Social media: a political tool or apathy’s partner in crime?

  • Why does the iPhone matter to us?

  • CfP – special issue on The Quantified Self at Work

  • Very interesting looking Quantified Self workshop in November

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