• The almost infinite range of cases to which shallow fakes can be applied

• A growing number of 5 to 7 year olds in the UK are using social media

• Imagine being in lockdown and your country suffering a massive cyberattack

• Did ‘unconnected content’ ruin social media? The TikTokification of every social platform

• Will the ubiquity of GAI-driven bots lead people to retreat ever further into private social media?

• Platform studies needs to attend to use culture

• What Elon Musk’s membership scheme has done to social status on Twitter

• Someone is WRONG on the internet!

• Judith Butler’s notion of the phantasmatic scene and the epistemic chaos of platforms

• Deep fakes are immediately being folded into the destructive news cycles of the attention economy

• The enshittification of Grindr and the coming wave of platform addiction

• The weird afterlives of precarious employments

• From art to entertainment to distraction to addiction

• Donald Trump on Social Media for Academics

• WordPress selling data to OpenAI

• Marc Andreessen’s vision of the digital daemon

• The Americans are attacking the technological evolution of Chinese fintech because they want to kill this payment system

• When technological innovation reduces productivity in the workplace

• Daily Mail (2000): the internet may just be a passing fad, as millions give up on it

• Setting your own technological rhythm

• Building local journalism around quality rather than quantity

• The real world limits of decentralized social media

• There are too many identity labels being circulated too quickly

• The manifest and latent function of online reviews

• Is digital distraction the 21st century equivalent of neurathemia?

• How else could your time on social media be used?

• There is a Wikipedia page on obsolete occupations

• 📍Digital Sociology Wikipedia Editathon/Meetup – Feb 1st in Edinburgh

• Mobile generative AI as the next stage of surveillance capitalism

• Attention digital sociologists – HELP NEEDED with the Wikipedia page!

• To what extent is ketamine shaping the culture of Silicon Valley?

• Platform capitalism, historciality and Andrew Abbott’s sense of modernist temporal ontology

• Is Musk trying to use Twitter’s failure to position himself politically?

• The perennial challenge of the luddites

• Lovely review of The Public and their Platforms

• When Elon Musk and George Osborne were forced to confront that people hate them

• Interview with Research Professional about the future of academic Twitter

• The Luddite predicament in the 19th century and the 21st century

• ‘The Public and Their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media’ is now open access

• Leaving a camera on at online academic workshops

• How the concept of platform shaped my research

• Peter Thiel at the Oxford Union

• Urban exploration YouTube channels

• I have fairly rapidly argued myself out of enthusiasm for Bluesky

• Could Bluesky be the replacement for Academic Twitter? 

• The evolution of the prompt in Twitter’s compose tweet bios

• Elon Musk on deautomation

• Proper old school academic hostility to social media

• AI, digitalisation and the crisis of post-pandemic capitalism

• CfP: The future of conspiracy scholarship: New epistemologies and imaginaries

• Can academic projects keep up with the UX expectations of students?

• Some thoughts on Bluesky

• Erfahrung: conspiracies, baking and the return of the repressed

• The music of the data centre

• Interview with me in VoltEdu about academic social media after Twitter

• A really interesting spin on interdisciplinarity in digital scholarship

• On learning what matters to us

• Void left by decline of academic Twitter ‘will be hard to fill’

• Why are conspiracy theories coalescing into a heterogenous world view?

• The business case for generative AI in organisations will be surveillance

• The capacity of the algorithm to create monsters

• Techno-optimism as boomer dogma

• Digital Sociology ECR workshop – Dec 14th-15th in Belgrade

• Call for Proposals – Posthumanism and Media Studies

• Interview with Nature about post-Twitter social media

• Interview with Times Higher Education about the viability of Threads for academics

• Apple’s R&D budget is significantly bigger than the UK government’s

• A postdigital approach to platforms in higher education

• Social media is EVERYWHERE in the REF 2021 case studies. Initial findings from our study, analysed with Claude AI

• Crypto is Vegas without the drinks, the dinner or the show

• It’s time for academics to let go of Twitter

• The old web is dying, while the new web struggles to be born

• Digital convenience as an engine of routinisation

• Social platforms as a machine for generating apophenia

• Reddit’s API changes and the new business model of social media

• CfP: Social media in Higher Education: What’s happening?

• The unsettlingly close future of creating your own automated information ecosystem

• The living dead of obsessive habit

• How blogging is different from tweeting

• The future of human labour: filling in the gaps in AI megamachines?

• Podcast: The Public and their Platforms – Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media

• Who is paying for Twitter blue?

• Why do people who worry about the existential risks of AGI refuse to talk about capitalism?

• The cloud floats because the underclass holds it up

• It is time for academics to let go of Twitter

• Social media has changed – Will academics catch up?

• Saying goodbye to Twitter

• Academics can’t quit Twitter. Universities should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down

• The extent of social video use amongst British teenagers

• The death of participatory media

• This looks interesting – Mastodon: Research Symposium and Tool Exploration Workshop

• The cultural consequences of an online cataclysm

• The thrill of the alt-position

• Is there any future for academic Twitter?

• “Thank you for using Web 2.0. Your free-trial period has ended!”

• Against Social Media for Academics

• The Digital Sociology of Generative AI: Five Speculative Propositions

• What does a sociological rather than philosophical approach to thought experiments look like? The example of the Metaverse

• The metaverse and the next pandemic

• Defending the Social