• Post-horror and the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• Generative AI and the epistemological chaos of platform capitalism: some initial thoughts

• Universities need to take responsibility for communications infrastructure

• Neo-structuralism and social media in higher education

• How do we stop social media making the academy even more unequal?

• LinkedIn as a replacement for academic Twitter: micro-blogs vs Twitter threads

• Deflating the concept of ‘surveillance capitalism’

• The false dichotomy of digital hermits and digital champions

• Social Media for Public Engagement: Opportunities and Dilemmas

• Too much Zoom in the post-pandemic university

• Post-truth as liberal populism: revisiting Cambridge Analytica

• The increasingly hierarchical character of academic social media in 2023

• Going on Strike from the Internet: A Plea for Disconnection

• Ontological questions about the metaverse

• Why we need a post-digital approach to the platform university

• Why has social media become so grim?

• What would a ‘social crash’ within higher education mean for the discovery function within the knowledge system

• Recovering critique in an age of datafication

• Why was the industrial revolution so slow and the digital revolution so fast?

• Requiem for a Tweet – Is there a future for the academic social capital held on the platform?

• Should I rejoin Twitter?

• What happens if Twitter fails? A few provisional suggestions

• What Microsoft Teams is and what it could be

• Dragonfly Eyes (2017)

• Being open to the world

• Why do we tweet?

• New Paper: Is it Paranoia? A Critical Approach to Platform Literacy

• The growing infrastructural dominance of big tech within education. What is to be done?

• The Evisceration of the Human Under Digital Capitalism 

• Notes on the conceptual grammar of platforms

• Reflexivity, contingency and platforms

• The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

• What are socio-technical transitions?

• Does Big Tech have too much power in the post-pandemic university?

• Do you work with social media in universities?

• Who maintains the social infrastructure we need for scholarship?

• Human augmentation and the future of warfare

• How do you use social media for PGT programmes?

• An ecological approach to information overload

• Institutionalising Civic engagement: what we can learn from the mistake of pressuring academics to use Twitter

• A cybernetic black pill

• 14 tips for academics who are worried about Musk’s Twitter but don’t want to leave entirely

• A Book Discussion on The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media 

• A first attempt to theorise socialisation in a way which is adequate to the challenges of platform society

• Does Big Tech have too much power in the Post-Pandemic University?

• Can we reclaim our agency by putting the internet in its place?

• The shifting landscape of misinformation: from macro-conspiracies to micro-conspiracies

• The ontology of virtual worlds

• When will the Metaverse actually arrive?

• Why Microsoft will beat Facebook to the Metaverse

• The social ontology of the Metaverse

• The suprisingly familiar character of the TikTok algorithm

• Social media for academics and the circulation of expert concepts

• The emptiness that comes with online performance

• Social media is reshaping universities’ value systems in a scramble for likes and shares

• Yanis Varoufakis on Post-Pandemic Technofeudalism

• Ralph Waldo Emerson’s self-reliance amidst the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• Who do we imagine ourselves to be tweeting on behalf of? Norm circles, networked harassment and the politics of social media

• Platform capitalism’s ideology of human frailty

• A comprehensive introduction to Social Media for Academics

• Platform capitalism and the compulsive search for signs

• How can I ensure I use social media in a careful and strategic way?

• What is the ivory tower becoming?

• What is it like to be a New York City delivery driver?

• Why I deleted my personal Twitter account

• Do your research!

• Do we romanticise pre-digital life?

• The platform ecosystem as a field of temptation and the virtues required to negotiate it

• The sociological overlaps with incel culture

• Platform capitalism and the recovery of educational technics

• The Return of the Privatdozent in the Platform University

• An introduction to community informatics

• Why academics need to organise, collectivise, and ‘socialise’ social media

• The sociology of networked harassment

• Indigenous Data Sovereignty

• The enforced digitalisation of the pandemic

• The ontological preconditions for radical digital citizenship

• A video introduction to The Public and Their Platforms

• Conspiracy theories as assembly devices

• The compulsive search for signs

• New Chapter: Growing Up in a World of Platforms

• New Paper: Public Scholarship in the Platform University

• Social media exposes the gap between the real company culture and the management fantasy

• How has the pandemic changed internet use in the UK?

• The civic challenges which come after the pandemic

• The public discussion of higher education and research

• Platform socialisation and the changing character of education

• What is social infrastructure?

• Platform socialisation and the possibility of freedom

• Dewey’s conception of collateral learning and platform socialisation

• Why do platforms matter for public sociology?

• An Archerian reading of John Dewey and its relevance for platform socialisation

• What sorts of experiences do social platforms generate?

• What is my work about?

• John Dewey, Habituation and Platform Socialisation

• What are digital inequalities?

• Food or data? A few thoughts on digital inequality in the UK

• New Book: The Public and their Platforms

• Big Tech’s (apparent) crackdown on the far right

• How would John Dewey have understood the socialising influence of digital platforms?