• We have to destroy all computers, starting now

• Relying on algorithms for biosecurity

• Someone is wrong on the internet: a conversation between web comics

• The sublime high of visibility

• A conversation with Tyler Shores about digital wellbeing

• Big data, social listening and social futures

• What big tech knows about your children

• Three thoughts about post-pandemic inequality

• What are the opportunities and challenges for Digital Social Research?

• What’s gone wrong with social media in higher education and why we urgently need to fix it

• Hope Not Hate’s recommendations for Zoom security

• Imagining a decentralised social media

• data.index

• The latent utopia of Twitter

• What will hybrid offices look like?

• Navigating research revolutions: big data, open research and post-truth

• data.matrix

• The missing skill of technological reflexivity

• An internet minute in 2020

• Critical realism and digital social science

• Solutionism and Covid-19

• Physical distancing and intensified social connectivity

• Some critical thoughts about the post-digital

• The intoxicating immediacy with which we can now act on the feel of an idea

• The Co-Production of Platforms by Users: A Case Study of Higher Education

• A conversation with Phil Brooker about Programming-as-Social Science

• What is a platform?

• Platform-based elicitation methods in qualitative research

• A Conversation with Neil Selwyn: Do We Need a Digital Sociology of Higher Education?

• The Digital Condition: an informal discussion group

• This machine eats normativity

• Why is mass commercial social media ‘mass’ and ‘commercial’?

• Are we seeing a turn back towards the Open Web?

• It’s easy to forget the thrill of self-publishing, given the dark banality of social media in 2020

• Fragile movements and social media

• Social media for academics and Covid-19

• Social media in the Post-Pandemic University: a bootcamp for graduate students

• Silicon Valley’s cult of work

• Trump’s regrets about Twitter

• Platform Epistemics, Slavoj Žižek and Digital Reflexivity

• What does social media do to the civil sphere?

• The possibility of a digital police state: Hegel, Fichte, Mejias, Couldry, Bauman and Sloterdijk

• What will it be like to work on Elon Musk’s Mars colony?

• Elon Musk as the intersection between influencer culture and the stock market

• The terrifying horizon of (digitalised) social order

• Big Tech and sustainability: the current state of play

• The monthly Digital Sociology discussion group

• Twitter and the structure of polarisation

• Social media governance within higher education

• To see the machine we need to dispense with the Weberian legacy on technology

• A bleakly plausible future for post-pandemic labour

• The dark side of social media and what it means for academics

• The disruption of routines and new consumer behaviours

• Zuckerberg on the three types of video chat

• The geopolitics of Big Tech and the Covid crisis

• The Utopian Dystopia of Lockdown

• Our vocabulary of intervention in a platformised crisis

• The fast eat the slow, the rich eat the fast. Or, the moral economy of Thomas Friedman’s digital illiteracy

• Will Covid-19 generate an epidemiological folk consciousness? What will this mean for platform capitalism?

• Eventbrite mobilising users to lobby for government support

• The fragmentation of audiences is the norm, their centralisation is the exception

• “Free speech” in the attention economy

• Post-neoliberal civics and the symmetry problem

• The lack of normative guidance in the sharing economy

• From data-driven politics to weaponised social media

• Inviting regulation once you’ve already won

• The immersive challenge of the hyperserial narrative

• The macro-economic costs of distraction

• How BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti literally discovered viralityx.

• The Transformation of Higher Education: Acceleration, Platformisation and Digitalisation

• The arms race of celebrity

• AOL as the first mass commercial social media

• When does an immersive video game become an addictive one?

• Wikibombing

• The quality of attention

• Digital Anthropology, Digital Geography and Digital Sociology

• Thematic issue in Digital Capitalism

• Andrew Chadwick on Donald Trump’s social media engagement advantage

• Durkheim’s argument about social contagion is immensely relevant to contemporary discussions of ‘fake news’ and computational propaganda

• The widespread sense of homo distractus

• An Agenda for Platformisation Studies v1.1

• To what extent is political Twitter pointless?

• Liberating ‘digital’ from ‘technology’

• Encouraging a collective identity in the absence of organisational mechanisms

• The future of the influencer amidst declining engagement rates

• The unsustainability of 5G and the growth of tech nationalism

• How big tech perceives China

• The institutional users of platforms and their intra-organisational dynamics

• Big tech is now too-big-to-fail

• The Platform Ecoystem

• The place of ontological reasoning in platform studies

• Taking tech firms seriously as sources of moral ideas

• Wikileaks and the avant-garde of data strategy

• Google’s astroturfing operation

• Online != Grassroots

• The role of sovereign wealth funds in big tech

• The similarity between the dot com boom and the present tech bubble

• The torrents of audience feedback which are reshaping the media

• Big Tech, Nationalism and Globalisation

• Most recently Amazon has gotten into healthcare—a $…