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  • Why I’ve deleted my Twitter account #exhaustionrebellion

  • The logic of co-operation in the influencer economy

  • Thinking with dichotomies: ‘old’ and ‘new’ media

  • How to take a social media sabbatical as an academic

  • Social media, attention economies and the future of the university

  • The Great Disruptive Project of Uber

  • The economics of attention vs the sociology of attention

  • The paradox of the liberal contrarian

  • The promise of the ‘passion economy’

  • The outlook of the digital technocrat

  • An agenda for Digital Sociology

  • A machine for killing relationality

  • The Digital Condition: The Practical Order as Pivotal

  • Medium as a forum for warring digital elites

  • The acceleration of journalism

  • The first and second wave of viral publishers

  • Vice’s ‘non-traditional’ working environment

  • Viral populism: what happens when isomorphism through algorithm hits politics?

  • CfP: PostDigital Humans

  • The scholarly career of BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti

  • The gamification of virality and the pleasures it brings

  • Staying small in order to grow

  • A few notes the digital aristocracy

  • Apps and their users: a few initial ontological thoughts

  • Never say Amazon in a bookstore

  • The Poetics of Data Analytics

  • The situational geography of everyday life

  • The rise of platform studies

  • The cynical lure of online celebrity

  • The supersurfaces of social media

  • Social media and academic flying

  • The spiritual death of the digital age

  • Should we read the platform in post-human terms?

  • The sub-hegemonic power of social media

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

  • Big Data and the ‘‘Book of Society”

  • Sociology and, of and in Web 2.0

  • The fractal fascism taking shape around us

  • The attention sinks which stop us dreaming

  • Our tributes to the power the machine has over us

  • Why social media shouldn’t be ignored by research policy

  • George Soros on the threat of techno-fascism

  • Becoming ourselves through the media

  • The Digital Condition: An Experiment in Mediated Dialogue

  • CfP: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

  • The public role of academics in a social media era

  • Twitter and the internal conversation

  • Silicon startup schools

  • Learning to live with social media

  • What does it mean to take Twitter seriously?

  • How do dentists use social media?

  • Digital capitalism or digital socialism?

  • Making sense of visual digital data

  • The ecological limits of datafication

  • Are you interested in the future of digital sociology?

  • A social media sabbatical

  • The acoustics of social media

  • Climate change and digitalisation

  • Emerging computational mega structures

  • The environmental impact of Bitcoin

  • Does social media make young people unhappy?

  • Platform Surveillance

  • The three essential steps for any thought leader

  • The alliance between the billionaires and the thought leaders

  • Academics like the idea of Twitter in the classroom but what do students think?

  • The cultural entrepreneurs behind your favourite thought leaders 

  • Technology and the billionaire class

  • Social media and education… now the dust has settled

  • The sociology of expectations (and platform imaginaries)

  • When the venture capitalists tried to get to Edward Snowden

  • The Great Disruptive Project

  • The moral theories of platform engineers

  • CfP: Planetary Magic – Elemental Engagements with (Chinese) Digital Infrastructures in an Age of Loss

  • Organisational sociology and algorithms

  • A cybernetics of distraction?

  • Programming as Social Science: a case study of @pdbrooker’s surprisingly militant bots

  • Big data and the future of sociological theory

  • Theorising the relationship between data and agency

  • How do data come to matter?

  • Can social media firms remain popular while being perceived as untrustworthy?

  • The ceaseless interpellation of digital capitalism

  • The pre-crime assemblage: building the machine that eats bad people

  • One rule for Zuckerberg, another rule for everyone else

  • Algorithms and institutional isomorphism

  • Ataraxia as a solution to the problems of social media 

  • Digital capitalism and the global police state

  • The perils of being a source of friction in a company that wants to move fast and break things 

  • Tech Platforms and the Knowledge Problem

  • Are there any safeguards against Amazon using AWS to monitor competitors? 

  • The institutionalisation of behavioural surplus: a quick recap on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

  • What images do universities use on Twitter and Instagram?

  • How growth hacking is leading to a pandemic of amplification-itis on social media platforms

  • The long, slow decline of organic reach on social media

  • The tightness of engineering constraints and the organisational sociology of tech startups

  • The awkward silences of digital elites

  • The security apparatus of digital elites

  • Open science and platform capitalism: a love story?

  • Critics of Amazon don’t understand how popular it is

  • The governance of platforms

  • The Data Science & Society Institute

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