• Mark Fisher on using social media rather than being used by it

• For a whole range of reasons, I’m finding social media extremely tiresome at the moment. Hence I’ll just be here on my blog for the foreseeable future.

• CfP: Political epistemologies of Big Data

• The Politics of Big Data: Social Listening and Reclaiming the Future

• Capturing the classroom: the Google Agenda

• Social Media, Global Social Theory and Sociological Activism: An Interview with Gurminder K. Bhambra

• Towards a neo-Khaldunian digital sociology: @morteza_hm on the Bedouins of Silicon Valley

• What happens when you meet a troll?

• The disappointing reality of using social media for public engagement

• Why have generic, popular services proved so enticing for digital academics? From 2011 to 2019

• Call for Papers: Lies, Bullshit and Fake News Online: Should We Be Worried?

• Reclaiming the social from the platforms that are eviscerating it

• The social ontology of algorithms and the importance of ethnographic technique

• Digital labour in the university: understanding the transformations of academic work in the UK

• Cambridge as a platform city

• Cultural studies of data mining

• Liberalism and neoliberalism in communications research

• The Flat Earth phenomenon and what it reveals about YouTube

• Social Media and Doing a PhD: what do you need to know?

• Nigel Farage the YouTube star 

• A really interesting cfp on media and time

• The Corporate Fortresses of Digital Capitalism

• Where is the agency which will reign in big tech?

• CfP: Digital Resistance

• Social media and the (im)possibility of tolerance as an epistemic virtue

• Digital Futures? The #BSADigital Presidential Event

• The Sociology of Awkwardness: Being (very) human in a digital age

• #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 3 – Data Futures

• #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 1 – Youth Futures

• Engineer automaticity in digital capitalism: from Bauman’s gardening state to the synthetic biology corporation

• Repoliticising tech mythology

• Digital technology and facilitating corruption

• The Ontology of Software: From Batch Processing to Interactive Computing

• The collapse of the tech mythology

• CFP: Intersectional Automations

• The singular new risks of organisational IT projects

• The political economy of viral stars 

• Socialising children into digital agency: why it’s not the same as reading, writing and arithmetic

• Fake news as an endless game of epistemic whack-a-mole

• On dialogical pessimism 

• Is this what techno-fascism will look like?

• a DDoS attack on the human will  

• Taking distraction seriously as a political factor  

• Developing platform literacy from the ground up can be a bulwark against corporate power

• Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

• The cultural sociology of defensive elites

• Détournement and social media

• Fascinating call for papers on infrastructural politics 

• The organic sociology of Silicon Valley

• The everyday life of platform capitalism’s elites

• Where do data scientists come from?

• Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

• I’m slightly embarrassed to admit how much I think I would enjoy this job

• The (creepy) spirit of digital capitalism

• The Labour leadership’s embrace of social media outriders

• Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

• The cultural consequences of start-ups remaining private

• Why quote tweeting as a form of reply is creepy

• Why we shouldn’t take social media metrics too seriously

• Big data, human agency, critical realism and the future of the social sciences

• CfP Symposium Dis/Connection: Conflicts, Activism and Reciprocity Online and Beyond, Sept 27-28, Uppsala University, Sweden

• Social media as asshole amplification technology, or, the moral psychology of platform architecture

• Platform capitalism and its interplanetary horizons

• The original sin of the digital utopians

• Human agency beyond platform structuralism and platform voluntarism

• CfP: Deception on social media

• Techno-nationalism and technological innovation

• The Political Ontology of Platforms

• CfP: Going Live: Exploring Live Digital Technologies and Live Streaming Practices

• Call for Papers – (In)Equalities and Social (In)Visibilities in the Digital Age

• CfP: Twitter: Global Perspectives, Uses and Criticisms

• Putting agents, ethics and politics at the heart of our account of platform capitalism

• Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

• Platform capitalism and the future of education

• Curation as care

• What is platform literacy?

• Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

• Social media as a machinery of dispute amplification

• CfP Symposium Dis/Connection: Conflicts, Activism and Reciprocity Online and Beyond, Sept 27-28, Uppsala University, Sweden

• Looking back through your Twitter history

• Call for abstracts: DQComm2018 The Deliberative Quality of Communication Conference

• Can we have platform capitalism without computational politics? 

• Exercising control over representations of yourself

• A quick guide to managing organisational social media accounts

• Who owns Digital Capitalism? Notes for the Platform Capitalism reading group

• From homo economicus to homo digitalis

• ALW2: 2nd Workshop on Abusive Language Online

• What does it mean to have a professional identity in an age of social media?

• Platform Capitalism Reading Group at the University of Cambridge

• Digital social science as a meta-field

• The Dark Side of (Digital) Public Engagement

• CfP AAA2018 San Jose: Panel Digital Infrastructures

• Minitrack: Collective Intelligence and Crowds

• CfP HICSS-52 (2019) minitrack: Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Technologies

• The Intellectual Self-Defence of #USSStrikes: Social Media, Critique and Collective Intellectuals

• Social media, #USSStrikes and Digital Sociology

• The Sociology of Trolling

• Social media strategy and #USSStrikes

• Social Media and The Demotic Imaginary

• CfP: Workshop “We are on a mission”. Exploring the role of future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology, Berlin, 27 April 2018