• Answering social science questions with social media data

• ‘Social Listening’ Workshop: building qualitative skills in social media research

• Two important initiatives for social media in higher education

• CfP: Understanding the political economy of digital technology

• The epistemic privilege of platforms

• Social listening and reclaiming the future

• Using social media as a social theorist

• Social media fosters egotism rather than individualism

• Answering social science questions with social media data, March 8th in London

• Answering social science questions with social media data

• Social listening and the black health economy

• The dangerous fantasies of defensive elites

• CFP EASST2018: “Data Worlds? Public Imagination and Public Experimentation with Data Infrastructures”

• Workshop: The Turn To AI in Content Moderation and Communication Governance

• Content Producers: Incentives, Motivations, and Value Creation18

• Using social media as a social theorist

• The problem of abundance and the political economy of digital knowledge

• The material interests of Big Tech

• The global fourth estate

• Social media and the half dozen grasshoppers 

• CfP: Overcoming Inequalities in Internet Governance: framing digital policy capacity building strategies

• Helen Margetts: How social media (and other platforms) can promote equality in 2027

• Google’s next billion users

• Call for speakers: Answering social science questions with social media data

• CFP: Alternative Social Media special issue of Social Media + Society

• The Social Ontology of ‘Free’ and ‘Open’

• CfP: Co-design Special Issue – Repositioning CoDesign in the age of platform capitalism: from sharing to caring

• The coming big data revolution within higher education

• An interview with Stand Up magazine about social media and fragile politics

• Debate on YouTube: a guest post by Fred McVittie

• The screams of ‘post-truth’: the rise and fall of the political commentator

• CfP: The Social Lives of Digital Methods

• The Mediatization of Time

• Why the left needs to reject the ideology of networked socialism

• Ubiquitous drone surveillance 

• From cyberspace to constant connectivity: the social ontology of socio-technical change

• CFP – Intersectionalities and Media Archaeologies

• Social media and the devaluation of introspection

• Call for Abstracts – Lives of Data v2.0: Computing, Money, Media Workshop

• CFP: Platform Urbanism

• The Digital Monad

• CFP: Storing and Sharing Special Issue of New Media & Society

• The digital hipster: when cultural modernism meets accelerated work

• Job Opportunity: Digital Engagement Officer

• The Ideal of the Digital Nomad

• Conduits for variety

• The lost lure of abundance

• CFP: Slow computing: A workshop on resistance in the algorithmic age

• Extracting oneself from the great twittering machine

• The revolving door between Google and government

• Some thoughts on the ontology of games 

• Call for Participation: Sociology and Social Media, Problems and Prospects

• Online armies at your command

• The Surplus of Objects

• How widespread is shadow mobilisation?

• Social Media and Social Order

• The rhetoric and reality of user generated content 

• The content density of a cultural producer 

• Towards a sociological curatorial journalism 

• Denaturalising digital capitalism

• “So you thought about it one day and started the next morning?”

• The data warriors and the electoral wars they wage

• The dark future of mediatization

• How Corbyn hacked the media

• When Tweets Turn Sour: Avoiding Legal Pitfalls on Social Media

• “Help! Help! Here comes everybody!”: Social Media and Corbynism

• CfP: Japan in the Digital Age

• The precursors to curation

• The meaning of @realdonaldtrump

• CfP – “Youtubers” Conference – deadline June 15

• Trolling, public engagement and the sociology of knowledge 

• Online Othering: Exploring the Dark Side of the Web

• Digital media and ontological security 

• What would a materialist phenomenology of ‘post-truth’ look like?

• Time-packing and space-packing

• CfP Special Issue: The Platformization of Chinese Society

• The causal powers of media

• Special Issue on Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data

• The Technolibertarian King 

• The Sociology of Platforms

• What does distraction mean for political theory and political philosophy?

• How can Arendt and Heidegger help us think about distraction?

• Will social media lead to the return of the general intellectual?

• “We are already in a position where we have to engage with digital media”

• “I was being a complete asshole to people for nothing more than scoring points to look good inside an echo chamber”

• In defence of ‘curation’

• Speaking and listening on social media

• Persistance, Searchability and Incivility

• Techno-Galactic Software Observatory

• Miniconference on post-truth and digital media in Reading UK coming up

• Why it’s fine to ‘broadcast’ on Twitter

• The Ontology of Fake News

• Youth employment in the ‘gig’ economy, isolation and @youthloneliness

• The Cesspool of YouTube

• On Irritation, Or, How Social Networks Tend To Make Us Slightly More Assholic

• What is compound distraction?

• The Social Challenge of Platform Proliferation

• The ‘Sharing Economy’ as Disembedding Mechanism

• Digital Methodologies

• Dealing with online harassment: guidance for academics