• The economic limitations of the attention economy

• The future of digital corporate personhood

• The limitations on learning to code as a labour market strategy

• Designing platforms to mitigate power law effects

• How digitalisation reduces cultural variety 

• Social media: singular or plural?

• The Intensified Work of Start-Ups

• Interesting material on data science ethics

• An infopolitical critique of lazy applications of ‘panopticism’

• Against craft capitalism 

• Biographical Approaches to Studying Digital Capitalism

• The Lived Reality of Work in Tech Firms

• The global ambitions of tech giants

• Social Media and Academic Labour

• The ideological function of open data

• Facebook’s advertising campaign

• What makes the sharing economy go round?

• On Digital Qualitative Research

• Social Media and Academic Labour

• Hip hop culture, philanthrocapitalism and getting shit done 

• Hip hop culture, philanthrocapitalism and getting shit done 

• Digital Market Populists as Intellectually Committed Chaos-Merchants

• Credentials, recruitment and big data 

• The Zero Marginal Cost Society

• CfP: Anarchist Technologies Repair Manual

• A Decade of Web 2.0: Reflections, Critical Perspectives, and Beyond

• Digital capitalism and the imperative to be noticed 

• A wonderful analogy by @Elinor_Carmi

• The Celebrity Millionaires of Competitive Gaming

• Data science for progressive governance

• Vintage social media

• The growth of the Twinterns

• Algorithmic pricing predates online retail

• A behavioural economic critique of Uber’s surge pricing

• Elon Musk responds to the satirisation of #DigitalElites in Silicon Valley

• Picturing the Social

• Work Life Balance + Digital Conference

• What is Digital Hygiene?

• Digital Social Science and the Challenge of Reflexivity

• From the mass surveillance state to techno-fascism

• The Moral Reasoning of Edward Snowden

• What does public sociology mean in an age of social media?

• A partial defence of Gawker’s prurience: the necessity of scrutinising #DigitalElites

• The infrastructural ambitions of technology companies

• Strategic distraction as a tool of political control on the Chinese internet

• Surveillance and the Public Sphere: confronting a democratic dilemma

• How do Americans define the sharing economy?

• Fame and the content eco-system

• The Blizzard of Photography

• Donald Trump as an Attentional Entrepeneur

• Come to our workshop at Social Media & Society: Conceptual Challenges in Interdisciplinary Social Media Research

• WordPress owns the Internet

• Why We Post: The Anthropology of Social Media

• Peter Thiel secretly backed Hulk Hogan

• Social Media and Academic Labour, June 27th in Leeds

• The paradox of personalisation 

• The lonely monads of digital capitalism

• The price fixing conspiracies of the platform economy 

• The Scale of Data Brokerage

• The Emergence of Digital Capitalism 

• Escaping the digital cage

• Data Fetishism

• The ontology of data

• Overlapping categories and the problem of abundance

• The death of cyberspace

• The myth of user generated content

• The misleading concept of ‘the blogosphere’

• Challenging Citizenship: Social Media and Big Data

• 2016 Challenging Media Landscapes conference, November 2016

• The Utopian Promise of Cyberspace

• Critiquing ‘virtuality’

• Conceptualising ‘distraction’

• Culture and politics of data visualisation: a one-day conference, 11th October 2016, University of Sheffield

• What’s it like to be a corporate executive receiving an order to cooperate with an authoritarian government?

• Before WhatsApp there was BBM

• How life coaching spreads in corporate cultures

• Predictive analytics and the intensification of work

• The Accelerative Ethos of Steve Jobs

• The size of social networks and the size of nation states

• What happens in an internet minute?

• What would techno-fascist punishment look like?

• Imposing impossible demands as a management strategy

• When phones became computers

• The Sociology of Patent Trolling

• CFP: Studying Politics across Platforms

• The Entlastung of the Quantified Self

• A Lockean case for the ownership of personal data 

• The multiplication of communication channels

• Every time you open an account online, the filter bubble expands 

• Crowd sourcing technical support: why do user helps corporations?

• the challenge of cultural abundance

• Citizen science as the mass recruitment of shadow research assistants 

• The Temporal Cost of the Commute

• Special Issue on Digital Media Research Methods

• Understanding the Features of Different Social Media Platforms

• Convenience rather than urgency as a driver of constant connectivity

• #YesWeCode Initiative

• The foundational lie of digital capitalism

• The Bechdel test for tech conferences

• “Please, sir, may I go home?”