• “we need more post-ideological, budget-balancing, technocratic centrism!”

• Interesting material on data science ethics

• Peter Thiel secretly backed Hulk Hogan

• The Accelerative Ethos of Steve Jobs

• Jeffrey Alexander on the Individualist’s Dillema

• Media Archaeology summer school, Uni of Pisa, July 4-8

• Historicizing the Digital: language practices in new and old media

• Sociology and fiction: a round up of the @thesocreview project so far

• Digital Capitalism and the Platform Wars

• The Fatalism of the Multitude

• Photos from protests in Reykjavik

• The Aristocracy of the Digital Celebrities and the Magical Thinking That Props It Up

• Slack and Basecamp for Academics

• An Archerian reading of Bourdieu: the reflexive imperative as the normalisation of hysteresis

• A contagion of pivots reveals the hollowness of the sharing economy

• The Challenge of Public Engagement Projects and the Role of New Intermediaries Like @Soc_Imagination and @TheSocReview

• Reorienting Sociological Thought, May 11th @CardiffSOCSI

• The Pleasures of Scholarly Blogging

• the purpose of the morphogenetic approach and the role of social ontology

• Richard Rorty predicted Trumpism

• Call for Blog Posts: the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Sociologist

• an uncertain future (for other people’s jobs)

• CfP: Future Making

• YouTube Conference: Call for Papers

• stuck in the mess of life: anticipation and disappointment

• The first year of the Accelerated Academy project

• Why I’m never buying another @Jawbone product & wonder if the wearables bubble will soon burst

• CfP: Data Friction