• The possibility of a digital police state: Hegel, Fichte, Mejias, Couldry, Bauman and Sloterdijk

• To what extent is political Twitter pointless?

• Machine learning and authoritarianism

• The outlook of the digital technocrat

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

• The original sin of the digital utopians

• CfP: Deception on social media

• Ubiquitous drone surveillance 

• Special Issue on Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data

• Digital labour and the epistemic fallacy 

• Fighting for ‘political correctness’ in an age of Trump

• CfPs: ‘Big Data from the South’/’Big Data desde el sur

• Educational technology in an age of Trump: a risk to students?

• Metrics and the death of imagination

• The Affectivity of the Nascent Tyrant

• A vicious circle of reprisals and hostility

• Call for Papers: State Crime and Digital Resistance (Deadline 30 November)

• The bureaucratic origins of algorithmic authoritarianism

• The cosmopolitan self vs the endurance self

• Are journalists personally afraid of a Trump presidency?

• 3 dystopian visions of the future of gaming (and capitalism)

• The coming army of American demagogues

• The Return of the Riot

• The future of digital corporate personhood

• An infopolitical critique of lazy applications of ‘panopticism’

• What might Trumpist authoritarianism look like?

• Data science for progressive governance

• From the mass surveillance state to techno-fascism

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

• Surveillance and the Public Sphere: confronting a democratic dilemma

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

• Predictive analytics and the intensification of work

• What would techno-fascist punishment look like?

• The Entlastung of the Quantified Self

• The Power of Digital Media to Shape False Narratives

• Franklin Roosevelt on threats to democracy 

• Richard Rorty predicted Trumpism

• Imagining the paramilitarization of Trumpism

• The Republican elite are now openly declaring their contempt for the American white working class 

• New Racisms II: Neoliberalism and its Others

• CfP: Freedom and Control of Expression in the Digital Aftermath of the 2015 Paris Attacks

• the failed promise of ‘cyber politics’, the empowerment of defensive elites and the death of liberal democracy

• Amongst Algorithms: Technical Fieldwork between Software Studies and Digital Methods

• will capitalism die? or merely trundle on in an ever more authoritarian way?

• CfP: Technology and Culture – Policing Crises Now

• CFP: CSCW’16 Workshop on Algorithms at Work

• smart phones and work place repression

• from governing the body to governing the mind

• self-tracking to pre-empt social tracking

• a taxonomy of corporate monitoring software

• algorithms, situated judgements and imposed patterns

• CfP: Surveillance and Security in the Age of Algorithmic Communication 

• defending human rights in a digital age

• the palestinian solidarity campaign and the growing climate of political repression in the uk

• Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance

• what ‘freedom’ will mean in a gamified world

• techno-fascism and six factors which could bring it about

• images of the human in digital social science

• the slippery slope towards techno-fascism

• the future of transparency in the civil service?

• the digital repression that a trump presidency would bring 

• “we know you’re a cheat and you should kill yourself” 2.0

• glenn beck as the apotheosis of correlational thinking 

• a dystopian vision of where the infoglut is leading us 

• the affective basis of techno-fascism?

• dealing with ‘detractors’

• what would techno-fascist public space be like?

• using the national gallery for public order policing

• the irresistible temptation for algorithmic function creep 

• big data, post-democracy and boardroom liberalism

• the micro-sociology of algorithmic authority 

• interview with the founder and ceo of palantir

• the dangerous distraction of tech-utopianism

• algorithmic alienation of aspiring asylum seekers

• the sociology of the camp