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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • The quiet revolution of deindustrialization

  • How do politicians understand their own status?

  • A quick guide to managing organisational social media accounts

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

  • things I’ve been reading recently #41

  • From homo economicus to homo digitalis

  • Who are we if we can’t protect them?

  • What does it mean to claim people were ‘doing sociology’?

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

  • Why would senior managers feel contemptuous of their expert staff?

  • Digital social science as a meta-field

  • Xerox PARC and the challenge of building a community of inquiry

  • The Dark Side of (Digital) Public Engagement

  • CfP AAA2018 San Jose: Panel Digital Infrastructures

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

  • ‘Student Experience’ and the social ontology of the student

  • Social media, #USSStrikes and Digital Sociology

  • things I’ve been reading recently #40

  • Collective action and the realisation of your own smallness

  • The intellectual adventure of slaying the neoliberal beast

  • The Sociology of Trolling

  • Social media strategy and #USSStrikes

  • Are you interested in the political sociology of Corbynism?

  • Are you interested in Graphic Social Science?

  • Social Media and The Demotic Imaginary

  • CfP Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation Workshop 2018

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

  • The value of graphic social science

  • Two important initiatives for social media in higher education

  • A call for sociological micro-fiction!

  • 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

  • The changing character of the academic game

  • The dynamics of discipline formation

  • When sociologists meet organised politics

  • What the lost tradition of classical British social theory can teach us about the dangers of charismatic leadership

  • One of my favourite closing scenes to a film

  • TOD Talks: The Future of Science Communication

  • The new old division at the heart of politics

  • The Sociology of Ryan Air, or, when normativity fails to reproduce itself

  • Social listening and the black health economy

  • On intellectual craft 

  • things I’ve been reading recently #39

  • The social struggle between collegiality and bureaucracy

  • The dangerous fantasies of defensive elites

  • Emerging technologies, academic celebrities and the social organisation of disciplines

  • The Alt-Right and the Reactionary Politics of Transgression

  • Getting beyond pro and anti in our thinking about technology

  • Before the culture war on universities, there was a culture war on schools

  • Trump and the ascent of the spiralists

  • 10 reasons you should publish on Medium

  • Post-Truth as Personal Incapacity

  • CfP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research

  • CfP: Articulating Voice

  • Ontological bias and social knowledge in a post-truth era

  • Using social media as a social theorist

  • On the Rat Race

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

  • The material interests of Big Tech

  • Proposal for a Concept Lab

  • Social ontology and the challenge of suitcase words

  • Social media and the impact agenda

  • CfP: Accelerated Academy

  • CfP: Digital transformation of social theory

  • What function do learned societies serve in a digital age?

  • The missing history of the practical intellectuals

  • The global fourth estate

  • Towards a cultural sociology of the toaster 

  • Margaret Archer as neo-classical British social theorist

  • Three discursive predicaments I wish there were terms for

  • Trump as a tactician of post-truth

  • Narrative as interface between the subjective and the objective 

  • Social media and the half dozen grasshoppers 

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

  • Against university marketing

  • Some thoughts on the bullet journal, omnifocus and getting things done

  • CfP: What is universe? Communication, complexity, coherence

  • The digital academic as autobiographical actor

  • A renewed engagement with the past could be a powerful means through which the critical tradition in British sociology could fortify itself for a difficult future

  • In defence of the individual

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

  • The (slow) private life of homo academicus

  • Google’s next billion users

  • The outrage of billionaires about invoking the existence of billionaires

  • Craft and exploitation in the digital university

  • Social acceleration and the possibility of the sacred 

  • Things I learned from trying and failing at #NaNoWriMo

  • The coming of neoliberal populism: comparing Trump and Macron

  • Are some political tactics more adaptable to intensified social change than others? 

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

  • The Public Sociology of Patrick Geddes and Victor Branford

  • There once was a ‘sociology movement’: could there be one again?

  • CFP: The Digital Dissertation: History, Theory, Practice (an eBook & Database Project)

  • The fox’s way of being-in-the-world

  • The Simpsons on Social Justice Warriors

  • Alt-america and the epistemic confusion of liberalism

  • Call for Papers: Journalism in the Age of Partisan Politics, Political Protests, and President Trump

  • How to trash the political rulebook

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