• The epistemic implications of platform proliferation and platform death

• Abundance and austerity 

• The myths of academic life

• The Good Intentions of Engineers

• An STS approach to ‘post-truth’

• Managing ‘us’ to preserve the myth

• The embedded digital economy 

• The Politics of #MeetUp

• The meaning of scientific participation in an age of crowd work

• The duality of the platform: users and workers

• From the crowd-as-threat to crowd-as-resource 

• The knowledge economy and imagined freedom from material constraint 

• Social media and populism 

• An Introduction to the Accelerated Academy: by me and @Filvos

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

• CfP: Digital Netizens at the crossroads of sharing and privatising

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

• What is platform cooperativism?

• Mobilising a sharing economy revolution

• Charles Taylor: Ways Democracy Can Slip Away

• God View

• The Political Economy of Attention

• Building the cult of airbnb

• Performing your faith in the great disruptive project

• Airbnb and the Myth of ‘Us’

• Uber’s first experiment in mobilising their users

• Technology, regulation and disruption

• What does techno-fascism look like?

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

• Removing Statute 24 constitutes a seismic shift in job security for all Warwick university employees

• Liberating discretionary effort by robbing your staff of a personal life

• Uber as a moral project

• The Workation

• The Internet Beyond Numbers

• Micro-tasking political activism

• The spammy origins of Airbnb 

• Beyond fast and slow scholarship

• The ‘injustice’ that motivated Uber

• The cultural lure of Silicon Valley

• The most absurd television adverts of the dot-com boom

• What does it mean to be a public sociologist in the era of @realDonaldTrump?

• things I’ve been reading recently #31

• Epochal theorising and business bullshit

• The marketing case for radical university leadership, or at least the pretence thereof

• Cultural representations of finance 

• Cartoons about the impact agenda 

• What does it mean to be an intellectual in an age of social media?

• “Open, good. Closed, bad. Tattoo it on your forehead”: Placing the technology sector in social and economic history

• Three projects about the future of data

• On Social Acceleration

• The Importance of Business Culture

• The Banal Bullshit of Thomas Friedman

• Denial and the Antinomies of (Post)Truth

• The Sociology of Predatory Publishing

• CfP: Public sociology and the role of the researcher

• pirate philosophy in (and for) the digital university

• Out trolling the trolls

• The Launch of the Digital Geographies Group

• trying to write when you’re triaging

• Eric Schmidt’s Predictions for the Next Decade

• some thoughts on the poetics of impact

• Pascalian Meditations on the Digital University

• Devushkin as the Eviscerated Human

• Social media for academics and the increasing toxicity of the online ecology

• “Scholar? Nah, I’m a grants factory…”

• Writing prompts for a PhD journal

• The MOOC as a trojan horse

• Social Media For Academics: Things To Try

• The epistemology of democracy’s death

• Online Harassment

• The Eschatology of Technology

• The Evisceration of the Human

• Moral Responsibility in an Age of Distraction

• Against ‘openness’

• The forward-facing ideology of technology: erasing history and context 

• How universities shape the technology developed for them

• Social media for academics and the dangers of a “content delivery” mindset

• The Banal Reality of Democracy’s Death

• ‘Disruption’ as the last refuge of the Third Way

• a bleak social theory for bleak times

• Quit social media

• Some recent videos of Harmut Rosa talking about social acceleration

• Two Visions of our Automated Retail Future

• Notes on Platform Capitalism

• A reading list on interdisciplinarity, with a conceptual and digital bias

• The (un)productive chaos of disciplines

• The lost socio-technical architecture of qualitative research

• The ontology of data, the ideology of data 

• Some thoughts on platform capitalism, cash hoarding, innovation and ideology

• South Park’s theory of trolling: Trevor’s Axiom

• The Distraction of the Networked Writer

• Discipline and innovate 

• It looks like you’re trying to write a digital detox piece

• The self-importance of researchers

• Academic exceptionalism and the black-boxing of academic labour

• What did I do in 2016?

• The Elite Roots of the Alt-Right

• Why Academics Must Use Social Media

• Do celebrity academics crowd out other voices?

• What are ‘recognition triggers’ in scholarly publishing?