• The Pseudo-Catharsis of Social Media

• The difference between philosophy and talk about philosophy

• The components of social democracy 

• Colin Crouch on epochal theorising 

• A Guide to Instagram Marketing

• The Epistemological Obstacles to Understanding Social Movements

• Jeremy Corbyn as the mirror image of Margaret Thatcher

• We should be very careful about how we construct ‘the public’ in discourses of public engagement

• Three reasons why I believe in Jeremy Corbyn (and some doubts)

• Are journalists personally afraid of a Trump presidency?

• The Dispositions of the Metricised

• The Antinomies of ‘Intelligence’

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

• Tony Benn on the Labour Party in 1991

• The Lean Revolution in Higher Education

• things I’ve been reading recently #26

• A Digital Capitalism Reading List

• Donald Trump explaining intelligence

• The emotional dimension of chronopolitics

• An Open Access Series of Books on Why We Post

• The sobered modernist perspective

• The digital avoidance of difference

• Structural limits to self-control

• The fetishisation of the event 

• Symposium: Anxiety and Work in the Accelerated Academy

• Trump is masculinising poverty

• A wonderful example of how universities can use YouTube

• The political significance of the zombie horde

• Home ownership as a psychological rather than economic reality 

• The future of labour in digital capitalism

• What do you do when people you like act offensively online?

• From Platform Capitalism to Protocol Communism

• The coming army of American demagogues

• The Geographical Dynamics of Winner-Takes-Most

• When did optimism become a characteristic possessed by the right and lacked by the left?

• Academic video blogs: 5 tips for getting started

• Constraining the dreams of (aspiring) #digitalelites

• Something has ended and everyone can feel it

• Symposium: Anxiety and Work in the Accelerated Academy

• The Return of the Riot

• The future of digital corporate personhood

• The coordinates of the austerity consensus are disintegrating

• things I’ve been reading recently #25

• The end game of the American free-market right 

• Understanding the rage of the Labour right

• The tragically incompetent elites of the centre left

• The radicalisation of reactionaries

• The fantasistic political ontologies which emerge under post-democracy

• The Myth of Elite Cosmopolitanism

• Stories of the River Irwell

• Reviews of Social Media for Academics

• The (American) dreams of defensive elites

• The expert-celebrity axis and the legitimation of technocracy 

• The defensive elites of the cultural industries 

• An interview with Inside Higher Ed about Social Media for Academics

• Designing platforms to mitigate power law effects

• How digitalisation reduces cultural variety 

• A fantastic podcast discussion about social media for academics

• Social media: singular or plural?

• Interesting material on data science ethics

• The Importance of Disappointment

• An infopolitical critique of lazy applications of ‘panopticism’

• The Idiots Who Make History

• Biographical Approaches to Studying Digital Capitalism

• Things I’d like to include in a potential second edition of Social Media for Academics

• Two documentaries about the super-rich

• Social Media and Academic Labour

• things I’ve been reading recently #24

• The ideological function of open data

• Facebook’s advertising campaign

• Institutionalised depoliticisation at the IMF 

• Murmuration

• Ford’s Sociological Department

• What makes the sharing economy go round?

• On Digital Qualitative Research

• Social media for academics and the risk of becoming ‘TED heads’

• The Janus-faced ideology of philanthropic elites

• Social Media and Academic Labour

• Philanthrocapitalism as an assembly device for elites 

• The growth of elite philanthropy 

• Hip hop culture, philanthrocapitalism and getting shit done 

• Hip hop culture, philanthrocapitalism and getting shit done 

• Who are the world’s 950 billionaires?

• Transformative Horizons

• Sociology Social Media Assistant CfA

• Digital Market Populists as Intellectually Committed Chaos-Merchants

• Ideas for action from Teela Sanders and @RuthPatrick0

• Interned Professionals and Defensive Elites

• Credentials, recruitment and big data 

• The Zero Marginal Cost Society

• Making the Most of Social Media

• What are the risks of social media for academics?

• What scholarly activities have you engaged in over the last week?

• Three computational sociologies

• CfP: Anarchist Technologies Repair Manual

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

• UCU workload survey report

• Value and Values

• The Intern Army on Which Washington Depends

• Digital capitalism and the imperative to be noticed