• Boredom and the challenge of interdisciplinarity

• things I’ve been reading recently #23

• What might Trumpist authoritarianism look like?

• A wonderful analogy by @Elinor_Carmi

• The Celebrity Millionaires of Competitive Gaming

• Data science for progressive governance

• Are exploitative professors breaking the law by recruiting student interns?

• Vintage social media

• The growth of the Twinterns

• Magical thinking as occupational opportunities contract 

• A sign of how messed up expectations about taxation have become in the last few decades

• What would experimental closure look like outside of a lab?

• Algorithmic pricing predates online retail

• A behavioural economic critique of Uber’s surge pricing

• Elon Musk responds to the satirisation of #DigitalElites in Silicon Valley

• Call for Papers: The Accelerated Academy

• The Internal Conversations of Behavioural Scientists

• Laziness as a virtue 

• Picturing the Social

• Billionaires are people, too

• What is Digital Hygiene?

• Digital Social Science and the Challenge of Reflexivity

• From the mass surveillance state to techno-fascism

• What do universities know about our sexual orientations?

• Using @IFTTT and Twitter to curate material for research projects

• The Moral Reasoning of Edward Snowden

• The Invention of Lifestyle

• What Donald Trump’s business strategies suggest about his presidency 

• “The second I walk through those doors, all my problems go away. The second I leave them, my problems are back”

• Omnifocus for Academics

• What does public sociology mean in an age of social media?

• A partial defence of Gawker’s prurience: the necessity of scrutinising #DigitalElites

• The infrastructural ambitions of technology companies

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

• Surveillance and the Public Sphere: confronting a democratic dilemma

• How do Americans define the sharing economy?

• Fame and the content eco-system

• Varoufakis on contemporary capitalism’s preposterous reversal of the truth

• Donald Trump as an Attentional Entrepeneur

• ‘Intelligence’ as an explanatory concept 

• Funding third-party lawsuits as a tool of defensive elites

• Against lists of academic publications

• The Fragile Movements of Late Modernity

• A special @thesocreview feature on the rise of the Superstar Professor

• Come to our workshop at Social Media & Society: Conceptual Challenges in Interdisciplinary Social Media Research

• The Electorate as Constitutional Kings

• The threat of pseudo-activity

• Before Bourdieu, there was Orwell

• WordPress owns the Internet

• Why We Post: The Anthropology of Social Media

• Peter Thiel secretly backed Hulk Hogan

• Zizek on the impossibility of anarchism 

• The Thesis Whisperer: Starting an Academic Blog

• Social Media and Academic Labour, June 27th in Leeds

• Sublime imagined unity as a political factor

• The Psychoanalytics of Temporising

• The paradox of personalisation 

• Reclaiming ‘aspiration’ for the left 

• The lonely monads of digital capitalism

• The EU: a flawed democracy whose failures are fuelling the rise of fascism?

• The price fixing conspiracies of the platform economy 

• Call For Papers: The Precariat & The Professor

• Call for papers: everyday analysis 

• The Emergence of Digital Capitalism 

• Data Fetishism

• The ontology of data

• Overlapping categories and the problem of abundance

• Coping with acceleration: triaging strategies and the new empiricism

• The misleading concept of ‘the blogosphere’

• Challenging Citizenship: Social Media and Big Data

• 2016 Challenging Media Landscapes conference, November 2016

• The Utopian Promise of Cyberspace

• Critiquing ‘virtuality’

• Places Still Available: The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

• Conceptualising ‘distraction’

• Interested in the internal conversation? Come to this symposium @SocioWarwick on May 24th

• 19 interesting ways to communicate knowledge

• “They were stalking the corridors, the lecture rooms, the offices…”: open research, ethics and impact

• things I’ve been reading recently #22

• Open research projects

• 28,100 journals publishing 2.5 million articles a year

• The King of Kong: a documentary about celebrity gamers

• My highlights from #RPten (and the most interesting stuff I missed)

• Predictive analytics and the intensification of work

• The Accelerative Ethos of Steve Jobs

• A cautionary tale for independent researchers

• The size of social networks and the size of nation states

• What happens in an internet minute?

• What would techno-fascist punishment look like?

• Call for Papers: Communities of Practice: Toward a Local and Global Digital Humanities

• The Second Accelerated Academy

• Imposing impossible demands as a management strategy

• Using social media to map scholarly literatures

• It’s not you, it’s capitalism

• Symposium: Reorientating Sociological Thought

• CFP: Studying Politics across Platforms

• The Discursive Preconditions for the Acceleration of Publishing, or, Why Scholasticism and Positivism are Now Everwhere

• Computational Social Science and the Collapse of Sociology

• Lucy Powell on Conservative anti-Semitism in the last election

• The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture