• Chatting in natural language with a massive archive, built from hand-picked trustworthy sources

• Socialising the machines

• Films I’ve seen recently

• Books I’ve been reading

• Workshop: The Foundations of British Sociology

• I’m slightly embarrassed to admit how much I think I would enjoy this job

• What is it like to be a stray dog in a city?

• From the Ivory Tower to the Glass Tower

• What we mean when we talk about the Platform University

• The slow university

• A quick guide to live tweeting

• Looking back through your Twitter history

• Social listening and reclaiming the future

• Using social media as a social theorist

• One of my favourite closing scenes to a film

• TOD Talks: The Future of Science Communication

• 10 reasons you should publish on Medium

• On the Rat Race

• CfP: Digital transformation of social theory

• Towards a cultural sociology of the toaster 

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

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

• Google’s next billion users

• The outrage of billionaires about invoking the existence of billionaires

• Craft and exploitation in the digital university

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

• The Simpsons on Social Justice Warriors

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

• How to trash the political rulebook

• Some thoughts on intellectual self-archiving

• CFP: Slow computing: A workshop on resistance in the algorithmic age

• CfP Special Issue: The Platformization of Chinese Society

• Special Issue on Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data

• The fortress city scenario 

• The Technolibertarian King 

• The Sociology of Platforms

• The Jeremy Hunt Rhyming Song

• The ennui of the academic celebrity

• What is a research technologist?

• Marshall Berman on Jaytalking

• The Conspiracy of Cars

• Too busy to care for your cat?

• “I was being a complete asshole to people for nothing more than scoring points to look good inside an echo chamber”

• The Polysemic University

• Fuck virality, I want my ideas to be radioactive

• My new chapter on the digitalisation of the archive

• What does it mean to be a public sociologist in an age of Donald Trump?

• Miniconference on post-truth and digital media in Reading UK coming up

• The Porous University – A critical exploration of openness, space and place in Higher Education

• Defensive Elites

• Marketing the Digital University

• The Cesspool of YouTube

• What is compound distraction?

• The Social Challenge of Platform Proliferation

• Bloggers and their role in the dissemination of scholarly information

• Some really interesting theory reading lists

• Digital Methodologies

• Dealing with online harassment: guidance for academics

• CFP: Alternative Facts: Constructing Truth in Civil Societies

• A conversation between myself and @benjamingeer about a Bourdieusian approach to understanding alt-academia

• A Domain of One’s Own

• The Future of ‘Impact’ in the UK

• The Silicon Valley Narrative

• The epistemic implications of platform proliferation and platform death

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

• What is platform cooperativism?

• Charles Taylor: Ways Democracy Can Slip Away

• The Political Economy of Attention

• What does techno-fascism look like?

• 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

• Cartoons about the impact agenda 

• Three projects about the future of data

• The Importance of Business Culture

• The Banal Bullshit of Thomas Friedman

• Eric Schmidt’s Predictions for the Next Decade

• Writing prompts for a PhD journal

• Social Media For Academics: Things To Try

• Quit social media

• Notes on Platform Capitalism

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

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

• The Distraction of the Networked Writer

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

• The Elite Roots of the Alt-Right

• My 20 favourite books of 2016

• A collection of definitions of ‘Impact’

• The lineaments of techno-fascism

• The Sociology of Trump: An Initial Reading List

• The Place That Sends You Mad

• Some recent articles about the accelerated academy

• The concept of ‘social editor’

• 10 facts about the changing digital news landscape

• The Epistemic Distance of Data Scientists

• What’s the collective noun for a group of social theorists?

• The components of social democracy 

• The Epistemological Obstacles to Understanding Social Movements