• The Sociology of Escalation Effects

• The vulnerability of human experience to abbreviation

• Social media as asshole amplification technology, or, the moral psychology of platform architecture

• The consolation of kitsch

• Curation as care

• Exercising control over representations of yourself

• CfP AAA2018 San Jose: Panel Digital Infrastructures

• Conduits for variety

• The phenomenology of cultural bingeing

• The content density of a cultural producer 

• From a politics of speed to a political sociology of speed

• The precursors to curation

• In defence of ‘curation’

• The proliferation of books

• Metrics and the death of imagination

• Digitalisation and the elimination of latency 

• The Consolations of Gaming in Digital Capitalism

• Algorithmic Guerrilla Warfare

• The cosmopolitan self vs the endurance self

• Varoufakis on the monopoly power of platforms

• The Joys of Weak Ties

• The necessity of selection

• The economic limitations of the attention economy

• How digitalisation reduces cultural variety 

• The lonely monads of digital capitalism

• Overlapping categories and the problem of abundance

• 28,100 journals publishing 2.5 million articles a year

• The King of Kong: a documentary about celebrity gamers

• CFP: Studying Politics across Platforms

• The multiplication of communication channels

• the challenge of cultural abundance

• Convenience rather than urgency as a driver of constant connectivity

• Sustaining your focus throughout the working day

• The Temporal Constraints of Consumption

• The Power of Digital Media to Shape False Narratives

• Why digitalisation gives rise to ‘memory wars’

• The Escalation Dynamics of Social Media

• against a consensual theory of conventions

• “now listen you queer!”: the origins of contemporary political punditry

• social media and constraints upon personal morphogensis 

• call for papers: the rapid spread of provocative content on social media

• expedia and communicative escalation 

• further communicative escalation from expedia (yay!)

• your attention please! digital capitalism and communicative escalation  

• digital capitalism and the acceleration of bullshit

• social media and the noise it injects into daily life 

• my brain has too many tabs open: the problem of attention in digital capitalism

• the ecology of content