• Socialising the machines

• Defending the social at #undisciplining

• CfP Symposium Dis/Connection: Conflicts, Activism and Reciprocity Online and Beyond, Sept 27-28, Uppsala University, Sweden

• Digital social science as a meta-field

• Xerox PARC and the challenge of building a community of inquiry

• CfP: Workshop “We are on a mission”. Exploring the role of future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology, Berlin, 27 April 2018

• Social listening and reclaiming the future

• Emerging technologies, academic celebrities and the social organisation of disciplines

• Towards a sociological curatorial journalism 

• Agnotology, Science and Public Engagement

• How can the social sciences keep up with socio-technical change?

• Techno-Galactic Software Observatory

• Public engagement, social media and university boundaries

• Digital Methodologies

• The centralisation of the web and the constraints on academic speech

• The epistemic implications of platform proliferation and platform death

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

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

• Beyond fast and slow scholarship

• Three projects about the future of data

• Devushkin as the Eviscerated Human

• The Eschatology of Technology

• The Evisceration of the Human

• a bleak social theory for bleak times

• The lost socio-technical architecture of qualitative research

• The ontology of data, the ideology of data 

• The concept of ‘platform’ in publishing

• A conversation with Peter Walsh about Zygmunt Bauman, Academic Celebrity and Social Theory

• A conversation with Gary Hall about pirate philosophy, academic celebrity and social theory

• Striving for a ‘rigorous’ politics

• Towards a Pirate Sociology

• Methodological challenges facing the digital sociology of work

• Some recent articles about the accelerated academy

• The Epistemic Distance of Data Scientists

• The history of data-as-rhetoric 

• Big data, new skills: how the accelerated academy hinders the interdisciplinary collaboration we need

• Really interesting lecture by @JaneElliott66 on Big Data & the Qual/Quant Divide

• The Dystopic Turn in Social Science

• Colin Crouch on epochal theorising 

• A Digital Capitalism Reading List

• Call for blog posts: the lived experience of interdisciplinarity in social research

• Interesting material on data science ethics

• Social Media and Academic Labour

• The ideological function of open data

• Ford’s Sociological Department

• On Digital Qualitative Research

• Digital Market Populists as Intellectually Committed Chaos-Merchants

• Credentials, recruitment and big data 

• Three computational sociologies

• Boredom and the challenge of interdisciplinarity

• Data science for progressive governance

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

• The Internal Conversations of Behavioural Scientists

• Picturing the Social

• Digital Social Science and the Challenge of Reflexivity

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

• The Emergence of Digital Capitalism 

• Data Fetishism

• The ontology of data

• Critiquing ‘virtuality’

• Culture and politics of data visualisation: a one-day conference, 11th October 2016, University of Sheffield

• Digital methods/data activism summer school

• 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

• Jeffrey Alexander on the Individualist’s Dillema

• Media Archaeology summer school, Uni of Pisa, July 4-8

• Citizen science as the mass recruitment of shadow research assistants 

• Special Issue on Digital Media Research Methods

• The Centre for Public Imagination

• Seeing Like a University: The Need for an Academic Caesar

• The Future of Data Science

• Digital Data, Epistemic Gain and Epistemic Loss: we need to stop seeing digitalisation in epochal terms

• Data science meets social sciences: Understanding origins, means and consequences of social computing

• CfP: Autobiography 2.0?

• Using fiction as a resource for social theorising

• CfP: Ethics as Methods in the Era of Big Data

• CfP: Future Making

• The Shifting Plate Tetonics of the Human Sciences 

• The Feral Interdisciplinarian

• Contempt for the social sciences and the new positivism

• Call for Papers: “Digital Traces in Context”

• The State of Digital Research Methods

• How Google models itself on graduate school

• Eric Schmidt on the century of the data scientists

• when digital capitalism explicitly models itself on digital social science

• CfP: Workshop on Challenges and Futures for Ethical Social Media Research

• Call for chapters: digital existence 

• Complexity and Collective Behaviour

• UP2016 : Following User Pathways: Cross Platform and Mixed Methods Analysis in Social Media Studies

• the demand for data science

• bruno latour’s philosophical sociology

• digital capitalism and digital social science

• digital data and ‘the utopia of total social legibility’

• CfP: Making Sense of Microposts

• CfP: The Power of Presence – Preconference for ICA 2016 in Japan

• special issue of @bigdatasoc on data and agency

• the new frontier of computational politics

• the need for digital social ontology 

• CfP: Social Theory in Information Systems