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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • The sociology of the digital daemon

  • Call for participants: a global dialogue about the digital divide

  • Denaturalising digital capitalism

  • The notion of a ‘playbook’

  • Politico-environmental crisis

  • The data warriors and the electoral wars they wage

  • What would a materialist phenomenology of ‘post-truth’ look like?

  • Digital labour and the epistemic fallacy 

  • Abundance and austerity 

  • Managing ‘us’ to preserve the myth

  • The duality of the platform: users and workers

  • CfP: Digital Inequalities and Discrimination in the Big Data Era

  • The Evisceration of the Human

  • Metrics and the death of imagination

  • Towards a sociology of Pikettyville

  • The class politics of innovation and the new digital elite

  • The moralisation of insecurity and exploitation

  • The “least resistant personality profile”

  • Liberation and coercion

  • The digital avoidance of difference

  • Structural limits to self-control

  • Trump is masculinising poverty

  • The coming army of American demagogues

  • The limitations on learning to code as a labour market strategy

  • Against craft capitalism 

  • The Lived Reality of Work in Tech Firms

  • The myth of user generated content

  • The misleading concept of ‘the blogosphere’

  • It’s not you, it’s capitalism

  • What does Economic Sociology have to say about declining productivity?

  • Isomorphic Inequalities

  • Rich nations as entropy hubs 

  • The Aristocracy of the Digital Celebrities and the Magical Thinking That Props It Up

  • A capitalism-friendly version of social mobility

  • Market liberalism and the foreclosure of politics

  • The Republican elite are now openly declaring their contempt for the American white working class 

  • The Politics of an Uncertain Future

  • the intellectual elitism of Silicon Valley

  • digital dilemmas: transforming gender identities and power relations in everyday life

  • images of the human in digital social science

  • CfP: Data Literacy Special Issue

  • digital capitalism and the search for work

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