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  • The misuse of the concept of assemblage within digital social science

  • Some thoughts on GAI, trust and the future of the human sciences

  • Big Data, Critical Realism, Human Agency and the Future of the Social Sciences

  • Critical realism and digital social science

  • The Journal of Digital Social Research has launched!

  • CFP: Intersectional Automations

  • Fascinating call for papers on infrastructural politics 

  • Where do data scientists come from?

  • Socialising the machines

  • Defending the social at #undisciplining

  • Big data, human agency, critical realism and the future of the social sciences

  • Digital social science as a meta-field

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

  • Social listening and reclaiming the future

  • The dynamics of discipline formation

  • Social listening and the black health economy

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

  • CfP: Co-design Special Issue – Repositioning CoDesign in the age of platform capitalism: from sharing to caring

  • Call for Papers: “Research Synthesis” and “Big Data in Psychology”

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

  • Public engagement, social media and university boundaries

  • The ‘Sharing Economy’ as Disembedding Mechanism

  • Digital Methodologies

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

  • Beyond fast and slow scholarship

  • Three projects about the future of data

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

  • The lost socio-technical architecture of qualitative research

  • The ontology of data, the ideology of data 

  • Do celebrity academics crowd out other voices?

  • The Impact Agenda as Paradigm Shift

  • The history of data-as-rhetoric 

  • On Digital Qualitative Research

  • Three computational sociologies

  • Picturing the Social

  • Digital Social Science and the Challenge of Reflexivity

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

  • Data Fetishism

  • The ontology of data

  • Citizen science as the mass recruitment of shadow research assistants 

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

  • BIG QUALIDATA: Tackling Analysis of Very Large Volumes of Qualitative Data in Social Science Researc

  • The Materiality of the Digital

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

  • Reorienting Sociological Thought, May 11th @CardiffSOCSI

  • Social Media and Social Futures

  • The Shifting Plate Tetonics of the Human Sciences 

  • The Feral Interdisciplinarian

  • Contempt for the social sciences and the new positivism

  • digital capitalism and digital social science

  • “the easy hybridization of social network analysis and social psychology experimentation”

  • the two ontological orientations to technology prevalent within digital capitalism

  • a question about digital social science

  • call for proposals: social media & society in london

  • call for papers: digital methodologies – beyond big & small data

  • digital capitalism and the form of social science it encourages

  • please tell early career scholars: the isrf social media essay competition

  • call for papers: qualitative methods and data in digital societies

  • digital social science essay competition

  • the necessity of digital sociology

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