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  • Some notes on Margaret Archer’s theorising of digital technology

  • 📍Digital Sociology Wikipedia Editathon/Meetup – Feb 1st in Edinburgh

  • Attention digital sociologists – HELP NEEDED with the Wikipedia page!

  • How to think contextually about educational technology

  • The poetics of disruption obscure the sociotechnical transformation of knowledge production

  • Digital Anthropology, Digital Geography and Digital Sociology

  • Are you interested in the future of digital sociology?

  • Digital Futures? The #BSADigital Presidential Event

  • Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

  • The intellectual sclerosis of the superstar intellectual

  • The incredible shrinking scope of the celebrity intellectual

  • The Labour leadership’s embrace of social media outriders

  • Hybrid formats for communicating theory

  • The #Undisciplining Meta-Conference

  • Why quote tweeting as a form of reply is creepy

  • Defending the social at #undisciplining

  • When a conference has a meta-conference: reflections on the first day of live blogging at #undisciplining

  • Accelerating into the singularity 

  • Why we shouldn’t take social media metrics too seriously

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

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

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

  • Platform capitalism and its interplanetary horizons

  • Fast and slow writing in the accelerated academy

  • The original sin of the digital utopians

  • Human agency beyond platform structuralism and platform voluntarism

  • CfP: The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion into Critical AI Studies

  • CfP: Deception on social media

  • Techno-nationalism and technological innovation

  • CFP: Imagining Radical Futures, Princeton Oct. 5th

  • The Political Ontology of Platforms

  • Call for Papers – (In)Equalities and Social (In)Visibilities in the Digital Age

  • CfP: Twitter: Global Perspectives, Uses and Criticisms

  • Platform capitalism and the future of education

  • What is platform literacy?

  • Social media as a machinery of dispute amplification

  • Call for abstracts: DQComm2018 The Deliberative Quality of Communication Conference

  • Can we have platform capitalism without computational politics? 

  • Exercising control over representations of yourself

  • From homo economicus to homo digitalis

  • ALW2: 2nd Workshop on Abusive Language Online

  • Platform Capitalism Reading Group at the University of Cambridge

  • The Dark Side of (Digital) Public Engagement

  • CfP AAA2018 San Jose: Panel Digital Infrastructures

  • The Intellectual Self-Defence of #USSStrikes: Social Media, Critique and Collective Intellectuals

  • Social media, #USSStrikes and Digital Sociology

  • The Sociology of Trolling

  • ‘Social Listening’ Workshop: building qualitative skills in social media research

  • The value of graphic social science

  • CfP: Understanding the political economy of digital technology

  • Social listening and reclaiming the future

  • Social media fosters egotism rather than individualism

  • The dynamics of discipline formation

  • When sociologists meet organised politics

  • Social listening and the black health economy

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

  • Getting beyond pro and anti in our thinking about technology

  • The problem of abundance and the political economy of digital knowledge

  • CfP: Digital transformation of social theory

  • Three discursive predicaments I wish there were terms for

  • Are some political tactics more adaptable to intensified social change than others? 

  • There once was a ‘sociology movement’: could there be one again?

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

  • The Social Ontology of ‘Free’ and ‘Open’

  • How can Sociology be inspired by its own archive?

  • 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”

  • The sociology of quantitative methods in the U.K. 

  • The coming big data revolution within higher education

  • Vested interests in ‘openness’

  • CfP: The Social Lives of Digital Methods

  • Why the left needs to reject the ideology of networked socialism

  • From cyberspace to constant connectivity: the social ontology of socio-technical change

  • Social media and the devaluation of introspection

  • Mechanisms of normative change 

  • CfP: An Agenda for Graphic Social Science

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

  • Some thoughts on the ontology of games 

  • The rhetoric and reality of user generated content 

  • Towards a sociological curatorial journalism 

  • “So you thought about it one day and started the next morning?”

  • What is Graphic Social Science?

  • The dark future of mediatization

  • “Help! Help! Here comes everybody!”: Social Media and Corbynism

  • The precursors to curation

  • Social morphogenesis and the limitations of political modelling 

  • Digital media and ontological security 

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

  • Intellectual diversity, disciplines and public engagement

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

  • In defence of ‘curation’

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

  • On Irritation, Or, How Social Networks Tend To Make Us Slightly More Assholic

  • Bloggers and their role in the dissemination of scholarly information

  • Digital Methodologies

  • Speculative thoughts about the phenomenology of digitalisation

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

  • Beyond fast and slow scholarship

  • Three projects about the future of data

  • Out trolling the trolls

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