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  • How blogging is different from tweeting

  • Who is paying for Twitter blue?

  • It is time for academics to let go of Twitter

  • Social media has changed – Will academics catch up?

  • Academics can’t quit Twitter. Universities should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down

  • Is there any future for academic Twitter?

  • Against Social Media for Academics

  • Generative AI and the epistemological chaos of platform capitalism: some initial thoughts

  • Universities need to take responsibility for communications infrastructure

  • Neo-structuralism and social media in higher education

  • How do we stop social media making the academy even more unequal?

  • LinkedIn as a replacement for academic Twitter: micro-blogs vs Twitter threads

  • The false dichotomy of digital hermits and digital champions

  • Social Media for Public Engagement: Opportunities and Dilemmas

  • The increasingly hierarchical character of academic social media in 2023

  • Why we need a post-digital approach to the platform university

  • Requiem for a Tweet – Is there a future for the academic social capital held on the platform?

  • Should I rejoin Twitter?

  • How do you use social media for PGT programmes?

  • Social media for academics and the circulation of expert concepts

  • I’ve been slowly developing a philosophy of academic development without realising this is what I was doing

  • A comprehensive introduction to Social Media for Academics

  • What is the ivory tower becoming?

  • Why I deleted my personal Twitter account

  • Someone is wrong on the internet: a conversation between web comics

  • What’s gone wrong with social media in higher education and why we urgently need to fix it

  • Hope Not Hate’s recommendations for Zoom security

  • A quick guide to academic podcasting during a pandemic (part 1)

  • Best practice for communicating with delegates during online conferences

  • Social media for academics and Covid-19

  • Social media governance within higher education

  • The dark side of social media and what it means for academics

  • What noisily calls itself philosophy

  • A video introduction to Social Media for Academics

  • Why social media shouldn’t be ignored by research policy

  • Twitter and the internal conversation

  • What does it mean to take Twitter seriously?

  • How do dentists use social media?

  • Interviews with Nature Index about social media

  • Academics like the idea of Twitter in the classroom but what do students think?

  • Getting hold of ideas while they are clear: note taking as a creative practice

  • Why have generic, popular services proved so enticing for digital academics? From 2011 to 2019

  • What I want to do in the next few years and how I plan to do it

  • Hybrid formats for communicating theory

  • From the Ivory Tower to the Glass Tower

  • What we mean when we talk about the Platform University

  • The #Undisciplining Meta-Conference

  • Why quote tweeting as a form of reply is creepy

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

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

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

  • Our social media guidelines for @thesocreview #undisciplining conference

  • Curation as care

  • Social media as a machinery of dispute amplification

  • A quick guide to live tweeting

  • Looking back through your Twitter history

  • Preparing to think in order to prepare to speak: from routine to challenge

  • A quick guide to managing organisational social media accounts

  • The Dark Side of (Digital) Public Engagement

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

  • Social media, #USSStrikes and Digital Sociology

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

  • Two important initiatives for social media in higher education

  • Using social media as a social theorist

  • Social media fosters egotism rather than individualism

  • TOD Talks: The Future of Science Communication

  • On intellectual craft 

  • 10 reasons you should publish on Medium

  • Using social media as a social theorist

  • Social media and the impact agenda

  • What function do learned societies serve in a digital age?

  • Three discursive predicaments I wish there were terms for

  • Social media and the half dozen grasshoppers 

  • Against university marketing

  • Some thoughts on the bullet journal, omnifocus and getting things done

  • The digital academic as autobiographical actor

  • CFP: The Digital Dissertation: History, Theory, Practice (an eBook & Database Project)

  • Some thoughts on intellectual self-archiving

  • Debate on YouTube: a guest post by Fred McVittie

  • Extracting oneself from the great twittering machine

  • Call for Participation: Sociology and Social Media, Problems and Prospects

  • To Blog or Not to Blog: Research Projects, Centres and Networks

  • Towards a sociological curatorial journalism 

  • What is Graphic Social Science?

  • When Tweets Turn Sour: Avoiding Legal Pitfalls on Social Media

  • Trolling, public engagement and the sociology of knowledge 

  • #SocMedHE17: Making an impact

  • Do you want your research to produce more impact?

  • Making an Impact with Social Media

  • Public Engagement and Social Media

  • The transformation of academic writing and the challenge of ephemera

  • Will social media lead to the return of the general intellectual?

  • “We are already in a position where we have to engage with digital media”

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

  • Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens

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

  • Speaking and listening on social media

  • Fuck virality, I want my ideas to be radioactive

  • Do academics write badly because they’re rushing?

  • Why it’s fine to ‘broadcast’ on Twitter

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