• The far-right are learning to avoid live streaming their riots

• Which types of media does AI cite?

• Anti-ICE AI slop on Youtube

• Social media firms actively undermine the relationship between content creators and their communities

• You can’t understand ‘AI slop’ without understanding engagement farming

• Referential detachment. Or, what happens, when words stop meaning what we think they mean

• Social media as a schizoid retreat

• The psychoticizing potential of social media

• 📱🚫 On withdrawal from social media

• CfP: Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference

• The ugly pathologisation of ‘AI boosters’

• LLMs and a general ambivalence about platform capitalism

• The visibility of academics will be shaped through LLMs as much as social media in future

• When LLMs engage in a flamewar on social media

• Was Jordan Peterson radicalised by his own audience?

• How will generative AI firms seek to optimise their models to increase user engagement? 

• Can LLMs sustain and transform affect

• #FreeOurFeeds – help secure the future of social media

• Interview with Science Magazine about academic Bluesky

• We need a conceptual framework for LLMs and social visibility

• Be aware your Bluesky posts are being scraped for AI training

• Elon Musk’s social media addiction

• Interview in the Observer about the growth of Bluesky and the decline of Twitter

• Goodbye Twitter 👋

• A concise explanation of why you should leave Twitter/X

• The GenAI debate is being filtered through social media in problematic ways

• I wish Anthropic would stop trying to optimise user engagement with Claude

• Should other professional associations leave Twitter/X?

• The privilege of escaping from the Twittering Machine

• How the interaction of AI search, social media and generative AI will entrench existing status hierarchies

• Special issue: Social Media in Higher Education – What’s Happening?

• A growing number of 5 to 7 year olds in the UK are using social media

• Will the ubiquity of GAI-driven bots lead people to retreat ever further into private social media?

• From art to entertainment to distraction to addiction

• The complex ecosystem of content parasitism being driven by GAI

• Are LLMs to culture as Startrek’s replicators are to physical matter?

• The real world limits of decentralized social media

• 🦆❤️ Ciallan’s memorial duck

• Hannah Arendt on machinic rhythms and their power to consume our autonomy

• From social media to generative media: the confusing landscape of post-pandemic research communication

• The agonies of humiliation involved in submitting to contigency

• From social media to generative media: a first lecture on my next project after Generative AI for Academics

• CfP: The future of conspiracy scholarship: New epistemologies and imaginaries

• A really interesting spin on interdisciplinarity in digital scholarship

• The capacity of the algorithm to create monsters

• The old web is dying, while the new web struggles to be born

• Reddit’s API changes and the new business model of social media

• It is time for academics to let go of Twitter

• “Thank you for using Web 2.0. Your free-trial period has ended!”

• Universities need to take responsibility for communications infrastructure

• Social media is reshaping universities’ value systems in a scramble for likes and shares

• Why academics need to organise, collectivise, and ‘socialise’ social media

• New Book: The Public and their Platforms

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

• The latent utopia of Twitter

• Why is mass commercial social media ‘mass’ and ‘commercial’?

• Twitter and the structure of polarisation

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

• AOL as the first mass commercial social media

• A video introduction to Social Media for Academics

• Social media, attention economies and the future of the university

• Social Media for Academics 2

• The supersurfaces of social media

• Learning to live with social media

• How do dentists use social media?

• The acoustics of social media

• Does social media make young people unhappy?

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

• Social media and education… now the dust has settled

• Can social media firms remain popular while being perceived as untrustworthy?

• Escaping the Impact Machine: a sociological boardgame #TSRBoardGame

• How growth hacking is leading to a pandemic of amplification-itis on social media platforms

• Mark Fisher on using social media rather than being used by it

• Social Media, Global Social Theory and Sociological Activism: An Interview with Gurminder K. Bhambra

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

• Reclaiming the social from the platforms that are eviscerating it

• Social Media and Doing a PhD: what do you need to know?

• Who’s a Bully? Civility, Authoritarianism, and Power in the Contemporary Academy

• Social media and the (im)possibility of tolerance as an epistemic virtue

• Détournement and social media

• An introduction to social media for academics

• Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

• The Labour leadership’s embrace of social media outriders

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

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

• Social media as a machinery of dispute amplification

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

• The Dark Side of (Digital) Public Engagement

• Social media, #USSStrikes and Digital Sociology

• Answering social science questions with social media data

• Two important initiatives for social media in higher education

• Using social media as a social theorist

• Social media fosters egotism rather than individualism

• Using social media as a social theorist

• Social media and the impact agenda

• Three discursive predicaments I wish there were terms for

• Extracting oneself from the great twittering machine

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

• How Corbyn hacked the media

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