• How BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti literally discovered viralityx.

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

• What is platform literacy?

• Social media as a machinery of dispute amplification

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

• CfP HICSS-52 (2019) minitrack: Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Technologies

• Workshop: The Turn To AI in Content Moderation and Communication Governance

• Content Producers: Incentives, Motivations, and Value Creation18

• The lost lure of abundance

• The uncoupling of transgression from progress

• The rhetoric and reality of user generated content 

• The content density of a cultural producer 

• The dark future of mediatization

• The precursors to curation

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

• “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’

• Speaking and listening on social media

• Persistance, Searchability and Incivility

• Fuck virality, I want my ideas to be radioactive

• Donald Trump: Everyday Tactics of Post-Truth

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

• The epistemic implications of platform proliferation and platform death

• Abundance and austerity 

• Denial and the Antinomies of (Post)Truth

• South Park’s theory of trolling: Trevor’s Axiom

• Metrics and the death of imagination

• The concept of ‘platform’ in publishing

• No longer praying at the altar of virality

• The concept of ‘social editor’

• 10 facts about the changing digital news landscape

• The political economy of podcasting

• Varoufakis on the monopoly power of platforms

• The digital avoidance of difference

• What do you do when people you like act offensively online?

• The economic limitations of the attention economy

• How digitalisation reduces cultural variety 

• Picturing the Social

• A partial defence of Gawker’s prurience: the necessity of scrutinising #DigitalElites

• Fame and the content eco-system

• Donald Trump as an Attentional Entrepeneur

• Overlapping categories and the problem of abundance

• The misleading concept of ‘the blogosphere’

• Rant-driven journalism 

• The entrepreneurial journalist

• Viral lift

• unpicking the political economy of digital cats

• moderating social media and the challenge of normativity

• the ‘via’ link as a continuation of established social practices 

• Are social media algorithms killing online activism?

• Amongst Algorithms: Technical Fieldwork between Software Studies and Digital Methods

• southpark on the vertigo of the filter bubble

• call for papers: the rapid spread of provocative content on social media

• the next front in the war on ad blocking