• The macro-economic costs of distraction

• Machine learning and authoritarianism

• The vested interests of the media in Trump

• A few notes the digital aristocracy

• Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

• The cultural consequences of start-ups remaining private

• Platform capitalism and its interplanetary horizons

• The original sin of the digital utopians

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

• Techno-nationalism and technological innovation

• The Political Ontology of Platforms

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

• CfP: AI, Robotics and Responsibility

• Putting agents, ethics and politics at the heart of our account of platform capitalism

• Platform capitalism and the future of education

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

• Can we have platform capitalism without computational politics? 

• Exercising control over representations of yourself

• The quiet revolution of deindustrialization

• Who owns Digital Capitalism? Notes for the Platform Capitalism reading group

• ALW2: 2nd Workshop on Abusive Language Online

• Social Media and The Demotic Imaginary

• The epistemic privilege of platforms

• Social listening and reclaiming the future

• Trump and the ascent of the spiralists

• Content Producers: Incentives, Motivations, and Value Creation18

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

• The material interests of Big Tech

• The global fourth estate

• Social media and the half dozen grasshoppers 

• Google’s next billion users

• CFP: Alternative Social Media special issue of Social Media + Society

• Vested interests in ‘openness’

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

• What Happened? The end of modernisation

• CFP: Platform Urbanism

• The revolving door between Google and government

• The uncoupling of transgression from progress

• The rhetoric and reality of user generated content 

• Denaturalising digital capitalism

• The notion of a ‘playbook’

• The data warriors and the electoral wars they wage

• The dark future of mediatization

• From a politics of speed to a political sociology of speed

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

• Public intellectuals as guides to the political flux, Or, “who can tell us what the fuck is going on?”

• CfP: Japan in the Digital Age

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

• CfP Special Issue: The Platformization of Chinese Society

• The Sociology of Platforms

• What does distraction mean for political theory and political philosophy?

• The Ontology of Fake News

• The Uberfication of the University: the Digital Studienbuch and the 21st Century Privatdozent

• Collateral consequences 

• The ‘Sharing Economy’ as Disembedding Mechanism

• Digital labour and the epistemic fallacy 

• Donald Trump: Everyday Tactics of Post-Truth

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

• The Silicon Valley Narrative

• Abundance and austerity 

• The Good Intentions of Engineers

• Managing ‘us’ to preserve the myth

• Platform capitalism or sharing economy?

• Platform capitalism or sharing economy?

• The embedded digital economy 

• The duality of the platform: users and workers

• From the crowd-as-threat to crowd-as-resource 

• The knowledge economy and imagined freedom from material constraint 

• God View

• The Political Economy of Attention

• Building the cult of airbnb

• Performing your faith in the great disruptive project

• Technology, regulation and disruption

• Uber as a moral project

• The cultural lure of Silicon Valley

• Cultural representations of finance 

• “Open, good. Closed, bad. Tattoo it on your forehead”: Placing the technology sector in social and economic history

• The Banal Bullshit of Thomas Friedman

• The Evisceration of the Human

• Against ‘openness’

• The forward-facing ideology of technology: erasing history and context 

• ‘Disruption’ as the last refuge of the Third Way

• Two Visions of our Automated Retail Future

• Notes on Platform Capitalism

• The ontology of data, the ideology of data 

• Some thoughts on platform capitalism, cash hoarding, innovation and ideology

• Communism for the few

• Digital Capitalism and Guard Labour

• The Political Economy of the American South

• Towards a sociology of Pikettyville

• External economic relations and the norm of imbalance

• The concept of ‘social editor’

• The moralisation of insecurity and exploitation

• The “least resistant personality profile”

• Varoufakis on the monopoly power of platforms

• Ethical consumerism as self-exclusion

• Digital capitalism and concentration of ownership

• Colin Crouch on epochal theorising 

• The Antinomies of ‘Intelligence’

• The digital avoidance of difference