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  • The Geographical Dynamics of Winner-Takes-Most

  • Constraining the dreams of (aspiring) #digitalelites

  • The economic limitations of the attention economy

  • Something has ended and everyone can feel it

  • The future of digital corporate personhood

  • The limitations on learning to code as a labour market strategy

  • Designing platforms to mitigate power law effects

  • Against craft capitalism 

  • Biographical Approaches to Studying Digital Capitalism

  • The global ambitions of tech giants

  • The ideological function of open data

  • Facebook’s advertising campaign

  • Digital Market Populists as Intellectually Committed Chaos-Merchants

  • Interned Professionals and Defensive Elites

  • The Zero Marginal Cost Society

  • CfP: Anarchist Technologies Repair Manual

  • Digital capitalism and the imperative to be noticed 

  • A wonderful analogy by @Elinor_Carmi

  • Magical thinking as occupational opportunities contract 

  • Algorithmic pricing predates online retail

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

  • The infrastructural ambitions of technology companies

  • Fame and the content eco-system

  • Varoufakis on contemporary capitalism’s preposterous reversal of the truth

  • ‘Intelligence’ as an explanatory concept 

  • The EU: a flawed democracy whose failures are fuelling the rise of fascism?

  • The price fixing conspiracies of the platform economy 

  • The Scale of Data Brokerage

  • The Emergence of Digital Capitalism 

  • The myth of user generated content

  • Challenging Citizenship: Social Media and Big Data

  • The size of social networks and the size of nation states

  • The Sociology of Patent Trolling

  • It’s not you, it’s capitalism

  • #YesWeCode Initiative

  • The foundational lie of digital capitalism

  • Digital Capitalism and the Platform Wars

  • The Fatalism of the Multitude

  • Zygmunt Bauman’s Chronopolitics

  • Isomorphic Inequalities

  • Uber’s managed labor force

  • Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

  • Like air, ideas are incapable of being locked up and hoarded

  • Rich nations as entropy hubs 

  • Aaron Swartz on digital business models

  • What would a socialist version of Netflix look like?

  • A contagion of pivots reveals the hollowness of the sharing economy

  • A capitalism-friendly version of social mobility

  • an uncertain future (for other people’s jobs)

  • The Politics of the Platform Society

  • Why Digitalization is Prior to Financialization

  • The Politics of an Uncertain Future

  • Why I’m never buying another @Jawbone product & wonder if the wearables bubble will soon burst

  • The Pathology of the Super-Rich

  • CfP: Contemporary Political Youth Culture and Communication

  • The Coming Monopolies of Digital Capitalism

  • Engaging with participation, activism and technologies

  • Silicon Valley: The New Welfare State?

  • unpicking the political economy of digital cats

  • moderating social media and the challenge of normativity

  • The Epistemic Consequences of Technological Privilige

  • The Platform Wars

  • the reality of ‘20% time’ at Google

  • on ‘disruption’ and ‘innovation’

  • Eric Schmidt on the century of the data scientists

  • The politics and economics of Chinese new media industries

  • the failed promise of ‘cyber politics’, the empowerment of defensive elites and the death of liberal democracy

  • the feudal characteristics of tech firms 

  • The genesis of the PayPal Mafia

  • the political economy of outsourcing

  • WBS Paytech 2016: Technologies of Exchange in a Digital Economy

  • will capitalism die? or merely trundle on in an ever more authoritarian way?

  • The Ontology of Corporate Grievance

  • Moral Economies of the Digital

  • the winner-takes-all dynamic of digital capitalism

  • the geopolitics of phone sex

  • Dynamics of Virtual Work: Book series launch

  • Silicon Valley: The Invisible Trap. Evgeny Morozov on How to beat bureaucracy

  • technological drivers of institutional isomorphism

  • bureaucratic bloat as a defining feature of digital capitalism

  • how much time do workers spend worrying?

  • skill complementarity, skill substitution and skill debilitation 

  • Digital Health/Digital Capitalism One Day Conference CfP 4th July 2016

  • Mediatization: Digital Revolution and the Chinese Setting

  • CfP: Mediated (Dis)Continuities: Contesting Pasts, Presents and Futures

  • perspectives on the non-use of technology

  • defending human rights in a digital age

  • the grateful serfs of the sharing economy

  • images of the human in digital social science

  • “the easy hybridization of social network analysis and social psychology experimentation”

  • CfP: Data Literacy Special Issue

  • the two ontological orientations to technology prevalent within digital capitalism

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

  • peter thiel on the first silicon valley gold rush

  • the politics of stupidity

  • the next front in the war on ad blocking 

  • digital capitalism and the search for work

  • the origins of apple as a luxury goods company 

  • organisational minimalism

  • tech giants and the possibility of craft

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