• The Celebrity Millionaires of Competitive Gaming

• Data science for progressive governance

• Are exploitative professors breaking the law by recruiting student interns?

• Magical thinking as occupational opportunities contract 

• A sign of how messed up expectations about taxation have become in the last few decades

• What would experimental closure look like outside of a lab?

• Algorithmic pricing predates online retail

• A behavioural economic critique of Uber’s surge pricing

• Elon Musk responds to the satirisation of #DigitalElites in Silicon Valley

• The Internal Conversations of Behavioural Scientists

• Laziness as a virtue 

• Billionaires are people, too

• What is Digital Hygiene?

• Digital Social Science and the Challenge of Reflexivity

• From the mass surveillance state to techno-fascism

• What do universities know about our sexual orientations?

• The Moral Reasoning of Edward Snowden

• The Invention of Lifestyle

• What Donald Trump’s business strategies suggest about his presidency 

• “The second I walk through those doors, all my problems go away. The second I leave them, my problems are back”

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

• The infrastructural ambitions of technology companies

• Surveillance and the Public Sphere: confronting a democratic dilemma

• How do Americans define the sharing economy?

• Fame and the content eco-system

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

• ‘Intelligence’ as an explanatory concept 

• Funding third-party lawsuits as a tool of defensive elites

• Against lists of academic publications

• The Fragile Movements of Late Modernity

• The threat of pseudo-activity

• Before Bourdieu, there was Orwell

• WordPress owns the Internet

• Peter Thiel secretly backed Hulk Hogan

• Zizek on the impossibility of anarchism 

• Social Media and Academic Labour, June 27th in Leeds

• Sublime imagined unity as a political factor

• The Psychoanalytics of Temporising

• The paradox of personalisation 

• Reclaiming ‘aspiration’ for the left 

• The lonely monads of digital capitalism

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

• The price fixing conspiracies of the platform economy 

• The Emergence of Digital Capitalism 

• Data Fetishism

• The ontology of data

• Overlapping categories and the problem of abundance

• Coping with acceleration: triaging strategies and the new empiricism

• The misleading concept of ‘the blogosphere’

• The Utopian Promise of Cyberspace

• Critiquing ‘virtuality’

• Conceptualising ‘distraction’

• Open research projects

• The King of Kong: a documentary about celebrity gamers

• My highlights from #RPten (and the most interesting stuff I missed)

• Predictive analytics and the intensification of work

• The Accelerative Ethos of Steve Jobs

• A cautionary tale for independent researchers

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

• What happens in an internet minute?

• What would techno-fascist punishment look like?

• Imposing impossible demands as a management strategy

• Using social media to map scholarly literatures

• It’s not you, it’s capitalism

• The Discursive Preconditions for the Acceleration of Publishing, or, Why Scholasticism and Positivism are Now Everwhere

• Computational Social Science and the Collapse of Sociology

• Lucy Powell on Conservative anti-Semitism in the last election

• The Social Life of Theory: Partiality, Conflict and Innovation

• Jeffrey Alexander on the Individualist’s Dillema

• Obama’s Best Comebacks and Rebuttals

• The Entlastung of the Quantified Self

• Citizen science as the mass recruitment of shadow research assistants 

• Has there ever been a Presidential hopeful who has appeared in so many tacky TV adverts?

• The creepiness of ‘networking’ discourse and the WikiHow-ification of academic career advice

• Seeing Like a University: The Need for an Academic Caesar

• The Liberal Imagination of Barack Obama

• What does Economic Sociology have to say about declining productivity?

• Capitalism will eat democracy – unless we speak up

• neo-progressive cat contemplates own existence

• The Bechdel test for tech conferences

• “Please, sir, may I go home?”

• Sustaining your focus throughout the working day

• Defensive Elites: understanding the 0.1%

• BIG QUALIDATA: Tackling Analysis of Very Large Volumes of Qualitative Data in Social Science Researc

• The normalisation of the revolving door in U.S. Politics

• The Self-Understandings of Technocratic Elites

• Steve Fuller on information overload

• How will social media transform #highered?

• Re-orienting Sociological Thought: May 11th at @CardiffSOCSI

• Against the ‘slow professor’

• Is there a point of no return with entrenched elites?

• Digital Capitalism and the Platform Wars

• The Fatalism of the Multitude

• Photos from protests in Reykjavik

• Isomorphic Inequalities

• Bauman’s weirdly illiquid conception of liquidity, or, what happens when you confuse ontology and epistemology

• What people who ordered Social Media for Academics also bought

• The Aristocracy of the Digital Celebrities and the Magical Thinking That Props It Up

• How to ‘network’ without chipping away at your soul

• Slack and Basecamp for Academics