June 8th, 12pm to 2pm, DMB 2S4 Faculty of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge In the fifth event in the Accelerated Academy series, the Cultural Politics and Global Justice cluster at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education hosts an afternoon seminar… Read More ›
Conferences 
Undisciplining: Conversations from the Edges
The Sociological Review are organising a conference unlike any other next month in Gateshead, UK. There will be sociological walks, a film festival, art work, participatory workshops, a diverse array of plenary sessions and much more. It will be preceded by… Read More ›
Platform Capitalism Reading Group at the University of Cambridge
In recent discussions of capitalist transformation, the notion of the ‘platform’ has come to play a prominent role in conceptualising our present circumstances and imagining our potential futures. There are many criticisms which can be raised of the platform metaphor,… Read More ›
Bourdieusian Field Analysis Training: Theoretical Basis and Empirical Applications
7th and 8th June 2018, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Bourdieusian field analysis continues to make a key contribution to both the theory and methodology of cultural sociology. The approach not only utilizes a relational sociological analysis of complex cultural patterns… Read More ›
FUTURESEX 2018: University of Surrey, 27th-28th June
We seek to interrogate the shifting norms of sex, gender and sexuality, while questioning how research methodologies can properly attend to these shifts. The conference’s focus straddles historical, contemporary and future imaginations, and thus encourages interdisciplinary contributions. The conference will… Read More ›
CfP – Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Post-Capitalism? Conference, London, 11 May 2018
The Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Post-Capitalism? King’s College London, 11 May 2018 This international conference aims at exploring the digital economy, understood as the new forms of production, work, consumption, distribution, and finance ushered in by the diffusion of digital… Read More ›
Digital Cultures: Knowledge / Culture / Technology
International Conference / Leuphana University of Lüneburg 19–22 September 2018, Lüneburg, Germany co-hosted by the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC), Leuphana University of Lüneburg, and the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Western Sydney University, as part of the Knowledge/Culture… Read More ›
CfP: Using Creative & Visual Methods in Comparative Research
A one-day seminar funded by the International Journal for Social Research Methodology Friday, 15th June, University of Surrey CALL FOR PAPERS Keynote speakers: Agata Lisiak (Bard College, Berlin) and Rita Chawla-Duggan (University of Bath Increasing use is made of both creative… Read More ›
Answering social science questions with social media data
March 8th, 2018 9:30am to 5:00pm Wellcome Collection, London After last year’s successful ‘Introduction to tools for social media research’, the SRA and #NSMNSS are teaming up again to deliver this one-day conference. As social media research matures as a… Read More ›
CfP Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation Workshop 2018
6th Annual CPERI Workshop, 29-30 July 2018 Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University, UK We cordially invite submissions to the 6th workshop on the Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation (CPERI), following previous events at Lancaster (2012), Toronto (2013),… Read More ›
Understanding the political economy of digital technology
A BSA Digital Sociology Study Group event hosted by the Web Science conference at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam May 27th 2018 In more optimistic times we thought of ourselves as masters of digital technology: we told ourselves it was empowering, liberating,… Read More ›
Answering social science questions with social media data, March 8th in London
After last year’s successful ‘Introduction to tools for social media research’, the SRA and #NSMNSS network are teaming up again on 8 March to deliver a one-day conference in London on ‘Answering social science questions with social media data’. What… Read More ›
CfP: Marketization and the digital economy
Submissions are now open for SASE’s 30th annual conference, Global Reordering: Prospects for Equality, Democracy and Justice, hosted by Doshisha University from 23-25 June 2018. This is for a special section on digitalisation: Global reordering in the economy is occurring… Read More ›
Answering social science questions with social media data
What role can social media research play in the social sciences? What are the questions it can help us to answer? Speakers from a range of backgrounds will talk about their experiences of using social media in their research, providing… Read More ›
CfP: Articulating Voice
The Philosophy, Theory and Critique (PTC) Division of the International Communication Association Event date: 24 May 2018, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Prague, Czech Republic Deadline for proposals: 10 January words abstract) Location: Main Conference Hotel Organizers: Christian… Read More ›
CfP New Research Network: ‘Alternatives to Capitalism’
Dear colleagues, Attached you find the call for papers for the annual conference of our newly established research network on ‘Alternatives to Capitalism’, which is part of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) and will run for five… Read More ›
CfP: Accelerated Academy
Accelerated Academy #4 Academic Timescapes: Perspectives, Reflections, Responsibilities May 24-25, Villa Lanna, Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences After meetings in Prague, Warwick and Leiden, the fourth Accelerated Academy conference calls for a more nuanced perspective in order to advance our… Read More ›
CFP: Diagrams (Edinburgh, 18-22 June 2018)
The 10th conference DIAGRAMS will take place in Edinburgh on 18-22 June 2018. It will include presentations of refereed Papers, Abstracts, and Posters, alongside tutorials, workshop sessions, and a graduate symposium. It provides a united forum for all areas concerned… Read More ›
CFP: 8th Annual What is…? Conference
WHAT IS UNIVERSE? COMMUNICATION • COMPLEXITY • COHERENCE April 19-21, 2018 * University of Oregon in Portland, USA The _WHAT IS UNIVERSE?_ [1] (2018) conference-experience examines communication, complexity/simplicity, coherence/incoherence and, how they may or may not contribute to “a pluralistic… Read More ›
Undisciplining: Conversations at the Edges
Undisciplining: Conversations at the Edges The BALTIC, Gateshead, UK; 19-21st June 2018 Call for Participation In 2018 The Sociological Review will be hosting our largest conference to date! This is a long-overdue celebration of our renewed commitment to fostering collaborations and dialogues… Read More ›
Helen Margetts: How social media (and other platforms) can promote equality in 2027
Thu 16 November 2017, 18:30 – 20:00 GMT Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Professor Helen Margetts, director of the prestigious Oxford Internet Institute, presents her personal, positive vision – and then leads discussion – on how the UK’s social media can… Read More ›
CfP ‘Data Justice’, Cardiff University, 21-22 May 2018
Date: 21-22 May 2018 Location: Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Host: Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Submission deadline: 27 November! The collection and processing of massive amounts of data has become an increasingly contentious issue. Our financial transactions, communications,… Read More ›
Call for speakers: Answering social science questions with social media data
Thursday 8th March 2018, The Wellcome Collection, London, NW1 2BE After several successful events, we’re pleased to say that the NSMNSS network (http://nsmnss.blogspot.co.uk/) and Social Research Association (www.the-sra.org.uk) are again teaming up to deliver a one-day conference on ‘Answering social science… Read More ›
Call for Submissions: Politicians and Social Media in the Global South
*Call for Submissions* *Politicians and Social Media in the Global South* A seminar/workshop at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Date: April 14, North Quad 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 In the last decade, politicians… Read More ›
CFP – 11th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome
CALL FOR PAPERS 11th INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE OF ROME May 10-12, 2018 John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago The John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago is hosting the 11th international conference on Critical Theory of… Read More ›
Call for papers: Intimacies online, online intimacies
Call for papers: Intimacies online, online intimacies We are delighted to announce this international conference about intimacy online, digitally mediated intimacies and how intimacies influence (new) mediascapes. Online media are increasingly intersecting and intertwined with our daily lives, bodily and… Read More ›
Reimagining the Cooperative: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
Convenors Corinna Howland (University of Cambridge) Patrick O’Hare (University of Cambridge) Summary The cooperative has proved to be a remarkably enduring and adaptive organizational form. With roots in the Industrial Revolution and with its current iterations persisting in/in spite of the… Read More ›
Call for papers: Applying the Capabilities Approach to Media and Communications
CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 2018 PRECONFERENCE Applying the Capabilities Approach to Media and Communications May 24, 2018 Venue: Main Conference Hotel Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2017 Recent years have seen a growing interest in the concept of… Read More ›