88% of the self-generated, sexually explicit online images and videos of young people their analysts encountered had been taken from their original location and uploaded onto other websites, shows a recent study by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). Read the… Read More ›
Archive for October 2012
Charles Wright Mills documentary
A short documentary on C. Wright Mills life, theories, accomplishments, and impacts on society. Not exactly the slickest film you’re likely to find on the internet but a useful and sympathetic overview of his work.
The Sociology of Animals and Why It Matters
In this podcast, originally recorded for Sociology@Warwick, Bob Carter and Nickie Charles discuss their new book Humans and Other Animals. A paper on this subject written by Nickie Charles is available online here.
Academia 2.0
“Academia 2.0” on Bundlr
C. Wright Mills’ Pragmatism
Often when speaking of post-war developments in pragmatism, many people tend to focus on the philosophy of the latter Wittgenstein or Rorty. However, such an exclusive focus tends to eclipse other notable contributions. In Cornel West’s genealogy of pragmatism, C…. Read More ›
Foucault, Biopolitics and Critique
In this podcast, originally recorded for Sociology@Warwick, Claire Blencowe talks about her new book Biopolitical Experience: Biopolitical Experience offers an original and comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics – situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and… Read More ›
Top Ten Tips: Preparing to Publish
There’s a ton of advice out there for PhD students and ECRs on getting published, from choosing a journal to improving your academic writing. Here are my top tips for useful things to do BEFORE you start writing; so if… Read More ›
International Number Ones
Click on the image below to explore this visualisation of international number ones (as the people behind it point out: every country is the best at something!) from the wonderful website Information is Beautiful.
Cleansing the Doors of Perception
This rather striking self-portrait is part of an even more striking project. Artist Brian Lewis Saunders, who is rather keen on self-portraits more generally, undertook an experiment in artistic perception: he took a different drug every day and drew himself… Read More ›
Call for Micro Podcasts
Over the last couple of years we’ve hosted a lot of podcasts on Sociological Imagination. However thus far all of them have been produced by us. We’d like to host some by you as well! Specifically micro podcasts on any… Read More ›
Call for Contributions: what does the Sociological Imagination mean today?
It has been over 50 years since C. Wright Mills wrote the Sociological Imagination. In that time the world has changed beyond recognition: the Cold War ended, the Keynesian consensus broke down, a globalizing neoliberalism rose to the ascendancy and… Read More ›
Getting Started: Social Media for Academics
“Getting Started: Social Media for Academics” on Bundlr
Intergenerational Justice (and WHY U NO TALK ABOUT CLASS!)
In this great podcast from Resonance FM Seth Wheeler and Aaron Peters discuss intergenerational justice and its relationship to class analysis with the Guardian’s Shiv Malik. Shiv is on the advisory board for the Intergenerational Justice Foundation and is the co-author, with Ed Howker,… Read More ›
“You ask for what one should be keyed up?”
“You ask for what one should be keyed up? My god, for long weekends in the country, and snow and the feel of an idea and New York streets early in the morning and late at night and the camera eye always… Read More ›
Turning Research into Film
The short, professionally made film Rufus Stone is the key output of the three-year ‘Gay and Pleasant Land?’ research project led by Bournemouth University academic, Dr Kip Jones. The stories that form the foundation of the script for Rufus Stone are entirely… Read More ›
Experience with MOOCs – Week One
There’s been a fair amount of interest in the rise of MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – in the HE ether recently, debating whether such online courses – where thousands of students can register, and participate via video lectures and… Read More ›
Using NVivo: a one day crash course for qualitative researchers, Fri 9th Nov
9:30am to 5:30pm, Friday 9th November at the Manchester Digital Laboratory Suitable for complete beginners or those who need a refresher, this intensive one day course will cover all the core functionality of NVivo: An overview of the software Managing and… Read More ›
What does it mean to be a public intellectual in a digital age?
“What does it mean to be a public intellectual in a digital age?” on Bundlr
A quick thought about Jiscmail
Do you administer a JISCMail? I administer two: asexuality-discuss and socialmedia-discuss. Though I’m bad at administering them and, partly for this reason, nothing much happens on them. This is a shame because my initial motivation still stands: I thought there was inadequate dialogue… Read More ›
Top Ten Ideas for starting points for Social Science seminars
It’s pretty much impossible to start a debate with “Topic X. Discuss.” An interesting, controversial or downright unusual source is a great way of getting things going – introduce it at the beginning, show it on screen or pass copies… Read More ›
The Accidental Sociologist is feeling rather unsociological….
In these first few weeks of ‘transitioning’ the main thing I’ve noticed is the lack of anything spectacularly new. SPSS looks just like Excel, I did most of the qualitative methods course in my PGCE and social theory is basically… Read More ›
Exploring the Emergence of Underground Musical Worlds
In this podcast from the Sociology@Warwick Seminar Series in May 2012, Nick Crossley from Manchester University discusses his use of social network analysis to explore the early development of punk and post-punk musical worlds in the UK. Read more about this research here and here…. Read More ›
Top Ten Tips for PhDs starting to teach
If you’re new to it, standing in front of your first seminar class can be a terrifying prospect. As a new PhD student last year, I was thrown in at the deep end with two seminar groups a week on… Read More ›
Call For Papers: 2013 CES Conference (European Studies)
20th International Conference of Europeanists Share on email Share on print Proposal Deadline Extended! Deadline now: October 15, 2012 Crisis and Contingency: States of (In)stability University of Amsterdam • Amsterdam, The Netherlands • June 25-27, 2013 http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/files/Calls/2013_Conf-Call.pdf
The simplest (and most effective?) campaign ad ever
Given the postmodernist panache which has characterised Barack Obama’s ascent to the summit of US politics (not to mention the terrifying amounts of money which have gone into this most recent contest already) there seems something curious, anachronistic even, about the uncomplicated nature of… Read More ›