An engaging, accessible and long overdue documentary recently shown on the BBC:
Archive for December 2016
Queering Social Media Research – ICWSM Workshop
***CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*** In occasion of the International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), we invite position papers and statements of interest for the workshop QUEERING SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCH – ENGAGING WITH SEXUAL, GENDER, AND RELATIONAL DIVERSITY. This full-day… Read More ›
‘Transhumanism and the Future of Capitalism’
On Wednesday 11th January 2017 the Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Research Group are hosting the following event: ‘Transhumanism and the Future of Capitalism’ Prof. Steve Fuller (Warwick University) 4 – 6pm, Wed. 11th January 2017, 112 Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham. Abstract:… Read More ›
CfP: The Politics of Gender
*Call for Papers: The Politics of Gender* *Accepted for the Teaching Gender Series at Sense Publishing. * *Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Ph.D., editor.* This book will serve as a primary or supplementary text for courses focused on the ways gender and politics… Read More ›
Five propositions about #publicsociology
The meaning of ‘public sociology’ is not always self-evident and the enthusiasm of the impulse expressed through the term can cloud its meaning yet further. We need to be clear about what we are doing and why. This clarity can… Read More ›
Chronosolidarity
In Work’s Intimacy, Melissa Gregg pays much attention to the challenge faced by part-time workers in knowledge industries. Many of her participants within this category reported regularly finding themselves checking e-mail outside of their paid hours, something they saw as necessary… Read More ›
What is ‘the literature’?
My experience of watching the literature on asexuality spiral from a handful of papers ever through to new ones each month has left me fascinated by how quickly ‘the literature’ can become unmanageable. Within a relatively small and nascent field,… Read More ›
Social Media and Public Sociology
It can seem obvious that there’s some relationship between social media and public sociology. After all, these are platforms which offer free, instantaneous and immediate access to audiences ranging from the tens of millions to the billions. However unpacking the relationship… Read More ›
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Integration, British Values and the Genealogy of Norms
by Tanzil Chowdhury Dame Louise Casey’s recent independent review ‘into integration and opportunity in our most isolated and deprived communities’ has been widely criticised, primarily for focussing its lens on Muslim ‘immiscibility’ rather than structural racism and regurgitating old orientalist-stereotypes… Read More ›
Essay Competition: Crossing Disciplinary Borders and Into the Future
The Sociological Review is running an essay competition for early career researchers. See here for more details.
The Affectivity of the Nascent Tyrant
By far the best film I’ve seen this year was The Childhood of a Leader. It recounts a number of episodes in the life of a nascent tyrant, exploring the emergence of what is hinted to be a boundless rage that… Read More ›
Call for Abstracts: Research Impact and the Early Career Researcher
The incorporation of impact into the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) has led to a step change in the way in which much research is now approached in the UK.With a focus on demonstrating the cultural, economic, and social benefits… Read More ›
Towards a sociology of Pikettyville
From this fascinating paper by Roger Burrows, Richard Webber and Rowland Atkinson: To talk of ‘Pikettyville’ is then to conjure up an image of an urban system that has become hardwired to adopting, channelling and inviting excesses of social and economic… Read More ›
A conversation with Peter Walsh about Zygmunt Bauman, Academic Celebrity and Social Theory
In 2014 Peter Walsh identified extensive self-plagiarism (as well as some actual plagiarism) in Zygmunt Bauman’s work and made his findings public. He was subject to some remarkable attacks by senior figures (including Brad Evans and Henry Giroux invoking the image… Read More ›
The Return of School Discipline – why children should be free.
by Deborah Talbot No, not canes and shouting, but something altogether more subtle and certainly troubling. It has been reported that St George the Martyr Primary School in London has a policy whereby children, when they walk in corridors, have… Read More ›
Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Activism, Research & Critique in the Age of Big Data Capitalism. The 6th ICTs and Society Conference
Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Activism, Research & Critique in the Age of Big Data Capitalism The 6th ICTs and Society Conference http://www.icts-and-society.net May 20-21, 2017 University of Westminster, London Hosted by the Westminster Institute for Advanced… Read More ›
No longer praying at the altar of virality
An important idea offered by Mike Caulfield. The embrace of frictionless sharing and the relentless pursuit of engagement have created the problems which are now being naturalised by the emerging ‘did Facebook lead to Trump’ discourse: We have prayed at… Read More ›
Living with theoretical pluralism
How do we live with theoretical pluralism? It’s too often a matter of ‘peace treaties’, avoiding fights by moving disagreements off-stage. But if we do this then are we really occupying the same argumentative space? I don’t think we are… Read More ›
Understanding Brexit: Inequality, Inclusion & Social Justice
THURSDAY 26th JANUARY, 6-8pm Impact Hub Birmingham, 58 Oxford Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5NR An open town hall event to understand ‘Brexit’ in terms of issues of inequality, inclusion and social justice. Panellists: Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham City University) Gurminder K Bhambra (University of… Read More ›
Call for papers: Research Methods for Digital Work
Research Methods for Digital Work: Innovative Methods for Studying Distributed and Multi-modal Working Practices Call for participation University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 25-26 May 2017 As digital technologies have matured, various forms of distributed working have become commonplace. The contemporary… Read More ›
The Sociological Review’s coverage of #Election2016
A rich series of essays reflecting on the US Election and Donald Trump: available here.
The @_ISRF Early Career Fellowship Competition
The Independent Social Research Foundation wishes to support independent-minded researchers to explore and present original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems. More information: http://www.isrf.org/funding-opportunities/grant-competitions/ecf4/
Squeezing Us ‘Till It Hurts: Motherhood, Discrimination, and Universities
by Deborah Talbot The Final Report of the Equalities Review, published by Equalities Commission in 2007, reviewed a range of persistent inequalities including those that affect women. It argued that, ‘…new research reveals clearly that there is one factor that… Read More ›
Sociological Catalysts and Operationalising Theory in Practice
by Yusef Bakkali Life as an academic can be a lonely and alienating calling at the best of times; lots of time spent inside one’s own head reflecting on a world playing out someplace beyond the indiscernible turrets and bulwarks… Read More ›
A conversation with Gary Hall about pirate philosophy, academic celebrity and social theory
In this interview, Gary Hall argues that if we are to move to a post-capitalist society, we need to experiment with new ways of being and doing that are based less on ideas of self-centred individualism, competition and celebrity, and… Read More ›
Wolfgang Streeck on The Five Disorders of Capitalism
In this talk at Goldsmith PERC, Wolfgang Streeck discusses ‘How Will Capitalism End?’:
The @TheSocReview Seminar Series Competition
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Next week in Oxford: Digital Sociology v STS
Wednesday 7th December 2016, 13:00 The Oxford Internet Institute 1st Giles Oxford, OX1 3JS The concept of Digital Sociology has been in circulation for around five years now. But if the British Sociological Association’s annual conference is anything to go by,… Read More ›