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 ›
Archive for January 2018
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 ›
Norm Circles and Social Fields
By Tom Mills In a recent article for the British Journal of Sociology I offered a critical, and for the most part sympathetic, engagement with Actor Network Theory (ANT) in which I focused particularly on Bruno Latour’s provocative critique of… Read More ›