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• Call for papers: Social Media for Learning in HE Conference 2017

  By Mark Carrigan on June 5, 2017 • ( 0 )

  #SocMedHE17: Making an impact Tuesday 19th December 2017 at Sheffield Hallam University The third social media for learning in HE conference: #SocMedHE17: Making an impact,  considers the role that social media – when used in formal and informal learning contexts – can… Read More ›

• What is a wonk?

  By Mark Carrigan on June 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  What is a wonk? It’s a deceptively simple question which it’s worth us attending to. This is the answer given in an excellent Baffler essay by Emmett Rensin: What, after all, is a wonk? It is not the same thing… Read More ›

• What is it like when interviews go well?

  By Mark Carrigan on June 3, 2017 • ( 3 )

  I thought this was a lovely description on pg 8 of Sherry Turkle’s Reclaiming the Conversation: When things go right, the social scientist’s interview becomes an open, easy exchange. This often happens after trust has been established, when the researcher’s notebook… Read More ›

• The Future of Esports: Challenging Work and Gender Issues in the UK’s Professional Computer Gaming Industry

  By Mark Carrigan on June 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Part of the Sociological Review Research Seminar Series Funded by The Sociological Review Foundation Wednesday, 16th August 2017 Ground Floor, ‘MadLab’, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN ‘Esports’ or electronic sports is the umbrella term for organised, competitive computer gaming… Read More ›

• Happy birthday to us

  By Mark Carrigan on June 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  We’re seven years old today

• Universities, neoliberalisation, and the (im)possibility of critique

  By Mark Carrigan on May 31, 2017 • ( 0 )

  By Jana Bacevic Last Friday in April, I was at a conference entitled Universities, neoliberalisation and (in)equality at Goldsmiths, University of London. It was an one-day event featuring presentations and interventions from academics who work on understanding, and criticising, the… Read More ›

• Aspiration Anxieties: Developing Middle-Class Masculinities among Black African boys in London

  By Sadia Habib on May 30, 2017 • ( 0 )

  By Derron O. Wallace In post-Brexit Britain, who considers the impact of the aspiration agenda on ethnic minority young people –particularly Black boys? What is the role of Black boys in building the ‘aspiration nation’? Better still, what is the… Read More ›

• Policy Logics, Counter-Narratives, and New Directions: Boys and Schooling in a Neoliberal Age

  By Sadia Habib on May 30, 2017 • ( 0 )

  By Konstanze Spohrer and Garth Stahl In this chapter we argue for approaches to researching and imagining aspiration that reflect the complexities of masculinities. We suggest that future academic work on boys’ aspirations adopts an intersectional approach to considering the… Read More ›

• “Gotta get that laziness out of me”: Negotiating masculine aspirational subjectivities in the transition from school to university in Australia

  By Sadia Habib on May 30, 2017 • ( 1 )

    by Sue Nichols and Garth Stahl Aspiration is centrally concerned with becoming, and inherently frames the present in terms of the future desired self. The moment at which a young person graduates from school is a nexus point for aspirational… Read More ›

• Conference: Social Mobility, Aspirations, Education and White Working-Class Youth: Urban, Rural and Coastal Contexts

  By Sadia Habib on May 30, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  A BSA Sociology of Education Study Group One-Day Conference in association with the Faculty of Education, Canterbury Christ Church University. 5 July 2017 At Canterbury Christ Church University, UK PROGRAMME This one-day conference, supported by the BSA’s Education Study Group, focuses… Read More ›

• What’s the difference between academia and politics?

  By Mark Carrigan on May 30, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In his wonderful memoir, Adults In The Room, Yanis Varoufakis reflects on the frustrations of politics and how they compare to academia. From loc 5504: Possibly because of my academic background, this was the Brussels experience I least expected and found most frustrating…. Read More ›

• Call for Participants: The Practice of Social Theory

  By Mark Carrigan on May 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  First Cambridge summer school in social theory University of Cambridge, Department of Sociology, 4-6 September 2017 Conveners: Jana Bacevic (University of Cambridge) and Mark Carrigan (The Sociological Review) Passionate about social theory? Want to learn more about how it is… Read More ›

• CfP: Online Othering: Exploring the Dark Side of the Web

  By Mark Carrigan on May 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Call for Papers – Edited Collection Online Othering: Exploring the Dark Side of the Web Editors: Dr Karen Lumsden (Loughborough University) and Dr Emily Harmer (University of Liverpool) The Internet plays a vital role in many aspects of our social,… Read More ›

• Making an Impact with Social Media, July 5th in Manchester

  By Mark Carrigan on May 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Social media offers for exciting opportunities for generating impact and communicating research beyond the academy. However, 500 million tweets and 3 million blog posts that are generated in a single day, as well as over a billion websites, pose an obvious challenge: how… Read More ›

• A conversation with Daniel Chernilo about Philosophical Sociology

  By Mark Carrigan on May 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In this podcast I talk to Daniel Chernilo about philosophical sociology. This is a subject that has long fascinated me as someone who moved from philosophy to sociology as a postgraduate. Find out more in his new book.

• Making an Impact with Social Media

  By Mark Carrigan on May 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Many researchers are excited about the potential social media offers for making an impact with their work. However 500 million tweets per day, 3 million blog posts per day and over a billion websites poses an obvious challenge: how can… Read More ›

• The causal powers of media

  By Mark Carrigan on May 27, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In The Mediated Construction of Social Reality, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp take issue with the primacy of face-to-face interaction that has so often been assumed within social thought. Our embodied interaction is taken to be primary, often assumed to be… Read More ›

• Adventures in Peer Review Land: The Micro-structure of Academic Intellectual Property Transfer

  By Steve Fuller on May 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  I serve on the editorial board of several journals. In one such journal, the custom is to circulate all the articles that passed the external review process so that the board can officially give its approval for publication. We get… Read More ›

• Special Issue on Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data

  By Mark Carrigan on May 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Call for Papers: Special Issue on Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data We welcome manuscripts from scholars across the social and computer sciences, and are particularly interested in research from teams of authors from both domains of inquiry. Please submit… Read More ›

• A conversation with Dave Elder-Vass about the Digital Economy

  By Mark Carrigan on May 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In this podcast I talk to Dave Elder-Vass about his new book, Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy. Find out more about his research here.

• Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy

  By Mark Carrigan on May 24, 2017 • ( 0 )

  What does it mean for policy to be insulated from politics? That’s the question we ultimately confront when investigating the putative depoliticisation of the economy. Matters which should be publicly resolved, through organised processes of contestation, instead get decided privately…. Read More ›

• What will Macron be like in government?

  By Mark Carrigan on May 23, 2017 • ( 0 )

  I happened to be reading this page of Yanis Varoufakis’ political memoir a few moments before Macron’s near certain victory was announced. From loc 3398: Emmanuel Macron listened actively and engaged directly, his eyes radiant and ready to display his… Read More ›

• Do you want your research to produce more impact?

  By Mark Carrigan on May 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Do you want your research to produce more impact? Many researchers are excited about the potential social media offers for generating impact but with 500 million tweets per day, 3 million blog posts per day and over a billion websites… Read More ›

• Undisciplined Methods at the University of Brighton

  By Mark Carrigan on May 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Come and join us down by the seaside for two days of methodical undisciplining. 31st May – 1st June at the University of Brighton. We will be investigating alternative ways of creating and understanding with words, images and bodies through… Read More ›

• Critical Perspectives in the Age of Big Data

  By Mark Carrigan on May 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Call for Papers ECREA Symposium Digital Democracy: Critical Perspectives in the Age of Big Data 10-11 November 2017, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden Joint Conference of two ECREA Sections: Communication and Democracy; and Media Industries and Cultural Production Abstract Deadline 1… Read More ›

• How can Arendt and Heidegger help us think about distraction?

  By Mark Carrigan on May 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In his Debating Humanity, Daniel Chernilo compares the approaches taken by Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt to the question of thinking. Both began with the philosophical tradition’s opposition between thinking and action: in this sense it implies withdrawal in some sense, relative to… Read More ›

• The Liberated Mathematician Stands Up to Gender and Race Inequality in Academia

  By Milena Kremakova on May 21, 2017 • ( 1 )

  This week, Dr. Piper Harron, mathematics professor based at the University of Hawaii, and a vocal feminist and supporter of under-represented groups in the academic mathematics community, published a provocative blogpost on the website of the AMS (American Mathematical Society), in… Read More ›

• The Politics of Agency

  By Mark Carrigan on May 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Ever since I was a philosophy student, I’ve been interested in how we conceptualise individuals and groups. The two are connected in my mind because, if groups are composed of individuals, our concept of individuals is going to condition our… Read More ›

• Help us forge UK applied sociology

  By Mark Carrigan on May 19, 2017 • ( 0 )

  by Nick Fox and Marguerite Regan For the past 18 months, the British Sociological Association (BSA) group Sociologists outside Academia (SOA) has been focusing on the potential for careers working as applied or practical sociologists, beyond the traditional remits of… Read More ›

• Public Engagement and Social Media

  By Mark Carrigan on May 19, 2017 • ( 2 )

  There’s a really important piece in the LSE Impact Blog by Philip Moriarty describing his experiences using social media for public engagement. In many ways he has been the embodiment of the engaged academic, driven by a sense of responsibility… Read More ›

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