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CfP: Sharing and Storing: Everyday relationships with digital material
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Sharing and Storing: Everyday relationships with digital material Special Issue of New Media & Society Edited by Heather A. Horst The University of Sydney, Australia Jolynna Sinanan RMIT University, Australia Larissa Hjorth RMIT University, Australia Abstract Submission… Read More ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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Write for @DiscoverSoc
We welcome contributions that are research-based and meet our guidance for contributors. Potential contributions can be discussed in advance with the editors via a short ‘pitch’ sent to: discoversociety@outlook.com Guidance for contributors: The target audience is the informed, interested general reader,… Read More ›
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A Reflective Narrative: Black Diaspora in London & 13 Dead and Nothing Said
By Ola Dirisu Tate Britain Millbank, London: Exhibition Title: “Stan Firm Inna Inglan’: Black Diaspora in London, 1960-70s & Goldsmiths, University of London: Exhibition Title: “Vron Ware: 13 Dead and Nothing Said” Unsure of what to expect or how I would… Read More ›
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Reflective Narrative Essay of Two Photos observed at Stan Firm Inna Inglan’: Black Diaspora in London, 1960-70s Tate Britain
By Nikki Achilleous I have never sincerely felt a victim of racism; I have never fully been personally exposed to hatred. Whilst looking around the Black Diaspora in London exhibition in Tate Britain, I absorbed the trajectories of the intersecting generations… Read More ›
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A Critical Narrative; A sociological reflection upon two photographic exhibitions in London exploring race within the Black community
By Holly Wayman As the end of my undergraduate degree in sociology draws closer I am beginning to realise that although the teaching and endless hours in the library will stop, the outlook that all this has provided me certainly will… Read More ›
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Setting the Scene, Shifting the Lens: Reflections on my Students’ Reflective Narratives on Race and Racism
By Lambros Fatsis Earlier this year, I taught a module on the sociology of “race” and “ethnicity” with my beloved colleagues Bindi Shah, Pathik Pathak, and Luiz Valério P. Trindade; which was partly assessed by a reflective narrative that my… Read More ›
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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, 2018 2345 North Quad 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 In the last decade, politicians… Read More ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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CfP: Good Data book
Call for Proposals for an INC Theory on Demand edited book *Editors: Angela Daly (Queensland University of Technology), Kate Devitt (Queensland University of Technology) & Monique Mann (Queensland University of Technology).* In recent years, there has been an exponential increase… Read More ›
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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 ›
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CFP: The Digital Dissertation: History, Theory, Practice (an eBook & Database Project)
Call for Participation The Digital Dissertation: History, Theory, Practice A Database and eBook Project Virginia Kuhn, Kathie Gossett (eds.) Abstract submission: 12 January 2018 Humanities scholars recognize the growing importance of digital media in knowledge production and distribution. However, recognition… Read More ›
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CFP: Death Online Research Symposium
The 4th Symposium of the International Death Online Research Network will take place at The University of Hull, UK, August 15 – 17, 2018. The symposium will consolidate the links between existing and new members of the network and provide… Read More ›
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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 ›
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CFP for “Social Life of Time” 1st International Temporal Belongings conference due 17th November
The social life of time: power, discrimination and transformation The 1st Temporal Belongings International Conference Supported by the Wellcome Trust 5th – 7th June 2018, Edinburgh, Scotland Since 2011 the Temporal Belongings network has brought together scholars from across the arts, humanities… Read More ›
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Identity, belonging and activism in the 21st Century
CALL FOR PAPERS February 24, 2018 Venue: University of Nottingham Abstract Deadline: December 8, 2017 How do the pressures of austerity, migration and populism impact on identity and belonging in the 21st century? What is the emotional cost of maintaining… Read More ›
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Book Launch: Care and Policy Practices
Care and Policy Practices The Sociological Review Monograph Launch & Wine Reception Friday 10th November 2017, 17.45-19.30, followed by wine reception Senate House University Of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU The Court and Jessel Room, first floor of Senate House… Read More ›
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First Global Biophilia Summit
http://biophiliasummit.com First Global Biophilia Summit In partnership with www.pandisciplinary.net Call for Presentations Dates: May 21, 22 and 23, 2018 Location: Mount Mellary Monastery, County Waterford, Ireland Conference Fee: From €380 (Includes accommodation, all meals, tea/coffee breaks, and return transport from… Read More ›
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The most popular posts on sociological imagination
Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today How to write a good sociology essay (and not panic) Public Sociology Making the familiar strange 40 reasons why you should blog about your research The Sociological… Read More ›
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Announcing a community noticeboard for Sociology
A couple of months ago, I decided to put Sociological Imagination on hiatus after a contributing author posted something which left me unwilling to run a group blog without a proper editorial process. Since then I’ve been wondering what, if… Read More ›
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A note on this weekend’s post and the future of this blog
Over the weekend, Steve Fuller published a blog post which has understandably been the object of many complaints. Steve is one of a number of people who have accounts which enable them to post directly on the site, without the… Read More ›
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The Surplus of Objects
In Immaterialism, Graham Harman offers a provocative critique of Latour’s social theory, praising Actor-Network Theory as “the most important philosophical method to emerge since phenomenology in 1900” (pg. 1) while also regarding its account of objects as philosophically deficient. While he accepts the… Read More ›
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Engines of Knowledge in the First Information Age: The Library and the Text
By Hamish Robertson Introduction This is the final piece in this series for The Sociological Imagination and it comes full circle by focusing on one of the most obvious, even foundational, ‘factories’ of knowledge – the library. More specifically, the… Read More ›
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The poverty of student experience
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Boundaries and barbarians: ontological (in)security and the [cyber?] war on universities
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The populist right are demotic, rather than democratic
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Social morphogenesis: five years of inquiring into social change
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Denaturalising digital capitalism
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Graphic ethnography
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The Higher Groupthink: A Look at the Academic Spin Cycle in a Workshop
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