The Sociological Imagination

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• Undisciplining: Conversations from the Edges

  By Mark Carrigan on May 30, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The Sociological Review are organising a conference unlike any other next month in Gateshead, UK. There will be sociological walks, a film festival, art work, participatory workshops, a diverse array of plenary sessions and much more. It will be preceded by… Read More ›

• After eight years, we are closing down the blog

  By Mark Carrigan on March 26, 2018 • ( 0 )

  We’re going to be taking our blog offline within the next couple of months. We’ll be compiling an eBook of highlights over the eight years we were active but please take this opportunity to save anything more ephemeral which you… Read More ›

• Crowd Sourcing the Advertising of the Accelerated Academy

  By Mark Carrigan on March 22, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I’m currently trying to collate a wide selection of examples of university advertising in the UK at the Accelerated Academy Instagram feed. Would you like to take part? Just ping me an e-mail with a photo of advertising for UK… Read More ›

• Announcing a community noticeboard for Sociology

  By Mark Carrigan on October 29, 2017 • ( 3 )

  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 ›

• Platform Capitalism Reading Group at the University of Cambridge

  By Mark Carrigan on April 4, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  In recent discussions of capitalist transformation, the notion of the ‘platform’ has come to play a prominent role in conceptualising our present circumstances and imagining our potential futures. There are many criticisms which can be raised of the platform metaphor,… Read More ›

• Bourdieusian Field Analysis Training: Theoretical Basis and Empirical Applications

  By Mark Carrigan on March 26, 2018 • ( 0 )

  7th and 8th June 2018, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Bourdieusian field analysis continues to make a key contribution to both the theory and methodology of cultural sociology. The approach not only utilizes a relational sociological analysis of complex cultural patterns… Read More ›

• FUTURESEX 2018: University of Surrey, 27th-28th June

  By Mark Carrigan on March 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  We seek to interrogate the shifting norms of sex, gender and sexuality, while questioning how research methodologies can properly attend to these shifts. The conference’s focus straddles historical, contemporary and future imaginations, and thus encourages interdisciplinary contributions. The conference will… Read More ›

• CfP – Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Post-Capitalism? Conference, London, 11 May 2018

  By Mark Carrigan on February 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

  The Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Post-Capitalism? King’s College London, 11 May 2018 This international conference aims at exploring the digital economy, understood as the new forms of production, work, consumption, distribution, and finance ushered in by the diffusion of digital… Read More ›

• Digital Cultures: Knowledge / Culture / Technology

  By Mark Carrigan on February 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

  International Conference / Leuphana University of Lüneburg 19–22 September 2018, Lüneburg, Germany co-hosted by the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC), Leuphana University of Lüneburg, and the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Western Sydney University, as part of the Knowledge/Culture… Read More ›

• CfP: Using Creative & Visual Methods in Comparative Research

  By Mark Carrigan on February 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  A one-day seminar funded by the International Journal for Social Research Methodology Friday, 15th June, University of Surrey CALL FOR PAPERS Keynote speakers: Agata Lisiak (Bard College, Berlin) and Rita Chawla-Duggan (University of Bath Increasing use is made of both creative… Read More ›

• Answering social science questions with social media data

  By Mark Carrigan on February 16, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  March 8th, 2018 9:30am to 5:00pm Wellcome Collection, London After last year’s successful ‘Introduction to tools for social media research’, the SRA and #NSMNSS are teaming up again to deliver this one-day conference. As social media research matures as a… Read More ›

• CfP Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation Workshop 2018

  By Mark Carrigan on February 15, 2018 • ( 0 )

  6th Annual CPERI Workshop, 29-30 July 2018 Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University, UK We cordially invite submissions to the 6th workshop on the Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation (CPERI), following previous events at Lancaster (2012), Toronto (2013),… Read More ›

• ‘Social Listening’ Workshop: building qualitative skills in social media research

  By Mark Carrigan on February 15, 2018 • ( 0 )

  10am – 4pm, Saturday 24 February 2018 Palmer 101, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading ‘Social Listening’ Workshop Following the interdisciplinary showcase conference ‘’Social Listening’ in the past, present and future’ in November 2017, we are pleased to announce a British… Read More ›

• Understanding the political economy of digital technology

  By Mark Carrigan on February 10, 2018 • ( 0 )

  A BSA Digital Sociology Study Group event hosted by the Web Science conference at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam May 27th 2018 In more optimistic times we thought of ourselves as masters of digital technology: we told ourselves it was empowering, liberating,… Read More ›

• Answering social science questions with social media data, March 8th in London

  By Mark Carrigan on January 30, 2018 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• CfP: Marketization and the digital economy

  By Mark Carrigan on January 24, 2018 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• The Sage Research Methods Open House, with @einterview

  By Mark Carrigan on January 24, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

• Answering social science questions with social media data

  By Mark Carrigan on January 22, 2018 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• How do we imagine our collective future? A series of public events in the UK

  By Mark Carrigan on January 3, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

• CfP: Articulating Voice

  By Mark Carrigan on January 3, 2018 • ( 0 )

  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 Mark Carrigan on January 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• CfP New Research Network: ‘Alternatives to Capitalism’

  By Mark Carrigan on December 18, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Dear colleagues, Attached you find the call for papers for the annual conference of our newly established research network on ‘Alternatives to Capitalism’, which is part of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) and will run for five… Read More ›

• Call for blog posts: the value of graphic social science

  By Mark Carrigan on December 10, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The Graphic Social Science Network blog is calling for contributions. Each month, we would like to open the floor to discuss issues relating to producing social science research in comics form. Comics offer scholars a unique opportunity to communicate their… Read More ›

• CfP: Accelerated Academy

  By Mark Carrigan on December 10, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Accelerated Academy #4 Academic Timescapes: Perspectives, Reflections, Responsibilities May 24-25, Villa Lanna, Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences After meetings in Prague, Warwick and Leiden, the fourth Accelerated Academy conference calls for a more nuanced perspective in order to advance our… Read More ›

• Ann Oakley’s lessons for social scientists

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

  

  Four lessons offered by Ann Oakley in her Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science. This is a wonderful, thought-provoking and deeply human series of essays on the unfolding of her life in relationship to her father Richard Titmuss, the… Read More ›

• Book launch with Dr Sadia Habib and Dr Julia Hope

  By Sadia Habib on November 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

    You are invited to join us for the launch of our new books: “Learning and Teaching British Values” by Dr Sadia Habib and “Children’s Literature about Refugees” by Dr Julia Hope. Two Goldsmiths alumni are holding a joint book… Read More ›

• CFP: Diagrams (Edinburgh, 18-22 June 2018)

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

  The 10th conference DIAGRAMS will take place in Edinburgh on 18-22 June 2018. It will include presentations of refereed Papers, Abstracts, and Posters, alongside tutorials, workshop sessions, and a graduate symposium. It provides a united forum for all areas concerned… Read More ›

• CFP: 8th Annual What is…? Conference

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

  WHAT IS UNIVERSE? COMMUNICATION • COMPLEXITY • COHERENCE April 19-21, 2018 * University of Oregon in Portland, USA The _WHAT IS UNIVERSE?_ [1] (2018) conference-experience examines communication, complexity/simplicity, coherence/incoherence and, how they may or may not contribute to “a pluralistic… Read More ›

• Undisciplining: Conversations at the Edges

  By Mark Carrigan on November 17, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Undisciplining: Conversations at the Edges The BALTIC, Gateshead, UK; 19-21st June 2018 Call for Participation  In 2018 The Sociological Review will be hosting our largest conference to date! This is a long-overdue celebration of our renewed commitment to fostering collaborations and dialogues… Read More ›

• Helen Margetts: How social media (and other platforms) can promote equality in 2027

  By Mark Carrigan on November 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Thu 16 November 2017, 18:30 – 20:00 GMT Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Professor Helen Margetts, director of the prestigious Oxford Internet Institute, presents her personal, positive vision – and then leads discussion – on how the UK’s social media can… Read More ›

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