Listen to our second podcast on ‘Claiming Tomorrow – Sociodigital Futures in the Making’, as we explore the ‘how’. Susan Halford is joined by Jessica Pykett, Debbie Watson, Paul Clarke & Beckie Coleman. 👉 bit.ly/4nnf0pt @susanjhalford.bsky.social @profdebw.bsky.social @rcecoleman.bsky.social

Packed room for #AoIR pre-conference workshop on algorithmic media and temporalities

A reminder that this is happening online on Wednesday. More info and registration below

This is the very best of qualitative methods textbooks, short 3k word chapters, all case study examples of critical & creative methods. Beautiful images in every chapter www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

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Corine van Emmerik reflects on the slipperiness of data, the ethical responsibility researchers have to the well-being of their participants and that of their own in her SRO Sage Prize nominated article. Read now below. doi.org/10.1177/1360...

Well, this all looks great!

Kicking off the second panel on methodological challenges and approaches for sociodigital research - @susanjhalford.bsky.social introducing #11ICSSM #RC33 #methodology

At day 2 of the RC33 conference we presented a stream of papers on ‘Methodological Challenges and Approaches for Sociodigital Research’. Thank you to everyone who contributed and offered a such interesting insights 👏

A super resource!

Congratulations to newly minted Dr Phavine Phung on a fantastic viva *and* exhibition. If you’re in London it’s on until 30 Sept www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Brilliantly thought-provoking workshop on critical and ethical sociological engagement with LMMs in Naples this morning led by @jessogden.bsky.social @lescarr.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social @bdfi.bsky.social #rc33 #isa #11ICSSM #Methodology

If you are going to the RGS-IBG conference we’re selling copies of The Promise of Cultural Geography at the registration desk. £10 for a beautiful object, that covers costs and will allow us to develop future projects …

Calling all artists, designers and creatives! 🎨 We have four paid Sociodigital Futures Residencies up for grabs, starting in October. Full info and how to apply ➡️ bit.ly/3JKo4q0 Application deadline: 19 September 📅

Final registration call for the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded symposium, 'Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI', @lancasteruni.bsky.social on 17 July! 💥🤖 FULL PROGRAMME, ABSTRACTS AND BIOS here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi... Register now here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...

Last June, the utopians of Newcastle gathered to join Rebecca Coleman from Bristol in a creative workshop on utopias. Read about the "messes" we made in this blog for the AHRC network on Utopia and Failure: failingbetter.sps.ed.ac.uk/blog/practic...

“If the social world is always ‘live’ – across ‘multiple registers’ and involving ‘the fleeting, the emotional, the sensory’ – the Covid-19 pandemic made this readily apparent.” @rcecoleman.bsky.social‬ @dawnlyon.bsky.social‬ and Chloe Turner in a new journal Special Section. buff.ly/uOle3Xy

This is out today! It is such a great book that explores contemporary politics, time and feeling @benandersongeog.bsky.social @ajsecor.bsky.social

“The Live Methods manifesto was used as an intervention on the picket line and as a critical resource for fostering resistance against the neoliberal restructuring of our university.” Thomas Wadsworth, Zoe Walshe & Beth Bramich on using Live Methods in time of crisis at Goldsmiths. buff.ly/QlR8DAZ

Online seminar in October, organised by Newcastle Youth Studies Centre, Australia - info and sign up here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-materi...

@trivikrama.bsky.social on constructing just mobility futures at the Mapping the Future City event @jgibristol.bsky.social @bdfi.bsky.social @melgregg.bsky.social

✨Join us on 26 June for a dynamic day here in Bristol ~ workshops, reading sessions & embodied practice on Black technopoetics, Afropresentism & more from Centre visitor Charisse Louw (Stellenbosch).✨ More info and book: buytickets.at/esrccentrefo... #sociodigitalfutures #AfroMedia #EmbodiedMethods

From the always amazing @dawnlyon.bsky.social

So chuffed to have a paper in this, co-written with Chloe Turner & @dawnlyon.bsky.social and to be in such esteemed company. Especially brilliant to read articles by @mbherbert.bsky.social & Tom Wadsworth, Zoe Walsh & Beth Bramich.

OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/sM4Uta3

On the 9th July at 12, we'll be holding a guest seminar on AI and Hype by @velocitygravity.bsky.social who will be talking about his latest paper "To Have Done with The Metaphor of Summers and Winters: Can AI And Internet History Cure Hype?" Come to the @bdfi.bsky.social or join us online!

Please join us for an agenda setting hybrid event @ucl.ac.uk May 23 organised by @jessicaringrose.bsky.social Care or Control? Regulating Technology, Behaviour & Gender at School I'll be representing @citystgeorges.bsky.social & joining an incredible lineup of academic & charitable organisation 1/

Friday! In person or online. Registration details here

It's finally happened. I've decided to start a newsletter (not a podcast though) If you're interested in the increasing data-fication of the welfare state, AI for benefit fraud detection, biased algorithms denying social security, intrusive data surveillance, and other fun stuff, sign up!

This looks so good!

SI of Journal of Sociology on Future/Tense: A Sociology of Temporal Dis/Order just published. Includes article by Corine van Emmerik, @dawnlyon.bsky.social and me on a minor sociology of shifting futures during COVID pandemic journals.sagepub.com/toc/JOS/curr...

Event on community-led design, focusing on the straw-bale co-design of the KWMC building. More info and register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/made-of-st...

Call for papers for a SI of Australian Feminist Studies on feminist methods and interventions on AI ethics - looks super! think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Looking forward to this. First outing of some new research with @jessicaringrose.bsky.social on smartphones, bans and sociodigital futures

🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸 Join us for the second in the Foundation’s Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on Palestine. 🍉 8 May 18.30 UTC+1 online 🍉 Speakers: Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah 🍉 Tickets: buff.ly/xE1NHos

This will be fabulous!

Attending #BritSoc25 and want to learn more about the Journal Creative Research Methods? Stop by the @brisunipress.bsky.social stand or read about us here! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...

Always great to be at Knowle West Media Centre - this time seeing what young people think about smartphone bans. Also good to see the Foundations for the Future exhibition is still going strong!

Yes this!

If you’re interested in developing sociodigital methods - deadline for abstracts is 15 March

If you are working on social time areas like Time Use Studies, Queer Temporalities, Crip Time, Infrasturctural Time, Migration Temporalities, Temporal Resistance, Decolonising Time, or other social time topics, then we would very much welcome ideas for reviews, opinion pieces, etc.

Here is a starter pack for the core social science team at Bristol Digital Futures Institute—and we will add more as our affiliates join us here ☺️ go.bsky.app/7rx3mpt

Reminder about this panel!

Our team visited @bdfi.bsky.social to get inspired, dream big and reflect on the future of KWMC! 🤖 We’re so excited to explore how this cutting-edge tech can be shaped with and for local communities... What would you use these facilities for? 👀

Four new Professorial Head of School jobs to be advertised externally very soon at Lancaster University: www.lancaster.ac.uk/jobs/landing...

What will large language models mean for social research? As governments and funding councils start to extol their virtues, social researchers must critically interrogate. Join us in Naples for a hands-on session & much more besides!

If the digital and the social are inextricable, what does that mean for research methods? Join us in Naples to explore further! @rcecoleman.bsky.social @jessicaogden.bsky.social @lescarr.bsky.social

Here is your INAUGURATION DAY COUNTERPROGRAMMING. Capacities to: Affect Up Against Fascism. Open access. Read online or download as pdf. (Book form coming soon.) More than 40 contributors, over 350 pages. READ. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. imbricate.press/book/capacit...

UNCERTAIN CLIMATES: Looking forward to this roundtable event hosted by the Centre for Science Studies and the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University this afternoon!🌊💨🌏 Open to everyone whether in person or online: wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...