Monthly Archives: July 2013
Evelyn Ruppert on the economies and ecologies of big data
The Digital Sociology web resource has a video of Evelyn Ruppert talking ion the ‘Economies and Ecologies of Big Data‘. Evelyn is editor of the forthcoming journal Big Data & Society. She discuss the journal a little in the talk. … Continue reading
David Hill reflects on Jodi Dean’s work and communicative capitalism
On his Schizomedia blog David Hill, who is just in the process of moving to media and communications at Liverpool University, has offered some reflections on Jodi Dean’s recent work and how it relates to his own work developing the … Continue reading
Deborah Lupton on the implications of digital sociology
On her great blog This Sociological Life, Deborah Lupton has offered some reflections on ‘Digital Sociology, Public Sociology, Private Sociology‘. The post responds to a recent event to think about the implications of digital sociology for the broader discipline and … Continue reading
Some short essays on ‘Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System’
A couple of weeks ago I attended an event in ‘Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System’. I’ve previously posted some reflections on the event here. It was really vibrant and lively, with s fantastic range of speakers. As a follow … Continue reading
An interview with Mark Deuze
Figure/Ground have an interview with Mark Deuze. As is usual with their interviews, it covers substantive issues in Mark’s work alongside some discussions of biography and university life. This particular interview also gets into questions around interdisciplinarity. Most of the … Continue reading
Digital Sociology study group website
The Digital Sociology study group, which is affiliated with the British Sociological Association, has a really lively and informative website. It’s updated regularly and also has a Twitter feed. The site is run by the group coordinators Mark Carrigan and … Continue reading
An interview with Lev Manovich
Michael Connor has interviewed Lev Manovich for Rhizome. The interview focuses upon his recently published book Software Takes Command.
