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'A Public Sociology of Platforms, Algorithms, and AI' October 14 University of Bristol www.tickettailor.com/events/esrcc...
Reserve tickets – 'A Public Sociology of Platforms, Algorithms, and AI' with Karen Gregory – Room G1, 7 Priory Road
'A Public Sociology of Platforms, Algorithms, and AI' with Karen Gregory – Room G1, 7 Priory Road, Wed 14 Oct 2026 - A Public Sociology of Platforms, Algorithms, and AI (a joint Technology and Digital...
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Now available as a SAGE e-book, will be of potential interest to #EMCA and those interested in #interactionism as a sociological project and approach sk.sagepub.com/book/mono/so...
Sage Academic Books - Society in the Digital Age: An Interactionist Perspective
<p>In Digital Society: An Interactionist Perspective, William Housley explores the ways interactionist thinking contributes to our understanding of current tren
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in this book we explore digital society as situated action and in relation to automation, generative A.I. next generation social media, synthetic sociality and agentic A.I. imaginaries. #EMCA #interactionism www.emerald.com/books/monogr...
Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation
In a world transformed by digital innovations and a social life increasingly digitally automated and augmented, Digital Society, Interaction Order and Auto
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🟡 A new issue of The British Journal of Sociology is now available. Featuring new research from scholars across the globe, this issue explores key questions around inequality, culture, identity, politics and social change. Read the #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14684446...
The British Journal of Sociology: Volume 77, Issue 4
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Only three weeks remain to apply for the Postdoctoral Fellowships. The scheme supports early-career researchers in developing their curriculum vitae and boosting their prospects of obtaining a permanent academic post. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4xWduAS
A quick reminder: applications for Strictly Come Writing 2026 close on 10 September! Three days of dedicated writing time, expert facilitation and supportive connections at Gladstone’s Library in North Wales. 📅 11–13 November 2026 Find out more and apply: buff.ly/UQ0NqN4 #AcademicWriting
What conditions make freedom possible? Have your say by submitting a paper for the 2027 BSA Annual Conference. CfP by 11 September for ‘Freedom and Hope in the Current Global Context’, 31 March-2 April, University of Manchester tinyurl.com/5n6exjvc #sociology
Join us for an online talk with @philhutchinson.bsky.social on 18 September. ‘From Occasional Meaning to Praxeological Gestalts’ #EMCA Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/LxGqUDkek6
Now available as a SAGE e-book, will be of potential interest to #EMCA and those interested in #interactionism as a sociological project and approach sk.sagepub.com/book/mono/so...
Sage Academic Books - Society in the Digital Age: An Interactionist Perspective
<p>In Digital Society: An Interactionist Perspective, William Housley explores the ways interactionist thinking contributes to our understanding of current tren
sk.sagepub.com
in this book we explore digital society as situated action and in relation to automation, generative A.I. next generation social media, synthetic sociality and agentic A.I. imaginaries. #EMCA #interactionism www.emerald.com/books/monogr...
Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation
In a world transformed by digital innovations and a social life increasingly digitally automated and augmented, Digital Society, Interaction Order and Auto
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BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
“Once again the season of the anti-sociologists is upon us…[a]curious admixture of illogic and sentiment…makes up the creed and canons of anti-sociology.” Robert K Merton quoted in this super @rwjdingwall.bsky.social piece on the value + virtue of sociology www.socialsciencespace.com/2026/08/why-...
Why Sociology Should Not Be Liquidated
“Once again the season of the anti-sociologists is upon us…[a]curious admixture of illogic and sentiment…makes up the creed and canons of anti-sociology.” Those words come from Robert K Merto
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Starting #WISERD2026 with our #newresearcher session in collaboration with the Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences and the Learned Society of Wales. Thank you to the first of our keynote speakers, Derek Walker, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, for concluding remarks.
Even viewed from an entirely mercenary perspective, (which is reductive) this doesn’t make financial sense. The creative sector in the UK is incredibly successful and one of the few successful industries for global exports, so why stop people training and joining it?
Arts Professional@artsprofessional.co.uk · 3mo agoPerforming and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said.
Croeso i Gynhadledd Flynyddol #WISERD2026 eleni, ‘Ar Drywydd Dyfodol Cynaliadwy’, ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd. Rydyn ni’n edrych ymlaen at amrywiaeth o gyflwyniadau papur, cyflwyniadau cyflym, gweithdai, symposia a phosteri dros y deuddydd nesaf!
Welcome to this year’s #WISERD2026 Annual Conference, ‘In Pursuit of Sustainable Futures’, at Cardiff University. Looking forward to a variety of paper presentations, flash talks, workshops, symposiums and posters over the next two days!
'With the higher-education sector generating £52.3bn of income, any large-scale losses would first and foremost hit the public purse as well as further compound this country’s significant productivity problem.' (Prof. Anne-Marie Kilday, VC University of Northampton) 1/3
How access to higher education drives economic resilience and civic wellbeing | Letter
Letter: Prof Anne‑Marie Kilday of the University of Northampton highlights the value of universities for individuals and communities
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Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. This fellowship is a three-year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early-career researchers in the humanities or social sciences. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4xWduAS
Applications are open for a fully funded DPhil studentship at the OII, supported by the Leverhulme Trust. The project investigates how museum visitors experience reproductions of cultural objects in collaboration with @GoldsmithsUoL. www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
Courses open for studentships
Studentships are a specific type of funding, usually for a specific research project offered by an academic department.
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Work, Employment and Society journal is seeking a new Chair of the Editorial Board, 2026-2029. This is a competitive process and the Chair will be chosen by vote of the current Editorial Board. Deadline for applications is 13 August: www.britsoc.co.uk/media/27222/...
Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation, Housley and Dahl (2026). We engage with interaction order in relation to generative A.I., synthetic sociality and agentic A.I. imaginaries, a key set of transformations for interactional futures #interactionism bookstore.emerald.com/digital-soci...
Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation - William Housley|Patrik Dahl
Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation advances our understanding of how interactionist thinking can be leveraged as a conceptual and methodological resource for approaching digital societies in relation to automation and the emerging contours of interaction order in the 21st century.
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The Generative Contours of the Interaction Order in the Digital Age www.emerald.com/books/monogr...
The Generative Contours of the Interaction Order in the Digital Age
In this chapter, we will seek to advance and explore how certain strands of interactionist thinking, inclusive of ethnomethodology and conversation analysi
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Interactionism and the Agentic A.I. Imaginary #interactionism #EMCA @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social www.emerald.com/books/monogr...
The Agentic AI Imaginary
During the last chapter, we explored how living and interacting with machines had opened up new avenues for engaging with and instructing generative AI app
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Ten years ago, Nicholas Barr @lse-ei.bsky.social wrote a blog on why he would be voting Remain that was so popular it crashed the LSE server. Revisiting his arguments a decade later, he argues Brexit has had a profound negative impact that was entirely foreseeable. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Brexit – a bad idea then, a bad idea now
Brexit has had a profound negative impact on the United Kingdom that was entirely foreseeable at the time of the 2016 referendum.
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The June issue of Cultural Sociology is live! Find articles on cultural translations of social movements, Chinese hip-hop, online commodification of leisure activities and more, below. journals.sagepub.com/toc/CUS/20/2
Cultural Sociology - Volume 20, Number 2
Table of contents for Cultural Sociology, 20, 2
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A whole 12% of voters think Brexit has been a success. And just 25% of Leave voters. Sigh.
