Digital Sociology Podcast
1) Episode 19: Nick Couldry, Data Colonialism and the mediated construction of reality
For this episode of the Digital Sociology Podcast I spoke to Nick Couldry who is Professor of Media, Communication and Social Theory at the London School of Economics He suggests that digital p...Show More
2) Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 28 Michael Rosino on drug policy, race & online comments
For this episode I spoke to Michael Rosino about his book Debating the Drug War: Race, Politics, and the Media which comes from a detailed analysis of the discourse on drug policy and race in newspape...Show More
3) Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 27 Guerrilla Democracy
For this episode I spoke to Peter Bloom who is a Professor of Management at the University of Essex, Owain SmoloviÄ Jones who is Director of the Open University's Research into Employment, Empow...Show More
4) Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 26: Ben Jacobsen and David Beer on Social Media and Memory
This episode is a really great chat I had with Ben Jacobsen and David Beer both of The University of York. We talk about their new book Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory Classificati...Show More
5) Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 25: Scott Timcke, algorithms, politics, capitalism & racism
In this episode I spoke to Scott Timcke who is a comparative historical sociologist, with an interest in race, class, and technology in modernity. He is a research associate with the University of Joh...Show More
6) Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 24: Mark Wong on Hidden Youth & Online Lives in Scotland and Hong Kong
There has been a huge gap since the last episode as life, work and then Covid got in the way. I will be putting out a few episodes over the next few weeks which have all been recorded recently with th...Show More
7) Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 23: Elinor Carmi, content moderators, telephone operators and politics of "listening"
In this episode I am talking to Elinor Carmi who is a Postdoc Research Associate in Digital Culture & Society at the University of Liverpool. She tells me about how her experience of working in radio ...Show More
8) Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 22: Susan Halford, the semantic web, symphonic social science and how sociologists can work with computer scientists
In this episode of the Digital Sociology Podcast I spoke to Susan Halford who is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol and the President of the British Sociological Association. Am...Show More
9) Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 21: Huw Davies, young people, technology and social class
In this episode of the Digital Sociology Podcast I am talking to Huw Davies who is a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. Huw tells me about his research into...Show More
10) Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 20: Jess Drakett, memes,working in tech, sexism and humour
On the latest Digital Sociology Podcast I am talking to Dr Jess Drakett who is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Leeds Beckett University. Jess shares some fun and fascinating insights from her PhD r...Show More