This Is Not a Sociology Blog

A recent report by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) showed how a Sri Lankan influencer has been populating Facebook pages with racist, xenophobic, and anti immigrant AI generated content and making hundreds of thousands dollars in the process.

Photo by Leon Ardho on Pexels.com I recently published a paper (open access), with my Leeds Beckett colleague Joseph Ibrahim, on a study we did on CrossFit.

I have been working on a project the last few months called Beyond Meat & Memes.

I recently published a review of a new book, Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces by Sabine Pfeiffer in Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews.

I have written a post on the Leeds Beckett website about a new project I am leading which is analysing vegan activist discourse on image and video-based social media.

I recently wrote a new article for the Cost of Living Blog on Palantir’s contract with the NHS and how it might influence how the organisation frames patients .

I recently published an article analysing Spotify’s move into the datafication of health, exercise and wellness of users (I have written other posts on this paper here, here and here).

I recently published a paper in the journal Big Data and Society on.

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 newspapers and the comment sections of their online versions.

For this episode I spoke to Peter Bloom who is a Professor of Management at the University of Essex, Owain Smolović Jones who is Director of the Open University’s Research into Employment, Empowerment and Futures academic centre of excellence and Jamie Wo…