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Rebecca Coleman
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Professor @bdfi.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social and Sociology. Bristol, UK. Researcher in Residence (2023-2025) @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
Digital media and culture, futures and presents, affect, interdisciplinary methods.
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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.

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October 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Packed room for #AoIR pre-conference workshop on algorithmic media and temporalities
October 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A reminder that this is happening online on Wednesday. More info and registration below
Online seminar in October, organised by Newcastle Youth Studies Centre, Australia - info and sign up here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-materi...
The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter
How Stuff Matters
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October 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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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

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How To Do Social Research With...
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September 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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This is a good response
September 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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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.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Well, this all looks great!
Articles for the Special Issue on Utopia and Failure are now available on FirstView in the European Journal of Social Theory

See Irretrievable failure: Life in the ruins of utopian dreaming by
Martin Coward and Debbie Lisle

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September 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Kicking off the second panel on methodological challenges and approaches for sociodigital research - @susanjhalford.bsky.social introducing #11ICSSM #RC33 #methodology
September 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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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 👏
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A super resource!
Excited to launch our NEW PROJECT WEBSITE: 'Speculative Machines and Us: Intuition, AI, and the Making of Computational Cultures'! 🤖 ⚡
🧐 Explore intuition in digital computing histories through 40 key concepts, initiatives, milestones, systems, and publications.

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Homepage - Speculative Machines and Us
Intuition, AI and the Making of Computational Cultures
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September 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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...
Paperwork and Patchwork: Crafting Family Migration Narratives
Paperwork and Patchwork navigates immigration form technologies, alongside collaborative quilt-making with families affected by the Hostile Environment in the UK.
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September 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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
September 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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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 …
August 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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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 📅
August 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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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...
Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI
We warmly invite colleagues to join us for an in-person one-day symposium on Thursday 17th July 2025. To join, please register using the link below. The event is organised by the Centre for Science…
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July 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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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...
Practical utopias: A creative methods workshop | School of Social and Political Science
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July 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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“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.

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July 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This is out today! It is such a great book that explores contemporary politics, time and feeling @benandersongeog.bsky.social @ajsecor.bsky.social
Some lovely endorsements and a table of contents up for The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism, out July 1st with @ajsecor.bsky.social Huge thank you @will-davies.bsky.social @carolynpedwell.bsky.social @jemgilbert.bsky.social

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The Politics of Feeling
Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism
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July 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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“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
June 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Online seminar in October, organised by Newcastle Youth Studies Centre, Australia - info and sign up here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-materi...
The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter
How Stuff Matters
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
@trivikrama.bsky.social on constructing just mobility futures at the Mapping the Future City event @jgibristol.bsky.social @bdfi.bsky.social @melgregg.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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✨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
Select tickets – Diffractive Methodologies for Sociodigital Futures - Charisse Louw – 13 Berkeley Square, room 1.01, University of Bristol
Diffractive Methodologies for Sociodigital Futures Join us for a rich and multifaceted day with Charisse Louw, visiting fellow ...
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May 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
From the always amazing @dawnlyon.bsky.social
Earlier this year we had the pleasure of hearing @dawnlyon.bsky.social give a fascinating talk on her research into uncertain futures and disturbed temporal rhythms of the pandemic. She’s now shared her insights in a new blog post, live today

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May 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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

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May 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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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

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May 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM