Anthony Elliott
Social theorist, author
- Today Adelaide University has announced my election as International Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. @politybooks.bsky.social adelaideuni.edu.au/about/news/2...
- Really proud to announce renewal of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence 2025-2028. Funded by the @EU_Commission Erasmus+ Programme and which I will lead with a superb team, the Centre investigates digital transformation in #Europe and #Australia.
- Reviewed in HotTopics my @politybooks.bsky.social “Algorithms of Anxiety’: “Elliott, a sociologist with a track record of decoding technological shifts, draws on social theory and cultural criticism to explore the unintended consequences of life increasingly lived by algorithm”
- #UK President @acadsocsciences.bsky.social Will Hutton in @theguardian.com: “as the seasoned AI watcher Prof Anthony Elliott comments in his latest book, Algorithms of Anxiety, outsourcing our decision-making to machines … is provoking an epidemic of personal anxiety.” @politybooks.bsky.social
- Terrific talking with President of #UK @acadsocsciences.bsky.social Will Hutton about my new @politybooks.bsky.social book “Algorithms of Anxiety: Fear in the Digital Age”.
- 🔜 I’m a guest on the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social THE WE SOCIETY podcast with Will Hutton. We will be discussing developments in #AI and the new politics of fear surrounding the digital revolution. podfollow.com/the-we-socie...