Rebecca Coleman
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.
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanListen 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. 👉 bit.ly/4nnf0pt @susanjhalford.bsky.social @profdebw.bsky.social @rcecoleman.bsky.social
- Packed room for #AoIR pre-conference workshop on algorithmic media and temporalities
- 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...
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanThis 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 www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanThis is a good response
- Read our response to the Government’s announcement that university maintenance grants will be reintroduced for certain courses, funded through a levy on international student fees bit.ly/4gPz7uO
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanCorine 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. doi.org/10.1177/1360...
- 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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Kicking off the second panel on methodological challenges and approaches for sociodigital research - @susanjhalford.bsky.social introducing #11ICSSM #RC33 #methodology
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanAt 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 👏
- 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. speculativemachines.co.uk
- 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...
- 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
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanIf 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 …
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanCalling 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 📅
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanFinal 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...
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanLast 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...
- Reposted by Rebecca Coleman“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. buff.ly/uOle3Xy
- 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 www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
- Reposted by Rebecca Coleman“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
- Online seminar in October, organised by Newcastle Youth Studies Centre, Australia - info and sign up here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-materi...
- The whole series looks great www.eventbrite.com.au/o/newcastle-...
- @trivikrama.bsky.social on constructing just mobility futures at the Mapping the Future City event @jgibristol.bsky.social @bdfi.bsky.social @melgregg.bsky.social
- Reposted by Rebecca Coleman✨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
- 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 sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/05/06/u...
- 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 buff.ly/sM4Uta3
- The methods work at Goldsmiths Sociology has been so important and is even more necessary in such destructive times for the sector. Thanks v much to @emmakjackson.bsky.social & @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social for all of their work
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanOUT 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 buff.ly/sM4Uta3
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanOn the 9th July at 12, we'll be holding a guest seminar on AI and Hype by @velocitygravity.bsky.social who will be talking about his latest paper "To Have Done with The Metaphor of Summers and Winters: Can AI And Internet History Cure Hype?" Come to the @bdfi.bsky.social or join us online!
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanPlease join us for an agenda setting hybrid event @ucl.ac.uk May 23 organised by @jessicaringrose.bsky.social Care or Control? Regulating Technology, Behaviour & Gender at School I'll be representing @citystgeorges.bsky.social & joining an incredible lineup of academic & charitable organisation 1/
- Friday! In person or online. Registration details here
- May 23rd 2025 UCL registration Care or Control? Regulating Technology, Behaviour and Gender at School @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @andyincornwall.bsky.social @rcecoleman.bsky.social @devinasarwatay.bsky.social @emilysetty.bsky.social @craighaslop.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/care-or-co...
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanIt's finally happened. I've decided to start a newsletter (not a podcast though) If you're interested in the increasing data-fication of the welfare state, AI for benefit fraud detection, biased algorithms denying social security, intrusive data surveillance, and other fun stuff, sign up!
- This looks so good!
- Join us for our inaugural conference! Here's the call for papers: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/
- SI of Journal of Sociology on Future/Tense: A Sociology of Temporal Dis/Order just published. Includes article by Corine van Emmerik, @dawnlyon.bsky.social and me on a minor sociology of shifting futures during COVID pandemic journals.sagepub.com/toc/JOS/curr...
- Event on community-led design, focusing on the straw-bale co-design of the KWMC building. More info and register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/made-of-st...
- Call for papers for a SI of Australian Feminist Studies on feminist methods and interventions on AI ethics - looks super! think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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- Looking forward to this. First outing of some new research with @jessicaringrose.bsky.social on smartphones, bans and sociodigital futures
- May 23rd 2025 UCL registration Care or Control? Regulating Technology, Behaviour and Gender at School @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @andyincornwall.bsky.social @rcecoleman.bsky.social @devinasarwatay.bsky.social @emilysetty.bsky.social @craighaslop.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/care-or-co...
- Reposted by Rebecca Coleman🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸 Join us for the second in the Foundation’s Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on Palestine. 🍉 8 May 18.30 UTC+1 online 🍉 Speakers: Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah 🍉 Tickets: buff.ly/xE1NHos
- This will be fabulous!
- ✨Very excited to share details of our British Academy-funded one-day symposium at Lancaster University in July: SPECULATIVE MACHINES AND US: HISTORIES AND FUTURES OF AI. ✨💥Featuring @ohalpern.bsky.social @mbfazi.bsky.social @aleenachia.bsky.social and more💥 tinyurl.com/bde6x7ub Please share widely!
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanAttending #BritSoc25 and want to learn more about the Journal Creative Research Methods? Stop by the @brisunipress.bsky.social stand or read about us here! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...
- Always great to be at Knowle West Media Centre - this time seeing what young people think about smartphone bans. Also good to see the Foundations for the Future exhibition is still going strong!
- Yes this!
- Wrote an article to address a PhD issue that I too frequently come across: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... x
- If you’re interested in developing sociodigital methods - deadline for abstracts is 15 March
- Call for abstracts! How can we research a world where the social & the digital are increasingly entangled? What are the methodological challenges & what methods can be used? Join us in Naples this Sept for a panel event exploring sociodigital research. Deadline 15 March. rc33.org/call-for-abs...
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanIf you are working on social time areas like Time Use Studies, Queer Temporalities, Crip Time, Infrasturctural Time, Migration Temporalities, Temporal Resistance, Decolonising Time, or other social time topics, then we would very much welcome ideas for reviews, opinion pieces, etc.
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanHere is a starter pack for the core social science team at Bristol Digital Futures Institute—and we will add more as our affiliates join us here ☺️ go.bsky.app/7rx3mptat://did:plc:5c3hf53auasoqiav2praflkn/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lejunrnoup2l
- Reminder about this panel!
- Call for abstracts! How can we research a world where the social & the digital are increasingly entangled? What are the methodological challenges & what methods can be used? Join us in Naples this Sept for a panel event exploring sociodigital research. Deadline 15 March. rc33.org/call-for-abs...
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanOur team visited @bdfi.bsky.social to get inspired, dream big and reflect on the future of KWMC! 🤖 We’re so excited to explore how this cutting-edge tech can be shaped with and for local communities... What would you use these facilities for? 👀
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanFour new Professorial Head of School jobs to be advertised externally very soon at Lancaster University: www.lancaster.ac.uk/jobs/landing...
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanWhat will large language models mean for social research? As governments and funding councils start to extol their virtues, social researchers must critically interrogate. Join us in Naples for a hands-on session & much more besides!
- Call for abstracts! How can we research a world where the social & the digital are increasingly entangled? What are the methodological challenges & what methods can be used? Join us in Naples this Sept for a panel event exploring sociodigital research. Deadline 15 March. rc33.org/call-for-abs...
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanIf the digital and the social are inextricable, what does that mean for research methods? Join us in Naples to explore further! @rcecoleman.bsky.social @jessicaogden.bsky.social @lescarr.bsky.social
- Call for abstracts! How can we research a world where the social & the digital are increasingly entangled? What are the methodological challenges & what methods can be used? Join us in Naples this Sept for a panel event exploring sociodigital research. Deadline 15 March. rc33.org/call-for-abs...
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanHere is your INAUGURATION DAY COUNTERPROGRAMMING. Capacities to: Affect Up Against Fascism. Open access. Read online or download as pdf. (Book form coming soon.) More than 40 contributors, over 350 pages. READ. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. imbricate.press/book/capacit...
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanUNCERTAIN CLIMATES: Looking forward to this roundtable event hosted by the Centre for Science Studies and the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University this afternoon!🌊💨🌏 Open to everyone whether in person or online: wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...
- Just a reminder - a week today! We've been working hard on it and it is looking good. Over the coming weeks, we'll also announce a wider programme of events responding to some of the themes raised in the exhibition
- Bristol people! Info here on launch of Knowle West Media Centre exhibition, looking back over almost 30 years of work on arts, tech and care www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/foundation...
- Reposted by Rebecca ColemanIt was a privilege to see young people engaging with concepts that are often thought to be beyond them and sharing their own ideas about sociodigital futures. I'm excited about the next step for this research!
- 2025 is looking like a big year for AI. Our Caring for Futures project team has been working with groups of young people to explore use of data & AI, questioning the futures this technology might bring about. Read: sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/01/15/e... @profdebw.bsky.social #ai
- I had such great visits @ Affective Societies Collaborative Research Centre, Free Universitat Berlin last year+learnt a lot. Thanks to Ana Makhashvili+Magareth Lünenborg for inviting me.The lecture I gave has just been published in their Working Papers series refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub18...
- This cfp looks super!
- Working on crafty digital / digital crafty things? Christina Corfield & I are co-editing a special issue of Feminist Media Histories (@femmediahist.bsky.social) on "Craftwork within the Digital." 500-word proposal due Feb 15. #DHmakes online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
- Bristol people! Info here on launch of Knowle West Media Centre exhibition, looking back over almost 30 years of work on arts, tech and care www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/foundation...
- Interested in a conversation on all things glitter? Maddie Rose Hill, Nicole Seymour and me on materiality, affect, serious-pleasure, gender, sexuality, class, race+++ on the Mater podcast. There’s loads of other discussions on materials, art and research too shows.acast.com/the-mater-po...
- Really enjoyed doing this a few months ago. We draw on Nicole's wonderful book on glitter www.bloomsbury.com/uk/glitter-9... and my Glitterworlds book www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
- And enjoying listening to Ellie Barrett on the materials she uses in her artistic practice shows.acast.com/the-mater-po...
- Job advert! Lecturer in Digital Futures, with specialisms in art and humanities. Come and join us at Bristol Digital Futures Institute. 80% of your time for first five years will be research and further developing BDFI work across the university and with partners www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
- Thank you @sharonlsmith.bsky.social for your book review. You've really captured how the methods featured were often craftily and imaginatively developed 'to carve out spaces and forge productive relationships' of resistance, respect, collaboration + care thesociologicalreview.org/reviews/how-...
- Reposted by Rebecca Colemango.bsky.app/AF191vn Meet our members!at://did:plc:ekcjpnd4wpce6wnool4euahv/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lcxpbbj5ed23
