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Algorithmic Dwelling Digital Technologies as Intermediaries in Housing Access and the Enactment of Home

Our online seminar series kicks off Wednesday February 11 at 3pm, on ‘Algorithmic Dwelling: Digital Technologies as Intermediaries in Housing Access and the Enactment of Home’.

Congratulations to our new research team member Dr Niamh White on her PhD conferral and becoming a newly minted Dr! We look forward to working with you on young people and fintech over the next few years

ANU School of Sociology Seminar Series: Prof Roger Burrows ANU School of Sociology Seminar series on

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Hustling in the projectariat? Financialisation and precarious creative industries The Creative Industries are precarious, emblematic of what has become known as “wageless life” in the “projectariat”. In this article, we use qualitative data to explore how young people who are st...

After over 2 years under review, our paper discussing strategies to get by in the creative industries is out

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Journal of Youth Studies Conference, University of Porto in May 4-6, 2027.

The False Divide between Nature and Culture How Estrogens, Yeasts and Snakes Reveal the Entanglement of Everyday Life

Our next online seminar is on at 3pm tomorrow.

The False Divide between Nature and Culture: How Estrogens, Yeasts and Snakes Reveal the Entanglement of Everyday Life

See you there!

The class signals that decide who gets promoted in Australia Having a “bogan” accent or a “hick” degree can cruel leadership aspirations, according to a new report. Oh, and add watching reality TV and rugby league to that mix.

Who world have thought i'd be talking in the the Australian Financial Review about class, but there you go...

Understanding the Role of Migration, Culture and Transnational Ties in Family Financial Assistance With Home Ownership Family financial assistance with home ownership has attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of culture and ethnicity, transnational ties, and migration in this pr....

New article by @juliacook.bsky.social in @bjsociology.bsky.social
'Understanding the Role of Migration, Culture and Transnational Ties in Family Financial Assistance With Home Ownership'

I'm giving talk at RMIT for the Music Industry Research Collective on Monday October 20 at 3pm on 'What is cultural sociology when culture is platformed and financialised?'

The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter How Stuff Matters

NYSC online seminar on ‘The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter’ featuring Beckie Coleman, Bev Skeggs, Imogen Tyler and Roger Burrows is on tomorrow night, Wednesday October 8 at 7pm (9am London time).

Subculture in the 21st Century A book for teaching and learning about subculture as a sociological concept

The book also has an open to anyone support site, with support materials, videos and discussion questions. If you would like multiple choice questions to set quizzes for each chapter, please email me.
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Subculture in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Subculture Studies Subculture in the 21st Century is a key text for all students of sociology and cultural studies. Drawing on case studies and supported by a range of resources on its dedicated companion website, it is...

It's finally out!
After what could only be described as a very long gestation, our edited collection is now available.
It will be great for teaching about the concept of subculture and also contains interesting contemporary examples and research case studies.
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A factor in this triumphant return is how platforms (Spotify) dissolve historical time, with the effect that a) nobody needs to remember that this was a band whose 'good' patch lasted circa 18 months and b) they provide the backdrop for inter-generational bonding

Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.

this is excellent
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Edition #17 OUT NOW! So Fi Zine #17 is a special issue created with sociologists and other academic kin at the University of Glasgow in 2025 – full of new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. Thi…

The new special edition of So Fi Zine is live! A beautiful collection of sociological fiction - HUGE thanks to the legend that is Ash @awtsn.bsky.social for making this possible and including my piece, and to everyone involved.

Read here: sofizine.com/latest-editi...

New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal This panel shares some of the findings of the New Possibilities project

Please join us for the second in our NYSC Series Online seminar on Wednesday to hear all about New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal, featuring Philippa Collin, Judith Bessant, Luigi Di Martino, Rob Watts and Varsha Yajman.

No silver bullet: why social media ban is full of holes
www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/903228...

Tomorrow at 3pm AEST we have our first NYSC online seminar taking place on zoom.
The topic is Automating Everyday Life and we are joined by Nicholas Carah and Lauren Hayden, Joel Stern, and Thao Phan and Fabian Offert.
You can register at Eventbrite for it here www.eventbrite.com.au/e/automating...

YouTube video by Steven Threadgold Filtered Reality

Check out Filtered Reality, a short film that discusses aspects of the ARC DP project led by @juliacoffey.bsky.social ‬on how photo editing apps, tools and filters affect young people’s self-image.

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Automating Everyday Life As everyday life has been digitalised, more and more of the things we do, like and consume are being automated.

Join me, Joel Stern, and Nic Carah for what's shaping up to be a stimulating seminar on Automating Everyday Life!

⚡Wed 30 July, 3 - 5pm AEST
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I'll be talking about generative AI and the problem if representing political violence.

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Subculture in the 21st Century | An Introduction to Subculture Studies Subculture in the 21st Century is a key text for all students of sociology and cultural studies. Drawing on case studies and supported by a range of resources

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When @bengreenfuz.bsky.social‬ and I wrote our chapter for this great collection on Pub Rock, Amyl and The Sniffers were an up and coming band just about to release their second record... academic publishing eh!
Unlikely to see them play in a pub these days...
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Call for Papers for a special issue of Work, Employment and Society on Earning While Learning: experiences, patterns and the political economy of working students’

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For further information and queries, please contact Kim Allen k.allen1@leeds.ac.uk

Young Lives Under The Data Gaze We will explore different dimensions of the data gaze where the classificatory logics of algorithmic and machinic gazes intersect with (and sometimes cross over) with young people’s own capacities to...

The next day, Wednesday July 9, the three of us are being hosted by David Beer in the University of York Research Live! seminar series talking about Young Lives Under the Data Gaze, you can see the details of that here: www.york.ac.uk/sociology/ab...

Digital Inequalities in Financialised Late Capitalism: How can young people Joint-hosted with The Centre for Research on Families, Life Course and Generations.

On Tuesday July 8, Julia Coffey, Roger Burrows and myself are being jointly hosted by The Centre for Research on Families, Life Course and Generations and The Bauman Institute talking about ‘Digital Inequalities in Financialised Late Capitalism: How can young people build a future?’

Wednesday June 25 I am at University of Western England talking about Youth Studies in an Era of Financialisation and Digitalisation, along with Ciaran Burke. It is at 11.30am, not sure of the room details yet...

On Monday July 23 at Bristol, we are doing a session on the work of Pierre Bourdieu as applied to the analysis of social class in Australia and the UK with Will Atkinson, Sarah McLaughlin and Richard Waller. The workshop will on at 1400-1600 in the Common Room (G1) in 8 Priory Rd (SPS).