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Rebecca Coleman

@rcecoleman.bsky.social

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.

👉 bit.ly/4nnf0pt

@susanjhalford.bsky.social
@profdebw.bsky.social
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22.10.2025 09:48 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

@bdfi.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social

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Packed room for #AoIR pre-conference workshop on algorithmic media and temporalities

15.10.2025 17:01 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

A reminder that this is happening online on Wednesday. More info and registration below

06.10.2025 08:15 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How To Do Social Research With...

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

www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

28.09.2025 07:59 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks Yasmin. I like it too! 💜

02.10.2025 08:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a good response

30.09.2025 17:35 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Image text says: 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.
https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804231164486

Image text says: 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804231164486

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.
doi.org/10.1177/1360...

30.09.2025 07:54 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Well, this all looks great!

29.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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25.09.2025 09:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kicking off the second panel on methodological challenges and approaches for sociodigital research - @susanjhalford.bsky.social introducing #11ICSSM #RC33 #methodology

25.09.2025 09:03 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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 👏

24.09.2025 10:24 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A super resource!

23.09.2025 07:49 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

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...

23.09.2025 07:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Photo of workshop on sociological engagement with Large Language Models

Photo of workshop on sociological engagement with Large Language Models

Photo of workshop on sociological engagement with Large Language Models

Photo of workshop on sociological engagement with Large Language Models

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

22.09.2025 13:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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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 …

27.08.2025 09:26 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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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 📅

21.08.2025 09:54 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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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…

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...

14.07.2025 14:13 — 👍 0    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 2

Thanks for the invite - always good to make mess together!

04.07.2025 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Practical utopias: A creative methods workshop | School of Social and Political Science

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...

04.07.2025 13:10 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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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.

buff.ly/uOle3Xy

04.07.2025 13:05 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is out today! It is such a great book that explores contemporary politics, time and feeling @benandersongeog.bsky.social @ajsecor.bsky.social

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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

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🌟Congratulations Uygar! 🌟

19.06.2025 19:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Newcastle Youth Studies Centre The Newcastle Youth Studies Centre is a collaborative group of researchers who work with young people to understand their lives, and the social, cultural, and economic forces they are living in.Too of...

The whole series looks great

www.eventbrite.com.au/o/newcastle-...

04.06.2025 13:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter How Stuff Matters

Online seminar in October, organised by Newcastle Youth Studies Centre, Australia - info and sign up here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-materi...

04.06.2025 13:19 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 2
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@trivikrama.bsky.social on constructing just mobility futures at the Mapping the Future City event @jgibristol.bsky.social @bdfi.bsky.social @melgregg.bsky.social

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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 ...

✨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

29.05.2025 13:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

From the always amazing @dawnlyon.bsky.social

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It’s a privilege and pleasure Brenda. Your article is truly brilliant and will stay with me 💜

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