Dr Dave Beer Short Open Access Publications
This is a selection of links to some of my short open access publications. This includes pieces of journalism, magazine articles, extended blog/website posts and other short pieces.
- When 'special measures' become ordinary, Open Democracy (August 2015)
- The Growing Power of the Data Analytics Industry, Discover Society (August 2015).
- Taking a measure of happiness, Berfrois (May 2015)
- The new Apple Watch and the problem of our creeping connectivity, Sociological Imagination (May 2015)
- Living with smartness, Open Democracy (April 2015)
- Systems of measurement have a productive power in our lives, LSE Politics & Policy (April 2015)
- Real or fantasy, football is now consumed by numbers, The Conversation (April 2015)
- The Aesthetics of Algorithms: An interview with Carolyn L. Kane, Theory, Culture & Society website (January 2015)
- One hit wonders dominate as social media turns up the pace of the pop charts, The Conversation (January 2015)
- Walter Benjamin’s Voice, Berfrois (December 2014)
- Sociology’s dual horizons, The Sociological Review website (October 2014)
- The future of affect theory: an interview with Margaret Wetherell, Theory, Culture & Society website, (October 2014)
- The entanglements of interdisciplinarity: an interview with Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard, Theory, Culture & Society website (September 2014)
- The entanglements of interdisciplinarity: an interview with Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard, Theory, Culture & Society website (September 2014)
- Interview with Figure/Ground about Punk Sociology, (September 2014)
- The embedded power of algorithms, Open Democracy (July 2014)
- The invisibility of the recording engineer, Discover Society (July 2014)
- TV Game Shows and Social Change, Sociological Imagination (May 2014)
- The Biopolitics of Biometrics: An interview with Btihaj Ajana, Theory, Culture & Society website (May 2014)
- Questions of digital power and the reanimation of critical theory: an interview with David Berry, Theory, Culture & Society website (May 2014)
- Interfaces, bodies and materiality: an interview with Daniel Black, Theory, Culture & Society website (April 2014)
- An invitation to punk sociology, Sociological Imagination (December 2013)
- Collecting Simmel’s Thoughts: Fragmentation, Consistency, Unity, Berfrois (November 2013)
- The New Circulations of Culture’, Berfrois (July 2013) (also republished by LSE British Politics and Policy and LSE European Politics and Policy)
- Academic Knowledge and the Politics of Circulation, LSE Impact in the Social Sciences (July 2013)
- Leave the thinking to us, Times Higher Education (August 2012).
- Experiencing Sociology’s Midlife Crisis, Sociological Imagination (July 2012)
- Bodies in Musical Bubbles, Berfrois (July 2012)
- Sloterdijk’s Moment, Berfrois (May 2012)
- The Chaos of Music Genres, Berfrois (May 2012)
- Popular Culture and the Unconstrained Sociological Imagination, Sociological Imagination (December 2011)
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