bit.ly/1mbQVmO The everyday horrors of turning HE into a fully-commoditised consumer experience.

bit.ly/1YlPILg The unstoppable AKB48 music machine bucks the trend for dwindling CD sales in Japan

Online First CUS article: Reconsidering Berger & Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality after 50 Years ow.ly/Wcvcz

#Japan's government is embracing militarism – and Japanese youth are furious bit.ly/1O5UGoP

Fab wee app from J Ross I've been on steering group for. Get yersef to SNGMA National Galleries of Scotland for the xp #artcasting bit.ly/1VJDBTi

Spend more, exercise harder, eat yourself fitter...Like a pig on antibiotics theatln.tc/1HaLBKn

Scott Walker remembers Bowie, "the most important artist this country has ever produced" p4k.co/WTijK

New Taiwan President Tsai quoting Max Weber. Interesting times for Taiwan bbc.in/1Nd0Myw

Startups as agit prop? theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

I get to chair a panel featuring @maddie_breeze, Dr Fiona McQueen and Sam Friedman on Monday! Not to be missed! #socstars #ndsoc2016

New Editors of Cultural Sociology. Extremely excited to be taking this on with Dr Lisa McCormick and Isabelle Darmon

Excellent news from the Cultural Sociology journal front x.com/llhmc/status/7…

New article by Zine Magubane in Cultural Sociology on American Sociology's racial ontology. ow.ly/tVpc303UAlP

New article in Cultural Sociology by Sanjay Seth: Is thinking with 'Modernity' Eurocentric? ow.ly/ON8F303UB2L

"An academic journal is a lot like an artwork... the product of collective activity..." So editors' statement begins journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

The CuS team's first editorial statement: a playful blend of worlds, fields, actor networks and diagonal ontologies journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

In age of the global 1% is it time to return to figures like EP Thompson? Nick Stevenson Cultural Sociology panel #britsoc17

Digital ventriloquism, participatory networks and crowd-sourced celebrity in the case of #HatsuneMiku at #britsoc17. Bring your glowsticks. x.com/CulSoc/status/…

"Miku Miku what's it like to be you?" Good question @ #anamanaguchi and fantastic song to boot: ow.ly/eUZz30aBiYi x.com/CulSoc/status/…

I'm giving a lecture and digital music performance at Geidai senju campus, Tokyo. Come along for general weirdness ga.geidai.ac.jp/en/2017/06/05/…