Are you enjoying your holidays? Make it even better with our new issue. Today we suggest Gil Eyal's paper "The Tensions of Academic Freedom as a Practice in the 21st Century".
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#ScienceAndSociety #Expertise #Universities

photo of Michel Callon

Together with his family, his cherished colleagues, many friends, admiring readers, and grateful students, we mourn the loss of Michel Callon, who passed away on July 28th. He was one of the intellectual giants of our era. See this insightful interview sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

Directly from our Special Feature on Harrison White, this paper on agency in managerial networks is freely available on our website:

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Another day, another reading recommendation from our new issue (Vol. 19 No. 2). In this piece, Emily Erikson (@emilyerikson.bsky.social) reflects on some core concepts of Harrison’s theoretical work.

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Check out our latest issue (Vol. 19 No. 2) and the included Special Feature on Harrison White. Here's one of the insightful pieces you will find, by John Levi Martin.

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📢New issue out!🧪
The latest Sociologica Issue (Vol. 19 No. 2), including an interesting Special Feature, a Symposium, essays, inteviews and much more.

Read it now!
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‘Generic visuals’ of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration - Giorgia Aiello, Helen Kennedy, C.W. Anderson, Camilla Mørk Røstvik, 2022 In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, images of the virus molecule and ‘flatten-the-curve’ line charts were inescapable. There is now a vast visual repert...

Here is the first article that was came out of the Generic Visuals in the News project in 2022, in the International Journal of Cultural Studies' special issue "COVID-19: The Cultural Constructions of a Global Crisis" (Paul Frosh and Myria Georgiou, Eds.). 1/
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Looks like I'm inciting an insurrection :) it was a fun lab!

Generic visuals in the news as public images: Activating emotions, experiences and identities - Helen Kennedy, Giorgia Aiello, Taylor Annabell, C W Anderson, 2025 Generic visuals like stock photos and simple data visualizations circulate in the news with increasing frequency, and so do dominant narratives about them. Stoc...

**Hot off the press** A new open-access article from the Generic Visuals in the News project on news audiences' engagements with stock photos and simple data visualizations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/

“The Boomers lived through a period of great expansion. They have never cared about who would come next.” – Man, millennial generation, Italy

Giulia Giorgi looks at how online memes have helped to construct & consolidate stereotypes about different generations. #OnlineFirst https://buff.ly/4juxaES

As multimodal carriers of messages, memes contribute to the consolidation and the dissemination of features associated with various cohorts. Furthermore, I elaborate how the memeification of the label ‘boomer’ produces a shift towards a 'cultural' re-segmentation of generational categories.

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My first solo paper is out on @sociologicalreview.bsky.social and it's on, you've guessed it, memes!

In the study, I explore how memes partake into the sociological process of generational othering.

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📡New Issue Out!📡
Among other things, the issue proposes an amazing Special Feature titled “On Mentoring”, edited and introduced by David Stark, with seven contributions.

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