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Sensing Life: The Social Organisation of the Senses in Interaction This book showcases the critical contribution that scholarship in the field of social interaction can make to the study of the senses. Centred on an understanding of the senses as interactionally conf...

Our edited collection “Sensing Life. The Social Organisation of the Senses in Interaction”
(Edited By Will Gibson, Natalia Ruiz-Junco, Dirk vom Lehn) is out. Thanks to the contributors! www.routledge.com/Sensing-Life...

Excellent piece on the difficulties the Hungarian government now faces to undo the Orbanization of the country

Move Slow and Upgrade Cambridge Core - Computing and Society - Move Slow and Upgrade

New Book “Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation” by @eselinger.bsky.social and @foxcahn.bsky.social - Douglas Rushkoff said it is a “hopeful and actionable path to a human-centered future.”

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The conversational action test: Detecting the artificial sociality of artificial intelligence - Saul Albert, William Housley, Rein Ove Sikveland, Elizabeth Stokoe, 2025 Drawing on the “Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test”—a science fiction version of Turing’s famous thought experiment—we propose the Conversational Action Test (CAT): a ne...

The conversational action test: Detecting the artificial sociality of artificial intelligence.

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Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation - William Housley|Patrik Dahl Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation advances our understanding of how interactionist thinking can be leveraged as a conceptual and methodological resource for approaching digital societies in relation to automation and the emerging contours of interaction order in the 21st century.

Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation, Housley and Dahl (2026). We engage with interaction order in relation to generative A.I., synthetic sociality and agentic A.I. imaginaries, a key set of transformations for interactional futures #interactionism

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Picture showing title of Jourbal article published in Symbolic Interaction: Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in the Field: Revelations Made in “Sticky Moments” by Rory Sommers, Allison Chenier, Andrew Hathaway

New article on Early View

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Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in the Field: Revelations Made in “Sticky Moments”. By
Rory Sommers, Allison Chenier, Andrew Hathaway

Unique daily likers as a graph over the last year. It's down from about 1.6 million a day a year ago to 1.1 million a day now.

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem.

The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.

My somewhat serious take on this is that we should all self-ban ourselves from talking about US politics

Press the off button The day before her twenty-seventh birthday, on her way to Ramsgate, Akshi Singh picked up a copy of A Life of One’s Own by Marion Milner. She later

I wrote about Akshi Singh's wonderful debut and the science of rest for @thetls.bsky.social

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Free museum entry is the mark of a civilised city — and one of the best things about London These are some of Britain’s last truly public spaces — charging overseas visitors is an erosion of that ideal

Free museum entry is the mark of a civilised city — and one of the best things about London (FT - £)

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Thank you, Sam

Is the price of electricity high because it is tied to the price of gas? Marginal pricing?

If you write about AI as a technological revolution, you foster the illusion of a personal relationship with this technology, as something you can choose or reject. If you write about how AI appears in culture, you are writing about all of us.

Maggie O’Farrell and fellow judges award inaugural Hilary Mantel prize for fiction Anna Dempsey’s This Is About an Alligator and Nothing Else, a coming-of-age story set in Florida, took the award, which aims to support unpublished and un-agented writers

Maggie O’Farrell and fellow judges award inaugural Hilary Mantel prize for fiction to Anna Dempsey www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Das gilt nur für Neubauten in Großbritannien, oder? Natürlich immer noch viel besser als der deutsche Rückwärtsgang

Enjoy the city and the art, if you can. It’s beautiful 🤩

Will he want to ban celebration of Arsenal’s win of the PL as well?

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‘Father of the Internet’ Vint Cerf expresses concern about the longevity of digital information – Physics World How do we create a digital version of the vellum and clay tablets that successfully preserved information in earlier ages of human history?

Maybe Weimer should listen to Vince Cerf - physicsworld.com/a/father-of-...

„Wir sind dabei, unser Leben zu vollziehen, statt es zu leben“: Ein Plädoyer für das Handeln hartmut rosa, soziologie, handlungsspielräume, gesellschaft, situation, konstellation

Im Berufsleben und in der Freizeit werden menschliche Entscheidungsprozesse immer mehr von Richtlinien, Formularen und Algorithmen vorgegeben. Sind wir nur noch Vollziehende statt Handelnde? Zum neuen Buch von Hartmut Rosa:

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You mean like Rumsfeld’s woke ‘shock and awe’ war?

Our aspirations are wrapped up in books Bookshop owner Jason Shelley helped me hugely in the last lockdown and today I tell his story

“Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! COME TO THE EDGE! And they came, And he pushed, And they flew.” Jason Shelly @croftonbooks.bsky.social for a longer text about Jason Shelly see David Jesudason’ piece davidjesudason.substack.com/p/our-aspira...

Let us share a piece written by award winning journalist, David Jesudason, about Crofton Books and its owner, Jason Shelley, the end tail of lockdown, 2021

David published this on his substack, as

“Our aspirations are wrapped up in books”

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PhD Studentship: Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK at King's College London At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a PhD Studentship: Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK. Explore our diverse range of PhD opportunities today.

PhD Studentship: Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK - King's Business School & College of Optometrists - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN874/p...

Call for Editor for Symbolic Interaction!

The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) invites applications for Editor(s) of the journal Symbolic Interaction for a five-year term beginning January 1, 2027.

More info: sssi.wildapricot.org/Call-for-Edi...

SSSI 2026 award nominations open:
-George Herbert Mead Award
-Charles Horton Cooley Book Award
-Herbert Blumer Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
-Helena Lopata Mentor Excellence Award
-The Kathy Charmaz Early-In-Career Award
Submission details available at symbolicinteraction.org/CallforAwards

Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction | King's College London The WIT Advanced Summer Institute on Video in Qualitative Research: Materiality, Embodiment and Social Interaction

The call for participants for the "Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction" is still open - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wit-a... #emca #sociology

Paper on Analysing “the Sequential Organization of Social Interaction in Exhibitions” #emca #video #sociology #museum

Luise Reitstätter and Carla-Marinka Schorr have published an excellent edited collection titled "Methods of Exhibition Analysis" (open access, in English and German) that showcases…