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Rebecca Coleman

@rcecoleman.bsky.social
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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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ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures @sociodigfutures.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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 @rcecoleman.bsky.social
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Packed room for #AoIR pre-conference workshop on algorithmic media and temporalities
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A reminder that this is happening online on Wednesday. More info and registration below
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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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...
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How To Do Social Research With...
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is a good response
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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...
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
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Well, this all looks great!
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Kicking off the second panel on methodological challenges and approaches for sociodigital research - @susanjhalford.bsky.social introducing #11ICSSM #RC33 #methodology
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ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures @sociodigfutures.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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 👏
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A super resource!
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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...
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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.
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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
Photo of workshop on sociological engagement with Large Language ModelsPhoto of workshop on sociological engagement with Large Language Models
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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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 …
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ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures @sociodigfutures.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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 📅
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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...
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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…
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Ruth Houghton @ruthhoughton.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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...
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Practical utopias: A creative methods workshop | School of Social and Political Science
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 04/07/2025
“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
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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 Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 30/06/2025
“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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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Online seminar in October, organised by Newcastle Youth Studies Centre, Australia - info and sign up here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-materi...
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The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter
How Stuff Matters
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
@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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ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures @sociodigfutures.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
✨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
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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 ...
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
From the always amazing @dawnlyon.bsky.social
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
So chuffed to have a paper in this, co-written with Chloe Turner & @dawnlyon.bsky.social and to be in such esteemed company. Especially brilliant to read articles by @mbherbert.bsky.social & Tom Wadsworth, Zoe Walsh & Beth Bramich.
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 27/05/2025
OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/sM4Uta3
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Dr Ola Michalec @olamichalec.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
On the 9th July at 12, we'll be holding a guest seminar on AI and Hype by @velocitygravity.bsky.social who will be talking about his latest paper "To Have Done with The Metaphor of Summers and Winters: Can AI And Internet History Cure Hype?" Come to the @bdfi.bsky.social or join us online!
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Devina Sarwatay @devinasarwatay.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Please join us for an agenda setting hybrid event @ucl.ac.uk May 23 organised by @jessicaringrose.bsky.social Care or Control? Regulating Technology, Behaviour & Gender at School I'll be representing @citystgeorges.bsky.social & joining an incredible lineup of academic & charitable organisation 1/
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Friday! In person or online. Registration details here
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Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It's finally happened. I've decided to start a newsletter (not a podcast though) If you're interested in the increasing data-fication of the welfare state, AI for benefit fraud detection, biased algorithms denying social security, intrusive data surveillance, and other fun stuff, sign up!
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Digital welfare state: origins, controversies, research — ABD Consultancy
How are governments worldwise using AI and other tech to administer the welfare state? Find out about research, policy and investigations into the digital welfare state, including digital surveillance...
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This looks so good!
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
SI of Journal of Sociology on Future/Tense: A Sociology of Temporal Dis/Order just published. Includes article by Corine van Emmerik, @dawnlyon.bsky.social and me on a minor sociology of shifting futures during COVID pandemic journals.sagepub.com/toc/JOS/curr...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Event on community-led design, focusing on the straw-bale co-design of the KWMC building. More info and register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/made-of-st...
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Made of Straw and Still Standing
Eventbrite - Knowle West Media Centre presents Made of Straw and Still Standing - Thursday, May 29, 2025 at Knowle West Media Centre. Find event and ticket information.
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Call for papers for a SI of Australian Feminist Studies on feminist methods and interventions on AI ethics - looks super! think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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Feminist Methods and Interventions on AI Ethics.
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Looking forward to this. First outing of some new research with @jessicaringrose.bsky.social on smartphones, bans and sociodigital futures
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 29/04/2025
🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸 Join us for the second in the Foundation’s Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on Palestine. 🍉 8 May 18.30 UTC+1 online 🍉 Speakers: Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah 🍉 Tickets: buff.ly/xE1NHos
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This will be fabulous!
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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Attending #BritSoc25 and want to learn more about the Journal Creative Research Methods? Stop by the @brisunipress.bsky.social stand or read about us here! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Always great to be at Knowle West Media Centre - this time seeing what young people think about smartphone bans. Also good to see the Foundations for the Future exhibition is still going strong!
A photo of the main studio at Knowle West Media Centre
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Yes this!
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
If you’re interested in developing sociodigital methods - deadline for abstracts is 15 March
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Time & Society @timeandsociety.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
If you are working on social time areas like Time Use Studies, Queer Temporalities, Crip Time, Infrasturctural Time, Migration Temporalities, Temporal Resistance, Decolonising Time, or other social time topics, then we would very much welcome ideas for reviews, opinion pieces, etc.
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Melissa Gregg @melgregg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Here is a starter pack for the core social science team at Bristol Digital Futures Institute—and we will add more as our affiliates join us here ☺️ go.bsky.app/7rx3mpt
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Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Reminder about this panel!
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Knowle West Media Centre @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Our team visited @bdfi.bsky.social to get inspired, dream big and reflect on the future of KWMC! 🤖 We’re so excited to explore how this cutting-edge tech can be shaped with and for local communities... What would you use these facilities for? 👀
People standing in BDFI’s Reality Emulator  - an interactive wrap-around digital space.Person wearing a tethered augmented reality headset, stood in front of a screen displaying a skeleton.
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Four new Professorial Head of School jobs to be advertised externally very soon at Lancaster University: www.lancaster.ac.uk/jobs/landing...
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FHASS Opportunities - Lancaster University
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Susan Halford @susanjhalford.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
What will large language models mean for social research? As governments and funding councils start to extol their virtues, social researchers must critically interrogate. Join us in Naples for a hands-on session & much more besides!
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Susan Halford @susanjhalford.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
If the digital and the social are inextricable, what does that mean for research methods? Join us in Naples to explore further! @rcecoleman.bsky.social @jessicaogden.bsky.social @lescarr.bsky.social
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Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Here is your INAUGURATION DAY COUNTERPROGRAMMING. Capacities to: Affect Up Against Fascism. Open access. Read online or download as pdf. (Book form coming soon.) More than 40 contributors, over 350 pages. READ. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. imbricate.press/book/capacit...
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Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism
<p>Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism is a collection of more than forty essays, poems, and visual works that convey myriad approaches for understanding, surviving, and creating counter-movement...
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
UNCERTAIN CLIMATES: Looking forward to this roundtable event hosted by the Centre for Science Studies and the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University this afternoon!🌊💨🌏 Open to everyone whether in person or online: wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...
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Uncertain Climates: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable
CSS, in collaboration with the Centre for Mobilities Research, is pleased to invite colleagues to join an interdisciplinary hybrid roundtable event on the topic of ‘Uncertain Climates’.…
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