Outflanking Platitudes: Theorising the Pandemic

What's it like to move from organising face-to-face events to organising online events? This is a short reflection on my experience after two Post-Pandemic University conferences.

Social media has gone from fringe to mainstream in higher education within the last decade. A culture has developed around it which shapes how it is used by academics and how that use is evaluated. However a range of problems are emerging which that culture is proving unable to address. I explore these problems and suggest how we could reorientate social media culture within universities and why this is necessary.

This is an extract from a conversation with Jana Bacevic recorded for a qualitative research module in the Department of Sociology at Durham University. 

Work I mention: A Theory of Justice by John Rawls, The C. Wright Mills letter, the phrase used by Les Back (unfortunately the original interview seems to have been taken down) 

Work I mention: The Isolation Pod by Jana Bacevic and Mark Carrigan, Knowing Neoliberalism by Jana Bacevic, Gets worse before it gets better by Richard Seymour