Beer, D., Wallace, A., Burrows, R., Ciocanel, A. & Cussens, J. (2024) ‘Valuing the manual: The demarcation of embodied practices within algorithmic decision-making processes’, Social & Cultural Geography, published online first.
Beer, D. (2024) ‘What use is the concept of the digital? Embracing the retro’, Dialogues on Digital Society, published online first.
Beer, D. (2024) ‘An aesthetic of disorientation: Impressions of crisis and distance in the TV show Goliath ‘, Crime, Media, Culture, published online first.
Ciocǎnel, A., Wallace, A., Beer, D., Cussens, J. & Burrows, R. (2024) ‘Open Banking and data reassurance: the case of tenant referencing in the UK‘, Information, Communication & Society, published online first.
Beer, D., Wallace, A., Ciocǎnel, A., Burrows, R. & Cussens, J. (2023) ‘Automation hesitancy: Confidence deficits, established limits and notional horizons in the application of algorithms within the private rental sector in the UK’, Information, Communication & Society, published online first.
Chubb, J. & Beer, D. (2023) ‘Establishing counterpoints in the sonic framing of AI narratives‘, AI and Ethics 3(4) 1-12.
Beer, D. (2022) ‘The problem of researching a recursive society: algorithms, data coils and the looping of the social‘, Big Data & Society 9(2).
Jacobsen, B. & Beer, D. (2021) ‘Quantified Nostalgia: Social Media, Metrics and Memory‘, Social Media + Society 7(2): 1-9.
Beer, D. (2021) ‘A history of the data present‘, History of the Human Sciences 34(3-4): 385-398.
Beer, D. (2021) Review article of Super-sticky WeChat and Chinese Society, Information, Communication & Society 24(12): 1831-1834.
Fazi, M.B. & Beer, D. (2021) ‘Explorations in the indeterminacy of computation: An interview with M. Beatrice Fazi‘, Theory, Culture & Society 38(7-8): 289-308.
Beer, D. & Smith, H. (2020) ‘Data quirks and impressions: An interview with David Beer’, Media Theory 4(1): 147-164.
Pyyhtinen, O. & Beer, D. (2018) ‘Georg Simmel’s Traces: An interview with Olli Pyyhtinen’, Theory, Culture & Society 35(7-8): 271-280.
Chernilo, D. & Beer, D. (2018) ‘To be human: An interview with Daniel Chernilo’, Theory, Culture & Society 35(7-8): 281-291.
Beer, D. (2018) Review article of The Quantified Self in Precarity. Information, Communication & Society 21(12): 1779-1784.
Beer, D. (2018) ‘Envisioning the power of data analytics‘, Information, Communication & Society, 21(3): 465-479.
Beer, D. (2017) ‘The data analytics industry and the promises of real-time knowing: perpetuating and deploying a rationality of speed‘, Journal of Cultural Economy 10(1): 21-33.
Beer, D. (2017) ‘The Social Power of Algorithms‘, Information, Communication & Society 20(1):1-13.
Beer, D. (2016) ‘Fiction and social theory’, Theory, Culture & Society 32(7-8): 409-419.
Beer, D. (2016) ‘How should we do the history of big data?’, Big Data & Society, 3(1): 1-10. (there is a video abstract for this article available here)
Beer, D. (2015) ‘Productive measures: Culture and measurement in the context of everyday neoliberalism’, Big Data & Society 2(1): 1-13.
Ajana, B. & Beer, D. (2014) ‘The biopolitics of biometrics: An interview with Btihaj Ajana’, Theory, Culture & Society 31(7-8): 329-336.
Berry, D. & Beer, D. (2014) ‘Questions of digital power and the reanimation of critical theory: An interview with David Berry’, Theory, Culture & Society 31(7-8): 323-328.
Beer, D. (2014) ‘The precarious double life of the recording engineer’, Journal for Cultural Research 18(3): 189-202.
Beer, D. (2014) ‘Unpicking the Musical City’, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 1(1): 127-136.
Beer, D. (2014) ‘Hip-hop as urban and regional research’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(2): 677-686.
Beer, D. & Burrows, R. (2013) ‘Popular culture, digital archives and the new social life of data’, Theory, Culture & Society 30(4): 47-71.
Beer, D. & Taylor, M. (2013) ‘The hidden dimensions of the musical field and the potential of the new social data’, Sociological Research Online 18(2): http://www.socresonline.org.uk/18/2/14.html
Beer, D. (2013) ‘Genre, Boundary Drawing and the Classificatory Imagination’, Cultural Sociology 7(2): 145-160.
Beer, D. (2013) ‘Public geography and the politics of circulation’, Dialogues in Human Geography 3(1): 92-95.
Beer, D. (2012) ‘Open Access and academic publishing: some lessons from music culture’, Political Geography 31(8): 479-480.
Beer, D. (2012) ‘The comfort of mobile media: uncovering personal attachments with everyday devices’, Convergence 18(4): 361-367.
Beer, D. (2012) ‘Using social media data aggregators to do social research’, Sociological Research Online 17(3): http://www.socresonline.org.uk/17/3/10.html .
Penfold-Mounce, R., Beer, D. & Burrows, R. (2011) ‘The Wire as social science fiction?’, Sociology 45(1): 152-167.
Atkinson, R. & Beer, D. (2010) ‘The ivorine tower in the city: engaging urban studies after the wire’, CITY 14(5): 529-544.
Allen-Robertson, J. & Beer, D. (2010) ‘Mobile Ideas: tracking a concept through time and space’, Mobilities 5(4): 529-545.
Beer, D. & Penfold-Mounce, R. (2010) ‘Researching glossy topics: the case of the academic study of celebrity’, Celebrity Studies 1(3): 361-366.
Beer, D. (2010) ‘Mobile music, coded objects and everyday spaces’, Mobilities 5(4): 469-484.
Beer, D. & Burrows, R. (2010) ‘Consumption, prosumption and participatory web cultures: an introduction’, Journal of Consumer Culture 10(1): 3-12.
Beer, D. (2009) ‘Can you dig it? Some reflections on the sociological problems associated with being uncool’, Sociology 43(6): 1151-1162.
Beer, D. (2009) ‘Power through the algorithm? Participatory web cultures and the technological unconscious’, New Media & Society 11(6): 985-1002.
Beer, D. & Penfold-Mounce, R. (2009) ‘Celebrity gossip and the new melodramatic imagination’, Sociological Research Online 14(2/3): http://www.socresonline.org.uk/14/2/2.html
Beer, D. (2008) ‘Researching a confessional society’, International Journal of Market Research 50(5): 619-629.
Beer, D. (2008) ‘Making friends with Jarvis Cocker: music culture in the context of Web 2.0’, Cultural Sociology 2(2): 222-241.
Beer, D. (2008) ‘The iConic iNterface and the veneer of simplicity: MP3 players and the reconfiguration of music collecting and reproduction practices in the digital age’, Information, Communication & Society 11(1): 71-88.
Beer, D. (2008) ‘Social Network(ing) sites…revisiting the story so far: a response to danah boyd and Nicole Ellison’, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 13(2): 516-529.
Beer, D. & Burrows, R. (2007) ‘Sociology and, of and in Web 2.0: some initial considerations’, Sociological Research Online 12(5): http://www.socresonline.org.uk/12/5/17.html
Beer, D. (2007) ‘Tune out: music, soundscapes and the urban mise-en-scène’, Information, Communication & Society 10(6): 846-866.
Beer, D. (2007) ‘Thoughtful territories: imagining the thinking power of things and spaces’ CITY 11(2): 229-238.
Beer, D. (2006) ‘The pop-pickers have picked decentralised media: the fall of Top of the Pops and the rise of the second media age’, Sociological Research Online 11(3): http://www.socresonline.org.uk/11/3/beer.html
Sandywell, B. & Beer, D. (2005) ‘Stylistic morphing: notes on the digitisation of contemporary music culture’, Convergence 11(4): 106-121.
Beer, D. & Gane, N. (2004) ‘Back to the future of social theory: an interview with Nicholas Gane’, Sociological Research Online 9(4): http://www.socresonline.org.uk/9/4/beer.html
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