Lecturer in Digital Society, University of Salford
- Programme Leader for upcoming MSc Digital Society
- Digital Society conferences at Salford
- Member of Connected Lives research group
- HEA Fellow
- Email: T.Redshaw1@Salford.ac.uk
- Twitter: @MscDigiSociety
Publications
- ‘What is digital society? Reflections on the aims and purpose of digital sociology.’ Sociology
https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038519880114 - ‘Bitcoin beyond ambivalence: Popular rationalization and Feenberg’s technical politics.’ Thesis Eleven, 138(1)
https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513616689390
Working Papers
- ‘Blockchain Technology: The Social Construction of an Ecological Disaster’
- ‘Digital Sociology: Towards an Emancipatory Social Science’
PhD Thesis
- ‘Of Bitcoins and Blockchains: The Social Construction of Crypto-Currencies’ – University of Manchester (2018)
Conference Papers & Public Talks
- ‘Blockchain Technology: Constructing a Progressive Framework for Development’ – The 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Manchester (2019)
- ‘Blockchains and Utopias: Constructing Progressive Frameworks for Development’ – The 20th Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, Monash University Prato Centre (2019)
- ‘Activism, Slacktivism, or Hacktivism?’ Tech for Good Live, Federation House, Manchester (2019)
- ‘A Critical Theory of Bitcoin’ – The Internet, Policy, and Politics Conference, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. (2016)
https://tinyurl.com/yx8payuf - ‘Radical Technologies and Cultures of Knowledge: The Case of Bitcoin’ – International Society for Information Studies Summit, Vienna University of Technology. (2015)
Affiliations
- British Sociological Association
- BSA Digital Sociology study group
- Utopian Studies Society
- Movements at Manchester research group
Previous Teaching
- University Teacher in Sociology, Loughborough University
- Lecturer in Sociology, St Mary’s University
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Manchester
Digital Society Conferences at Salford
- Deviant Pleasure Markets & Digital Technologies: Drugs, Sex, Money (14/2/2020)
- Reclaiming the ‘Social’ in Digital Society: Forms of Organising Society in and through the Digital (7/6/2019)
Previous Digital Society conferences:
- Digital Activism (11/11/2016)
