Tom Redshaw

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: @tom_redshaw

Academic Publications

• Book Review: Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains. New Media & Society, 23(7), 2132–2134. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444821999995
• ‘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

Other publications

• ‘Crypto Crises.’ Red Pepper. Available at: https://www.redpepper.org.uk/cryptocurrency-crises-blockchain-el-salvador-climate-capital/
• ‘Should the Left care about Blockchain technology?’ Red Pepper. Available at: https://www.redpepper.org.uk/should-the-left-care-about-blockchain-technology/  

PhD Thesis

• ‘Of Bitcoins and Blockchains: The Social Construction of Crypto-Currencies’ – University of Manchester (2018)

Conference Papers & Public Talks

• ‘Digital Utopias and Capitalist Ideologies’ – The 21st Conference of the Utopian Studies Society Europe (2020)
• ‘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 Europe, 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)