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- Datafication Laid Bare: Making sense of the Grok AI leaksby Max HartWhat the Grok? Performance Promises, Cases of Controversy and Grok. On the 22nd of August 2025, news headlines began to circulate on social media sites regarding X (formerly Twitter) owner and tech-billionaire Elon Musk’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot ‘Grok’. Initially launched in November 2023, Grok has seen rapid evolution with Grok-2 offering image-generation capability and… Read more: Datafication Laid Bare: Making sense of the Grok AI leaks
- A Response to Pridemore and Rogersby Prof HPlease allow me to have a quick whine. If any other researchers involved in the UR project think I’m abusing my privileged position here, please submit a blog any time you think you have been misrepresented in any type of publication. Unfortunately, we do tend to encounter ‘straw targets’ in mainstream academic journals. Here, Pridemore… Read more: A Response to Pridemore and Rogers
- Leagues of Gentlemen (and Women) on the illicit (violent) playing fields of neoliberal capitalism: An ultra-realist analysis of Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemenby Rob Glasborrow‘Criminal markets are now sophisticated and competitive, riven by class divisions created on the back of the individual’s relative success and failures in markets. A successful new proto bourgeoisie drawn from all positions on the former social order dominates a defeated precariat’ (Hall & Winlow, 2015: 126) Take director Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series, The Gentlemen… Read more: Leagues of Gentlemen (and Women) on the illicit (violent) playing fields of neoliberal capitalism: An ultra-realist analysis of Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen
- The Digital Coliseum: How Capitalism Turns Our Pain into Spectacleby Mayra BarreraWhat if the freedom we feel when using digital platforms is just a beautifully packaged illusion? We spend hours on TikTok, Instagram, OnlyFans, Tinder, BeReal, Snapchat, or Reddit, convinced that we are choosing, enjoying, and even liberating ourselves. But who really benefits? Spoiler: it’s not us. As ultra-realist criminologists argues, not everything that looks like… Read more: The Digital Coliseum: How Capitalism Turns Our Pain into Spectacle
- A Multi-Level Ultra-Realist Approach to Understanding Violence Against Women and Girls: An Introductionby Emma ArmstrongEmma Armstrong and Paul Alker Teesside University
- Zemiogenesis and the Rudakubana caseby Prof HSteve Hall
- The Society of Enemies: 1. Identity Politics and Crimeby Prof HSteve Hall