I am a sociologist and geek interested in digital culture, speculative fiction, and narrative methods. I worked as a computer programmer and tutor before studying sociology and development studies. I gained a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 1999 and began teaching sociology at Goldsmiths (University of London) in that same year. I left Goldsmiths in June 2024 to write full-time. My first book, Radicals Against Race (Berg 2002), about the founding circle of activists around New Beacon Books, was awarded the British Sociological Association’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for the best new single-authored work of sociology published in 2002. I published Narrative Networks: Storied Approaches in a Digital Age (Sage 2015), and Geek and Hacker Stories (Palgrave Pivot 2018). I am working on narratives of digital tech in the Atlantic Global South. I am exploring culture wars. I plan to do more work on the cultural activism of the New Beacon founders.

Location

London, England

Disciplines

• Sociology

Affiliation

https://cambridge.academia.edu/BrianAlleyne