Dr. Jamie Ranger

Areas of Research 

• Digital Populism;

• Digital Citizenship;

• Ideological Communication on Social Media.

Biography  

Dr. James Ranger is a postdoctoral researcher trained in both the Anglo-American analytic and European continental traditions of philosophy and the history of political thought. He is passionate about bringing political and philosophical ideas and approaches to bear on developments in technology and digital communications.

Publications 

• Ranger, J. & Ranger, W. (2025) Muskian Futurism, tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 23.2. https://doi.org/10.31269/xahxk308

• Ranger, J. (2025) Populism in the Technospheric, Fast Capitalism, 22: 1, Article 13. DOI: 10.32855/1930-014X.1012. Available at: https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/fastcapitalism/vol22/iss1/13

• Ranger, J. (2024) How Should Men Be Made? Preciado in the Gender Laboratory, Technophany: A Journal for Philosophy and Technology, 3(1): 1-21. https://doi.org/10.54195/technophany.18559

• Ranger, J. (2024) “Populism, Social Media and the Technospheric” in Populism and Time: Temporalities of a Disruptive Politics, edited by Andy Knott. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/jj.15478437.

• Ranger, J., & Ranger, W. (2023) Towards a resonant theory of memory politics. Memory Studies, 16(2), 451–464. https://doi.org/10.1177/175069802211011

• Ranger, J. (2020) Slow Down! Digital Deceleration Towards A Socialist Social Media. tripleC: communication, capitalism, critique, 18(1), 254-267. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1127 

Education

• St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. DPhil Politics. 2018 – 2023.

• St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. MPhil Political Theory. 2016 – 2018.

• London School of Economics and Political Science. MSc Political Theory. 2014 – 2015.

• University of Sheffield. BA Politics and Philosophy. 2011 – 2014.

Teaching    

• Postdoctoral Lecturer; The Social Implications of Digital Technology. Hasso Plattner Institute. (2025 – present)

• Senior Tutor; Theoretical Foundations of Human Rights. The Ethics of Crime and Punishment. Foundations of Political Thought. University College London. (2022 - 2023).