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)