𝚁𝚊𝚜𝚖𝚞𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚜 @rasmushelles.bsky.social Professor @ Communication and IT, University of Copenhagen
Urbano Reviglio @urbanz.bsky.social Research associate in social media governance and internet more generally @CMPF @EUI
Dialogues on Digital Society @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social A brand new interdisciplinary, international journal exploring how digitalisation has changed our world. Articles are in dialogue format with each article having peer commentary. https://journals-sagepub-com.may.idm.oclc.org/home/DDS
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Elisa Pannini @elisapannini.bsky.social Lecturer in HRM
CREW Greenwich crew-greenwich.bsky.social
PhD from LSE Management
Employment relations, labour, unions, technology.
Opinions are my own.
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Kaarina Nikunen @kaarinan.bsky.social Professor of Media and Communication Research
Tampere University
I write about datafication and social justice, emotions, affect & traces of humanity in the digital world. Also on migration, hate and the far-right.
Book: Media Solidarities (SAGE 2019)
Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research network developing materials and formats for collective inquiry with & about digital data, digital methods & digital infrastructures. https://publicdatalab.org/
Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández @ariadnamf.bsky.social Associate Professor at University College Dublin
Social media cultures, platform governance, online harms, and algorithmic systems.
Opinions are my own. She/her.
@kendrabriken.bsky.social @kendrabriken.bsky.social
European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
Donata Columbro @donata.bsky.social Journalist, data feminist and writer.
Teaching data visualization at Iulm university, data humanizer every week at tispiegoildato.it
Bertram Niessen @bertramniessen.bsky.social Culture, Art, Participation and the City
Scientific Director @ cheFare
Janna Joceli Omena @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social Making #digitalmethods - w/ web tech, AI, networks, technicity, dataViz
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Past: @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
https://jannajoceliomena.net/
http://metodosdigitais.fcsh.unl.pt
Giulia Giorgi (she/her) @giuliagiorgi26.bsky.social Researcher and professor at the University of Milan. Digital cultures, youth cultures, digital methods, visual research, memes.
Melissa Gregg @melgregg.bsky.social Professor of Digital Futures at the University of Bristol. Author, ethnographer, nature defender. On loan from lutruwita/Tasmania. https://melgregg.com
Karen Seaward-Patel @karenpatel.bsky.social Associate Professor in Media at Birmingham City University
Elisa Serafinelli, Ph.D @eliserafinelli.bsky.social SL in Digital Media and Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University with a strong passion for emerging visual technologies.
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Stefania Vicari @stefaniavicari.bsky.social Digital media and society at Loughborough University: social media, health, discourse, networks and participation. Principal investigator of Previvorship: www.previvorship.org.
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Tim Highfield @timhighfield.bsky.social Internet researcher and Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.
Kate Miltner @katemiltner.bsky.social Lecturer (Asst. Prof) in Data, AI & Society @ The University of Sheffield Information School. Member of the UK Young Academy.
katemiltner.com
Sophie Bishop @sophiebishop.bsky.social She/her
Studying influencers & ‘influencer creep’ in creative industries
Associate Professor in Media & Communication, University of Leeds
Pre order Influencer Creep now: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/influencer-creep/paper
Giovanni Boccia Artieri @gboccia.bsky.social Academic activist on the social and cultural implications of technology
https://linktr.ee/gboccia
Giorgia Aiello @giorgiaaiello.bsky.social Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Milan. Visual cultures, digital media, cities.
Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social newsletters at The New Yorker • based in LA • I write about wildfire, technology, and California • caroline_nyce@newyorker.com • Mimbs.22 on Signal
Sofia P. Caldeira @sofiapcaldeira.bsky.social I get paid to look at Instagram // Social media, feminisms, self-representation // Researcher @cicant_lusofona // @DCCEcrea chair // she/her
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Ludmila Lupinacci @ludludlud.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social ✨digital tech & everyday life, experiences of liveness (whatever that means), scrolling nonsense, moods & vibes ✨ ludmilalupinacci.com
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
Zizi Papacharissi @zizip.bsky.social UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication + Poli Sci, Head of COMM@UIC Books: After Democracy; Affective Publics; A Private Sphere; A Networked Self series
Tiziano Bonini @tbonini.bsky.social Associate professor of Sociology of culture and Communication at @unisi. Co-author of Algorithms of Resistance (MIT Press 2024), available in OA, MIT press website
Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social 📱Digital criminologist @ #LSE 💃🏻 #poledance performer 🍑 Blogger, award-winning activist 🇮🇹 LDNer (she/her) 🧛🏻♀️ Thinking about Buffy like it’s the Roman Empire. https://bloggeronpole.com/all-my-links/
camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social Studying platforms & their fauna
postdoc-ing @ University of Milan
Paul Thompson @paulthompson51.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Employment Studies at University of Stirling, UK. Researches the labour process and sometimes writes about politics.
Casilli @casilli.bsky.social 🇫🇷 Professor Institut Polytechnique de Paris
I write books 📚 Waiting for Robots, University of Chicago Press (2025)📚 and documentaries 🎥In the Belly of AI (2025)🎥
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Technology, Work and Employment at the University of Sussex.
Heterodox Marxist - Les dés sont pipés!
mattcole.work
Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social 30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Valerio De Stefano @valeriodeste.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Innovation, Law and Society, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
Alex Wood @alexjwoodsociology.bsky.social Cambridge Economic Sociologist. Researching and teaching digital technology, work, power, and capitalism. Book: 'Despotism On Demand' https://academic.oup.com/cornell-scholarship-online/book/37473 https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/alex-wood
Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social Post-work politics and technofeminism
Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social Helping scholars write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚
Tips at newsletter.manuscriptworks.com & in THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK and MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK (Princeton UP)
Courses + free resources at manuscriptworks.com
Knitter, 2X Jeopardy! champ 🤓
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social Associate Professor | Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile) | Researching how platforms and AI affect work at Fairwork (OII) | Millennium Center on the Evolution of Work (M-NEW) | Cultura Social Media Lab. https://sites.google.com/view/arturoarriagada
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies,
@appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
Melanie Simms @melaniesimms.bsky.social Professor of Work and Employment. Specialism in unions and worker voice. Promoter of social sciences. Fascinated by pretty much everything. She/her
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
Kylie Jarrett @kylzjarrett.bsky.social All the social medias; still nothing to say.
Also on Masto at same name
Editor: Dialogues on Digital Society
Co-editor: Sage Handbook of Digital Labour (2025)
Author: Digital Labor (2022); Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2016)
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social Professor of Global Labour. Co-Editor in Chief - New Technology Work and Employment.
Interests include: Marxist-Feminism, sex work, feminist activism, self-employment, work and technology, gender, decolonial theory.
Kirsty Newsome @kirstynewsome.bsky.social Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Decent Work, University of Sheffield
David M. Berry @berrydm.bsky.social Professor currently researching AI, algorithms, software and the university in a digital age. Part of a research team that recently rediscovered the original Joseph Weizenbaum ELIZA source code.
R. Trebor Scholz @trebors2025.bsky.social Prof at The New School | Founder, Platform Cooperativism Consortium + Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy | Author, OWN THIS! (2023) + UBER-WORKED & UNDERPAID (2016) | Faculty Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center | Advocate for Digital Labor Rights |
Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social Prof, Arts, Design & Architecture, UNSW Sydney, Australia. Sociology of health and digital media research too. Personal blog: https://simplysociology.wordpress.com/
Magnus Andersson @manderson1887.bsky.social Media studies, Malmö university. Interest: Home - work - tech (interrelations)
Sonia Livingstone @sonialivingstone.bsky.social LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
Bernhard Rieder @riederb.bsky.social amsterdam univ; lisboa; history & politics of software; mechanology; platforms; digital methods; en/fr/de/nl/pt;
Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social Senior Lecturer of Digital Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University
MMU UCU committee
I'm a political economist of the internet
www.danieljamesjoseph.net
Valentina Tanni @vrandom.bsky.social ***art, technology, internet culture *** my latest book is «EXIT REALITY | Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold» (NERO | Aksioma, 2024) ***
www.valentinatanni.com
Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html
Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social I think and write about the impact of technology on society // I teach and do digital humanities at the department of Information Studies at UCL.
Giovanna Mascheroni @giovannamas.bsky.social Media sociologist researching digital media, data & AI in children's lives. Dog lover (Eng. Springer Spaniel) TwitterRefugee. Projects: http://www.eukidsonline.net/, https://yskills.eu/, https://datachildfutures.it/
Also on @giovannamas@aoir.social
Charles Umney @charlesumney.bsky.social Industrial relations, technology, sociology of work. Currently focused on technological change in warehousing work among other things. Co-author "Marketization" (Bloomsbury, 2022). https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marketization-9781913441463/
Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
Steven P Vallas @spvallas.bsky.social Longtime student of work, technology, and class domination. Current research centers on labor platforms and logistics workers at Amazon. Dogs, forestry, Celtics, & Frankfurt School among my passions.
Andrea Pollio @andretwp.bsky.social Whatever works in life and pronouns. Author of Silicon Elsewhere (University of California Press, 2026). https://www.ucpress.edu/books/silicon-elsewhere/paper
Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social Communication and Labour Studies prof at SFU. Forza Roma, ovunque e comunque.
Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social Prof at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Eat the rich
Julián Posada @posada.website 💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu
📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026)
🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms
🌐 https://posada.website/
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