Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
Pinkki @pinkkijive.bsky.social Can we please switch here & Pinksky to get away from Meta? I would really love that.
Light tech, old-school raver, wanderer.
Curiosity and calm life
Dovile Budryte @dbudryte.bsky.social Teacher, commentator, writer
www.budrytedovile.com
Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social New book: Wild for Austen (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).
Moya @moyazb.bsky.social Moya Bailey. Quirky Black Girl. Queer Androgyne. 90s R&B Lover. Teacher. Gatherer. Mozzarella Stick Aficionado.
https://linktr.ee/moyabailey 
Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social Sociologist thinking and writing about authoritarianism, democracy, LGBTQ issues, feminism. Author of The Stranger Next Door, Unbound, other books. Child of immigrants. Never Again for Anyone. #KnittyGrittyJC
Jenny Lee @jennyjlee.bsky.social klarman postdoctoral fellow @ cornell / surveillance + labor researcher
Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social 🔎 Assistant Professor of Science Communication
📍 Wageningen University & Research @w-u-r.bsky.social
🏠 www.nielsmede.com
Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Furthering our understanding of the role of communication in public life through research, education, and service.
Yotam Ophir, Ph.D. @ophiryotam.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication at the University at Buffalo. Head of the Media Effects, Misinformation, and Extremism (MEME) lab. 
Sonja Utz @sonja-utz.de
media psychologist | prof at @IWMTue
| interests: knowledge-related (effects of) social media use, ambient awareness, human-machine communication, algorithm acceptance
Luca Rossi @lrossi.bsky.social I work at IT University of Copenhagen trying to understand online participation and collective action while having fun with methods.
Also Head of the Data Science Section.
Stephen Harrington @phzerosounds.bsky.social Inside me there are two wolves. One of them is taking a nap.
Nazanin Andalibi @naz-andalibi.bsky.social Associate Prof, University of Michigan School of Information | she/her | emotion AI/privacy/justice/reproductive health and justice/endometriosis/social media| 🐕🦺mom | posts don’t represent employer
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
Fernanda Viégas @viegas.bsky.social Human/AI Interaction and data visualization. Professor at Harvard. Co-founder of Google's People+AI Research initiative (PAIR)
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social Author, Teacher, Partner, Leader, Dean & CEO
@nuqatar.bsky.social, Founder @iasnuq.bsky.social, Professor
@northwesternu, Board Chair @ACLS1919 Board Member
& @AnnenbergCARGC & @Casar_Aub
Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social Associate Prof @uwcomm. I study tech & inequality in 🇦🇲 & 🇦🇿. Posts research & pop culture & parenting. She/her.
Amy Jordan @abjordan.bsky.social Scholarly focus: children, adolescents and media|| Academic home: Rutgers University || Grew up in Mass but now a Philly Girl.
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
Mary Beth Oliver @olivermb.bsky.social Bellisario Professor of Media Studies, Penn State University. Former President, International Communication Association. Co-Director, Media Effects Research Laboratory, Penn State.
Media Psychology, Media & Emotion, Media & Social Cognition
Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social Sociology & communication prof at Penn researching: Internet, activism, digital media & technology, narrative, emotion, sinology. All views my own. Website: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/guobin-yang-phd
David T. Z. Mindich @davidtzmindich.bsky.social A professor of journalism at Temple University, I am the author of books and articles that can be found here: https://www.davidtzmindich.com/ . My areas are "objectivity" (in quotes), democracy, journalism history, and minority representation. 
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Logan Molyneux @loganex.bsky.social Journalism professor and researcher at Temple U’s Klein College. Not the greatest newspaperman ever.
Andrea Wenzel @andreawenzel.bsky.social Assoc Prof, Temple University's Klein College. Researches & collabs on projects to make journalism less harmful, more equitable & community-centered. Past: Tow Center, BBC Media Action, Internews, WBEZ, WAMU
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
Hilde Van den Bulck @hildevdb.bsky.social 
Marina Krikorian @marinakrikorian.bsky.social Assistant Director at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar @iasnuq.bsky.social @nuqatar.bsky.social. Past lives in Berkeley, Beirut, DC, and Philly. 
Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) @annenbergcargc.bsky.social Advancing Critical Knowledge on Global Media, Communication, and Public Life.
Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
Devon Powers @devonjp.bsky.social Professor at University of Michigan. Metafuturist. Music nerd. Karaoke enthusiast. Fun at meetings, boring at parties.
Brooke Erin Duffy @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social social media researcher and author
associate professor at Cornell University
platforms, power, and the creator economy
www.brookeduffy.com
Cliff Lampe @clifflampe.bsky.social 
Daniel Kutz @kutz.bsky.social Senior UX Research Manager at PlayStation, previously Blizzard Entertainment. Bread baker, watch collector, traveller. Professional Lurker.
Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social Researcher on social media misinformation and manipulation, director of the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe.iu.edu, pronounced “awesome”) at Indiana University
ProfJSG @profjsg.bsky.social Professor. Constitution hugger. Worried for democracy.
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
Lori Kendall @drlorikendall.bsky.social B-school prof, married, dog mom.
Judith Donath @judithmedia.bsky.social deception | AI | design
https://vivatropolis.com
Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich
William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024)
Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U
eszter.com- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social academic, researcher of the internet, writer, traveler...
STS, Critical Internet Studies, Critical University Studies, Critical Data Studies, Critical Theory, Interpretive methods, etc. #AoIR ista and leftist like Will Rogers
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.
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
Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social I study online communities, content moderation, and social movements. 
Noshir Contractor @noshir.bsky.social Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University. He investigates how networks form and perform. 
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social social media researcher (esp visuality, sex, small p-politics, wellbeing) professor at Tallinn University, BFM in 🇪🇪, currently working on TRAVIS project on trust and visuality.
https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
Susanna Paasonen @susannapaasonen.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku with random interests https://susannapaasonen.org/
Dr. Daniela Dimitrova @profdimitrova.bsky.social University Professor & Editor-in-Chief of @JMCQuarterly.bsky.social. ✍️ Global journalism. 🌎 Political news reporting. 🧐 Refugee communications. ☕️ and 🍫. *NB: Views my own.
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Axel Bruns @snurb.info Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺
🕸️ snurb.info
🐘 @snurb@aoir.social
⛔ @snurb_dot_info
Andrea Forte @andiiicat.bsky.social researcher of online collaboration, privacy, misinformation. lover of cats, plants, new places and things. chronically auditioning new hobbies.
Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social Social Media; Communication Studies; Cyberculture; Sociology; Political Communication; Internet Studies. Published by Routledge. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rics20 
Mark Deuze @markdeuze.bsky.social 👨🎓 Professor Media Studies, U of Amsterdam
🎸bass: Skinflower; new music at Bandcamp
📚 latest books: Life in Media (MIT Press), Happiness in Journalism (Routledge)
🔊 🎥 Deuzevlog on YouTube and Spotify
🚴 Ride on!
🎓ORCID: 0000-0002-1986-5050
Annette Markham @annettemarkham.bsky.social Social researcher focused on AI futures literacies, data/digital disruptions, algorithmic identity, human machine communication. Chair Professor at Utrecht University
A bit obsessed about methodology
More at https://annettemarkham.com
Cornelius Puschmann @cbpuschmann.bsky.social Professor of Media & Communication at ZeMKI, U of Bremen & affiliate Leibniz Institute for Media Research. Computational communication science.
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social Artist. Used to write books, teach college students, lecture. My current writing and art: patreon.com/howardrheingold
Thom Gillespie @thomgillespie.bsky.social generic nutcase
Nicole Ellison @nellison.bsky.social I study technology and relationships, most recently in the algorithmic/AI space. I’m the Karl E Weick Collegiate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan School of Information.
Guo Freeman @guofreeman.bsky.social Dean’s Associate Prof. of Human-Centered Computing, Clemson University. CUGAME Lab Director. HCI, CSCW, Games, Social VR, Human-Centered AI. I mainly post about my research and gaming experience. https://guof.people.clemson.edu
Brewers Fan Worldistan @nickelback.bsky.social Computing researcher aiding the resistance. Algorithms have values. If a system doesn’t work for everyone it doesn’t work.
Tom Erickson @thomaserickson.bsky.social I write essays, read widely, love language, and am enthusiastic about geology. I also run and hike. I retired from a career in technology in 2018 (HCI, interaction design, social science).
Blogs, etc. at https://tomeri.org
Susan Herring @herringsc.bsky.social Professor of Information Science and Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington. CMC and social media researcher.
CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social Promoting critical scholarship on digital culture, technology, and society from Annenberg School for Communication and SAS Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/center-on-digital-culture-and-society
Wazhmah Osman @wazhmah.bsky.social Associate prof @tukleincollege.bsky.social
https://www.wosman.net
Sandra Ristovska @sristovska.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies (courtesy appointment in Law) at CU Boulder. Founding Director, Visual Evidence Lab @visualevidencelab.bsky.social Studies video evidence, AI, justice, and human rights. Author of Seeing Human Rights (MIT Press, 2021)
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