Scott P. Johnson, MLIS @scottpjohnson.com Sociotechnical systems analyst, research and data engineering, critical information and data studies
Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Forschung für die vernetzte Gesellschaft \\ Research for the networked society
https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/
Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social Professor. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop. "Mad for the books."
Tanja Wiehn @postdigitanja.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Lund University
Interested in digital culture, platforms and (synthetic) data
Our anthology “Beyond Privacy - People, Practices, Politics” is out: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/beyond-privacy
Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social Fall 26 Visiting Scholar, Harvard/Philosophy
25/6 Radcliffe, Harvard
Assoc Prof, Indiana U Bloomington
Personal account
Seeking work in&out of academe
Phil & Neuro
Book 1 Smell www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278721
B. 2 Senses https://shorturl.at/tBUSM
Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher PGMT Lab @Uni Bremen | prev. DigitalValues project | Critical Platform Studies | European/German/feminist | first gen | she/her
Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture & Organisation at University of Westminster
Wrote a book on the mundane work that makes Big Music work; do editorial bits at Journal of Cultural Economy; some other stuff...
https://tgpbennett.wordpress.com
paolo-caffoni.bsky.social @paolo-caffoni.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project AIMODELS at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social Interested in digital humanities pedagogy, writing pedagogy, critical digital literacy, and digital accessibility in higher ed. Located in Southern California. Image: rocky desert landscape with spring blooms.
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social Prof. Dr. John P. de New -- Economist, Melbourne Institute, Uni Melbourne. GLabor, IZA. Via CarletonU, UToronto, UMünchen-LMU. Private posts in EN DE FR,
@GrapheneOS.org @Signal.org
Part owner of Canada #Never51
Timo Bredenberg @bredenberg.eurosky.social Artist living and working in Tampere, Finland.
Moving image, software and text-based art.
www.timobredenberg.com
Raphaël Guintoli @raphaelguintoli.fr Digital - Media - Adtech
Interested in digital / ad tech
Alumni of LinkedIn (MSFT), Accenture
Newsletter Raphaelguintoli.fr
X.com/raphaelguintoli
LinkedIn.com/in/raphaelguintoli
https://github.com/RaphaelGuintoli
contact@raphaelguintoli.fr
Niko Bussey @niko2057.bsky.social E Pluribus Unum, y’all!
Tech Enthusiast/Bemoaner
Thoughts, observations, and implicit beliefs
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Scott Rettberg @srettberg.bsky.social Director of the Center for Digital Narrative, leader of the Extending Digital Narrative project, professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. Author of electronic literature and other curious things.
teresa pelinski @tpelinski.bsky.social critical music technology studies / critical ai studies -- research fellow at the creative computing institute at the university of the arts london && phd student at the augmented instruments lab at queen mary university of london -- teresapelinski.com
Amy Jean Nobles @ajnobles.com AjNobles.com • Las Vegas, NV • Deep South Antifascist • Cajun Artist & Chef • Survivor • Agnostic Humanist • she/they/ya'll • Mississippi Made
Erik Bernath @erikbernath.bsky.social Author decoding AI before it decodes us. Minds We Create (2026) — safety, alignment, and governance for humans who still make the decisions.
📖 books2read.com/minds-we-create | erikbernath.com
Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social Media History | Theory | STS @Siegen
Media & Culture @unicologne.bsky.social
Das Kreditkarten-Buch: Geschichte und Theorie des digitalen Bezahlens
👉️ https://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/programm/details/das_kreditkarten-buch
Janneke Adema @openreflections.bsky.social Cultural and media theorist ~ books, open access, critical theory, experimental publishing. She/her
https://www.openreflections.org/
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften @fkhbadhomburg.bsky.social Das Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften ist ein Institute for Advanced Studies der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main in Kooperation mit der Werner Reimers Stiftung.
Matteo Pasquinelli @mttpsq.bsky.social Professor in philosophy of science
Ca' Foscari University Venice
matteopasquinelli.com
ERC project → unive.it/aimodels
Book → The Eye of the Master: A Social History of AI (Verso)
Winner Deutscher Prize 2024
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social Official account for DH2026 - the 36th annual ADHO conference | July 27-31, 2026 | Daejeon, South Korea | Hosted by @kadhsocial.bsky.social | Theme: Engagement | Also on https://mastodon.social/@dh2026daejeon & Fediverse 🌐 #DH2026
https://dh2026.adho.org/
Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org I research scholarly communication at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social Critical histories and practices of automation and computing in design/architecture. Other stuff too. Associate Prof. @CarnegieMellon. Books: Builders of the Vision, Designing the Computational Image. http://www.dcardo.com
Centre for Digital Cultures @cdcleuphana.bsky.social The Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) at #Leuphana University of #Lüneburg is dedicated to central questions of digital culture and the effects of the current polycrisis on social life. We rethink #technology, #media, and #culturalstudies.
@dhnow.bsky.social @dhnow.bsky.social
Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social Research centre dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of algorithmic life. Transforming how we understand the relationships between human life and machine learning & AI algorithms
FrameLab @theframelab.bsky.social FrameLab is a newsletter about political language and the ideological structures that shape perception. We deconstruct propaganda to help you defend democracy.
Founded by @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com Longform journalism exploring fresh ideas. Pitch us: edit@noemamag.com
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou @ariskomporozos.bsky.social
Professor of Economy and Society @ucl-ccs.bsky.social
Founder & Director UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies
New book TRADING TRUTH @mitpress.bsky.social
Author of SPECULATIVE COMMUNITIES @uchicagopress.bsky.social- C Chris Csikszentmihalyi @csik.bsky.social Artist of technology.
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
Sebastian Sevignani @sevensevignani.bsky.social Sociologist & Media and Communication Scholar: Digital Capitalism | Political Economy & Property | Critical & Materialist Theory | Public Sphere, Communication, Media | Needs
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Aleksandra Kil-Matlak @aleksandrakil.bsky.social PhD in cultural studies • Assistant Professor at the Digital Humanities Centre, IBL PAN, Warsaw
UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social We study ethical, social, and aesthetic implications of digital technologies - particularly focusing on digital media & race, disability, gender, and power.
Ann Arbor, MI
Website: digitalstudies.umich.edu
Emily Maemura @emae.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UIUC School of Information Sciences. Researching web archives, digital curation, digital preservation, data + infrastructure studies.
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social Trump White House newsletter anchor @WIRED.com. hugo_lowell@condenast.com
n+1 @nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
Rosa Menkman @menkman.bsky.social Resolution theorist, licensed by the i.R.D.
Professional Cycl👁ps researcher & 🌈 Rainbow hunter
Thinking through resolutions, im/possible images, glitch… (she)
Ben Grosser @bengrosser.bsky.social Artist/Researcher — Platform Culture and Interface Politics — Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Center, Harvard bengrosser.com
James Meese @jammh.bsky.social Media and communications researcher. Interested in telecommunications, news media, personalisation, and recommendation.
Latest book is 'Digital Platforms and the Press': https://intellectdiscover.com/content/books/9781789388336- J juspar @juspar.bsky.social
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations
website: www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/
calendar: mediaarchaeologylab.neocities.org/
news: mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/
Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social Senior researcher in Political Science Department, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Technopolitics, Geopolitics, Political Parties and Public Opinion.
👁️ @nathanjurgenson.com author, The Social Photo (Verso)
former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea
los angeles
Michael Castelle @mcastelle.bsky.social
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
Dr Ramon Amaro @sambarhino.bsky.social Creative Director || Design Academy Eindhoven @daenews
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)
David Golumbia @dgolumbia.bsky.social
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, scams & fraud, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social 🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin Uni (Boorloo/Perth West Australia);
🔎 @digitalchildau.bsky.social (GenAI & Datafication);
🐘 @tama@aoir.social; he/him.
[Views mine; RT/❤️/etc ≠ endorsement]
Bernhard Rieder @riederb.bsky.social amsterdam univ; lisboa; history & politics of software; mechanology; platforms; digital methods; en/fr/de/nl/pt;
Digital Methods Initiative @digitalmethods.net Hyperlink enthusiast.
(DMI tool updates to be found here - find us at digitalmethods.net !)
App Studies @appstudies.bsky.social The App Studies Initiative (ASI) is an international research network comprising academic experts in app-related media research who contribute to the study of apps and platforms.
🔗 appstudies.org
Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social political economist | global finance, digital capitalism, fintech | brussels, mainz
güneş tavmoş @tavmos.bsky.social Teaching all things digital @kingsdh. I rant a lot about racism & discrimination although I'd like to tweet only about music.
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies,
@appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
Dylan Mulvin @dmulvin.bsky.social Associate Professor at the LSE. Histories of media and technology.
dylanmulvin.com
Nick Gane @nickgane.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of Warwick.
Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies @cimethods.bsky.social CIM - interdisciplinary research centre at Uni. of Warwick - innovative & experimental knowledge production, methodology focus, expanding roles of interdisciplinary methods, new lines of inquiry across disciplinary boundaries.
https://warwick.ac.uk/cim
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social White House Correspondent for MS NOW. Formerly PBS News Hour, CNN. Signal: LBarron07.01
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social AHA is an association of learned societies working together to promote the Arts & Humanities in higher education. Posts by @emmacayley.bsky.social and @TheaPitman.bsky.social Find us at: http://artsandhumanitiesalliance.org
Joss Hands @josshands.bsky.social Reader in Critical Theory, Newcastle University UK, author of ‘@ is for Activism’ (2011) and ‘Gadget Consciousness’ (2019) (Pluto Press). New book ‘The Public Brain’ (Bloomsbury)
Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social Hater of solutionism. Books: The Net Delusion; To Save Everything Click Here. Podcasts: The Santiago Boys. A Sense of Rebellion. Founder: The Syllabus.
Gabriel Pereira @gabrielopereira.bsky.social (critical) data/algorithms, vision/img, platforms/infra
assistant prof @ University of Amsterdam
Electronic Literature @e-lit.bsky.social e(lit)+de(lit)=delite(delight)
Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social Staff writer @LiveScience.com
Email: kkillgrove@livescience.com
Web: Livescience.com/author/kristina-killgrove
PhD in anthropology, MA in classical archaeology. Former professor & Roman bioarchaeologist.
I crochet and bake a lot. Chapel Hill, NC based.
Stacy E. Wood @stacyewood.bsky.social Director of Research and Programs for the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry // Technology, Evidence and Internet Weirdness
Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social The Center for Digital Visual Studies (DVS) is an innovative interdisciplinary laboratory exploring the intersection of Computer Science and Art History, a part of the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History – hosted at the UZH (CH)
Olga Zabalueva @museiolga.bsky.social Culture and Society || Museology || Critical Heritage Studies || Cultural Analysis || Memory Studies
Umeå University, Sweden
🌌❄️🏳️🌈
Critical theory witch. En gång femtekolonnare - alltid femtekolonnare.
Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social 🔹️metascience - philosophy of science - social psychology - higher education
🔹️Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him.
🔹️Website: https://sites.google.com/site/markrubinsocialpsychresearch/
🔹️Substack: https://markrubin.substack.com/
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
http://historians.org/join
Mathieu O'Neil @mathieuon.bsky.social Professor of communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal country • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council • Civic information literacy for schools • Political economy of digital commons • https://dcpc.info/actions/
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him)
danrosen.xyz
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Lori McGlinchey @macvie.bsky.social Technology+Society - Ford Foundation
genug shoyn
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
ProfJSG @profjsg.bsky.social Professor. Constitution hugger. Worried for democracy.
Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com I'm not like a regular media sociologist. I'm a cool media sociologist. • Associate Prof Journalism & Comm @LehighU • Near-term futurism scholarship on digital media, internet culture, and society • Exvie wanderer • M-I-Z • http://jeremylittau.substack.com
sorelle @friedler.net CS prof at Haverford, Chair @acm.org U.S. tech policy, @brookings.edu nonres Senior Fellow, former White House OSTP tech policy, co-author AI Bill of Rights, research on AI and society, @facct.bsky.social co-founder
formerly @kdphd 🐦
sorelle.friedler.net
Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.
Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social Climate & AI Lead @HuggingFace, TED speaker, WiML board member, TIME AI 100 (She/her/Dr/🦋)
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com {Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info
Director, University of Colorado Public Interest Data Science Lab, @cupids-lab.org
High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science
https://www.brianckeegan.com/
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
https://alex-hanna.com
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
Signal: willoremus.24