Isabella Gonçalves @igoncalves.com Research associate at @ifpmainz.bsky.social
Interested in political communication, othering, and migration framing.
igoncalves.com
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
J Children and Media @journalcam.bsky.social Journal of Children and Media is an academic publication for scholars and professionals who study the role of media in children's and adolescents' lives.
Ifra @ifra-j.bsky.social PhD student @ Northwestern U | interested in digital queer counterpublics, transnational queer publics, and more | either making food or art
Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social linktr.ee/deanspade 
Mathilda Åkerlund @mathildaakerlund.bsky.social Postdoc at Gothenburg University. Researching incels, conspiracy theories, and the far right.
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary social & behavioral science research & fellowship in service of generating knowledge, illuminating understandings, building fields, informing policy discourse, & creating an enduring scholarly community like no other | casbs.stanford.edu
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social Into words, sentences, genres.
#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #cdnwrds #genai+writing
https://katjat.medium.com/
Kathleen Searles @kesearles.bsky.social usually thinking about news, politics, technology, and other things i don’t want to talk to you about on an airplane. 
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
Sociologists for Trans Justice (S4TJ) @s4tj.bsky.social Our mission is three-fold:
- To support trans, non-binary, and intersex scholars in sociology
- To advance trans, non-binary, and intersex studies in sociology
- To increase public understanding
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🌐 https://s4tj.com/
Mel Bunce @melbunce.bsky.social Professor of International Journalism & Politics at City, University of London | Deputy Dean, School of Communication & Creativity | Expert on international news, media freedom, journalism & democracy.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Sam Chan 陳力深 @liksamchan.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Cultures @ University of Sydney | Dating app researcher | Author of 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙨 | 🇭🇰
Contexts Magazine @contexts.org Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge sociology research accessible to general readers. Edited by David Grazian, with managing editor Elena van Stee.
contexts.org
ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social "Skeets" about social movements. Managed on behalf of the American Sociological Association CBSM section council.
Home adress: https://cbsm-asa.org/
Yariv Tsfati @yarivtsfati.bsky.social Department of Communication, University of Haifa; Studies trust and other audience perceptions of media.
https://yariv.com.haifa.ac.il/ 
Emilia Lombardi @oldestcat.bsky.social Retired professor/future writer? The oldest cat in the shelter.
Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social Associate Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. 🏳️⚧️ he/him
Cindy Ma @cindyxma.bsky.social assistant prof. in race & media at university of leeds | UNC CITAP affiliate | sociotechnical systems, political discourse & racial inequity
@davidajschiffer.bsky.social @davidajschiffer.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, views are my own
She/her
Daniela Stoltenberg @dstoltenberg.bsky.social Emmy Noether junior research group leader on local digital public spheres at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social.
I like books, running, hiking, horses, and crafting. 📚🏃🏔️🐴🧶
she/her. 🏳️🌈
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Andrew F. Hayes 🇨🇦 @afhayes.bsky.social Canadian. Creator of the PROCESS macro for SPSS, SAS, & R. 🇨🇦 Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Calgary 🇨🇦afhayes.com
Jacob T. Fisher @jacobtfisher.online Associate professor at Michigan State University studying attention, cognition, and digital media. 🔗: jacobtfisher.com
Austin H Johnson @ahjphd.bsky.social Sociology | Applied Trans Studies | Liberal Arts
he/him
Journal of Visual Political Communication @jvpcjournal.bsky.social The Journal of Visual Political Communication is devoted to the exploration of political forms of persuasive visual communication. Website: https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-visual-political-communication.
Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social Prof of Media and Communication at the University of Edinburgh. Based in Politics/IR. Researching #AI, #Journalism and #Public Service Media. Views own. She/Her
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 
Thorsten Quandt @thorstenquandt.bsky.social Professor of Online Communication. Researching the transformation of communication and society. Critical optimist.
Florian Primig @floprim.bsky.social Dr. phil. | Digital Democracy | Platforms & Algorithms | Phenomena of Falsehood and
Counter-Knowledge
Dani Brown @daniellekbrown.bsky.social Researcher of news x power systems. Complains about institutions & bad peloton rides. No longer engaging regularly in social media. 
Cristian Vaccari @profvaccari.bsky.social Chair in Future Governance, Public Policy and Technology, University of Edinburgh. Director, MSc Future Governance, Edinburgh Futures Institute. Researching digital media and political communication. Views my own.
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Scott Althaus @salthaus.bsky.social Cline Center Director, professor of political science and communication at Illinois, current data scientist, former Tower Rat.
www.clinecenter.illinois.edu
Emily Thorson @emilythorson.bsky.social Political science, Syracuse University
Information effects, misperceptions, egg sandwiches
My book is "The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public"
Benjamin Toff @benjamintoff.bsky.social Professor at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Minnesota Journalism Center. On sabbatical for 2026 with the News and Information team at Pew Research Center. I study trust in news, news avoidance, public opinion, and changing media.
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown, research director at KGI. Studying information, politics, health, etc. Also cats, Badgers, Astros, food, gardening. 
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media @journalqd.bsky.social diamond-access (no-fee, open-access) journal
journalqd.org
Ethan Porter @ethanvporter.bsky.social Political scientist at GW
Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Exploring the future of journalism
📬Join our newsletter: https://politics.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=60081b78294f9bbf995e9bcf8&id=0a8e38824f
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Taberez A. Neyazi @taberez.bsky.social Associate Professor | Director of Digital Campaign & Propaganda in Asia at NUS| Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Press/Politics| Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2025-26)|
ariel hasell @arielhasell.bsky.social Assoc Prof, Communication and Media, University of Michigan
Noun, noun, always verbing, noun
Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com
Kevin Coe @kcoe.bsky.social Professor of Communication | Political communication, media, identity, democracy | Book: "The Ubiquitous Presidency" | Product of public schools
Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social DDC Professor of Digital Communication and DIAS Chair at the University of Southern Denmark | Modern Kilogirl 👩💻 | Computational Linguistics & Global/US PolComm
Yphtach Lelkes @ylelkes.bsky.social associate professor, University of Pennsylvania
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.
Will Schulz @small-schulz.bsky.social Postdoc studying algorithms and online speech with the Stanford Social Media Lab
Center for Applied Transgender Studies @transstudies.bsky.social We are an independent nonprofit research center dedicated to scholarship on the social, cultural, & political conditions of transgender life. We also publish the platinum open access journal, the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.
Do Own (Donna) Kim @doowndonnakim.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Illinois Chicago. Digital cultures & technologies. PhD, USC Annenberg. KFAS & Korea University alum. She/her. https://www.doowndonnakim.com/
Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social Sociologist studying digital technologies, political participation, & politics. Editor in Chief of Social Science Computer Review. Getting by in Florida. 
Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com Political communication researcher at @ascor.bsky.social | @algosoc.org affiliated | PhD @unibern | Media effects, social media, and computational stuff
https://ernesto-deleon.com/
B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social 📚Transgender Refugees (Palgrave) & Queer & Trans African Mobilities (ZED) East African Queer & Trans Displacement (2024 Bloomsbury) 📚•Fellow @iciberlin & Research Assoc @ACMSWits • Co-founder @ALMN_research • 🏳️⚧️ (They|She) 🏳️⚧️ www.bcamminga.com
Stefanie Duguay @dugstef.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Director of the Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab (digslab.net). Posts and opinions are my own.
Annika Pinch @annikapinch.bsky.social Assistant prof at Hamline University-
researching social media, identity, & stigma
Current research on phone and social media use in and after prison
From Ithaca, NY - Living in the twin cities, MN
Rod Abhari @rodabhari.bsky.social Northwestern PhD candidate in communication. #Retractions are more important than you think: https://tinyurl.com/sciretra
Moya @moyazb.bsky.social Moya Bailey. Quirky Black Girl. Queer Androgyne. 90s R&B Lover. Teacher. Gatherer. Mozzarella Stick Aficionado.
https://linktr.ee/moyabailey 
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. 
Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com. Writing https://www.ai-accountability-review.com/
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
Duri Long @duri-long.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Northwestern. HCI, Human-Centered AI, AI literacy, co-creativity. Director of Creative Interfaces Research + Design Studio. durilong.com
Aymar (AJ) @thehost.theinvite.us professor @ Northwestern
affiliate @ Harvard Berkman Klein
jury @ Peabody Awards
co-founder @weareotv
BOOKS:
Reparative Media, MIT Press Fall 2025
Media Reparations, coming soon on Polity
The Cookout, out now ⬇️
http://linktr.ee/ajescoffery
Sulafa Zidani @zidani.bsky.social What’s so social about social media anyway | personal account
Aaron Shaw @aaronshaw.bsky.social Usually professoring, parenting, running, etc. Social science and design of digital public goods in online communities. Northwestern University, Chicagoland. https://communitydata.science
Babak Bahador @babak9.bsky.social Research media/coms and peacebuilding at George Washington University (GWU). Direct, Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication (GWU), Media & Peacebuilding Project (GWU), Peace News Network: https://bsky.app/profile/peacenewsnet.bsky.social
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Dr. Errol Salamon @errolsalamon.bsky.social Program Director, MSc Media Management & Senior Lecturer in Media Production, University of @Stir.ac.uk | Research: work, labour, and organizations in digital journalism and media industries | PI: Creator Labour project | https://linktr.ee/errolsalamon
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
#TenureTrackHustle @meredithdclark.bsky.social I escaped the Upside Down, but I still visit 
JMCQ @jmcquarterly.bsky.social Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) is the flagship journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
Mike Cowburn @mikecowburn.bsky.social Research Fellow, @demolaw.bsky.social, Zeppelin Universität
Intra-Party Politics | Candidate Selection | Legislative Politics | PolComm | Primaries
Author: Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries https://tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx
www.mikecowburn.com
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
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
Minjie @minjieli.bsky.social minjieli.com or research.gay
Associate Professor at UT. Researcher and educator on LGBTQ, race, media, activism, and creativity. 🌈🌵
Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social fascinating philosopher, lgbtq studies prof, & feminist theorist / writing a book on transphobia & obsession (via Oxford University Press)
essays: https://philpeople.org/profiles/amy-marvin/
Perry Zurn @perryzurn.bsky.social Prof @AmericanU. Interested in political theory, social movements, LGBTQ life, and fungi. Author @UMinnPress @mitpress @dukepress https://www.perryzurn.com/
Zane Austin Willard 🏳️🌈 (is on the job market 😄) @zaneawillard.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ USF Communication | Cultural Studies | Media | Surveillance | Pop Culture | Public Policy | Sexuality | Race & Ethnicity | Queerness
📍Chicago
Taylor Agajanian @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social PhD student of Media, Technology, & Society at Northwestern University | Critical media scholar studying the ways digital platforms fuel problematic information, shape politics, and cause offline harm to marginalized communities.
🇦🇲🇲🇽 www.cyborglibrarian.com
Lindsay Palmer @lindsaypalmer.bsky.social Professor at UW-Madison. I’m an antiracist, white cis woman who’s pansexual and a trans ally. I study press freedom and international news from a decolonial and feminist perspective. Author of The Fixers: the Underground Labor of International Reporting.
Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social - Curator, Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com)
- Author, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023)
- Lecturer in WGSS @ Gonzaga University
- Collects your old technology junk and cats.
Josh Pasek @joshpasek.com Prof of Comm and Polisci @UMich studying how people get & use political information and social measurement.
Competencies: data sci, DIY solar, election analytics, carpooling, #polcom, #polpsych, survey methods, AI literacy (views=own, overuses speech2text)
Johnnie Christensen @j-christensen.bsky.social Social Psychologist; Associate Professor of Communication at UConn; Studying the social dynamics that shape how people perceive and interact with AI; Yellowbrick.me founder; USC & Penn Alumnus; Amateur racecar driver living in Boston. 🏳️🌈
Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian (PhD), she/her @drsrivi.bsky.social SU Newhouse Prof & Endowed Chair 🍊; Editor, Comm Monographs. Director: CODE^SHIFT (Collab for Data Equity, Social Healing, Incl. Futures, & Transformation).
Media Literacy, Community Engaged Research, Global Media, Youth. Views my own. See: drsrivi.com
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
Lindsay Young @lindsayeyoung.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication at University of Southern California. Health equity researcher who does stuff with networks and social media. Proponent of community-engaged computational research. Thought leader in how not to be a bad person.
Danni Askini @dnadmv.bsky.social Washington D.C / Seattle, WA - Executive Director - Gender Justice League. LGBTQ Policy, Gender Based Violence & Ballot Measure Campaigns.
Hibby @hibbythach.com PhD student at the University of Michigan's School of Information studying content moderation, trans technologies, and live-streaming. she/her pronouns
Oh also I'm like if a girl was a gamer was a streamer teehee
https://linktr.ee/hibbybobibby
Cael M Keegan @caelkeegan.bsky.social Media nerd, gaymer, teacher, critic, theorist. Associate Professor of Film/Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, Montréal. Bard energy. Author of "Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender" and a bunch of other stuff.
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Associate Professor, University of Colorado
Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com Prof, Media and Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been dubbed “that hybrid media guy.” More active on LinkedIn these days.
andrewchadwick.com
Occasional posts on music.
Sara Doskow @saradoskow.bsky.social Politics & law book editor at University of Chicago Press.
Amin Ghaziani @aminghaziani.bsky.social Sociologist. Co-editor of Contexts. Author of Long Live Queer Nightlife (Princeton). www.aminghaziani.net 
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host.
Replies limited to followers only.
Check if my post is a joke before flaming me please.
For story leads, my signal is kab.80
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social Sociologist at Swarthmore College, trans man. Wrote Producing Politics & The Class Ceiling & a bunch of articles on class & race & inequality &/or political participation.
DanielLaurison.com = me
WeAreHigherEd.org = standing up for education and democracy
Spiritbuns @spiritbuns.bsky.social nsfw . 18+ only