Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com
LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social The International Inequalities Institute drives integrated research and teaching on inequality at LSE. Home of @afsee-lse.bsky.social.
International Journal of Cultural Studies @ijcs-journal.bsky.social International peer-reviewed journal dedicated to global research on cultural practices, processes, texts, infrastructures, and identities.
journals.sagepub.com/home/ics
Emily West @emilyewest.bsky.social Professor of Communication and Graduate Program Director at UMass Amherst. Author of Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly. Working on digital platforms, promotional culture, and the climate.
Angharad N Valdivia @llop14.bsky.social 
Media, Culture & Society Journal @mcsjournal.bsky.social An international forum for research and discussion on the media, including the newer information and communication technologies.
mcs.sagepub.com
Aphra Kerr @aphrak.bsky.social Prof Digital Media & Communication, University College Dublin, Ireland. Co- PI ADAPT Research Centre & Algowatch project. Researching people & games, tech & AI.
Matthew P. McAllister @matthewpmcallister.bsky.social Teaches about media stuff in college. Studies the political economy of media and commercial culture. He/him
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
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
Rahul Mukherjee @rahmuk.bsky.social Associate Professor, Penn CIMS. Wrote "Radiant Infrastructures" (DUP, 2020). Just completed "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution (MIT, 2026)." Platforms, Energy, Environment
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
Jadaliyya @jadaliyya.bsky.social Jadaliyya is an online publication. It features commentary in English, Arabic, & French by academics, activists, and artists from MENA.
Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social Anthropology, political economy, Middle East @Princeton, @cssaame @cultanth
Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley
Working on a book on right-wing populism
https://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/cihan-tugal
Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social Comm, Media & Tech Studies + empire, capital, state, power, politics, energy, environment, work, war, play, ed, left-right activism https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/research/researcher-profiles/dr.-tanner-mirrlees.php
Union for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social Communication researchers, journalists, media producers, policy analysts, academics and activists dedicated to critical perspectives in communication theory, media production, and the study of popular culture | https://www.democraticcomm.org/
David Hesmondhalgh @hesmondthing.bsky.social Professor of Media, Music and Culture at University of Leeds; Town Councillor in Yorkshire (Green Party); Fellow of the British Academy; lover of music, film, poetry, football, walking, churches; over-user of semi-colons
Jack Qiu @jackqiu.bsky.social Chair and Shaw Foundation Prof of Media Technology, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
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
Jordan T. Camp @jordantcamp.bsky.social Jordan T. Camp is Assoc. Prof. of American Studies at Trinity College, author of Incarcerating the Crisis, co-editor of Policing the Planet, and co-host of the Conjuncture podcast and web series: trinitysocialjustice.com/conjuncture-podcast/. Posts my own.
Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social Prof in New York, studies broken media, capitalism and anti-colonial futures.
Communication, Culture & Critique @ccc-journal.bsky.social An International Communication Association journal publishing critical/cultural research and commentary on media, culture and technology. https://linktr.ee/cccjournalica
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
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
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
Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social Independent and open access journal of peer-reviewed, theoretical interventions into all aspects of media and communications.
mediatheoryjournal.org
Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com Materialist Videogames Industry Critic │ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) with 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc.
Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis 🍸🏴
marijamdid.com
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share 
Noah… @noahspringer.com Senior Acquisitions Editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf
Feminist Media Studies @femmediastudies.bsky.social Feminist Media Studies is a transdisciplinary, transnational journal publishing peer-reviewed scholarship + commentary & book reviews. Posts by @krystenstein.bsky.social
NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social "Downtown to the World," NYU Press amplifies NYU's leadership in global higher education and research through influential publications that embody the university's core mission and creative identity.
Find us at: nyupress.org
@markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social 
David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social Professor - Northern Illinois University (USA). Award-winning author of the books The Machine Question, Robot Rights, Person-Thing-Robot, Of Remixology, and Deconstruction. https://gunkelweb.com
Niels van Doorn @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social Associate Professor: University of Amsterdam. Editor: Platforms & Society. Book-in-the-making: The Platform Fix (MIT Press, forthcoming)
Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social Post-work politics and technofeminism
Polity @politybooks.bsky.social The home of independent thinking
Find us elsewhere http://linktr.ee/politybooks
Polity is an independent publisher in the social science & humanities.
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
Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift
More here:
http://www.unemployednegativity.com
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian/author PL Henderson to celebrate/promote women in the arts.
Real art...real artists...No AI
Images © to respective owners
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Nour Halabi @nourhalabi.bsky.social Race, migration and media academic, IDR Fellow at University of Aberdeen. Author #RadicalHospitality @RutgersUPress. Pronouns: she/هي
Goldsmiths, University of London @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social A close-knit community, a rich academic heritage, a creative powerhouse, a thought-provoking place.
Ceiren Bell @ceirenbell.bsky.social What fresh hell is this?
Animator, lecturer and convener at @mediacomgold
|| Working Class academic || All opinions/ likes/ comments/ reposts my own
Sílvio Camargo @silviocamargo.bsky.social Psicanalista e Professor de Sociologia. Researcher in Critical Theory.
Book: "Immaterial Labor and Cultural Production"(2023):
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9397-8
https://independent.academia.edu/S%C3%ADlvioCamargo
Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social Social / cultural / political / media analysis
Prof @Goldsmiths @MediaComGold.bsky.social
📕📗: Left Feminisms, Care Manifesto, Against Meritocracy, Politics of Heritage
All views socially & culturally constructed.
Nate Tkacz @nateeeow.bsky.social Prof Digital Media and Culture
Goldsmiths, UoL
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
Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
Dr Brandon Harris @drbrandonharris.bsky.social Husband + cat dad + Prof in AL studying: twitch, gaming, platforms, media industries, labor, & content creators one unhinged study at a time.
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
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)
Zoë Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social 🤓 Feminist Media Scholar | Digital Ethnographer | Internet Culture Enthusiast
🌟 Postdoc at Microsoft's Social Media Collective
💖 Co-Founder: The Digital Ethnography Collective & The Content Creator Scholars Network @weareccsn.bsky.social
💻 www.zoeglatt.com
Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social Associate Professor, Deputy Head @lsemedia.bsky.social
Research on digital journalism/ war reporting/ mediated history/ communication geopolitics
Editor @ Middle East Journal of Culture & Communication
Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social Media. Fin/Tech. Capitalism. Selfhood. Higher Ed. Justice.
Co-director @starlingcentre.bsky.ca
Exhausted but still feisty.
European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social European Journal of Cultural Studies is a major international peer-reviewed journal which has been publishing cultural studies scholarship for over 25 yrs.
Read: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ecs
Follow: https://www.instagram.com/ejcs_journal/
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)
Truthout @truthout.org Independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues.
Support our work: truthout.org/donate
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org Independent, daily global news hour.
Support our work: http://democracynow.org/donate
Daily News Digest: http://democracynow.org/subscribe
Sydney L Forde @sydneyforde.bsky.social Postdoc @asc.upenn.edu @miccenter.bsky.social
PhD from @bellisariograded.bsky.social | SSHRC doctoral fellow | @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social fellow | Political Economy of Comm | Critical Theory | Media Policy | 🇨🇦
https://www.sydneyforde.com/
Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social Prof @Goldsmiths U of London | digital infrastructures, tech & AI in global south | New Book: 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' https://tinyurl.com/4ceyvc3s | New project: reimagining digital ID https://tinyurl.com/bdfawt64 
Jilly Boyce Kay @jillybkay.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media, Loughborough University
Feminism, cultural studies, politics
Andy Freeman @goldsmif.bsky.social Lecturer, Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths.
➧ One of the highest academic rating of any media and comms school in the UK (QS 2025) https://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/programmes/
➧ https://outtodry.org.uk
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Kat Higgins (aka Kathryn Claire) @kat-hig.bsky.social Lecturer (Assist Prof) in Global Digital Politics @ Goldsmiths
📚 Co-author of Believability: Sexual Violence, Media and the Politics of Doubt (Polity)
✍️ Writing about vulnerability politics, violence, (de)criminalization & media
she/her
Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @nuqatar.bsky.social produces & promotes evidence-based storytelling focused on histories, cultures, societies, & media of the Global South.
Ozge Ozduzen @ozgeozduzen.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media & Society/Research on media activism, visual politics, online radicalisation (e.g. digital racism/sexism)/She/her
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst
bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/
William Lafi Youmans @willyou.bsky.social Professor and filmmaker. Wrote 'An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America.' #footie #afc
Sulafa Zidani @zidani.bsky.social What’s so social about social media anyway | personal account
Erkan Saka @erkan.bsky.social Academic and Blogger
Yasemin Beykont @yaseminbeykont.bsky.social Visiting Asst. Prof. At Marist University, PhD from Penn State, UWM & Istanbul Bilgi University alum, memes + critical advertising + political economy + popular culture, she/her
yaseminbeykont.com
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London | Interested in platforms, digital labour & creator cultures
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/tugce-bidav
Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social Lecturer at SOAS. Studying identity, foreign policy, grand strategy, authoritarianism, resistance. Often through a media lens. Often in/on Turkey.
Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp.bsky.social Prof., Annenberg School for Communication @Upenn; focus on media & cultural change in postcolonial & diasporic contexts; Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/aswin-punathambekar-phd
Jinsook Kim @jinsookkim.bsky.social Feminist media scholar | Assistant professor, Media Studies, Emory University | Writing a book about digital media, online misogyny, and feminist activism in South Korea | she/her | Views my own
www.jinsookkim.com
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut
opinions mine. he/him
Senem Aydın-Düzgit @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, Sabanci University; Director, Istanbul Policy Center; Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for European Policy Making at Bocconi University
Heather Jaber @heatherjaber.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Residence at Northwestern in Qatar. PhD at Annenberg UPenn. Graduate of AUB in Lebanon. Studying affect/emotion, digital media, and the MENA.
Kenan Behzat Sharpe @kenansharpe.bsky.social @keymanmts.bsky.social / Assistant Professor at Sabancı University 🌆 / book on Anatolian Rock in progress 🎸 / sometimes journalist 📝 / tweets on art & culture in Turkey 🎶
Ayşenur Dal @aysenurdal.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. - Dept. of Communication & Design at Bilkent Uni., Türkiye
#PolComm, Pol Psych, Digital Repression, Privacy
Ohio State - Comm (PhD)
www.aysenurdal.com
Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social Reimaginer of media industries and society in digital age | Prof@QUT | Strategy consultant | US expat | Fan of swimming, baked goods & nature | drtvlotz@gmail | amandalotz.com | Mostly writing on LinkedIn, glimmers of also being a human here
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen @karinwahlj.bsky.social Journalism professor, Cardiff University. President-Elect, International Communication Association. Interested in media and democracy. https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/wahl-jorgensenk 🏴🇩🇰
Zeyno Ustun @zeynoustun.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Sociology and Digital Media& Film @StLawrenceUniversity
Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social Professor media & culture. Teaches film history @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Social and political aspects of film culture. ERC project www.reelborders.eu. Research group ECHO: Media, Culture & Politics
Yaman Akdeniz @cyber-rights.org Academic, cyber-rights activist, and trouble-maker :) AYM tescilli "kamu gözcüsü" 
Gülay Türkmen @gulayturkmen.bsky.social Sociologist, researcher, writer, editor, teacher, academic nomad
https://www.gulayturkmen.com/
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism 
Lauren E Bridges @laurenebridges.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Media Studies at UVA |Faculty Associate @BKCHarvard | Affiliate @UNC_CITAP | PhD from @AnnenbergPenn | environmental politics of the cloud + digital labor + surveillance infrastructures
Ümit Kıvanç @umitk.bsky.social documentary filmmaker, author
belgesel sinemacı, yazar
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
Jayson Harsin @jaysonharsin.bsky.social Professor, American U. Paris. Dir., Ctr 4 Media, Comm, & Global Change. @ topical x-roads of Political Deception, Persuasion, Influence, gender,Economic Rights. For my recent publications, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1gK3IjoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi
Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social Skateboarding, Tech-criticism, Blockchain colonialism and platform geopolitics, film, LFC.
Jonathan Corpus Ong @joncong.bsky.social Professor of Global Digital Media and Director, GloTechLab.net at UMass Amherst. #CarnegieFellows #OracleOng 🔮