Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social Finnish geopolitical analyst. PhD. Trying to help Ukraine with the 69th Sniffing Brigade
https://buymeacoffee.com/joni_askola
Denis Cohen @denis-cohen.bsky.social Senior research fellow @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social. Research on spatial inequalities, electoral politics, quantitative social science. Lead organizer of the MZES Social Science Data Lab (@mzes-ssdl.bsky.social). #firstgen. He/him.
Markus Kollberg @markuskollberg.bsky.social Political Scientist | Comparative Political Behaviour, Political Parties, Empirical Democracy Research | Experiments, Surveys, Text-as-Data
https://www.markus-kollberg.net
Werner Krause @krausewe.bsky.social Political Scientist @unipotsdam.bsky.social
- Comparative Politics, Political Parties & Voting Behavior
- Quantitative Methods & R
Prev. Uni Vienna, Humboldt Uni & WZB Berlin
https://krausewe.github.io
Der Experte @derexperte.ggor.de Ordnet ein. Live zugeschaltet. Und nicht echt.
Von @gregor.bsky.social
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Basti Hirsch @bastihirsch.bsky.social Demokratiebildung, Digitale Bildung, Architektur, Schulbau, Bauwende, Klimaschutz und Theater.
Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social Digital sociologist and Associate Professor in Education, interested in identity, social media, & LGBTQ youth. Co-lead and Chair of SMSociety
You can find other papers I've written here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=770gzPq
Sara Reinis @sarareinis.bsky.social researching internet culture, algorithms, self-help, spirituality, and assorted rabbit holes that strike my fancy | currently: PhD student at Penn Annenberg
Pranav @pranavm.bsky.social 
Dr. Will X. Uly @wellactually.bsky.social rhetoric sun. media rising. gender moon. assistant professor of communication studies, recovering marketer, and award-winning drag king. thinking about neoliberalism & gender performance in consumer culture. they/them.
the views expressed here are my own.
Cara Hawkins-Jedlicka @carabyrd.bsky.social Assistant professor of practice at the Edward R. Murrow College of Comm. Research in the intersection of women’s sport, social media & branding.Cofounder of Starting Line 1928. #commsky
PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue 🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is out!!!
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Tim Highfield @timhighfield.bsky.social Internet researcher and Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.
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
Matthew 정석 Howard, Ph.D. (he/him/his) @drgyopophd.bsky.social Green-Cheeked Conure and (former) Pug Dad; Begrudgingly-Tolerated Cat Step Dad | Asian/American Media Histories of Race and Empire via Hallyu | Asst. Prof., Loyola University Chicago School of Communication
Opinions are my own and not my institution's.
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
Dr. Kate Stewart @thekatestewart.bsky.social 📍AL | Assistant Prof of PR at JSU 👩🏼🏫 Ph.D. from USC, B.A. + M.A. from Auburn 👩🏼🎓 #WarEagle | #swiftie 🫶🏼 social media researcher 🤳🏼
Dr. Mariah L Wellman @mariahlwellman.bsky.social Professor & researcher | writing a book on social media influencers and the wellness industry 
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
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net Ignore my late night posts.
Award winning author!
I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf
…and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf
Openly Black.
Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr*
andrebrock.academia.edu
#TenureTrackHustle @meredithdclark.bsky.social I escaped the Upside Down, but I still visit 
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.
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
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.
Eviane Leidig @evianeleidig.com Director of Research & Outreach, Center for the Study of Organized Hate @csohate.bsky.social
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
💻 evianeleidig.com
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social • qualitative social science academic researching tech + young identities
• new book out with @ucpress: THE KIDS ARE ONLINE https://tinyurl.com/jv33yjaf
• words in @guardian @WIRED @WSJ @glamour
• she/her
find me @ ysabelgerrard.net/home
DrJessieNYC @jessienyc.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Queer. Latest book: #NiceWhiteLadies.
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
Catherine Knight Steele @steelecat717.bsky.social Author - Digital Black Feminism
Associate Professor @UMD
I wonder if I'll ever get to talk about my reality shows here 😔
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
Elena Maris @elenamaris.bsky.social Asst. Professor: Politics of Platforms & AI at University of Illinois at Chicago | Views mine
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social Comm tech & social media research professor by day, symphony violinist by night, outside as much as possible otherwise. German/American Pacific Northwestern New Englander, #firstgen academic, she/her, 🏳️🌈
https://anne-oeldorf-hirsch.uconn.edu
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)
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
Digital Culture & Education @digitalculture.bsky.social An international open acess peer-reviewed journal dedicated to an interdisciplinary exploration of digital technology's impacts on society, culture, & education
http://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Rachel Wood @rachelwood.bsky.social Social media, femininity, and consumer culture.
Senior lecturer in Media, currently writing about sustainability influencers.
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
Megan L Zahay @meganzahay.bsky.social Researching persuasion and trust in online communities | 1st Gen | Fiber and visual arts lover
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
Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social Media Studies Lecturer and PhD Student studying fangirls @ Uni of Huddersfield, girlhoods, popular music, fan politics, celebrity etc
Uni of Leeds and Emerson College alum, from LA now cozying up in the Yorkshire countryside.
queer audhd disabled
Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social Popular culture and politics.
Sometimes academic who writes about those things.
Co-hosts Ill Effects, good podcast about bad media influence https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=zRsbRad6SZO
André Sarli, Revolusarli @revolusarli.bsky.social Sociologist of STS, also a lawyer, and a comic strip artist. Father of two. Brazilian, living in Indonesia
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com prof ∙ critic ∙ music and media ∙ award-losing author of WHO GOT THE CAMERA?, which Rolling Stone called "approachably erudite" ∙ ericdharvey.com
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
Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life @citap.bsky.social We research the intersection of technology platforms and democratic society.
Our work produces insights that inform a digital future rooted in equality and justice.
https://linktr.ee/unc_citap
Corrina Laughlin @corrinalaughlin.bsky.social Prof at Loyola Marymount University. Californian. I write about digital media and religion.
Hannah Dahlberg❄️Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social Sociocultural linguist and digital/popular media studies human | 📍Tohoku University | 社会言語学・デジタル社会・メディア表象・役割語/キャラクター言語 | J-E translation 日英翻訳 | they/she | (発言は個人の見解です)
Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social Prof Media/Film | Author: Imagining the Method http://bit.ly/43QVOa4 | Research: acting, celebrity, screen histories, Arctic media | he/him
Alex Monea @alexmonea.bsky.social Assoc Prof @georgemasonu.bsky.social | Author: The Digital Closet (https://bit.ly/digitalcloset) | Focus: content moderation, platform governance, data ethics | Views my own | he/him
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
Emelia Hughes @emeliamay.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Notre Dame studying online communities & social media ✨ previously at @uwischool.bsky.social, @socialfutureslab.bsky.social, & UW CIP and intern with Adobe Research
Jimil Ataman @jimilataman.bsky.social asst. professor of sustainable innovation in the global fashion industry @university of alberta | anthropologist of slow fashion | writing on capitalism, digital culture and feminist practice | she/her
Katy Coduto @katycoduto.bsky.social Assistant professor of media science @ Boston U. Researching sexting, swiping, + other online behaviors. Usually watching horror movies.
kdcoduto.com
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.
David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social comm, media industries, platform, social media, and creator studies scholar (aka "creator anthropologist"). In my past life, I spent decades making TV movies and "producing to power".
zari taylor @zaritaylor.bsky.social critical cultural + media studies scholar tired of switching platforms. thoughts are my own.
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.
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
Clara Juarez Miro @clarajuarezmiro.bsky.social Beatriz Galindo Fellow @cpoliticaub.bsky.social | Previously @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social & @jscvienna.bsky.social
Studying populism, online communities, audiences.
Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social Applied Anthropologist researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not). Social Systems/Culture. Sometimes write for Fast Company. NYU/ITP alum
Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social Comm Prof at The University of Puget Sound studying technology and relationships.
www.pugetsound.edu/directory/nicholas-brody
Dr. Ania Rynarzewska @aniarynarzewska.bsky.social Asst. Prof in marketing. Researching all the things esp. the dark side of marketing and influencer marketing. Beauty brand creator. Dog lover. Coffee lover. Farm living. Ex tennis player
Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social Skateboarding, Tech-criticism, Blockchain colonialism and platform geopolitics, film, LFC.
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
Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team Head of Community at @blackskyweb.xyz and your fav auntie. 1922.
Committed to a Black feminist politic of collective work as a scholar, educator, and practitioner.
Serious about Protecting Black girls and RJ.
🔗 Kalyncoghill.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.
Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him)
danrosen.xyz
Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social Feminist academic and ECR. Lecturer in Sociology @ University of Manchester, UK. Author of Feminist Fandom (2024). Interested in youth, gender, digital/pop culture, platforms + anti/feminisms. She/her. https://linktr.ee/brionyhannell
Nahla Bendefaa | نهلة @nahlab.bsky.social She/هي
Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Oregon
Kent State University MA '19 | Al Akhawayn University BA '16
Studying nation-branding narrative construction in digital foodscapes
Digital Content Strategist & Project Management Whiz
Asana Partner
Shawna Malvini Redden @drshawna.bsky.social Writer. Professional people watcher. Messy cook. Pilot. Puzzler. Communication researcher and professor studying organizing. She/Her. Represented by Bookends Literary. www.drmalviniredden.com
Andrei Zanescu @andreizanescu.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro @Concordia
Blockbuster & Cultural Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows
Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press)
www.andreizanescu.com
Dean Leetal @deanleetal.bsky.social Phd hopeful, fandom, X-Men, Taskmaster, Staged, SPN, non binary, trans, fat, polyam, neurodivergent, queer, aroace, ceasefire now
Vee Lawson @lawsonvee.bsky.social they/them | assistant prof in professional writing | feminist, queer, and trans digital rhetorics + storytelling online | 🐈🧶⛺👟
veelawson.com
For better or worse, these are all my opinions.
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.
Dylan Thomas Doyle, PhD. @dylantdoyle.bsky.social Director and Podcast Host @AI for All Tomorrows. Post-Doctoral Researcher @CU Boulder. TEDx Speaker. Researcher of AI safety, mental health, and end-of-life care. Former Co-Host @Radical AI Podcast
Matt Hindman @matthindman.bsky.social Professor at SMPA GWU
Author of *The Internet Trap* and *The Myth of Digital Democracy*
political communication | digital platforms | politics of AI
Washington, DC
Sarah Shugars @shugars.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Rutgers University. Computational social science, political communication, civic studies. First gen. They/them
MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London
hopeful.technology
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social senior lecturer in digital education at Monash Uni. Interested in social media, misinfo/conspiracy, digital cultures. Views are my own. She/her 🌈
Lars E.F. Johannessen @larsjohannessen.bsky.social Sociologist and Prof. in Knowledge, Expertise and Professions at Oslo Metropolitan University • Fellow at Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University • Digital culture • Qualitative methods • Theorizing • Microsociology • STS
kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social over-explainer for fame & fortune, analog enthusiast, 9-5 academic.
informatics PhD (computer/networking histories, LGBTQ+ activism, STS & HIV/AIDS). you might know me from video games
once: uc irvine
now: u of michigan
💾🌿💽 kb.place 💽🌿💾
Pip Thornton @pipt.bsky.social Chancellor’s Fellow & BRAID Fellow @EdinburghUni. Critic of Linguistic Capitalism. @Braid_UK 'Writing the Wrongs of AI' (with @edbookfest) http://www.wwai.info #PATM
www.pipthornton.com
Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today
She/They
amygaeta.com
Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social Author, teacher, anti-authoritarian, media studies prof @ Utrecht Univ. New book – FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
Yiping Xia 夏逸平 @xiayp.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University
Past: UNC CITAP, UW-Madison SJMC
Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social Run @whotargets.me and am a Partner @jointogether.online. Used to play drums in Fridge. Live in Cork, from London.
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social global media professor
author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01
español incluído.
The Streaming Movie Project @vodmovies.bsky.social An academic project dedicated to studying the impact of SVOD platforms (e.g. Netflix, Prime Video, etc.) on the global film industry. AKA Chris Meir, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Jessica Ghilani @jesspgh.bsky.social Comm + media studies professor focused on history, emerging tech, information integrity, telecomm policy, platforms, propaganda, and culture. From Pittsburgh.
Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️
Scholar of Asian religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society