Nathalie Weidhase @nweidhase.bsky.social Lecturer in Media and Communication researching the intersections of feminism, postfeminism, and popular culture
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung @seungyeon.bsky.social Design is a problem, not a problem-solving method economic development and modern design
Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at UC Irvine
Performance and Stardom SIG @scms-starperformer.bsky.social The Scholarly Interest Group of the SCMS for Performance and Stardom.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
Denise Laura Davis @wozbell.bsky.social 
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
insta: audio.futurism
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein’s tweets, articles, clips and podcasts on Bluesky.
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social writer. critic. essayist. on staff at New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://angelicabastien.com/
https://angelicabastien.substack.com
SCMS TV SIG @scms-tv.bsky.social SCMS Television Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about tv studies.
Console-ing Passions Conference 2025 at GSU in Atlanta, GA @cp25atlanta.bsky.social June 27-29, 2025 at Georgia State University
Conference information: https://fmt.gsu.edu/console-ing-passions-conference-2025/
Questions? Email us at consoleingpassions25 AT gmail DOT com
Console-ing Passions @consoleingpassions.bsky.social Console-ing Passions, founded in 1989 by U.S. feminist media scholars & artists, is an international conference on TV, new media, & identity.
more tacos, please @tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social Author of Ugly War Pretty Package (2009) and The Television Code (2018). Writing about death and TV. Co-editing The Cocktail Lover’s Guide to TV History. Highland Coo fan account. Will eat any sugary treat you give me.
michel ghanem @tvscholar.bsky.social ♡ aka tvscholar on instagram
♡ author of the "Appointment Viewing" monthly TV column in The Cut
♡ Dorian Awards voter, TCA member
♡ the tv scholar newsletter
michel.tvscholar@gmail.com
tvscholar.com
sarah @moveablejaw.bsky.social Leo sun, Aquarius rising, Taurus moon, personal account #FreePalestine
K bay bay @dr-kundakentay.bsky.social Lily Kunda
Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com The young person's guide to conquering (and saving) the world.✨
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Candice Charisma @candicenotcandace.bsky.social Brooklyn → D.C.
Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor. 
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick.bsky.social I am not writing a bio.
Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social TV and film critic for the Chicago Tribune
https://www.chicagotribune.com/author/nina-metz/
Newsletter: Nina Watches Everything
https://buttondown.com/NinaWatchesEverything
Helen Wheatley (she/her) @helenwheatley.bsky.social Academic Director of Warwick Institute of Engagement, Professor of Film and Television, Co-Founder of the Centre for Television Histories and mum of three teenagers and three cats
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com Associate Editor at RogerEbert • Contributor: The New York Times • Screen Daily • Reverse Shot • Letterboxd • https://www.robertdaniels.me/
matthew ellis @matthiasellis.bsky.social cinema and media, capitalism, theory, history, politics
LB: letterboxd.com/mattellis/
www.historiesofthepresent.com
Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social National political analyst/forecaster/strategist. Read election analysis from a real expert at The Cycle on Substack 🦆🏈
“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.” -Winston Churchill
Alexis Lothian @alothian.bsky.social Scholar and sometimes practitioner of queer speculation, critical fandom, digital social justice, and feminist world building. Associate Professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Maryland.
Liz Ellcessor @trilliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Virginia.
Co-editor at JCMS:Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Emergency systems, disability, and media access.
Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social American. Journalist. New York Times Opinion writer and MS Now political analyst.
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
zunguzungu@gmail.com
Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
pjmaciak.substack.com
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
Dr. Andy Owens @andyowens85.bsky.social Instructional Associate Professor, University of Iowa. Researching/teaching film & TV history, genre studies/horror, and LGBTQ+/critical race theory. Author of DESIRE AFTER DARK (Indiana UP, 2021).
Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social Pretty into cats, classical Hollywood, DVDs, and the beach. Currently writing on adaptations of Marilyn Monroe as a character. Author of _Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe_. Co-editor of _Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend_.
martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social asst prof in film studies. post-2008 film/tv + real estate • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her
https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/
Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social Film/Media/Comm/Sound
MAKING STEREO FIT
www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/
Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Sondheim, Philip Roth, The Dark Tower, Twin Peaks, Pale Fire, Calvino, and Taylor Swift.
"The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza
Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies. Author of Bad Film Histories. Writing a book about reference. Views my own. Most get deleted.
Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston. 
Landon Palmer @landonpalmer.bsky.social historian of film, media, popular music | wrote a book about rock stars in movies and writing another about Motown movies | he/him | opinions are mine, do not represent my employer, and seek not to curtail any tide's roll
Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
Aca-Media @aca-media.bsky.social A podcast offering an academic perspective on media, from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
https://aca-media.org/
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
Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social For you
I've saved the descriptions of chicken sandwiches,
teaches at UChicago | editor & indexer | proud member of SEIU local 73
Hannah Hamad @hannahhamad.bsky.social Feminist media studies academic. Reads, runs, remains. Forthcoming book: ‘Film, Feminism and Rape Culture in the Yorkshire Ripper Years’ (London: BFI)
Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social Milwaukee, WI
Media Studies
Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com media and journalism prof | made a film about my hometown | trekkie 🖖🏾
taralconley.org
Kim Fleming @mskimfleming.bsky.social Cinematography & communication instructor, pop culture enthusiast, and iced coffee advocate. [she | her] {tweets are my own}
Krysten Stein, PhD @krystenstein.bsky.social professor + expert on platforms, care, & digital culture
writing AND HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL? [ @uc_press ]
my curated life | thoughts mine
Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social media studies professor, TV lover, feminist, mom
Amanda: Half Animal, Half Human @amandaannklein.bsky.social media studies professor writing supernatural historical crime fiction. bylines: New Yorker, Salon, Atlantic, KERA, Vice, E!
Views expressed are my own
Millennials Killed the Video Star: https://www.dukeupress.edu/millennials-killed-the-video-star
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Liz Wolfson @lizwolfson.bsky.social Occasionally writes about creative culture, mostly talks Pelicans and WNBA basketball.
Lakshmi Padmanabhan @shmi.bsky.social Close reader, slow writer | Kannodu kaanbadhan ellam thalaiva, kanngalikku sondham illai 
Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social Social media professor + expert
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL + PARASOCIAL
Repp’d by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine
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
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Com and Media Studies @ Washington College | current Delawarean | I do work on gender, space, media, and belonging and also comedy studies | she/her
Dr. Acafanmom @acafanmom.bsky.social Asst Professor in perpetuity | researching fandom and popular culture |
RPs are sometimes bookmarks for myself | Osaka
Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social Fan, celebrity & cultural studies academic. Senior lecturer in media & cultural studies in Singapore. Intermixing posts on shows I'm watching/discovering, fandoms, academia, and occasionally, life. Opinions strictly my own.
Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social Helping scholars write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚
Tips at newsletter.manuscriptworks.com & in THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK and MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK (Princeton UP)
Courses + free resources at manuscriptworks.com
Knitter, 2X Jeopardy! champ 🤓
E Krebs, PhD @saltysicky.bsky.social Assistant prof of health & culture, director of disability studies. 📍NYC.
Critical suicidology & Mad justice.
Research: t.ly/07YiR
Margaret Schwartz @mogprof.bsky.social Assoc prof media studies @Fordham. Writing a book about containment and its discontents; essays on these themes, with a side of 90s nerdcore nostalgia, at MOGPROFFERY on Substack.
I also wrote a book about corpses called Dead Matter (Minnesota)
Sasha Ann Panaram @sashapanaram.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at Fordham University | Former Cheryl Wall Postdoctoral Fellow and Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University | African American and Caribbean Literature
Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her
Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social scholar of art/cinema/media
https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
Maura Seale @mauraseale.bsky.social Librarian for History at the University of Michigan
David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Culture & Media @ The New School.
Living at the crossroads of Media Theory, Black Horror / Zombie Movies, and AI / Digital Culture.
Nathan Lee @nathanlee.bsky.social Assistant Professor (allegedly). Defrocked film critic.
Unreconstructed gay Nietzschean.
Alisa Perren @aperren.bsky.social Media studies prof. Director of Industry Relations for the Radio-Television-Film Department at UT-Austin. Opinions are my own.
mesk @meesk.bsky.social TV, media industries, algorithmic brand culture, videographic criticism. Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies, Lewis & Clark College. She/her.
Caroline N. Bayne @fkaponytail.bsky.social phd in critical media/media history of the american south; currently researching local television history in mississippi; assistant prof at millsaps college; televangelist (i worship tv)
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/