The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies @coegamecult.bsky.social The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies is a joint project of the universities of Tampere, Turku and Jyväskylä, and is funded by the Academy of Finland. 
Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social At FSNNA we're working to create a supportive, welcoming community for developing & sharing research in the interdisciplinary field of fan studies.
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J. J. Aumercier @jeanju.bsky.social Prof de philo (lycée Ella Fitzgerald à Saint Romain en Gal) et doctorant (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, ISJPS) sur les liens entre jeu vidéo et pensée morale.
https://theses.fr/s385320
Steven Dashiell PhD @dashiellsteven.bsky.social Research Asst Prof at Morgan State University - social scientist who studies discourse, masculinity, and disparities, specifically in male-dominated subcultures (like game communities and social media). Army veteran. UMBC grad.
Maria K. Alberto, Ph.D (✍️🏼 book proposal!) @mariakalberto.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Richland Community College || she/her 🏳️🌈 || 📚 canon, genre, analog games, fan studies, platforms || currently ✍️🏼 sword&sorcery + TSR novels, fans + TTRPGs || header: galxrax (Unsplash)
DIGAREC - Digital Games Research Center @digarec.bsky.social Digital Games Research Center / Zentrum für Computerspielforschung
@unipotsdam.bsky.social // Streams on Twitch http://twitch.tv/digarec // Website: https://digarec.philfak.uni-potsdam.de
Groose The Game Studies Goose @groosethegoose.bsky.social I am a helpful honking goose that loves game studies. I'll help you appreciate game studies through many memes of varying quality.
Niema Moshiri @niema.net Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science at UC San Diego, consulting for PlayStation and Blizzard, Bioinformatician by training, SD-raised. https://niema.net
Sinéad McDevitt @neadiegirl.bsky.social Freelance journalist, JRPG expert, fully time info-dumper.
You can see my latest work at https://lnk.bio/somcdevitt
⋆⭒˚.⋆Elliot ⋆˚𖦹.✧ @elliotskiesstuff.bsky.social ★ They/He/She
★Queer interdisciplinary artist and thinker working in MTL/Tiohtià:ke
★Fucking Loser Nerd about everything I care for also
★braindumps and who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Adrianna ✨ @adriiadventures.com she/they 🇸🇻 writing and studying rpgs 🎮 finally a phd candidate 😵💫
Flavie Falais @flaefals.bsky.social Chercheuse en histoire culturelle
ATER en infocom
Facilitatrice PEPR-ICCARE CNRS
Approches critiques du jeu vidéo : sexualités, discours, conditions de production
(pas spécialiste de *la femme* ni de Lara)
Mathew Iantorno (he/him) @mathewiantorno.com 📚 PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (iSchool + ICCIT)
🤖 Studies the history, labour, & public impact of retail automation
🛰️ mathewiantorno.com
@callumdeery.bsky.social @callumdeery.bsky.social Games researcher, larper, occasional pixel artist
Currently studying video game crimes for a PhD at City University of Hong Kong
Nick Taylor @nickttaylor.bsky.social Media professor at York U in Toronto. Happy to be here.
Grounds of Gaming is out from University of Indiana Press. It's about the places in which we play games, and who is and is not allowed.
https://iupress.org/9780253071231/the-grounds-of-gaming/
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Sara Humphreys @saraventure.bsky.social I was your friendly, neighbourhood rhetoric and game studies diva. Now I’m not sure what’s going on. I'm into critical pedagogy, rhetorical genre studies, open ed, and trusting my students.
Marie Šilhová @marie-22.bsky.social Studying Twitch and Games @ Concordia, Media Studies MA 🍁
she/her 🌿
student; illustrator; twitch moderator; video essay enthusiast 🌺
background in media studies, art history, and asian studies 🌸
Adeline K. Piercy (she/them) @adelinekpiercy.bsky.social Writer, scholar, game maker. Researching feminist gameplay, queer play, and digital culture.
Digital Humanities MA @ University of Alberta
Instructor @ MacEwan University
Proud dev of https://bsky.app/profile/chickensinmyhead.bsky.social
Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social PhD candidate in Communication @ Carleton University 🇨🇦
RoCCET Lab fellow 💥
Queer affect scholar lookin' at the queer indie video games scene(s) on itch.io 👾
https://kathrynfedchun.itch.io/
Alison Harvey @digitalpromises.bsky.social Professor of Communications, Glendon College, York University
Ben Scholl @ben-scholl.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication.
Game Studies and Esports Researcher
🖥️ benscholl.com 
Dr. Steve Mallory @drstevemallory.bsky.social Game Designer, Game Studies Academic, Historian, Digital Games and Fascism, Digimodernism, Assistant Professor of Design. Views are my own.
Three Video Games in a Trench Coat
@amayer.bsky.social @amayer.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies // Game Culture Studies // Human-Technology-Interaction // Neo-Baroque Media
Researching DIY Technology Practices and Intersections of Technology Development and Game Cultures @ Tampere University
Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social Ed #Supersex for @utexaspress.bsky.social. Ed Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Words @comicsxf.com @sequentialscholars.bsky.social + lots more. Host of @GoshGollyWow.bsky.social. Kurt Wagner's (unofficial) PR Manager. she/her
The QGCon Collective @qgcon.bsky.social Official account for the Queerness and Games Conference #QGCon established in 2013. QGCon is a registered nonprofit based in Montreal, Canada.
Stay tuned for news on presenting at or attending the next QGCon!
https://www.qgcon.org/
Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social Assistant Lecturer @ University of Alberta
PhD in game studies & transmedia storytelling
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon @jeremiepgagnon.net Humanités numériques, game studies, études japonaises | Professeur @Université de l'Ontario français | Co-editor (English) @Journal of Replaying Japan | 日本語でOK!
Victor Navarro-Remesal @vthewanderer.bsky.social Media Studies, Games scholar, Humanities human
Lecturer at TecnoCampus, UPF (Barcelona)
Founding member of @DIGRASpain
Director de la colección Ludografías.
Co-president of the History of Games conference.
I also do my own stunts.
www.vnavarro.eu
Antonio Pomposini @drpompo.bsky.social 🇵🇪 Philosophy, play & media ✨💚
🇫🇮 MSoc Game Studies at Tampere University
I paint lil plastic fellas sometimes.
Michael Hancock @personofcon.bsky.social Phd haver and UWaterloo English instructor. Interested in games, digital media, comic books, and gamebooks. He/him
GreenRambling @greenrambling.bsky.social She/They. Fr-En. 🌈 | Américaniste; PhD in Digital History Video games | Bioware aficionado | Tea(cher) | Escapism? Yes. | 🛸🧝♂️
ICCIT @iccit-utm.bsky.social The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. A hub for transformative research initiatives on the relationship between humans and technology. utm.utoronto.ca/iccit
Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social |Ph.D. in Games |Postdoctoral Researcher @Tampere Game Research Lab |Book Editor @Eludamos |Author of Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling |(she/her)
Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com Neurospicy disabled trans girl, Ph.Dyke
Writes with @drtanenbaumii.bsky.social, @catblackard.bsky.social, & @jessicamudd.bsky.social
EggPrimeDirective.com
Music—Books—Games—Poetry MothMother.com
Ink—Art CauldronFireStudios.com
Theory TessTanen.com
Nina Penner @ninapenner.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Music, Brock University. Author of Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theatre (Indiana UP, 2020). Writer for @somanygames.co.uk. Currently thinking about the possibilities of games as a medium and how music shapes player experience.
Christine Tomlinson, PhD @socstudygames.bsky.social Interdisciplinary researcher studying video games, players, and esports. Formerly @ Activision. Current Assistant Professor of Games and Esports. 
Daniel Vella @danielvella.bsky.social Director & Senior Lecturer at Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta // Narrative designer with Mighty Boards (Posthuman Saga, Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan) // Debut novel out 2026
Samuel Heine @sadmediahistorian.bsky.social Canadian researcher and lecturer in media and game history or spaces.
I tend to write about representations, histories, identities, politics, video games and role-playing games.
There will be typos.
Agata Waszkiewicz @agatawaszkiewicz.bsky.social Game scholar, therapist in training, mental health advocate. Makes art on the side.
ＡＳＣＩＩ Ｄｒａｃｕｌａ @robotparking.kvlt.rip roguelikes, dungeon crawlers, and IF 🦇 basketball 🦇 fake grindcore 🦇 Battletech 🦇 miniature painting 🦇 skateboarding 🦇 former: Managing Editor: First Person Scholar 🦇 they/them 🦇🍷⚰️
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Felan @felantron.bsky.social 
Shelbey Walker @shelbeywalker.bsky.social STS PhD Student
Farming video games researcher
Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta @indigitalgames.bsky.social Making big waves in Game Studies research, Game Design, and AI from a tiny, Mediterranean island | Check us out: https://www.um.edu.mt/digitalgames/ | Hosts of DiGRA 2025
Andy Lee @unsurprisinglee.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UofT, graduate research fellow @ Centre for Culture and Technology; studying us military and militarism, milsim videogames, and the history of computation. she/her 🏳️⚧️
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.
Sara M. Grimes, PhD @smgrimes.bsky.social Wolfe Chair in Scientific + Technological Literacy & Professor at McGill University. I research kids + tech + play/games/creativity, advocate for children’s rights in policy/design. Author of Digital Playgrounds (2021) and Kidfluenced (underway).
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.- M Michael Nixon @mnixon.bsky.social Associate Professor, teaching stream
university of Toronto Mississauga
Digital media & game studies
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
Ian Larson, PhD @socialvideogame.bsky.social PhD in Informatics @ UC Irvine. Lecturer in Game Studies and Sociology. Researching video games, social dynamics, video game history, and other nonsense. I post mostly retrogaming junk.- H @hongnguyensears.bsky.social @hongnguyensears.bsky.social
Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats --
Montreal
https://sterneworks.org
Andrew Hogue 🇨🇦 @syberhogue.bsky.social Professor of Game Development and Interactive Media at OntarioTech University…. And creator of generally strange things… working on Volumetric Video and Retro Games these days.
Mai Ibrahim @maiibrahim.bsky.social Postdoc in the Department of Comm & Media Studies | York U | Toronto.
Research areas: Media Theory, Digital Cultures, Cultural Studies, Philosophy of technology.
Bea Livesey-Stephens @soupdragonbea.bsky.social researching disability and TTRPG safety tools forever and ever | also still a linguist | @gameassistyt.bsky.social | @TakeThis.org Accelerate Fellow '25 | @IGDAFoundation.org Grantee | pan-accessibility dreamer | crip and proud | she/her
Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social @investigatedot.bsky.social 🧡
Casual Academic and PhD researcher at York St John 🎓 interested in the spatial construction of social video game experiences, online identity & digital culture w/ a lil bit of death studies on the side🦕👾💀
Nathan Rambukkana @beeblefish.bsky.social Academic, trouble maker. Digital, platform, and AI intimacies; non/monogamy and privilege.
Intersectional Automations: https://tinyurl.com/bdehyvcz
Hashtag Publics: https://tinyurl.com/32m5dm6a
Fraught Intimacies: https://tinyurl.com/3a7tb22p
(Mary) Grace Lao (she/her) @gracelao.bsky.social Sociology lecturer U of Guelph-Humber. PhD candidate at York University. Studying media(Ted) rape culture discourse. Communications director @wgsj.bsky.social. Travel photographer and guac aficionado.
Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
Sarah Christina Ganzon @otomedoctor.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Simon Fraser University. She/her. Pinay Feminist Game Scholar Jedi
Margot 'Elawen' Blanchard @margotblanchard.bsky.social Lead Designer at Lowbirth Games 🥀
Bretonne montréalaise 🥞| French from Bretagne, best place in France😅| living her best game dev life in Montreal
📖 Narrative & Social impact Design ⚙️Challenging social bias players one game at time😼
Elle/She | Fr/En
Karen Louise Smith @smithisgeneric.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Popular Culture & Film at Brock University. Personal account, reposts ≠ endorsements, and find me at http://karenlouisesmith.net/wp/
Jef Bryan @jsbryan1.bsky.social Digital Arts and Media Studies Teacher, Games Researcher, Play Theorist, and Karaoke Enthusiast.
Adjunct Professor @ USC & Saddleback
Press Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social Press Start is an open access, peer-reviewed journal run by and for students that publishes academic research on Game Studies.
Website: press-start.gla.ac.uk
Dr. Emma Vossen @emmavphd.bsky.social 🎮Assistant Professor, Game Studies, Brock University
📚"Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (2025) and "Feminism in Play" (2018).
End the Genocide. Free Palestine 🍉
Maxwell Foxman @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Game Studies
Co-author of Mainstreaming and Game Journalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5657/Mainstreaming-and-Game-Journalism
🧵: sushilovinfun
🐘: maxwellfoxman@mastodon.social
🐦: maxwellfoxman
The Nostagain Network @nostagain.bsky.social North America's first student-led collective studying and showcasing nostalgia. Based in Montréal, Canada.
🍁 https://nostagain.ca
👇 Relive the full playlist of our SYMPOSIUM 2026 here:
https://nostagain.ca/symposium2026
Yifat Shaik @yifatshaik.bsky.social There is true freedom in being an adult because you are allowed to be as boring as you want too
~yifatshaik.com~
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
Geoffrey Rockwell @grockwel.bsky.social Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the U of Alberta
Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
Meghan Blythe Adams (they / them) @mblytheadams.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Game Development & Interactive Media at Ontario Tech University, writer of tawdry queer romance games. Personal account: opinions do not represent my employers.
Scott DeJong @scottdejong.bsky.social Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
Makopowered Chris, PhD (he/him) @makopowered.bsky.social Video Game Scholar, Pixel Artist, YouTube Video Maker, Sometime Game Designer, Self-Professed Pop Culture Junkie. Der Uberdork with a Communication Studies PhD.
Matt Wells - working on Frenzy @mattjwells.bsky.social • Play Frenzy Mission 0 demo: https://semioticblocks.itch.io/frenzy-mission-0
• Post-PhD, self-diagnosed game developer, working on Frenzy, a Far Cry demake from an ecofeminist perspective
• Fan of '90s video games, '80s hip hop, and '70s computer science
Marc Lajeunesse @marclaj.bsky.social Coordinator of the Technoculture, Art, and Games Research Centre. Game researcher, university instructor, podcast producer, musician, and author. Mostly a person though!
krafftmine.bandcamp.com/album/we-who...
connectingtogame.ca
Richy Srirachanikorn @srirachanikorn.bsky.social 📟 Sociologist studying nostalgia to reimagine the future. Club Penguin, Frutiger Aero, and the "vision" & "value" of y2k-inspired thrift stores.
🌟 Co-founded @nostagain.bsky.social
🚀 https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home
Jason Hawreliak @profjay.bsky.social Associate Professor of Game Studies. Director, GAME Program. Brock University, Department of Digital Humanities.
Kalervo @kalervideo.bsky.social bang bang 🤠I’m a cowboy
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
A Gay Magikarp @masc4magikarp.bsky.social A level 5 Magikarp aspiring to be a Game Studies Scholar, interested in Interactivity, Game-Player Relations, and LGBTQ+ Storytelling
melian dialogue tree @vogontheater.bsky.social Wordsman, gameswright. || Narrative Designer [Intern] @ Behaviour || Designer of Shadow Doge || Youtube: Vogon Theater || stephenfriedrich.com || He/er/il || Views are yours
Cindy Poremba @cloobot.bsky.social Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
Courtney Blamey @courtneyblamey.bsky.social professional overthinker
PhD Candidate @ Concordia University | GAMERella Co-Director
critical design; values/meaning; emotional game design
she/her courtneyblamey.com
Andrew Bailey @andrewrbailey.bsky.social SSHRC postdoc researching/creating videogame archives at the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Lab at Concordia University. Teaching games studies and new media art history at OCAD University. He/him.
📚 https://arbailey2297.github.io
Justin Roberts ✨ @justinrobs.bsky.social MA Media Studies graduate and Queer Game Studies scholar.
Sometimes I stream 👾
Known to be a messy everything.
Peter McDonald @pdmcdonald.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education, UW-Madison. Play scholar, potter, and dog friend.
Author of 📖The Impossible Reversal https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916220/the-impossible-reversal/ and 📖Run and Jump https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547390/run-and-jump/
Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker 📹💾
📍Toronto
Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social Assoc Prof, English, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU); Director, TMU Centre for Digital Humanities, https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-digital-humanities/. Research interests include connections between literary studies and video games, eLit, queer DH
Kenzie Gordon 🍉 @kenzitronic.bsky.social Settler on treaty 6, PhD candidate in feminist game studies @ ualberta, itinerant social worker, parent, usually in over my head on a wild DH scheme.
She/her
David Kocik @davidkocik.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
Dr. Emma Yasui @ponopls.bsky.social PhD, archaeology | Starch, foodways, Jomon | Pop culture & diaspora | Cultural consultant in TTRPGs | emmakeikoyasui at gmail dot com | she/her, 🇨🇦(mixed 🇯🇵)
Jess Rowan Marcotte @jessromarcotte.bsky.social game & narrative designer, maker, writer. 1/3 of @softchaos.bsky.social. 🌈36. Queer, trans, Mi'kmaw & Eurosettler mix. Organizer of @qgcon.bsky.social & other queer COVID-cautious events.
they/them
https://softchaos.games
https://faenotype.design
Dany Guay-Belanger @videogamehistorian.bsky.social Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
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
Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social (he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com