Mareike Jenner @mareikejenner.bsky.social She/her. Lieber Linker Spinner als Rechter Spinner.
Author: American TV Detective Dramas, Netflix and the Re-Invention of Television (ed 1 & 2), Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics
Marc Saurette @saurette.bsky.social Medievalist, Cluny-phile, DH and Historical Game Studies dilettante. @Carleton University (Ottawa). Ex-Winnipeger. 
Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net By day: reasonably mild-mannered Swansea-based digital media lecturer. But by night: reasonably mild-mannered Swansea-based digital media lecturer. Siarad Cymraeg, all the way. He/him/fo a fe
https://swan.ac.uk/staff/rhys.jones/
https://analog.newydd.net/
CJ Tucker @crackerjackalope.bsky.social Writer, game designer, welsh, queer
they/them
https://crackerjackalope-games.itch.io/
Richard Lemarchand @rich-lem.bsky.social Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
Clare Nisbet-Clossick @clare-nisbet66.bsky.social Visual artist, architect, PhD (Practice as Research) candidate at BCU Birmingham. Studying the material & social transformations of the post WII home 🏡
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
Jenessa Williams, PhD @jenessawilliams.bsky.social 🎓Music, Fandom & Internet Cultures Postdoctoral Researcher (Stanford University)
✍🏽Music Journalist (DIY, FortyFive, Guardian, NME etc.)
📌 https://jenessawilliams.substack.com
Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social Warhammer historian, content creator, and game designer
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
Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social Reader, writer, translator, professional nerd, game scholar, larper, feminist.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Vampire: The Masquerade, Stalker RPG, Astraterra, Chernobyl Mon Amour
Photo by Chiara Cappiello.
Anja Gödl @anjalovescats.bsky.social phd-student @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social
books and games, space and gender
co-founder @ludobande.bsky.social
she/her
Simon Bacon @baconetti.bsky.social Author, film critic, and editor of all things Gothicky.
Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @CoEGameCult | Docent in Media Studies @utu.fi | Secretary of DiGRA | #dnd #gamecultures #gender #misogyny #platforms #playboy #porn #righttoplay #ukgamescene (he/his).
Louisa @fanvidcrit.bsky.social Mother, scholarfan, remix vidder. Associate Prof of Film & Media Culture and Middlebury College. She/they https://criticalcommons.org/user/Lstein/media
BCMCR Events @bcmcr.bsky.social We are the team behind the events at the Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research at Birmingham City University.
M Beattie, PhD @thanatos-kalos.bsky.social Media Studies academic in global precarity; in dire need of a job (media, comms, ESL). Aro/grey-ace/bi, neurodiverse, ask me about my current research at your own discretion. More commonly asked where in the world she is than Carmen Sandiego.
Dr Ian Sturrock @sturrock.bsky.social Researcher into game studies, game histories, motivation for play, ethics of game design, creativity and world-building. Capoeirista, HEMA practitioner, larper, TTRPG designer/publisher. HE teacher and UCU activist but my views represent only me.
Boomer @jasonboomer.bsky.social Director @ SideFest | PhD @IoCT_DMU @DMULeicester. #Gaming #Community #DigitalCulture.
Robin L. Zingarelli @BDiGRA26 @robinzingarelli.bsky.social Doctoral researcher working on transgender representations in video games, game designer, London based coffee enthusiast.
Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her
Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games
Content lead #EMFCamp
Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic
https://liedra.net 🩷💜💙
oliver @oliverbates.co.uk design researcher. he/him
researching through making games, zines and critical tea towels about climate futures, tech, and systems.
Links to my stuff: https://oliverbates.co.uk
https://fractals.coop/ and research fellow @ lancaster uni
HAMLET EU Project @hamleteuproject.bsky.social An EU-funded project bringing AI to the CCIs. Through HAMLET's Hub, artists, creative directors, writers, game developers, and AI experts co-create with tools for adaptive storytelling, dance analysis, 3D assets and more. https://hamlet-project.eu/
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social Writer/Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw
Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
dr clementine v-a @clemmie.bsky.social witty catchphrase, you know what I mean?
visiting postdoc research fellow @ University of Leeds | film studies + media | makeover movies, horror, feminism, and beauty culture | culture + screenwriting | schemingthirdwife.substack.com
@amkustritz.bsky.social @amkustritz.bsky.social 
Dr Eve Benhamou @evebenhamou.bsky.social She/her. Senior Lecturer / Maitresse de conférences, Université Bordeaux Montaigne. Teaches & researches contemporary American cinema & anglophone animation. University of Bristol alumni
Book on Disney animation published by EUP (2022)
Eva Liu @evaliumedia.bsky.social 🇨🇳🇭🇰🇺🇸 ABD in Mass Communication @OhioU
CUHK Gender Studies alumna
Researching Chinese feminisms, popular cultures and fandoms.
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏴♾️🥄 Book recs, writing chat, occasional opinions. (she/her)
🦕🏵️Mary Anne @laargonauta.bsky.social Español ll English
🔸Ella/She
📌Chile
🎓Antropóloga Sociocultural /Anthropologist
🎮Phd student BCU
🦖Investigo #TRPG en Chile, #GameStudies y Patrimonio Cultural
🤖 Red Latinoamericana de Antropología Digital
👾Consedcity
maryanneargochavez.wordpress.com- F Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social She/Her. LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies.
Dr Amy Hondsmerk @awildhistorian.bsky.social Works to upskill the heritage sector. Researches videogames as museum interpretation. Lover of games, singing, sci-fi, and cats. She/her.
Tupur Chatterjee @tupur.bsky.social Asst Prof | Dept of Communication | Tulane University. Media Industries/Feminist Media Studies/Architecture + Design/Material Cultures. Book Review Editor, JCMS. Author: Projecting Desire https://tinyurl.com/mrx58k https://www.tupurchatterjee.com/
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
Joe Yizhou Xu @joexu.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Old Dominion University | Former journalist/documentarian | Researching China's mobile tech/game industry. #gamestudies #mediaindustries 
Anna Lou Walker @annalouwalker.bsky.social Senior Arts + Culture Editor at The Conversation UK | Host of Jane Austen's Paper Trail | Author | Runs Gallery_Gals: instagram.com/gallery_gals
🏳️🌈 she/her
https://linktr.ee/AnnaLouWalker
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
Amélie Doche @ladoche.bsky.social PhD'ing: Discourses of Value in Contemporary Book Culture at Birmingham City University | Beaujolaise at heart 🍇
New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media @soundmusicmedia.bsky.social Official account for Bloomsbury’s New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media book series.
Doni @doni.bsky.social Games and History, History and Games, History Games, Games History, Games for Change, Games with Purpose, (ex) Games Industry, Game Design, Game Production, Game Quality.
Sherwood Smith @sherwood.bsky.social Writer, reader, crone
Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social Visiting Lecturer in Film, Birmingham City University | Assoc. Editor, Quarterly Review of Film and Video | Assoc. Director, Cine-Excess | Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/fzcH | Your Local Gay™ 🌈 | He/Him
BAFTSS Adaptation SIG @adaptationsig.bsky.social The Bluesky account for the BAFTSS Adaptation SIG, convenor @stinaface.bsky.social 
Joanne Garde-Hansen @joannegh.bsky.social Media and Memory and Water and Women and Ageing and AI
@leedsunimedia.bsky.social
@JoanneGH on other platforms
http://linkedin.com/in/jo-garde-hansen-aa99a231
Book on protestmemory here!
Jonathan Potter @drjonpotter.bsky.social Researches Victorian periodicals, visual culture, and literature. Teaches English lit. Probably the least online person you'll meet online.
Author of Discourses of Vision in C19th Britain: https://tinyurl.com/5bxvawy6
Harri Charles @harriresearches.bsky.social He/Him | 🏳️🌈 | Gaymer nerd.
Now a Doctor. Thesis funded by Midlands4Cities. Works at BCU.
Studies (gay) sex in video games, literally.
harricharles.wordpress.com
Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford (they/them) @rebeccahlamford.bsky.social Aroace PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham exploring representations of asexuality on television and their impacts on asexual communities 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Dr Louise Coopey @loucoopey.bsky.social Doctor in film & television. Independent researcher & freelance content writer. Researching TV, representation, complexity, seriality, adaptation.
Andrew Bell @andrewbell.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Midlands4Cities PhD Candidate at BCU. Studying queer game-making via playable monsters 🧟🧛🏻♂️🐺
Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social Fanny Fun with Fanny Cradock 🍄 Writer. Author. Lecturer. PhD early TV food & cooking programmes in Britain: X Marcel Boulestin, Moira Meighn, Philip Harben, Marguerite Patten, Joan Robins, Josephine Terry, Zena Skinner *Television History*
📸 Allan Warren
Media and Communication @ University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social 🎓 School of Media and Communication | We cannot fully understand modern societies without understanding media and communication | https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media | linkedin.com/company/school-of-media-and-communication🎓
Sidekick Books @sidekickbooks.bsky.social 📚 UK publisher of collaborative/hybrid poetry books since 2010, based in London and Cambridge. Editors: Kirsten Irving (@kirstenirving.bsky.social) and Jon Stone (@shotscarecrow.bsky.social).
https://linktr.ee/sidekickbooks
Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies @participations.bsky.social Interdisciplinary, independent and open access journal focused on all forms of audience research and reception studies.
NEW ISSUE: November 2025: https://www.participations.org
Dr Yeqi Zhu (Jessy) @yeqizhu.bsky.social Academic explorer of adaptation studies and Stanley Kubrick, film fan, lover of ghost stories
https://nbu.academia.edu/YeqiZhu
JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com just another poet with a tabby cat | ersatz researcher, masterless ronin, island dweller, winter sparrow | we must hurry if we are going to dance | jsalowe.com
David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Chinese, gamer, reader of books. Translator of Zhang Tianyi's The Pidgin Warrior and Mao Dun's Waverings among other things. Ex-98G.
He/him
Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Film & TV Studies @ Warwick Uni / Forthcoming: The Dancing Girl in Contemporary Cinema 💃 (EUP, 2026) / Programming: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/trailblazers / Editor: Open Screens
🌳 Rambling through Epping Forest 🌳
James Leggott @jegleggott.bsky.social Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies, Northumbria University.
Joanna Maciejewska @authorjmac.bsky.social #Fantasy and #scifi author. Translator, gamer, reader, artist. European girl (Poland, Ireland) in the US.
authorjm.com
David McGowan @animatedstardom.bsky.social Author of Animated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts, out now from University of Texas Press. Reseach interests include animation, classic Hollywood, stardom, & home video/streaming. Lecturer at UAL. Views my own.
Joseph Oldham @paranoidstylist.bsky.social Historian of television, intelligence, conspiracy narratives. Currently working on a book about John le Carré adaptations on TV (1966 to 2018 and beyond...). Written things for Doctor Who Magazine. I am not a number, my views are my own!
Matt Page (he/him) @mattpagefilm.bsky.social Author/speaker on film. Wrote the BFI book "100 Bible Films". Also has soft spots for Italian cinema, silent movies, Pasolini, Rossellini, Straub/Huillet & HItchcock. Love a good podcast. NFP data geek by day.
Lin Zhang @linzhang.bsky.social Critical Innovation Studies, Pro@UNH; Author of The Labor of Reinvention (Columbia UP, 2023). Working on a book about transnational biotech
https://linzhangweb.org/
Evelyn Shih @amethystjazz.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota; Chinese & Korean cultural studies; media, ecologies, phenomenology; comedy. Sound and noise, signifying everything.
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)
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
Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Korean film, pop culture, theatre & performance @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
📚 Beyond the Sewol (U of Hawaii Press, Sept 2025) & K-Pop Fandom (@uofmpress.bsky.social, Feb 2026)
📧 areumjeong@gmail.com
Diogo Pereira Henriques 鬼佬 🐯 📚 @diogo-ph22.bsky.social 🌍 Cities & social justice activist, creative technologist, designer, researcher, educator, learner @ UNESCO
💡 Communications officer @ecreaeu.bsky.social
🛜 Social media editor @ Nexus Network Journal
💬 Writing: PT, ENG, ES, FR, CN
🔗 https://dph22.github.io
Dr. Annemieke van den Dool @pubpolicychina.bsky.social I teach & research public policy, health, environment, and crisis management in China. http://annemiekevandendool.com. 
KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social Living on coffee and hope!!! Author, productivity expert, text technology historian, fangirl, mourner, and other stuff. aka u_spelaeus! [she/her] houseofyork.info 🌹🔯🏳🌈🔞
Jonathan Wroot @jlwroot.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Greenwich. Researcher of Zatoichi movies, Japanese films and horror cinema. Part-time film critic (open to writing offers). All views and opinions shared are my own.
Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social Kids media researcher and critic. Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University.
Have brain - will travel.
Richard Dhillon @drricharddhillon.bsky.social Sessional Tutor, Film and Television Studies, Warwick. British/queer television and film histories. 📺 he/him
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/film/staff/dhillon/
Dr Leanne Weston @identykit.bsky.social ♿. Independent Scholar/Freelance Proofreader & Editor. PhD from Warwick Film & TV. Music/music docs/stardom/biopics. Accidental Amy Winehouse scholar. https://www.lkwacademic.com
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social Teaching film and writing at U Birmingham. Co-Convenor BAFTSS Adaptation SIG (https://bsky.app/profile/adaptationsig.bsky.social) and MHHRN (mhhrn.bham.ac.uk). Podcast: B Film Queer Pod 🏳️🌈(https://tinyurl.com/2bbw5ywd) 
lena barkin @scenicrailway.bsky.social https://thefanthropologist.com/ newsletter✨ Film & TV studies MFA ✨ Jamie scholar ✨ I believe soup was invented in 1867 by Shrek ✨hutch baby please call me I'm very normal 🪴🦓3️⃣ linktr.ee/lenabarkin
René R. Schallegger @schallegger.bsky.social 
Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
Official account for the conference series "Video Game Cultures" @videogamecultures.bsky.social 2024's conference website: https://videogamecultures.org/
Website from 2023: https://vgc2023.itec.aau.at/
Katja Aller / Walking Sims & Spooky Stuff 👻🎮📚 @katjaaller.bsky.social Working @ Cologne Game Lab/ PhD Candidate in #mediastudies and #gamestudies / Research Focus: Walking Simulators / Download my work: https://th-koeln.academia.edu/KatjaAller
James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social Game designer (co-created SE!ZE with Charles Leclerc), publisher, teacher, critic, writer, player. FRSA.
For my games, books, podcast, journalism, game design workshops, lectures, trade bodies &c., check my linktree https://linktr.ee/james.wallis
Yen Ooi @yenooi.bsky.social Narrative designer, writer, editor, researcher @ intersection of culture/technology. Zoefuturism champion.
Rep: @abirfellows.bsky.social
The Zen Parent (book)
Tales of Seikyu (game)
www.yenooi.com
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.
Sign up for our newsletter! https://share.google/0eVsE74dUlNnBlrtQ
Website: https://fsn-northamerica.org/
A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social Associate Professor, History of Religion. Migrant. Bad at gender, worse at writing bios. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once. Posts mostly in English, ibland på svenska, ובעברית רק כדי לספר בדיחות
rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in toronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab.
amuse|muse|use|us|u
pfp: me holding up both my middle fingers
banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9. Quark is jealous gf, marx is new hottie.
David Evans-Powell @davidep82.bsky.social Theatre, horror, Doctor Who, Eurovision, history, arts, old British TV and film. Loves the kitsch and the weird. Mini schnauzer dad 🏳️🌈 Trans rights are human rights.
Co-host of Rambling Through Eternity:
https://shorturl.at/S5Iuw
Insta: @davidevanspowell
Victoria Sturtevant @vsturtevant.bsky.social Media Studies Faculty. Author of It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy. Always up to talk comedy, gender, popular media, and reproductive politics.
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330449/
Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social Norwich academic/lecturer in digital media/public archaeology/AI/multimedia storytelling/UCU/bassline junkie/dogmother/stuff/nonsense/whimsy/claptrap
Lore Whittemore @lorewhittemore.bsky.social • Media and Cultural Studies student in the Communication Arts PhD program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• researching fan/producer boundaries and the limitations of narrative possibilities by factors like policy and economic motivations
SCMS Fan and Audience Studies SIG @scmsfaas.bsky.social SCMS Fan and Audience Studies Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about fan studies and audience studies.
Patrick Pilkington @lastoneloses.bsky.social Ruddy-cheeked scene stealer
Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social Associate Professor at SUNY Canton. YA series books, C19AmLit, WWI, fandom, gender studies. Queer (pan/demi), feminist, Wiccan. 🏳️🌈📚☕ Views my own, not employer's. https://linktr.ee/emilyhamiltonhoney