Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Geoffrey D. Henry, Ph.D. @ghenry2.bsky.social Ph.D. in Communication - Film from Georgia State University (GSU). Moving Image Studies track.Former graduate teaching/research assistant in the School of Film, Media, & Theatre at GSU. Primary scholarly interest: TV mystery/detective shows. He/his/him
Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com A reader-supported online film journal, offering a different lens on movies.
issues/essays: brightwalldarkroom.com
podcast: @bwdrpod.bsky.social
all the things: https://linktr.ee/brightwalldarkroom
SCMS TV SIG @scms-tv.bsky.social SCMS Television Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about tv studies.
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + soon: incoming president / owner of milestone films. film curator + writer + curious about the world. NYC!
josie w. @tvdoctor.bsky.social not that kind of doctor. tv & film academic in the netherlands / lecturing in arts & visual culture / researching tv costume and tv satire
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social Retired; the blue dot in red state; midwest, volunteering & mentoring undergrads, grads, alums; Indiana Fever Fan. BS, PhD in engineering, MBA in strategy, fifty years employed in automotive electronics; Love Baroque music. Love travel, 2 kids, 7 grands.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social 60s & 70s films + affiliates. Also Influences, origins, legacies, social-cultural context.
Books incl Hollywood's Last Golden Age; Novel: Urban Flight
70s Movie Podcast [NB: Antifascist]
Much more here: https://midcenturycinema.org/
Swapnil Rai @swapnilrai.bsky.social 
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
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social co-host & producer of @upstreampodcast.bsky.social
currently reading "Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution" by Mary Gabriel
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Shakira Kurosawa @jamtoday.bsky.social The wages of slatternliness is cats
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social I write about movies. Sometimes I talk about them. Usually just write. Award-winning screenwriter for what it's worth. Film instructor at the University of Colorado, Denver, but ridiculous social media presence definitely my own. http://walterchaw.com
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Philip Sewell @othershoe.bsky.social Media (broadly construed) scholar and historian with far too many open projects. Wrote Television in The Age of Radio. Working on a cultural history of the monopoly that long controlled Texas film exhibition.
Don't ever take your car all the way apart
Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social I am a pension fund monitor for Fremulon Insurance.
New Book "Big Fan" (with Joe Posnanski) available May 19. Preorder signed copies here: https://josephbeth.com/book/9798217045112
J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social Xicana writer/editor. She/her/ella. Editor Hell Gate (hellgatenyc.com), cofounder Hearing Things (hearingthings.co), Vaquera forthcoming on Penguin Books, etc
Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Film at the University of British Columbia. Videographic scholarship ❤️
Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of Popular Music at University of California, Riverside
PREPROGRAMMED: HOW ELECTRONIC PRESETS CHANGED MUSIC AND MEDIA, out Sept. ‘26: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/preprogrammed/paper
Social histories of music, sound, technology, & media
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
Club Des Femmes @clubdesfemmes.bsky.social We are a queer feminist collective who curate film screenings & events. Happenings & new writing 👉 www.clubdesfemmes.com
Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social assoc prof @ UW CMS, editor Feminist Media Histories, lover of tea, pickleball addict, collector of (filmic) junk
Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social Associate Lecturer of world histories and cultures • PhD in American Studies • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/her
Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies. Little Black girl from Durham. 
Susan Murray @murraysd.bsky.social Professor, Media historian, New Yorker, author of Bright Signals: A History of Color Television.
Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Harvard | Mom, writer, 老外
Marsha Gordon @marshagordon.bsky.social Film historian, professor, writer, doc filmmaker, lover of nature, travel, and good food. Latest book, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott." Next book: a bio of Dorothy Arzner. https://www.marshagordon.org
Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social Visual representation and French cultural history 1789-1914. Comments and likes are my own and do not implicate my employer. https://jannmatlock.weebly.com/ 
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Heather Hendershot @profhendershot.bsky.social Author of When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Media historian, film weirdo, 45rpm collector. Qapla’!
Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social Indolence capable of energies. I teach and write about various things, mostly stuff on screens. McGill, English. He/him.
Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
Jackie Johnson @jackie-johns.bsky.social English/Film Faculty at Pitt. PhD from USC's School of Cinematic Arts. Researching/Teaching TV, digital media, and Black cultural production.
Hot sauce enthusiast who resides over a hellmouth.
Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social Media scholar/eulogist, higher ed administrator, teacher, spouse, parent, child, procrastinator, physical media stan, music omnivore, flâneur. Disappointed with the internet since 1995.
Posts do not reflect views of my employer.
Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social The only living Waterworld fan. Planet Hollywood Historian. Let Joe Dante direct the WALT DISNEY’S ENCHANTED TIKI ROOM movie.
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Rebeka Ferreira @philosop-her @philosop-her.bsky.social 🤓 Philosop-HER 👑 Queen
Tenured Philosophy Instructor 🧠
Corrupting the youth ✊🏽
Containing multitudes 🌌
🌐 www.philosop-HER.com
📺 https://youtube.com/@philosop-her?si=Gag1oTb_liY9lI8o 👀
Who? Weekly @whoweekly.bsky.social we’re a podcast!!!!!!!!
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
Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org Women-run nonprofit/nonpartisan newsroom reporting causes, solutions, context since 3/20. Mantra: "Do the right thing and wait."
Give: mfp.ms/donate Props: mfp.ms/impact
Odessa @odessasteppes.northsky.social She/Her 🏳️⚧️
I just want to post about fun stuff, but the politics never stops being stupid and dangerous.
Things I consider fun: Video games, animation, painting minis, synths.
Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social Associate Professor in Quantitative Social Science at UCL, interested in civic engagement, religion, ethnic integration, residential mobility, quant methods.
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/67454-dingeman-wiertz
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social I write about abortion every day at abortioneveryday.com Read my newsletter & find me other places here: linktr.ee/jessicavalenti
📚 Buy my book 'Abortion' at prh.com/abortion
trandrea dworkin, dangerous misandrist @dangerousmisandry.bsky.social anthro turned dv worker turned organizer; studied trauma, memory & epistemological politics of psych dx; twt abt disability, psych, sts, csa, abuse; she/her
Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social Pro-democracy conservatives Republicans fighting Trump & Trumpism.
Join our growing community on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/republicansagainsttrumpism/p/im-his-lawyer?r=9qjst&utm_medium=ios
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Ariel 아리엘 @archivistariel.bsky.social Seoul-based writer & media archivist w/focus on: gender, sexuality, & disability in Korean classic films. Kim Ki-young fan ❤️ & enthusiastic physical media contributor. Still claim Angeleno as a personality trait. She/Her.
Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social Working up a fever in a one-horse town.
Somerville garage-punk-pub-rock band on Rum Bar Records.
The music stuff is the band’s; the politics, crap takes, & lit crit mumbo-jumbo are mine.
https://stopcallingmefrank.bandcamp.com/track/olly-oxen-free
European Journal of American Culture @ejacjournal.bsky.social European Journal of American Culture (Intellect). Peer-reviewed journal. Cultural & American Studies. Editors @drjohnwills.bsky.social + @drhstilley.bsky.social; Reviews editor @aidandolby.bsky.social
Aidan Dolby @aidandolby.bsky.social Screen Studies PhD @yorkstjohn.bsky.social - Researching contemporary American coming-of-age screen narratives.
Reviews Editor @ejacjournal.bsky.social
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Laurel P. Rogers @aca-laurel.bsky.social PhD candidate at UT Austin RTF. fans & nostalgia.
Isabel Sykes @isabel-sykes.bsky.social AHRC-funded PhD student in Sociology at Brunel, University of London. Based in West Yorkshire. Current research in class, domestic labour, and social media. (She/Her)
Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://substack.com/@drstephaniebrown
ciara moloney @ciaramoloney.bsky.social film and TV critic, at current affairs and other places. eclectic academic. phd on martin mcdonagh + diaspora. intermittent podcaster. into sitcoms, slasher movies, and martin and lewis.
ciaramoloney.net | thesundae.net
Nicole Fallert @nicolefallert.bsky.social Writing wellness @USATODAY / my first novel is forthcoming
José M. Palacios @josempalacios.bsky.social film and media studies | https://www.josemiguelpalacios.com/ | author of Transnational Cinema Solidarity (UC Press, 2025) | assistant professor @ Cal State University Long Beach | latin american cinema - documentary - archives - transnational solidarity 
Andy podding @andypodding.bsky.social Writing a huge new tome on the BBC’s Survivors (1975-77). Pods: Down the Line - a Secret Army podcast; An A to Z of UK TV Drama; World Enough & Time (Doctor Who); Eurovision Queens. Writer of books on Tenko & Secret Army 🏳️🌈 Work: andypriestner.bsky.social
✿ Dr Laura J Minor ✿ @lrjdmnr.bsky.social senior lecturer in TV and media @ the university of salford ❈ women & UK comedy book: https://shorturl.at/iD3Q5 ❈ tv & class project: https://shorturl.at/uIkTP ❈ l.j.minor@salford.ac.uk
https://salford-repository.worktribe.com/person/1178868/laura-minor
In Bed with the Right @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social A podcast about how conservatives see sex and gender, and how they keep fucking things up for the rest of us. Hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan. 
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.- S Shaheen Kanthawala, PhD @shaheenk.bsky.social Associate Prof at Uni of Alabama JCM. Media Technology. Health Communication. Social Media.
WFTHN @wfthn.bsky.social Exploring the contributions women have made to the emergence and development of film and television.
Next conference: DWFTH7, Lincoln, 18-20 July 2025
Website: https://wfthn.com/
Dr. Lisa Duffy @lisawithans.bsky.social Not Liza with a Z | Doctor of Hollywood Musicals
Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies~Emerson College
Scholar of feminist/queer screen media
Wellesley, NYU, UCLA, Fulbright alum
IUPress, WSUP & MQUP author / Lambda Literary Award winner
Boston-based itinerant cinephile
mariasanfilippo.net
Bella McNeill @bella-mc.bsky.social Professional TV watcher (and tv studies / media industries lecturer at Monash U.). Lover of all forms of television criticism and Hollywood industry gossip.
Currently in Chicago for SCMS!
Julie Lobalzo Wright (she/her/hers) @drjlw.bsky.social Associate Professor in Film and Television at University of Warwick; disappointed sports fan; Babs and Goldie gal
Victoria @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social phding, grad rep, teaching in dept of film studies at king's college london 🚀 researching masculinity, politics, laughter in post-2016 us pop culture 🔮 AFHEA 🛸
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
James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice. 
Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social Media scholar and educator living in Berlin. Always happy to talk about: TV, historical fiction, Cold War, seriality, ungrading, Bluey.
elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social film scholar + critic | books abt 60s sex films, global cinema, place | in '25: The Prop (Fordham); Wanda (BFI); toiling: Cinemas of Exhaustion | teach @ King's College London | post-soviet newyawker, ekphrastic perfume fiend | elenagorfinkel.com
Cynthia Meyers @cynthiameyers.bsky.social Media & advertising historian, #brandedcontent past & present; author of "A Word from Our Sponsor: Admen, Advertising, and the Golden Age of Radio," working on "Sell-e-vision: Madison Avenue & 1950s-60s TV"
profcynthiameyers.com
Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social Feminist Media Histories examines the role gender has played in media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. Published quarterly by UC Press.
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Flow @flowtv.bsky.social Coordinated by Radio-TV-Film graduate students at UT Austin, Flow Journal's mission is to provide a critical forum on the changing landscape of contemporary television and media.
www.flowjournal.org
Cynthia Peacock @seepeacock.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Communication at The University of Alabama
Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social Sound scholar. Author. Subscribe to Phantom Power, a podcast + newsletter about sound at mackhagood.com.
Zenia Kish @zeniakish.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication & Digital Media Studies, Ontario Tech U. I study finance, food, agriculture, and now dirt. Associate Editor at Journal of Cultural Economy.
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social Opinions expressed here are my own and not reflective of my institution. English prof, writing about NYC performance and mobility. Modernist, mom. Work in Progress on the New York Hippodrome. Pronouns: she/her. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome
Colin Tait, Ph. D. 🇨🇦 @rcolintait.bsky.social Film and Television Historian - Senior Cataloger Heritage Auctions, Pop Culture Division. Proud Canuck Living in the US.
Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social the contemporary and its curiosities
https://mid-theory.com
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
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/
@jennyjonesie.bsky.social @jennyjonesie.bsky.social University of Tulsa Film Studies faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies Co-Director, feminist media scholar, relentless RA energy ™️
Drew Ayers @drewayers.bsky.social Professor of Film, Eastern Washington University. And other stuff.
Holly Grout @playingcleo.bsky.social Historian of modern 🇫🇷. Gender, celebrity, beauty. Professor. Friend to all creatures furry and feathered. All views expressed 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.
Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social I am a lecturer in Film and Digital Media. My research publications span across: Film, Television, Video Gaming, Digital Performance and Video Essaying.
https://vimeo.com/user107379730
https://criticalcommons.org/user/DanOB1/media
Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social Political scientist. Health policy prof at Pitt (Secondary appts: Poli Sci, SPIA). Cal bear, Columbia PhD. Bylines: NYT, WaPo, Guardian, MS NOW. Writing on health insurance and admin burden. Author of Coverage Denied (CUP): https://cup.org/4nfM2IM