Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Chris Molanphy @cmolanphy.bsky.social Chart analyst/pop critic. Host of podcast #HitParadePod. Writer of Slate's #WhylsThisSongNo1? Author of book #OldTownRoad. Feet on the ground, reaching for the stars. (Pronouns—he/him/his.)
Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social Music writer and journalist, a founding editor of Allmusic now freelancer for hire. Bylines at Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Mojo Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and more. Subscribe to my Newsletter: sterlewine.substack.com
maura johnston @maura.bsky.social boston-based writer and journalism instructor at @bostoncollege.bsky.social who has probably been online longer than you. sign up for maura.ghost.io today.
Mark Richardson @markrichardson.bsky.social rock and pop music critic, @wsj, freelance elsewhere • former EIC @pitchfork • markrichardson.org • markrichardson.substack.com
DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social hi dere. I write code, sing, and talk all kinds of nonsense
Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social From Hunter High to WPRB, alt-weeklies, Spin Alternative Record Guide, Pop Conference, and professing. Top 40 Democracy. Songbooks. Next book up: Hound Dog
Erin MacLeod @touchofallright.bsky.social I teach teens about lit and theory. Also, Polaris Prize jury foreperson, working on M&E, coms, español, français and sleeping. Settler In Montréal. https://www.youtube.com/@ErinExplainsStuff
Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social Cultural Studies is a field-defining, peer-reviewed journal published 6x/year by Routledge | Nabil Echchaibi & Ted Striphas, Coeditors
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/current
Josh Pasek @joshpasek.com Prof of Comm and Polisci @UMich studying how people get & use political information and social measurement.
Competencies: data sci, DIY solar, election analytics, carpooling, #polcom, #polpsych, survey methods, AI literacy (views=own, overuses speech2text)
Mary Beth Oliver @olivermb.bsky.social Bellisario Professor of Media Studies, Penn State University. Former President, International Communication Association. Co-Director, Media Effects Research Laboratory, Penn State.
Media Psychology, Media & Emotion, Media & Social Cognition
Adrienne Russell @adierussell.bsky.social Professor + codirector of Center for Journalism, Media & Democracy, University of Washington. Study tech power, publics, climate crisis. Author of Networked Journalism, Journalism as Activism, and The Mediated Climate. Working on one about Dirty Tech.
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.
Dan Guadagnolo @danguad.bsky.social Assistant prof at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Communication, Culture, information & Technology
Josh Lauer @joshlauer.bsky.social Media studies prof | History of communication tech, surveillance & information | Author of CREDITWORTHY, co-editor of SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM IN AMERICA
Aubrey Nagle @aubsn.bsky.social Journalist, Philadelphian, Sixers fan, painter, crafter.
Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social Privacy & data ethics scholar. Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
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.
Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Communication and media professor researching the internet, platforms & automation in society via cultural studies & digital methods. Brisbane/Sunshine Coast hinterland.🏳️🌈🏞🌄
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- 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.
anothercultland @anothercultland.bsky.social in these times, the act of creating could be considered an act of rebellion
in our case, it should be
our health-&-hurricane-hiatus is over
and we're back in the studio
howdy
we're another cultural landslide
aka anothercultland
aka kirk & wendy ;-)
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".
Holly Kruse @hollykruse.bsky.social Media studies
–Gender & tech (Polity https://t.ly/LhLoK)
–Synth-pop (Bloomsbury https://t.ly/IUZHv)
–Networks & horse racing (MIT Press ebook https://t.ly/CJvI2)
–Music scenes (Peter Lang https://t.ly/aI__X)
Irish setters+horse+rescue dog. Iowan 4ever
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Assoc 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.
Elena Maris @elenamaris.bsky.social Asst. Professor: Politics of Platforms & AI at University of Illinois at Chicago | Views mine
Brooke Erin Duffy @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social social media researcher and author
associate professor at Cornell University
platforms, power, and the creator economy
www.brookeduffy.com
Ted Striphas @striphas.bsky.social Prof. & Chair – Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder | Author, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (https://tinyurl.com/p8ad6suw) | Opinions 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.
Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine. Book: TWO WHEELS GOOD: THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE BICYCLE. Home: Brooklyn, NY. http://www.jody-rosen.com
David T. Z. Mindich @davidtzmindich.bsky.social A professor of journalism at Temple University, I am the author of books and articles that can be found here: https://www.davidtzmindich.com/ . My areas are "objectivity" (in quotes), democracy, journalism history, and minority representation. 
Beza Merid @beza.bsky.social Assistant professor at ASU SFIS. Director, Digital Health and Racial Justice Lab.
Digital Health Equity | Innovation Policy
Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social Prof @Goldsmiths U of London | digital infrastructures, tech & AI in global south | New Book: 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' https://tinyurl.com/4ceyvc3s | New project: reimagining digital ID https://tinyurl.com/bdfawt64 
Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social Author, Teacher, Partner, Leader, Dean & CEO
@nuqatar.bsky.social, Founder @iasnuq.bsky.social, Professor
@northwesternu, Board Chair @ACLS1919 Board Member
& @AnnenbergCARGC & @Casar_Aub
Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social Associate Professor | Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile) | Researching how platforms and AI affect work at Fairwork (OII) | Millennium Center on the Evolution of Work (M-NEW) | Cultura Social Media Lab. https://sites.google.com/view/arturoarriagada
Stefanie Duguay @dugstef.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Director of the Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab (digslab.net). Posts and opinions are my own.
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social social media researcher (esp visuality, sex, small p-politics, wellbeing) professor at Tallinn University, BFM in 🇪🇪, currently working on TRAVIS project on trust and visuality.
https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
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.
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
Chris Persaud @cjpersaud.bsky.social Research Scientist at Intel Labs doing Responsible AI and STS stuff. PhD from USC Annenberg.
queer artist/nightlife entity/food enjoyer otherwise.
🤔 🤷🏾♂️ platforms, creators, queer media, pornography, digital intimacies, and internet culture
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen @karinwahlj.bsky.social Dean of Research Environment and Culture, journalism professor, Cardiff University. Interested in media and democracy and how to make our research cultures better. https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/wahl-jorgensenk 🏴🇩🇰
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social researcher, teacher, writer
associate professor of media and communication at UNH
privacy, surveillance, media and technology industries
Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social Sociology & communication prof at Penn researching: Internet, activism, digital media & technology, narrative, emotion, sinology. All views my own. Website: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/guobin-yang-phd
Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social Independent and open access journal of peer-reviewed, theoretical interventions into all aspects of media and communications.
mediatheoryjournal.org
Youngrim Kim @youngrimkim.bsky.social assistant professor @rutgerscomminfo | datafication & platform governance in East Asia | she/her
Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social New book THE CASTLE can be preordered now! Things Fell Apart, Debutante, 🦋 Effect, Okja, Shamed, Frank, Psychopath📋, Kubricks 📦, Lost at 🌊, 🧔🏼😶🐐, Them Jonronson.com
Michaelangelo Matos @matoswk.bsky.social Michaelangelo Matos
Author, historian, critic, journalist
St. Paul
he/him
The Underground Is Massive (Dey Street, 2015); Can't Slow Down (Hachette, 2020)
I edit books - inquire within
Beat Connection: DJ mixes newsletter - http://michaelangelo.substack.com
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish. 
Florian Lohse @florianlohse.bsky.social I build filmmaking tools.
I wrestle ideas in writing.
www.florianlohse.com
www.artificialocean.net
Zizi Papacharissi @zizip.bsky.social UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication + Poli Sci, Head of COMM@UIC Books: After Democracy; Affective Publics; A Private Sphere; A Networked Self series
Lauren E Bridges @laurenebridges.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Media Studies at UVA |Faculty Associate @BKCHarvard | Affiliate @UNC_CITAP | PhD from @AnnenbergPenn | environmental politics of the cloud + digital labor + surveillance infrastructures
Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social online pedagogies, digital/data/multiliteracies, belonging, open ed. Three Fires Confederacy land. they/she.
old-skool cyborg/digital educator in the Haraway tradition: partial, ironic, faithful as blasphemy is faithful.
Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social Lost in Megalopolis: Global urbanism, sociology, city politics, planning, street vitality. Professor, Franklin & Marshall College; mistakes all my own.- W Will Straw @wstraw.bsky.social James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University. Scholar of cities, media, night Follow news of night culture at https://theurbannight.com/ or visit my research site at https://willstraw.com/
Rob Drew @slobster48602.bsky.social Prof @svsu, author Karaoke Nights: An Ethnographic Rhapsody (AltaMira, 2001) and Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable (Duke, 2024).
Chuck Tee @chutry.bsky.social High school ESL teacher and political activist based in Quincy, MA. In my previous life as a media studies professor I wrote three books, including On-Demand Culture and Reinventing Cinema. Chihuahua wrangler.
Rachel Plotnick @rachelplotnick.bsky.social Associate Prof, IU Media School. Hist of tech, interfaces, wearables, media tech and everyday life. Books: Power Button (MIT) bit.ly/2xMlmsr and License to Spill (MIT, out now!) https://shorturl.at/Yl1DP
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
Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social See link below for Manson book!
American Studies, UMass Boston
Current Project- “Boston Sounds, 1974-1999” @fsu_UMB
🇵🇸
Books on Black-Jewish relations (Right to Sing the Blues and Leo Frank), 9/11 and Manson.
skyhorsepublishing.com/9781628728941/…
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social
Historian, Canadian, Philadelphian. Higher ed, urban🚲, books, cats, hockey. At Penn's CETLI; teach South Asia & Hist Sci/Med/Tech.
Disappointing people since 1972.
Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social Assoc professor @Baylor. Studies: digitalization of/in education; how science/tech shape the ways we practice, teach, and talk about literacy. [he/him]
Yadayada baba @729xhappier.bsky.social Out here giving a damn. Pseudonymous, sometimes serious. Posts reflect my views not those of my employer. Reposts are not necessarily endorsements. Mostly feral.
Abolish ICE
Toby Seay @jtseay67.bsky.social PhD, Music Production Studies, MLIS, Archival Studies, Professor, @DrexelUniv | Engineering practice, sonic signatures, aesthetics, recorded artifacts | Recording engineer, consultant, audio preservationist, former president @IASA, former chair @CCAAA
Carolyn Birdsall @carobirdsall.bsky.social Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Currently leading the TRACE research project & latest book now out: Radiophilia - carolynbirdsall.com
Image credit: ironicitalics.com
Matt Carlson @mattcarlson.bsky.social Professor, Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, USA
Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social She/Her
Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker.
NatGeo, BBC, SciAm, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others.
Hire me to fact check your book.
I post about Jewish stuff, disability, Star Trek, and The Buffalo Bills.
Jersey girl.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
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
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social Futurist, Managing Partner: changeist.com.
Project Lead: https://10fconsortium.org
Author: “How to Future” (2020) and “Future Cultures” (2023)
Reviews and previews: collisiondetector.com
Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social History and politics of climate science, climate change, knowledge infrastructures. Prof. Emeritus of Information and History, University of Michigan and Director Emeritus, Stanford University STS Program. Now expat based in Marseille, fleeing US fascism.
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
Bree McEwan @mcewan.bsky.social Communicologist @uoft.bsky.social @uoftmississauga.bsky.social ICCIT/Sociology. Data Sciences Institue. McMC Lab. Studies Social Media, Virtual Reality. Author of Interpersonal Encounters https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/interpersonal-encounters/book23785
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
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
Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
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.
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
Order THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
cat 😊 @cats.bsky.social cat club🐈⬛❤️
Melissa Aronczyk @aronczyk.bsky.social Media Studies Professor @ Rutgers
Adjunct Research Professor @ Carleton
New book with M Espinoza: A Strategic Nature: Public Relations & the Politics of U.S. Environmentalism (Oxford UP 2022)
Pubs and media @ melissaaronczyk.com
Hexcraft (goth bf era) @hexcraft.bsky.social Artist Writer and NYTimes worst seller on an international quest to become everyones friend🇵🇷
📍🗽
twitter.com/egirl_baddie
instagram.com/hexcraft.nikk
↪️@riesel↩️ @riesel.bsky.social Quando a ignorância reina, sinta *schadenfreude" ao ver aqueles que pensam que sabem tudo tropeçarem na realidade. 🇩🇪 🇧🇷🌍⛵🏔️📸👨💻
Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social #nerdpatient0
craigslist founder
https://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social Recording engineer who plays poker and billiards and eats like a Viking
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
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/