Dr Vessy Harizanova @vessyh.bsky.social Exploring the intersections of gender, media & power | Part-time feminist killjoy | Specialising in research communication, engagement & impact | she/her
Dr Sheree Gregory @drshereegregory.bsky.social Employment Relations + HRM academic @ University of Newcastle. Studying care/working life in creative industries, work/life & tech, future of work, contemporary issues surrounding workplaces & households. Forthcoming bk ~ Sydney Uni Press. Views are my own
Andrea S. Regueira Martín @andrearm.bsky.social Lecturer & film studies researcher. University of Zaragoza.
Interested in teen film, girlhood, transitions to adulthood and virtual spaces.
Member of @spacescinema.bsky.social
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
Helen Warner @helenwarner.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Digital Cultutes, University of East Anglia
ESRC Young Women's Working Lives @ywworking.bsky.social ESRC-funded study exploring young women's earliest experiences of work.
Project website: http://ywworking.co.uk
MethodsNET @methodsnet.bsky.social We are a global not-for-profit membership-based association, bringing together methods experts and methods users across multiple disciplines. Our mission is to provide global accessibility to cutting-edge research methods training.
Under 5 Minute Film Festival @under5minutefest.bsky.social Submit your short film that's 5 minutes or less and get it showcased at the FEEDBACK Short Film Festivals in Los Angeles and Toronto. A monthly film festival event!
http://under5minutefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/Under5minFilmFestival
Chengyao Liu @chengyaoliu.bsky.social PhD Candidate
School of Media and Communication
University of Leeds
Research interest: cultural, media & creative industries, creative labour, media production, platformisation.
Tony Wade @tonywade.bsky.social Artist, maker of stuff, painter, bad mandolin player. Sometimes says no.
www.tonywadeart.com
CEMP - Centre for Excellence in Media Practice @cemp.bsky.social Now in its 20th year, the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP) is a research centre based in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University.
https://www.cemp.ac.uk
Katharine Sutton @katharinesut.bsky.social Director of Aspire, Betterforus campaign - all for blue sky thinking - posts on labour markets, discrimination, procurement, equality, poverty, inequality and regeneration www.aspirecommunityworks.com www.betterforus.org.uk
Rik Spanjers @rikspanjers.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Television and Cross-Media Culture focusing on Anime, Comics, Games and Historical Representation.
Dr Cara Booker @cbooker.bsky.social Social epidemiology, University of Essex. US expat in 🇬🇧 Love good food, 🍷 and 🐈. She/her/they
Dr. Caroline Mitchell @carolinereith.bsky.social Professor of Radio and Participation, Uni. of Sunderland, UK Co-founder Fem FM. Action researcher/feminist/humanitarian/podcaster; European; http://radio.garden; BLM 🌱 📻 Views own
Caroline Koegler @carolinekoegler.bsky.social Chair of English Lit / Global Literature and Its Media
@ Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
Empire/post/colonial/18C/19C/affect/queer & gender stds/maritime fictions/lit&Economics/book stds
Website: https://tinyurl.com/bddnpakt
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social Official account of the research project 'Performing Space / Spatializating Performance: Space and Performance in 21st Century Cinema' at the University of Zaragoza
https://transnationalspacesinthecinema.wordpress.com/
https://shorturl.at/ws9S8
@oioihaggis.bsky.social @oioihaggis.bsky.social 
@leedsucu.bsky.social @leedsucu.bsky.social 
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social University Professor, School of Communication, American University; Editor Emerita, In These Times; Author of books about documentary film, Kartemquin Films, the copyright doctrine of fair use and creativity, "political correctness," and more
Chris Bailey @christopher-bailey.bsky.social 
Leeds International Film Festival - LIFF @leedsfilmfest.bsky.social 📽️ 39th Leeds International Film Festival, 30 October - 16 November 2025.
🌍 Leeds, England
🌐 leedsfilm.com 🔗 linktr.ee/leedsfilmfest
Julie's Bicycle @juliesbicycle.bsky.social A pioneering non-profit mobilising the arts and culture to take action on the climate, nature and justice crisis. https://juliesbicycle.org #CreativeClimateAction
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @fahacs.bsky.social The School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies is one of the largest and most exciting centres in the UK for aspiring cultural practitioners to hone their creative and critical skills, and broaden their intellectual horizons.
Dr Beatriz Garcia @drbeatrizgarcia.bsky.social Megaevents, Cities & Culture Impact | Author, Advisor, Director of Research | Olympic Games, European Capitals of Culture, Art Festivals
Humans Are Greater Than Money @humans-are-greater.bsky.social Succinct bites of wisdom, insights, advice, and motivation.
We're an informal group of volunteers who believe in the power of human effort over wealth. Since 1990, we've been making a real-world difference.
Tam @tamdent.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Labour & Cultural Work at King's College London. Member of the MeCCSA Executive Board. I research work in the creative economy. My academic profile and publications list are here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/tamsyn-dent
Richard Wallis @richardwallis.bsky.social Teach and research at The Media School, Bournemouth University in the UK.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-wallis-8161976/
Academic profile: https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/rwallis
Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net ⏳ Futures Theorist
🎙 Host, FUTURESPodcast.net
🎓 Studying Humanoid Robots at University of Warwick
💡 Discover More: LukeRobertMason.net
🧬🔬🚀🤖🧠🪐🦿
#Science #Technology #Podcasting #Space #Future
Kim Goodwin @kimgoodwinacm.bsky.social Lecturer in arts management and Human Resources at University of Melbourne. Specialist in careers, employability, HR and organisational behaviour in the arts and cultural sector.
Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung country.
Einar Thorsen @einarthorsen.bsky.social Professor of Journalism & Communication
Executive Dean, Faculty of Media & communication at Bournemouth University
Chair of Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)
Trustee of the Conversation UK.
Nelson Correia @correiadigital.bsky.social PhD Researcher in Scottish Film & TV, Journalist, TV Producer and Editor
Dr. Carolina Matos @caromatos.bsky.social Reader and Research Lead, FHEA, City St. George's, University of London, former Dept Criminology and Sociology, ex-AP at University of Miami and LSE Fellow. Women's health, feminism, communications for social change, digital media, global North and South
Anna Granstedt @annagranstedt.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher, International Marketing @ Åbo Akademi University | Ethics in Social Media, Narratives & Discourses | Wine stuff | Yoga teacher
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
TV Industry Human Rights Forum @tvhumanrights.bsky.social We support those working in the TV industry to understand and address human rights risks and impacts.
Tejas @h-tejas.bsky.social PhD student.
Prof. Nicola Holt @drnicolaholt.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at the University of the West of England. Interested in the arts and health, creativity, schizotypy and states of consciousness. Editor of Arts & Health. www.drawuwe.com
Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social Social work academic at University of Manchester, Morgan Centre https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/ and Creativity, Health & Wellbeing Lead for Creative Manchester https://www.creative.manchester.ac.uk 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Pirate.ie @pirate.ie Developing an audio archive of Irish pirate radio from the 1970s-1990s at https://pirate.ie/archive/. Based in Galway & Dublin. 
ReCARETV @recaretv.bsky.social 3-year AHRC-funded project investigating Reality TV, Working Practices and Duties of Care. Anonymous questionnaire for people who have particpated in UK reality TV: https://bit.ly/Reality_TV_Participation
Mel Bunce @melbunce.bsky.social Professor of International Journalism & Politics at City, University of London | Deputy Dean, School of Communication & Creativity | Expert on international news, media freedom, journalism & democracy.
Bridget Conor @agentcondo.bsky.social Pākehā; she/her; A/Prof Communication
Jiaming Zheng @jiamingzheng.bsky.social Manchu ｜ Translator Durham University alumni
Interested in Translation Dialects Linguistics Sociolinguistics Ethnography History
Stephen Cushion @stephencushion.bsky.social Professor of journalism & political communication at Cardiff University & night time 🚖 for my kids
Kaarina Nikunen @kaarinan.bsky.social Professor of Media and Communication Research
Tampere University
I write about datafication and social justice, emotions, affect & traces of humanity in the digital world. Also on migration, hate and the far-right.
Book: Media Solidarities (SAGE 2019)
Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social housing and urban studies | social class
Goethe University Frankfurt | LSE Sociology
Hannah Yelin @hannahyelin.bsky.social Academic and Author. Reader in Media & Culture, Oxford Brookes. Chair, Creative Industries Research & Innovation Network. Director, Cultures of Digital Hate. Host, Celebrity Culture Club.
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge
Axel Bruns @snurb.info Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺
🕸️ snurb.info
🐘 @snurb@aoir.social
⛔ @snurb_dot_info
Gale Anne Hurd @galeannehurd.bsky.social Fighting disinformation/misinformation. Film/TV producer (The Walking Dead, The Terminator, Aliens, T2, Tremors, Armageddon) and documentaries (The YouTube Effect, Mankiller) & a bunch of stuff you've never heard of. Full-time Gooner. Part-time Cassandra.
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org We are a coalition of workers in and around the tech industry, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends. We work in solidarity with existing movements towards social justice, workers' rights, and economic inclusion.
Katie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social i study how labor platforms shape the way we live in cities. geographer. senior fellow @ainowinstitute.bsky.social. newish book: DISRUPTING D.C. (Princeton Univ Press 2023 and 2025 paperback)
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
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
Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social Comm, Media & Tech Studies + empire, capital, state, power, politics, energy, environment, work, war, play, ed, left-right activism https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/research/researcher-profiles/dr.-tanner-mirrlees.php
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
Paul Long @paullongmedia.bsky.social Professor in Creative and Cultural Industries at Monash University researching homemade, amateur and DIY creativity with thoughts about healthy cultures - see @HADIY.creative UTV
David Goren @pirateradiomap.bsky.social radio producer, audio documentarian, sonic mixologist, field recordist, sound collector, pirate radio maven, swl/dx'er, always listening. http://pirateradiomap.com http://davidgoren.net http://shortwaveology.net
alexandra boutros @alexandraboutros.bsky.social associate prof | communication and cultural studies | wilfrid laurier university | pop culture | pop music | critical race theory | media, religion, and identity |
doctor of softboyology @vea.bsky.social researcher of learning, emotion, and design. personal account. posts on academia, mariners baseball, seattle boosterism, queer shit. be gay, do cringe.
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
Sonia Livingstone @sonialivingstone.bsky.social LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social Producer of arts docs, screen performance; posts by John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, Univ of Westminster; expect broadcasting history, esp early TV, theatre, film, visual art
Images: Magic Rays of Light / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
Sarah Powell @sarkpowell.bsky.social Deaf Clinical psychologist working for SignHealth. Long Covid survivor. Loves nature as well as Gromit. Sign name - Power 💪🏻 All views are my own. 💙
Leon Gurevitch @leongurevitch.bsky.social Professor of Design. Astrophotographer. Noodling focuses on Scitech, Design, Film and Creative Labour. Based in New Zealand.
Dr John Wright @johnwrightart.bsky.social Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Leeds (he/him). Interested in place, culture, policy and ecological thinking.
Sara Trentham-Black @saratrentham.bsky.social Lecturer, researcher, PhD candidate
Culture, data, media and comms
Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social Journalism, media, politics, culture, technology…and other stuff.
Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/
Nikki Reimer @nikkireimer.bsky.social Your favourite Baba Yaga's favourite Baba Yaga.
Digital comms in higher ed, MA in Comms student, grief writer, cat guardian. Latest book: No Town Called We (Talon Books, 2023)
Poet, artist, white queer non-binary disabled settler in Treaty 7.
Eleftheria Lekakis @eleftheriafm.bsky.social promotional culture, consumer activism, advertising, environmental communication
associate professor at the University of Sussex 
BPI (British Phonographic Industry) @bpimusic.bsky.social Promoting British music. We represent UK record labels, organise the BRITs, Mercury Prize & more, co-own @officialcharts.bsky.social & run #BRITcertified 🎶
World of Running @worldofrunning.bsky.social 🏃♂️ Where runners unite! 🏃♀️
🌟 Your go-to space for inspiration, motivation, and all things running.
💬 Want to be featured? Use #RunTheWorld and tag us!
📆 Daily posts to keep you moving.
📧 Business inquiries:
wrldofrunning@gmail.com
Louise Platt @drluplatt.bsky.social Reader in Place Experiences mainly interested in leisure practices and place.
Emilia Piętka-Nykaza @emiliapn.bsky.social Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Centre of Migration,Diaspora, Citizenship and Identity @UWS. Working with migrants, researching social connections, population mobility and rural living.
Dr Margaret Hughes @magsnews.bsky.social Hopeful and honest (to a fault!).
Journalism Educator at University of the West of Scotland.
AJE UK committee member.
Cáit Murphy @caitmurphy.bsky.social Dr. in Film Studies. The Caméra-Stylo in the Age of Social Media. Teaching in UCD. Open to jobs/post-docs/collabs.
Claire Denis|Gen-AI|Desktop docs|Instagram & auteurs
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0698-3584
Jason Gulya @jasongulya.bsky.social Professor of English and Communications at Berkeley College
LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/3txt65da
Newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/higherai
Work with me: https://tinyurl.com/2n4wvhsp- 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/
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only.
banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention.
🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Bilkent COMD
Co-host @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social
Co-chair @adaptstudies.bsky.social
Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him)
danrosen.xyz
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
Selmin Kara @selminimal.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Documentary Media @ UCSC. Interested in eco-cinema, environmental humanities, migration, and sound. Lover of birds, pollinator gardens, and rewilding.
Jaap Kooijman @jaapkooijman.bsky.social Associate professor Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Academic director ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis), author of Fabricating the Absolute Fake and De muziekfabriek, co-editor of The Richard Dyer Reader. www.absolutefake.com
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
Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social Professor Inger Mewburn, Director of researcher development at ANU. I do research on research and think about stuff. Here to support researchers. Find my writing and podcasts on www.thesiswhisperer.com #realtwin
Kyle Barnett @kylebarnett.bsky.social Media studies professor. Participant observer. Itinerant Hoosier. Author, Record Cultures (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2020). Faculty adviser/occasional DJ, Bellarmine Radio.
https://www.kylesbarnett.org/
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social The University of Warwick’s Department of Film and Television Studies. One of the UK’s leading departments in film and television research and teaching.