David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
Ser Jowan of Arok (he/him) @haroonava.bsky.social Comms and digital media by day
transforms into a comics/media researcher at twilight
words @scroll_in | ex-publicist of books
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.
Meteorologists Tony Petrarca @tonypetrarca-wpri.bsky.social
Kim Kalunian @kimkalunian.bsky.social Reporter/anchor at WPRI 12. Lover of food and dogs. Check out my series on cold cases: https://www.wpri.com/news/crime/cold-cases/
WPRI 12 @wpri12.bsky.social News, weather and community updates from WPRI 12 and WPRI.com.
📍 East Providence, Rhode Island
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com News from Minnesota and beyond. startribune.com
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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv The Big Bird at LegalEagle. Believer in the rule of law.
National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov Official Bluesky account for NOAA's National Weather Service.
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
Drop Site @dropsitenews.com Independent news on politics and war. No paywall - subscribe for free.
dropsitenews.com
Critical Theory Working Group @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social Resources & open reading groups for collective study of early Critical Theory.
Website: https://ctwgwebsite.github.io/
Podcast feed: https://media.rss.com/critique-of-the-podcast-form/feed.xml
Ocean State Media @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social Distinctly Rhode Island. Your local PBS and NPR station. You can now listen to Ocean State Media on 103.7 FM anywhere in Rhode Island ⚓️
Hollywood Magic Productions @hollywoodmagicprod.bsky.social Indiefilm production company. No Hollywood money.
Haunted Lake Lanier - https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0D7SV2MLQ/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
History of Halloween - https://fawesome.tv/movies/10636866/history-of-halloween
Preacher Six in post.
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Box Office GROSS Podcast @boxofficegross.bsky.social @schmanthonyp.bsky.social and @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social covering the top fifty highest grossing films of 2006, movies you haven’t thought of in decades for very good reasons
https://open.spotify.com/show/30HWgT2vsbVUtgKokSkvNE?si=xQuXGR8QSMSR9EJ9Wj0uHA
Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social a podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now | hosted by @counterfactual.bsky.social and @patblanchfield.bsky.social
free episodes every other saturday; even more for subscribers at https://bit.ly/OrdinaryUnhappiness
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
Joe @apollonysus.bsky.social Musicologist, silly joke liker, earnest tech-curious luddite. Working on it
Ryoka (Rhea) Hagiwara @rhagiwr.bsky.social Musician supported by Creative Scotland | Transcultural studies/musicology researcher at Universität Heidelberg | Music writer for The Skinny etc.
https://linktr.ee/ryokahagiwara
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social @kylegriffin1 from that Twitter thing
Executive Producer @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social
Jennifer Hessler @jenmhessler.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California
Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society
Views my own
Mike Zryd @zryd.bsky.social York U (Tkaronto) Cinema & Media Arts prof into basketball, experimental film and collegial governance
Ed Halter @edhalter.bsky.social Writer on film and other things, half of Light Industry, Brooklyn
@lightindustry.bsky.social
linktr.ee/edhalter
phone rings, Josh skeets, here comes company @shmeppy.bsky.social Assoc Prof of modernism, film, sound studies, shitposting. I like Triscuits, the Broncos, Douglas Sirk, Henry James, maybe some other things. AI is not one of them.
The slotted spoon can catch the potato. 🥔
Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social Associate Professor at SUNY Canton. YA series books, C19AmLit, WWI, fandom. Queer (pan/demi) Wiccan. 🏳️🌈📚☕ Views my own, not employer's. https://linktr.ee/emilyhamiltonhoney
hank gerba @hankg.bsky.social phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
Miklós Kiss @mikloskiss.bsky.social Associate Professor of AV Arts & Cognition @rug.nl, author of this http://bit.ly/2SJM29Q, this http://bit.ly/2a4zvaw and this http://bit.ly/3A0KrPG.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9136-8200
Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com Writer, author, media historian.
Columns @ The Hollywood Reporter
News/Reviews @ MovieWeb
Media studies @ Marquette University
Books: The Warner Brothers; Hollywood Hates Hitler…
Adventures in the Archive newsletter: chrisyogerst.substack.com
Pao-chen Tang @pctang.bsky.social UniSydney film studies
Writing on cinema, environment, animals from the Antipodes.
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson @schneidermayers.bsky.social Professor at Rice University. Climate media, environmental literature, cats, basketball. http://bit.ly/profmsm
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
Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social Hollywood historian. Technology, media industries, labor, craft. Program Coordinator of Cinema and Media Studies@ USC. Hollywood Unions (Rutgers, 2025), Engineering Hollywood (Oxford, 2021)
Akira Mizuta Lippit @alippit.bsky.social Cinema and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of Southern California
Cinema without Reflection (2016)
Ex-Cinema (2012)
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (2005)
Electric Animal (2000)
Allyson Nadia Field @allyfield.bsky.social
Jacob Gaboury @jacobgaboury.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him)
Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture
Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021)
Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing
https://jacobgaboury.com
Joe Gin Clark @joeginclark.bsky.social Film historian focusing on archival and non-theatrical media, including newsreels, home movies, and sponsored film.
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.
Joan Neuberger @jayneu.bsky.social Retired prof living it up in NYC.
History/Film/Digital/
Current book: Eisenstein & Nature. Strong opinions about tennis.
Gimme some acoustic blues.
She/her. ☮️ Ceasefire Now.
Emil Stjernholm @emilstjernholm.bsky.social Media scholar | Associate Professor @ Lund University | Propaganda | Visual Communication | Media History | Digital Methods | Preparedness and Civil Defence
Maomao Yiman Wang @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social Professor of Film & Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz, posing as a cat
Harris Kornstein @harriskornstein.bsky.social Academic, artist, activist, wannabe. Assistant Prof, Public & Applied Humanities, University of Arizona (drag, digital media, STS, queer/trans theory, disability studies, media art + activism). Infrequent poster.
🖥️: harriskornstein.com
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
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.
Katerina Korola @katerinakorola.bsky.social Art historian and media scholar. Assistant Professor @UMN, PhD'21 @UChicago. Plant amateur, postcard collector, cat person.
Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board.
Music in Orbit now available: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
cinematthew.bsky.social @cinematthew.bsky.social Media, Cinema, & Digital Studies PhD candidate & Grad Instructor at UW Milwaukee | Film exhibition, media technology, & American film history | he/him
olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher
tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective
phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
Amy Herzog @amyherzog.bsky.social Film & Media Professor @ Queens College & the Grad Center, CUNY. She/her.
Alasdair King @alasdairking.bsky.social Professor of Screen and Media Arts @qmul.ac.uk
Tracking finance and AI in contemporary film and post-cinematic art.
New Book: The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics)
Stuart Romeo-Richards @stuartrichards.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies @ Adelaide University. Interested in queer film, adaptations, Agatha Christie, Gothic Horror and much more.
Co-curator of the Adelaide Queer Film Festival
@patsjob.bsky.social @patsjob.bsky.social
Sarah Keller @skkeller.bsky.social Prof of cinema studies and art at UMass Boston, arts enthusiast, apparently resistant to self description
Bradley Schauer @bradschauer.bsky.social Associate professor at University of Arizona’s School of Theatre, Film & Television
Martin L. Johnson @martinlj.bsky.social Film historian and urbanist. Co-president of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema. Coming attractions include A Teaching Companion to Silent Cinema (Rutgers) and a history of advertising film (Illinois).
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/
Eric Pitz @imericpitz.bsky.social UCLA cinema and media studies PhD candidate • animation and comedy film historian • dissertation about the Fleischer Studios • I like movies and trivia • he/him
In Los Angeles, from Minneapolis
Website: https://www.ericpitz.com/
Garvit @garvitgarg.bsky.social Former Journalist. Academic. Interested in cinema studies and media studies. Part time ghostwriter. Account banned by Elon Musk enterprise called X.
Zizi Li, Ph.D. @zizilizizi.bsky.social ✨ 1st gen college student ➡️ digital culture researcher
👩🏻🏫 A cinephile teaching film and media studies
✍🏼 Digital Cultures, Media Arts, Labor, Technologies
https://www.zizili.net
Whit Pow (they/them) @poww.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University. Trans media studies | Trans histories of glitches, electronic art, software, video games, and networked & computational media. https://linktr.ee/whitpow
Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social Discover films, videos made by trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming artists. https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/ Director: @laurah.bsky.social Check out our LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/transgendermediaportal
Anthony B. Smith @anthonyb1939.bsky.social Film, religion, politics. The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War (University Press of Kansas).
Grace Han @ghahahan.bsky.social Stanford PhD candy thinking abt CG & AI through animation aesthetics; film critic on asian/diaspora cinema; GALECA secretary; 🍅 & 🍉
https://art.stanford.edu/people/grace-han
📍SF Bay Area
Anu Thapa @anu-thapa.bsky.social Film and Media professor, NCSU|Food enthusiast| has pets and peeves| should be writing
Russell Merryman @merryarty.bsky.social Journalist, editor (ex-BBC/Al Jazeera), academic, PhD candidate, journalism trainer, media historian, future media geek, hardline realist, former gravedigger. Yorkshireman in exile, SWFC, WCCC & YCCC.
Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
Michele Meek, Ph.D. @michelemeek.bsky.social Professor, Filmmaker, Journalist, Author of “Consent Culture and Teen Films” (IUPress) & “Independent Female Filmmakers” (Routledge),TEDx Speaker & Writer at Ms. Magazine and others
https://michelemeek.com
Tomasz Poborca @tpoborca.bsky.social Film Studies at University of Lodz • National Centre for Film Culture • Cinema curator • Press reception research • Writing for http://pelnasala.pl
JPS @johnpaulstadler.bsky.social Area ******* and *** taster
Banana Enthusiast
Real
Rowena Bell @rowena3.bsky.social Literature. Film Study. Scholar. Mood on film, books, photography, music, NY sports teams, tennis.
Dr Bethany Usher @bethanyusher.bsky.social Journo, academic, author. Journalism & Crime/ Journalism & Celebrity cover earliest historic origins to present and links to politics. Also focus on networked constructed reality and misinformation. Recent for The Times, Byline Times, Press Gazette
Melis Behlil @melisbehlil.bsky.social Film scholar / critic based in Istanbul. Açık Radyo, Kadir Has University, NECS, etc.
Anna Viola Sborgi @annaviolasborgi.bsky.social Assistant Lecturer School of Media TU Dublin
housing/gentrification/cities/feminist media
https://mediahomesproject.com/
Andy Elrick @andyelrick.bsky.social Dir. of Center for Sports Comm at Marist University. Got a Ph.D. Former cog at ESPN, CBS Sports and FIBA. Fandoms: QPR, Cubs, UConn, Aberdeen, Hammarby. I'm a Vermonter. Host some pods. Views mine. Newsletter: https://andyelrick.substack.com
Anna Rose Stamm @annarosestamm.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Indiana University | Managing Editor for Film History | STS - Broadcast History - Cultural Geography - Local/National Histories | annarosestamm.net
Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social Historian of media, pop culture, and the Middle East; senior lecturer @dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
Ashley R. Smith-Campbell @ashleyrsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College | PhD in Screen Cultures from Northwestern | Writing on horror, culture, race, and gender | True crime & media trash lover | Opinions are mine | Formerly @thehorrorfemme on Twitter
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/
me, a goth @nmccaff.bsky.social talk theory to me | PhD candidate in Screen Cultures at Northwestern, Chicago IFF After Dark programmer, lover of pink furniture, Kristen Stewart filmography completionist, & part-time pin maker @vvitchroom
Rakesh Sengupta @rakeshsengupta.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Toronto. Film and media studies. He/him.
nika 🪷 @petalledheart.bsky.social 🇰🇭🇨🇳 PhD candidate in cinema + sexual diversity studies at U of T | staff director of Sundress Publications
📝 on surveillance, aesthetics, ethics, race, queer theory, trans studies
Ishita Tiwary @analoguefutures.bsky.social Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Concordia University. Director, Raah Lab. Author: Video Culture in India : The Analog Era, OUP Press. past; 80's media history; present; SVOD platforms, migration. Good scrambled eggs maker
Claudia S @claudsicon.bsky.social ✨PhD cinema & studies✨ Assistant Prof / UTSC / Arts & Media ✨mom in academia, web gleaner, cinephile, feminist, reader, eater, walker ✨I like watching pictures move ✨Treaty 13, Tkaronto, she/her
Joel Neville Anderson @joelnanderson.bsky.social Cinema/media scholar + curator into experimental documentary, community media, digital culture, environmental + disability justice joelnevilleanderson.com
Newsletter https://tinyurl.com/newsjna
He/him, views mine
Andrew deWaard @adewaard.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
"Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (UC Press, 2024)
andrewdewaard.com | ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media | cultcap.org | macrolab.ucsd.edu
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism
Houman Sadri @houmansadri.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at the University of South Eastern Norway. Managing Editor of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture (https://maifeminism.com/). Lit, Comics, Culture, Gender and YA scholar. Proper lefty. Neurodivergent. Ally. Cat person. He/him.
Angela Louise C. Rosario @louiserosario.bsky.social PhD Candidate @National U of Singapore・ Feminist Cultural & Media Studies | Gender History | Menstruation Culture in Japan 🇯🇵🩸生理に関する経験や関心について研究しています。生理に関するプロジェクト参加者募集中!↓↓↓
🌐 louiserosario.com
Charles Tepperman @tepperman.bsky.social Film. Politics. Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking. Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium. Director of
amateurcinema.org
Greeney28 @greeney28.bsky.social Sometimes I teach people things.
Petr Szczepanik @petrszczepanik.bsky.social Media industries in East Central Europe | streaming platforms | production studies | Assoc. Prof. at Charles University, Prague
Charles Tung @nativetung.bsky.social Professor of English, Seattle University. Modernism and Time Machines, EUP 2019. Media Sewershed Epidemiology. All ur views are belong to us.
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.
Kathleen Battles @katbat67.bsky.social Media Studier - history, theory, gender, sexuality, sound, surveillance, technology. Professor, Faculty Director of Gen Ed, and procrastinator.
Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social Avid film watcher. Obsessed with 1970s Hollywood, and the Japanese New Wave. Enjoys feel-bad art across genres and mediums. ESL teacher in Asia for nine years. Writing a novel about life and film in Taipei. Leftist, interested in democracy preservation.
dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social fix your hearts or die 💕
Guillaume Latzko-Toth @glt.bsky.social digital media & communication prof @ ULaval.ca & researcher @ LabCMO.ca | prof de communication à ULaval.ca, chercheur @LabCMO.bsky.social | 🗣️English/Français | Mastodon: @guillaume@aoir.social | Ex-X: @guillaumelatzko @GuillaumeLT | IG: @guillaumelatzko