Katharina Lobinger @klobinger.bsky.social Associate professor at the Institute of Digital Technologies for Communication, USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland. Passionate Visual Communication researcher. President of SGKM - SSCM - SACM
Nataliia Laba @nataliialaba.com Co-edited book: Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images https://www.routledge.com/Six-Critical-Lenses-on-AI-Generated-Images/Bouko-Laba/p/book/9781041232698
w: https://www.nataliialaba.com/research/publications
Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country // President @aussts.bsky.social
Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org Associate Professor UC Santa Barbara | I study how machine learning models represent culture and what is at stake – aesthetically and politically – when they do.
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.
Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net ⏳ Futures Theorist
🎙 Host, FUTURESPodcast.net
🎓 Studying Humanoid Robots at University of Warwick
💡 Discover More: LukeRobertMason.net
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#Science #Technology #Podcasting #Space #Future
@kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social 
Maria Schreiber @perceptionalize.bsky.social GuestProf @ Zemki, Uni Bremen;
PostDoc Researcher @ Uni Salzburg, Media and Comms.
Annette Markham @annettemarkham.bsky.social Social researcher focused on AI futures literacies, data/digital disruptions, algorithmic identity, human machine communication. Chair Professor at Utrecht University
A bit obsessed about methodology
More at https://annettemarkham.com
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
Giorgia Aiello @giorgiaaiello.bsky.social Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Milan. Visual cultures, digital media, cities.
Visual Culture in Britain @vcib.bsky.social Academic journal dedicated to exploring, expanding, rethinking, and re-imagining visual culture and Britain. Published by Taylor & Francis.
Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social Academic in Digital Culture, University of York, UK. Exploring digital art, literature, and storytelling; ecology, materiality, and the more-than-human. Glider pilot. https://richardacarter.com/ Note: DMs unavailable as in UK
Nick Mirzoeff @nickmirzoeff.bsky.social Visual activism, Palestine solidarity, and all that 
UCL Digital Humanities @ucldh.bsky.social UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is a global leader in research, teaching, and innovation at the crossroads of cultural heritage and digital methods.
Web: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-humanities/
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
T.J. Thomson @tjthomson.bsky.social 🇦🇺🇺🇸🤓 Academic (RMIT University/ADM+S)
👀🖼️🤳 Researches visual communication & digital media
✍️📃🌏 Vice Chair of the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division
🔗 Online elsewhere at: https://linktr.ee/tjthomson
Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social Independent and open access journal of peer-reviewed, theoretical interventions into all aspects of media and communications.
mediatheoryjournal.org
European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social European Journal of Cultural Studies is a major international peer-reviewed journal which has been publishing cultural studies scholarship for over 25 yrs.
Read: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ecs
Follow: https://www.instagram.com/ejcs_journal/
Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social Professor @bdfi.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social and Sociology. Bristol, UK. Researcher in Residence (2023-2025) @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
Digital media and culture, futures and presents, affect, interdisciplinary methods.
Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social Professor of media and communications at ZeMKI and Commfigurations, Uni Bremen, on #mediatization, #datafication, #pioneercommunities, #pioneerjournalism, #ComAI, #AI, #digitalfutures.
Joanna Zylinska @joannazylinska.bsky.social Media philosopher, artist, writer
Prof @ King's College London, Digital Humanities
www.joannazylinska.net
AI : nonhuman photography : perception machine : media art : ethics : counter-apocalypse
Prof Kirsty Fairclough @profkirsty.bsky.social Prof of Screen Studies, SODA at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Music Commissioner GMCA
Series Editor-British Pop Archive
https://linktr.ee/kirstyfairclough
Kirsty Fife @diyarchivist.bsky.social Academic, archivist, cultural organiser. Sometimes I make zines/music/clothes. Personal account (they/them)
Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com An Independent Data Visualisation Expert educating, inspiring, and celebrating data viz excellence, everywhere since 2010.
🇬🇧 in 🇮🇪
It’s all here http://visualisingdata.com/
The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com Independent news website. Only publishes articles written by academics and researchers. No paywall, no ads. All Creative Commons licensed.
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This account is mostly automated.
Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich
William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024)
Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U
eszter.com
Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
Digital and Social Media @ Curtin @dsmcurtin.bsky.social Digital and Social Media is a taught major and Masters programme at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. We're one of the most established and oldest Internet Studies programmes in the world, established in 1999.
Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
Valentina Tanni @vrandom.bsky.social ***art, technology, internet culture *** my latest book is «EXIT REALITY | Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold» (NERO | Aksioma, 2024) ***
www.valentinatanni.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
Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social Prof, Arts, Design & Architecture, UNSW Sydney, Australia. Sociology of health and digital media research too. Personal blog: https://simplysociology.wordpress.com/
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Kylie Jarrett @kylzjarrett.bsky.social All the social medias; still nothing to say.
Also on Masto at same name
Editor: Dialogues on Digital Society
Co-editor: Sage Handbook of Digital Labour (2025)
Author: Digital Labor (2022); Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2016)
Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Technology, Work and Employment at the University of Sussex.
Heterodox Marxist - Les dés sont pipés!
mattcole.work
camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social Studying platforms & their fauna
postdoc-ing @ University of Milan
Tiziano Bonini @tbonini.bsky.social Associate professor of Sociology of culture and Communication at @unisi. Co-author of Algorithms of Resistance (MIT Press 2024), available in OA, MIT press website
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
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Sofia P. Caldeira @sofiapcaldeira.bsky.social I get paid to look at Instagram // Social media, feminisms, self-representation // Researcher @cicant_lusofona // @DCCEcrea chair // she/her
Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social newsletters at The New Yorker • based in LA • I write about wildfire, technology, and California • caroline_nyce@newyorker.com • Mimbs.22 on Signal
Alessandro Gandini @afrontiercity.bsky.social “Your favorite sociologist’s favorite sociologist” (cit). Researching platforms, work, digital cultures & methods @ University of Milan. PI of @ercresearch.bsky.social funded "CRAFTWORK" - https://craftwork.unimi.it/
Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social Professor media & culture. Teaches film history @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Social and political aspects of film culture. ERC project www.reelborders.eu. Research group ECHO: Media, Culture & Politics
Visual Politics Research Program @visualpolitics.bsky.social Visual Politics Research Program at the University of Queensland. We promote creative work and interdisciplinary collaborations. https://www.rolandbleiker.com/visualpolitics
LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social The world's largest dedicated social sciences blogging platform hosted by The London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Journal of Visual Political Communication @jvpcjournal.bsky.social The Journal of Visual Political Communication is devoted to the exploration of political forms of persuasive visual communication. Website: https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-visual-political-communication.
Anna Jackman @ahjackman.bsky.social Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Reading. Feminist political geographer and drone researcher interested in technological visibilities, volumes, and futures.
Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social Writes about the politics of images & emotions. Prof of International Relations UQ. Runs @visualpolitics.bsky.social / https://www.rolandbleiker.com
Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social 👨🏼🎓 Asst Prof of Digital Culture at Tilburg University
🌍 Director of Digital South Research Lab shorturl.at/jb5fD
✂️ Associate Editor at Journal of Information Technology & Politics
🪶 #StopAsianHate as Hashtag Activism shorturl.at/Yiiil
Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social Writer and researcher (recovering academic)
IG drnaazrashid
she/her
@paulhalliday.bsky.social @paulhalliday.bsky.social 
David M. Berry @berrydm.bsky.social Professor currently researching AI, algorithms, software and the university in a digital age. Part of a research team that recently rediscovered the original Joseph Weizenbaum ELIZA source code. 
UCU @ MMU @manmetucu.bsky.social Updates from the Manchester Metropolitan University branch of the University and College Union.
Join us today: https://join.ucu.org.uk
Website: https://mmu.web.ucu.org.uk/
Contact: ucu@mmu.ac.uk
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
Michael Richardson @richardsonma.bsky.social Associate Professor. Drones, AI, war, culture, affect, witnessing. UNSW. Media Futures Hub. ADMS Centre. He/him. Nonhuman Witnessing with @dukepress.bsky.social https://t.ly/cQW5N
Dr Anastasia Veneti @anveneti.bsky.social Associate Professor in Political Communication | Bournemouth University, UK
Co-Editor in Chief Journal of Visual Political Communication 📚📝
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies,
@appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association
www.meccsa.org.uk
Fabio Giglietto @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino - Principal investigator https://mine.uniurb.it
Suay Melisa Ozkula/Oezkula/Özkula (I blame umlauts) @suayozkula.bsky.social Postdoc University of Salzburg (https://www.plus.ac.at/). Working on digital activism / visual misogyny / climate change / digital research methods / visual affordances
Asko Lehmuskallio @verlook.bsky.social Visual studies / photography / media anthropology
Co-author of Visual Studies (Routledge, 2025)
*Visual Studies Lab / **co-org Helsinki Photomedia
Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social Historian. Photography and empires. Author of the Violence of Colonial Photograpy (Manchester UP, 2023). Université Paris Cité/LARCA
Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social Professor of visual culture @ NTNU Trondheim | Media, Data, Museums | Author of Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization @ MIT Press 2023 | Campuslivet (akademisk nyhetsbrev på norsk): campuslivet.substack.com
gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here:
https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/
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/
Journal of Digital Social Research @jdsr.bsky.social Independent, interdisciplinary, open access.
jdsr.io
Giovanni Boccia Artieri @gboccia.bsky.social Academic activist on the social and cultural implications of technology
https://linktr.ee/gboccia
Hannah Guy @hannahvguy.bsky.social she/her | European | Postdoctoral Researcher interested in online visual cultures, AI ethics, and online disinformation/radicalisation | PhD examining visual disinformation | part-time film & video game fanatic
Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social Digital sociologist and Associate Professor in Education, interested in identity, social media, & LGBTQ youth. Co-lead and Chair of SMSociety
You can find other papers I've written here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=770gzPq
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.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.
Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social 📱Digital criminologist @ #LSE 💃🏻 #poledance performer 🍑 Blogger, award-winning activist 🇮🇹 LDNer (she/her) 🧛🏻♀️ Thinking about Buffy like it’s the Roman Empire. https://bloggeronpole.com/all-my-links/
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.🏳️🌈🏞🌄✨️
Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social Security writer @wired.com
Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more.
Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
Ludmila Lupinacci @ludludlud.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social ✨digital tech & everyday life, experiences of liveness (whatever that means), scrolling nonsense, moods & vibes ✨ ludmilalupinacci.com
Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social Social media professor + expert
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL + PARASOCIAL
Repp’d by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine
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
Sophie Bishop @sophiebishop.bsky.social She/her
Studying influencers & ‘influencer creep’ in creative industries
Associate Professor in Media & Communication, University of Leeds
Pre order Influencer Creep now: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/influencer-creep/paper
MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com Our in depth reporting on innovation reveals and explains what’s happening now to help you know what’s coming next.
Find our journalists on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/technologyreview.com/3lar7fofuwl2n
Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social 🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin Uni (Boorloo/Perth West Australia);
🔎 @digitalchildau.bsky.social (GenAI & Datafication);
🐘 @tama@aoir.social; he/him.
[Views mine; RT/❤️/etc ≠ endorsement]
Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social I research social media, platform studies, and digital intimacies.
My book, OnlyFans, comes out in October 2026 https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=onlyfans--9781509567188
Zoetanya Sujon @zoetanja.bsky.social 
ESRC Digital Good Network @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social An ESRC-funded, £4 million research network building a research community focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.
digitalgood.net
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Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social ARC Future Fellow, & Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, Swinburne University of Technology. Currently researching the intersections of sexualities, genders, data, tech & sexual health.
Kate Miltner @katemiltner.bsky.social Lecturer (Asst. Prof) in Data, AI & Society @ The University of Sheffield Information School. Member of the UK Young Academy.
katemiltner.com
Tim Highfield @timhighfield.bsky.social Internet researcher and Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.
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
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social 🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
https://elinorcarmi.com/
Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social Feminist academic and ECR. Lecturer in Sociology @ University of Manchester, UK. Author of Feminist Fandom (2024). Interested in youth, gender, digital/pop culture, platforms + anti/feminisms. She/her. https://linktr.ee/brionyhannell
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Warren Pearce @warrenpearce.bsky.social Academic.
Digital methods.
Climate change.
Expertise.
Imagery.
Occasional music posts.
#AcademicSky #STS
Sheffield & Nottingham
https://sheffield.ac.uk/spir/people/academic/warren-pearce
Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social Social Media Explorer 🦆
PhDing; Communication; HebrewU
Founding Member @weareccsn.bsky.social
🤳🏽 Content Creators
🧲 Audiovisual Memes
🧨 Algos and Hate
📵 Tech Appropriation
👩🏽🎤 TikTok Cultures
Dr Catherine Talbot @catherinetalbot.bsky.social Cyberpsychology 💻 Senior Lecturer in Psychology 🧠 Qualitative methods 🗣 Social media, Identity & digital inclusion 👥 📱 Feminist 💪🏻 Dementia, older adults, & digital technology