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
@demilee-digitals.bsky.social @demilee-digitals.bsky.social
International Conference on Social Media & Society @socialmediaandsociety.org The International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) is a biennial gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. https://socialmediaandsociety.org/about/. 2026 in Glasgow, UK, July 13-15
UK Parliament @ukparliament.parliament.uk Where the House of Commons and the House of Lords scrutinise the work of the Government. Learn more about Parliament, its people and our unique heritage.
linktr.ee/ukparliament
Rebecca Bramall @rfbramall.bsky.social Tax, redistribution, welfare states, digitalisation, cultural studies. Prof of Culture & Economy, UAL. PI Redistributive Imaginaries https://redigim.arts.ac.uk/
Dep ed @newformations.bsky.social
https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/114-rebecca-bramall
UAL Research Online @ualro.bsky.social UALRO is the online collection of research outputs for the University of Arts London. Account managed by the Open Research Team.
https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/
Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social Social Media; Communication Studies; Cyberculture; Sociology; Political Communication; Internet Studies. Published by Routledge. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rics20
Gunnar Havsteen-Mikkelsen @gunnarhavsteen.bsky.social Special advisor on cyber security and risk management
Researching authoritarianism
Based in Copenhagen/Vienna
Nina Hahne @ninahahne.bsky.social 💻 Science manager @cais-research.bsky.social
📙 Deputy editor @policyr.bsky.social
PhD from @unihalle.bsky.social
✒️ #writing #digitaltransformation #openaccess #ruhrgebiet📍
Camila Mont'Alverne @camilambpp.bsky.social Lecturer in Journalism, Media, and Communication, University of Strathclyde | Previously postdoc at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
Doing research on news consumption, trust in news, and political attitudes
EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu We counter Kremlin information warfare, one claim at a time | Not official EU position
Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social OA, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of social media and its implications for society. Follow for cutting edge trends in this emerging field. Read more at journals.sagepub.com/home/SMS
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
Manu Mayrink @alguemviumeusoculos.com @manumayrink em tudo
Jornalista, produtora de conteúdo, apresentadora.🗞
Mestre e Doutoranda no PPGCOM/UFF. 📖 Pesquisadora do INCT/DSI
Aqui é fofoca e política!
Alessandro @alezonin.bsky.social #DataAnalytics and #SocialNetworkAnalysis adjunct professor
Developing interesting stuff for internet researchers.
🚀 https://alezonin.github.io
Opinions are my own and sometimes by my German Sheperd.
Shir Weinbrand @shirweinbrand.bsky.social Computational Social Science PhD candidate @QUT
Investigating the complex interplay between search engines, GenAI, and politics/news
Entrepreneur's mind. Athlete's body. Artist's soul ~ J.Clear
https://www.shir-weinbrand.com/
André Pase @andrepase.bsky.social Professor, journalist, retrogamer, dad.
Guillermo Romero Moreno @juillermoromero.bsky.social Information diffusion, influence dynamics, computational social science, complex systems, network science, AI.
Before -> PhD at U of Southamptom, postdoc at U of Edinburgh
Now -> postdoc at CWI Amsterdam (AI, media, & democracy Lab)
QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social World-leading communication, media, and law research for a flourishing digital society. research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/
Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social Forschungsinstitut: Research for the Digital Age 🔎 | Gesellschaft und Digitalisierung 💻 | #TeamCAIS 👥| Bochum 🏙️| Willkommen beim #CAIS!
🌐 Website: https://www.cais-research.de/
📌 Impressum: https://www.cais-research.de/impressum/
Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info 🥼 @MPIB-Berlin.bsky.social;
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
Brandon Silverman @brandonsilverman.bsky.social working on something new. former ceo & co-founder of crowdtangle, policy advocate for open internet & transparency, 3x boy-dad, less frequent dog walker.
Johannes Breuer @johannesbreuer.com Professor of Digital Social Science @unidue.bsky.social and head of the team Research Data & Methods @cais-research.bsky.social
Interested in digital traces | computational social science | reproducibility | open science | #rstats
www.johannesbreuer.com
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
Jonathan Corpus Ong @joncong.bsky.social Professor of Global Digital Media and Director, GloTechLab.net at UMass Amherst. #CarnegieFellows #OracleOng 🔮
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Michelle Amazeen @commscholar.bsky.social Associate Dean of Research, College of Communication
Associate Professor of Mass Communication,
Director, Communication Research Center,
Boston University
New book – Content Confusion: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553605/content-confusion/
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
Carolina Rodeghiero @carolrodeghiero.bsky.social Creative Learning researcher and designer at the Lifelong Kindergarten Group, MIT.
Kateryna Kasianenko @kkasianenko.bsky.social Україна, Херсон →日本→ Meeanjin; Postdoc at ADM+S/DMRC studying search practices and search engines. Views mine. She/her.
Isabella Gonçalves @igoncalves.com Research associate at @ifpmainz.bsky.social
Interested in political communication, othering, and migration framing.
igoncalves.com
billy hollingshead, phd @whollingshead.bsky.social research associate, school of sociology, politics and international studies, @bristoluni.bsky.social 🤠 he/him.
Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social Journal for internet studies. Interdisciplinary & open access. Published by @hiigberlin.bsky.social & @cais-research.bsky.social in cooperation with @create-glasgow.bsky.social @cis-cnrs.bsky.social IN3 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social & Skytte Institute UT
Nicolás Llano L. @nllano.bsky.social Media research, strategic communications, and digital-environmental humanities (Brasil - Colombia)
Annie Waldherr @anniewald.bsky.social Professor of Computational Communication Science @univie.ac.at @compcommlab
Public sphere, complexity, networks, data science.
Apeksha Shetty @apeksha.bsky.social She/her | PhD Candidate at Complexity Science Hub & University of Vienna's @compcommlab.bsky.social | Currently studying misinformation & social identity on social media | Mundus Journalism alumna
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org With more than 300 employees at two locations - Mannheim and Cologne - GESIS provides essential and internationally relevant research-based services for the social sciences.
https://www.gesis.org
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
bruna paroni @brupar.bsky.social phding @ uniurb.it | team @ mine.uniurb.it | visiting @qutdmrc.bsky.social + @zemki.bsky.social
[social media] platforms x politics
Ian Axel Anderson @aanixel.bsky.social Postdoc @ Caltech
Technology researcher, Surfer, Poet
They/he
Altonaer Fussballclub von 1893 e.V. @altona93.bsky.social Official account of the German non-league football club Altona 93.
Season tickets: https://shop.altona93.de/products/dauerkarte-saison-2025-26
@marcestevedelvalle.bsky.social @marcestevedelvalle.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in New Media, Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
Dominique Carlon @domcarlon.bsky.social Research fellow in inclusive AI ~ Swinburne University ~ ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) |Here for the bots🤖AI companions| chameleon aesthetic
Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social Scientific director of the department "Data Services for the Social Sciences" at GESIS in Köln, Germany (@gesis.org).
Professor for Research Data Management for the Social Sciences at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (@hhu.de)
(she/her)
Rob Topinka @robtoes.bsky.social Reader in Digital Media & Rhetoric Birkbeck, University of London.
researching reactionary digital politics
and the politics of shitposting (https://tinyurl.com/yc72aaah)
recovering lurker
Lucie Cejkova @luccej.bsky.social she/her ~ PhD candidate & junior researcher @medjournmu.bsky.social ~ SYRI, PRINS ~ 🛸📰 #ConspiracyThinking #Misinformation #NewsAudiences
taylor annabell @taylorannabell.bsky.social Postdoc for HUMANads, Utrecht University
🔍 influencer cultures & platform governance; everyday experiences of datafication; digital memory work by and through social media platforms
🥝 in 🇳🇱 via 🇬🇧
Nina Vindum Rasmussen @ninavindum.bsky.social Digital Media Scholar. Currently writing a book on screen production in a streaming era for The MIT Press. She/her.
Serge Poliakoff @sergepoliakoff.bsky.social Doctor of Social Science. Propaganda and disinfo researcher (OSINT, troll farms, information disorder) at Stockholm School of Economics. Ex-frontend dev. Private account. #standwithukraine My newest article: https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2025.2559218
Galen Stocking @gstocking.bsky.social I do research and sometimes I post about it.
Marta Cambronero @martacambro.bsky.social Postdoc researcher at CNSC-UOC.
Also in fuina@mastodon.social
Giada Marino @giadam.bsky.social Disinformantion+Polarization+SocialMedia researcher | PhD | Postdoc @ uniurb.it | Researcher: ipolhys.it _ mine.uniurb.it _ veraai.eu
Tariq Choucair @tariqchoucair.bsky.social Constantly living in many transitions; moving in and out borders despite their harshness.
🏳️⚧️⚧️
Politics, Language, Computation
Brasil 🇧🇷 / Australia 🇦🇺/ Currently visiting Germany 🇩🇪
EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu Independent EU-focused NGO whose mission is to raise awareness on #disinformation & contribute to a better information landscape.
Nicole K. Stewart @nicolestewart.bsky.social Views are my own. 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸
Researches: platform studies / communication technologies / digital media + cultures
Peckham Town FC - The Menace @peckhamtownfc.bsky.social Community asset since 1982 with 28 teams | Men's 1st: Kent County League, Premier Div & LFA Trophy winners 19/20 | Women: Clapham Saturday Football League | Menace Bar | Sponsors: Beats / Puma
Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
Orestis Papakyriakopoulos @sciorestis.bsky.social Ass. Professor of Societal Computing @TU_Munich
🌐🤖
PI of the Civic Machines Lab @TUMThinkTank
he/him
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Vanessa Valiati @vanessavaliati.bsky.social
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
Nicola Righetti @nicolarighetti.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist
https://www.nicolarighetti.net/
Find me on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/nicolarighetti79
ProfJSG @profjsg.bsky.social Professor. Constitution hugger. Worried for democracy.
Claire M. Segijn, Ph.D @segijn.bsky.social Associate Professor & Mithun Program Fellow @ HSJMC University of Minnesota (She/her) | UvA ASCoR alum
Research: multitasking, synced advertising, personalization, online surveillance, privacy & ethics #commsky
🌍https://clairesegijn.com/
Marília Gehrke, Ph.D. @gehrke.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Interested in gendered disinformation, transparency, fact-checking and data journalism
Zoetanya Sujon @zoetanja.bsky.social
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
Naomi Shiffman @naomishiffman.bsky.social data & implementation at the Oversight Board | formerly academics + researchers at CrowdTangle / Meta | fellow at the Integrity Institute and Atlantic Council’s DFRLab | advisor at Connect Humanity, a fund for digital equity
Esteban Morales @estebanmorales.bsky.social Assistant professor @rug.nl
Latinoamericano studying digital culture, platformized violence, and critical data studies.
Website: https://esteban-morales.com/
Christoph Lutz @lutzid.bsky.social Professor at BI Norwegian Business School & Co-Director of the Nordic Centre for Internet & Society. Research on privacy, digital inequality, AI & emerging tech. Check out my Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KI9IybAAAAAJ&hl=en
Jaigris Hodson @jhodson.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Digital Communication for the Public Interest
Scott Rodgers @scott-rodgers.bsky.social Reader in Media and Geography at Birkbeck, University of London. Into cities, publics, politics, social media, podcasts & journalism. https://linktr.ee/rodgers_scott
Hazel 경희 @hazelkwon.bsky.social a Simmel’s stranger, lifelong learner, and Professor @Arizona State University. http://www.hazelkwon.org
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
Marco Bastos @toledobastos.bsky.social I still would rather be emailed.
Otávio Vinhas @ovinhas.bsky.social Postdoc Researcher @ INCT-DSI, Brazil
mis/disinfo • content governance • non-WEIRD
he/him; ele/dele
Marcelo Alves @marceloalvests.bsky.social Professor do Departamento de Comunicação da PUC-Rio
Diretor de Metodologia do Instituto Democracia em Xeque
Adriana Amaral @adriamaral.bsky.social Professor & Researcher on pop culture, digital media, and fan studies at UFF. Editor at Routledge and at Creative & Influencer Studies. Childless Cat Lady. Spooky Nerd. Goth.
https://adriamaral.substack.com/
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9159-2352
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
Patricia Rossini @patyrossini.bsky.social Senior lecturer (assoc. prof) in Communication, Media & Democracy, University of Glasgow. Studies digital threats to democracy 🇧🇷🏴
Daniel Angus @antmandan.bsky.social Professor of Digital Communication and Director of the QUT Digital Media Research Centre. Cyclist, beer brewer, nerd, community advocate.
Luca Rossi @lrossi.bsky.social I work at IT University of Copenhagen trying to understand online participation and collective action while having fun with methods.
Also Head of the Data Science Section.
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/
Fabio Giglietto @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino - Principal investigator https://mine.uniurb.it
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
Tai Volcan @taivolcan.bsky.social Jornalista, professora e pesquisadora do Midiars (UFPel).
Dulwich Hamlet Supporters' Trust @dhstorg.bsky.social We’re democratic, not-for-profit and independent. We work to support the future of Dulwich Hamlet FC & the local community, and give a voice to DHFC supporters.
Dulwich Hamlet FC @dulwichhamletfc.bsky.social The official account of Dulwich Hamlet Football Club
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
Philip Mai @philipmai.com Executive Director of SocialMediaLab.ca | M.S., J.D. | Media interviews PhilipMai.com/Press/ | Researcher & Developer of social media analysis tools for research in the public interest: SocialMediaLab.ca/apps/
Anatoliy Gruzd @gruzd.ca Canada Research Chair, Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University & co-director & researcher at @socialmedialab.ca | Social Media and Network Scholar | My opinions are my own
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/
Raquel Recuero @raquelrecuero.bsky.social Professor/Researcher at UFPEL/UFRGS. MIDIARS Lab director.
Also @raquelrecuero@aoir.social
https://wp.ufpel.edu.br/midiars/
https://wp.ufpel.edu.br/raquelrecuero/about-me/
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app