Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social the contemporary and its curiosities
https://mid-theory.com
Illinois Federation of Teachers @iftaft.bsky.social The IFT represents 103,000 teachers and PSRPs, faculty and staff at community colleges and universities, public employees, and retirees throughout Illinois.
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social I teach music, modernism, psychoanalysis @ University of Chicago, direct Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, and am mostly unconscious. Stuff: http://bit.ly/3JMupgJ
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
Read: http://placesjournal.org
Sign up: placesjournal.org/newsletter
Donate: https://placesjournal.org/donate/
Elizabeth Todd-Breland @etoddbreland.bsky.social Educator, Historian (US, Urban, Black Politics, Education, Policy, Chicago), Former CPS Board VP; Books: I Didn't Come Here to Lie (Haymarket, 2025); A Political Education (UNC Press, 2018); personal account; she/her
Evanston RoundTable @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social Free, local nonprofit news for Evanston, covering what matters since 1998.
📮➡️ evanstonroundtable.com/newsletter
Daniel Biss @danielbiss.bsky.social Dad, husband, progressive leader, & fighter for working folks. Let’s take on the billionaire class together
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Jason Archer @jsnrchr.bsky.social Scholar of technology, touch, media and communication
Asst Prof @ MTU: https://shorturl.at/n11An
Human Machine Culture: https://shorturl.at/Q6TTL
https://jasonearcher.com/
Wandering/Wondering
Gabriela Bueno Gibbs @gbuenogibbs.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor for Environmental and Political Science at the MIT Press. Ph.D. from UMass Boston and Master of Laws from Yale Law School. She/her.
Corbin Hiday @chiday.bsky.social teacher, writer, reader • Chicago
Girish Shambu @girishshambu.bsky.social I live in Buffalo and write about film culture. Book: “The New Cinephilia”.
Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov Mom. Combat Veteran. Blackhawk pilot. U.S. Senator. Illinoisan.
Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov Serving the people of Illinois.
Democratic Whip and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee @judiciarydems.senate.gov. 
Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov Congresista proudly serving the diverse IL-03. 🦋
I will not concede the power of the people.
KC Forcier @kcforcier.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago. Media theory, media history, digital art, and film.
Blank Check with Griffin & David @blankcheck.bsky.social Sometimes those checks clear, and sometimes they bounce, baby! Your favorite movie podcast's favorite movie podcast, hosted by Griffin Newman and David Sims.
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
Joe Reid @joereid.bsky.social Awards / Cinematrix / Movies / TV at Vulture
This Had Oscar Buzz podcast
Demi, Myself & I on Patreon
WBEZ @wbez.org We are Chicago's NPR station and your local news source. Find us on air at 91.5FM. Support public media and local journalism: donate.wbez.org
TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com Chicago's alternative newsroom since 1971 🗞
chicagoreader.com
Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago's neighborhood news source.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
UAW @uaw.org UAW members are leading the fight for economic justice. This UAW account is administered by union members represented by the NewsGuild-CWA 34022. https://linktr.ee/uawunion
AFT @aft.org Education | Healthcare | Public Services
Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social A national coalition from all ranks of higher education workers across the country organizing to guarantee higher education for all. 
The Big Dog @shartvandelay.bsky.social 
Bloodsugar Daddy @bloodsugardaddy.bsky.social Founding member of BTLZ2K
Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social Author of How Color Became a Technology: The Making of Chromatic Capitalism (forthcoming from Duke UP in 2027). Assistant Prof at Notre Dame. Past and present Chicagoan. www.lidazeitlinwu.com
Sonic Scope Journal @sonic-scope.bsky.social New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture
A platform for student voices to challenge, energise and diversify engagement with audiovisual media. Goldsmiths Press
https://linktr.ee/sonicscopejournal
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
Karet @kleick.bsky.social Chicago. Higher Ed. Modernism, Professional Writing, Gertrude Stein, middle-brow writers, periodical studies, DH. Always happy to see your pets. she/her
New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media @soundmusicmedia.bsky.social Official account for Bloomsbury’s New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media book series.
Ido Ramati @idoramati.bsky.social Senior lecturer @HebrewU. Studying History and Philosophy of Media technologies, focusing on Hebrew Media archaeology.
Cait Mckinney @caitmckinney.bsky.social Assistant Prof at SFU Communication Studies working on queer media history.
Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social Media scholar and educator living in Berlin. Always happy to talk about: TV, historical fiction, Cold War, seriality, ungrading, Bluey.
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
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
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
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
Material Sound @materialsound.bsky.social Sound as more than sound
(Caleb Kelly, UNSW Sydney)
Robert Dahlberg-Sears @dahlbergsears.bsky.social PhD in Punk Stuff, Sendai dweller, ethno/musicology, folklore, and anthropology
Punk/alt. musics in Japan
he/him
Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social Associate Professor of Music @ NYU Abu Dhabi. Writes on music & sound in Kenya. #Ethnomusicology #Anthropology. Author 'Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast' www.weslpress.org/9780819501066/sounds-of-other-shores
Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com synthetic thought-dealer ~ ¦ GPT-333 ¦ the unheard ¦ public universal fiend ¦
sound studies : media philosophy : sound art history
Jeff Titon @jefftoddtiton.bsky.social Professor of Music Emeritus, Brown University. Ecomusicology, ethnomusicology, folklore. New book: Sounds, Ecologies, Musics (Oxford U Press 2023). Old book: Toward a Sound Ecology (Indiana U Press 2020). Essays at https://brown.academia.edu/JeffToddTiton
Michael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social Wrote a book about G.K. Chesterton and literary modernism. Now working in uni admin, but still doing research - see pinned thread for info on my current project, 'Inscribing Pandemonium'. Also posting about music, culture, politics, random nonsense.
Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social Onetime English/radio prof, now policy guy. Media, fiction, Indigenous rights and reconciliation. Here for bad takes & worse jokes. Writing the Radio War, the Edinburgh Companion to Modernism & Technology, & DUBLINERS out now. www.ianwhittington.com
La Doctora @literarychica.bsky.social HS Teacher. Writer. Editor. Cat lady. PhD. 🇵🇷 via New York. Love me some HTX. Started from the bottom, now we’re here.
Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social Based in SF Bay Area 🌁🌉
Computational Literary Studies
Postdoc at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social
Founding member of @fortextlab.bsky.social
Visiting Scholar @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social
Editorial Ass. @jcls-io.bsky.social
Website: svenjaguhr.github.io
Trimmed Limbs @trimmedlimbs.bsky.social ❏ sound studies in ritual
❏ trimmedlimbs.bandcamp.com
@max-lx.bsky.social @max-lx.bsky.social sound & weird media studies; music & anti-fascism
Sunil Chandy @sunilchandy.bsky.social Lecturer in Worship and the Creative Arts - interactions between Sound Studies and Theology - ADHD in a multicultural neurodiverse family - postcolonial malayalee
Tin Cugelj @tincugelj.bsky.social MSCA postdoc at the University of Nottingham (soundship.uk) | PhD from University of Bern | historical sound studies | historical trombonist | co-founder of IMS Auditory History (auditoryhistory.musicology.org)
Clare Hane @bibliophibian.bsky.social voice, speech, accents, dialects; Earlham, Waseda, Central Speech & Drama, Northwestern, Cornell; ex-ac; Japanese, theatre, performance studies, sound studies
Chris Ehrick @cehrick.bsky.social Historian, University of Louisville. Latin America, Radio, Sound Studies, Media History. Currently researching radio and dictatorship in Uruguay
Caroline Kita @ckita.bsky.social Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature; President, Austrian Studies Association; Research in German and Austrian Literature and culture, German-Jewish Studies, Music and Sound Studies, Radio Plays.
Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social Associate prof of ENGL, Marquette U • c18 lit • disability studies • cat dad • gay married to @nyitray • frequenter of mosh pits and libraries
Eloise Ross @cinemelo.bsky.social I'm Gun Crazy, & I love Barbara Stanwyck so much it hurts sometimes | PhD in sound & Classical Hollywood | film studies lecturer | co-curator @melbcinematheque.bsky.social
https://letterboxd.com/cinemelo/ 
leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social assistant professor, film + modern literature + sound studies | amelia courthouse
Dr Jamie Stephenson @audioontology.bsky.social ambient metaphysics | music aesthetics |
sontology | poetics of resonance | drone monism | aural hermeneutics |postphenomenology | auditioning
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8211-6586
👹Blackened grindgaze as HERMETIC ABYSS:
hermeticabyss.bandcamp.com
Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social Writer I Speaker I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. I Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture; Prof. HST/STS, U of MN
Co-Edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk srs. Research-Social Study of AI, Privacy/Sec., Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
Caleb Kelly @calebkelly.bsky.social Academic, curator, eater and traveling side show. A/Prof in media art theory, UNSW Sydney
Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social Philosopher at University of Exeter, 4e and phenomenological approaches to AI, digital technology, online sociality, emotions, phenomenological psychopathology, feminism. she/they
#philosophy #philsky
www.lucyosler.com | www.projectemote.com
Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com Media Engineering x Experimental Music.
https://linktr.ee/stephenroddy
Richard Elliott @richardelliott.bsky.social Writer, teacher and researcher based in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). Author of books and articles about sound and music. I write the Songs and Objects newsletter at Substack (https://songstudies.substack.com/)
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Teaching; Art, Justice, and Digital Media & Core Faculty in Creative Technologies @ UCSC | Research in Voice Recognition, Assistive Technologies, Emergency Infrastructures | Co-founder of 5️⃣ & 9️⃣
Douglas Kahn @douglaskahn.bsky.social Writer, historian and theorist of the arts, focus on sound and energies, with STS-ish background. Books: Energies in the Arts (2019), Earth Sound Earth Signal (2013), Noise Water Meat (1999). 
Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social Professor of music and sound in Asia. Editor of @avcx.bsky.social crosswords. Posts about pop music, sound, Thailand, NYC, anthropology, puzzles, TNG.
Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social media studies sound studies modernism book history dub techno shoegaze music scoring baseball games
Giant Slide 19 Holes Underground Parking https://jeremybraddock.substack.com/
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social music & sound studies, media philosophy | painfully split between German academia and anglophone-mainstream academia | Wrote a book about Burmese opera/pyazat
https://friedlindriedel.de/
dr. enongo / sammus the rapper @sammusmusic.bsky.social #BOMAYE / beats + raps / Assistant Prof in Music at Brown / PhD STS from Cornell / Interests & Concerns: Gamer-rap, AI + Hip-Hop, Black feminist sound studies, Afrofuturism, trashy dating shows 💪🏿🦾
www.enongo.net
instagram.com/sammusmusic
Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social Disquiet.com since 1996: ambient/electronic music, field recordings, sound studies. I moderate the Disquiet Junto community of weekly music projects. I've written for The Wire, Pitchfork and Nature. I publish ThisWeekInSound.disquiet.com. Offline weekends.
alejandrina :3 @alejandrinammedina.bsky.social académica de mujer
*Latinx Studies, Sound Studies, Performance Studies*
https://am-medina.com/
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.
Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social Sound scholar. Author. Subscribe to Phantom Power, a podcast + newsletter about sound at mackhagood.com.
Kate Galloway @kategalloway.bsky.social Assistant Prof. Laurier popular music, music + environment, sound studies, digital media & game studies Co-organizer @SwiftCon2021 & Music & the Internet 2023
Emily Coccia @emcoccia.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovation in the Liberal Arts at Carleton College * PhD in English & WGS from UMich * teaching and researching 19th C. American working-class reading cultures, media and fan studies, and queer and trans histories
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/
Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
Learn more: jaivirdi.com
Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social historian of sci/tech/energy/enviro @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social; http://nanobubbles.hypotheses.org; http://managingscarcity.com; The Squares https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543613/the-squares/. CV at https://surfdrive.surf.nl/s/9zriQ8wKY6eJfp4.
James A. Hodges @jameshodges.net human scholar with phd (digital archives) • www.jameshodges.net
Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
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
#TenureTrackHustle @meredithdclark.bsky.social I escaped the Upside Down, but I still visit 
Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
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
Brandy MP @brandymp.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication + Media Studies @ Fordham U; Scholar of Black popular media, contemporary television and film, digital culture, and celebrity
Dr. Kristen Warner is on sabbatical @kristenwarner.bsky.social Professor, Researcher, Irascible teapot. Expertise in film/media studies as it relates to black folk, employment/labor, representation and RESONANCE. Yes the plastic representation. Yes the sonic visibility.
I still don’t watch sitcoms. Except shrinking.
Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies at ASU. Studying technology, race, power, and ethics. Lover of general shenanigans. I refuse to call them “skeets.” Opinions my own.
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/
Marsha Gordon @marshagordon.bsky.social Film historian, professor, writer, doc filmmaker, lover of nature, travel, and good food. Latest book, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott." Next book: a bio of Dorothy Arzner. https://www.marshagordon.org
Tiffany Knoell, Ph.D. @tlknoell.bsky.social Professional nerd. Occasional time traveler. Co-host of Silent Film Fridays on Stream.place. Associate Teaching Professor and historian at the intersection of media and culture. Views are my own, not those of my employer.