Herbert Chang 張賀鈞 @herbertchang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science @Dartmouth //
I study how AI & algorithms reshape human networks //
Prev. @USCAnnenberg //
Elisa Mekler @elisamekler.bsky.social sullen assoc prof @itu.dk
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Games, Theory;
ERC StG Theorycraft (2022 - 2027);
I like weird games and JRPGs (header image: Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor)
Elizabeth Newbury @enewb.bsky.social Dogs. Coffee. Games. All views are my own. Engagement=/=endorsement. #seriousgames #esports #edtech #scicomm #womenintech She/her
Valerie Yu @valerieyu.bsky.social I'm a PhD candidate doing game research at NTU Singapore.
These days, I play most ARPGs I can get my paws on.
Also a lifelong suffering Spurs fan (COYS) that can't get enough of astrophotography. 
Ryan Stanton @stantium.bsky.social Aspiring Academic || Eternal Idiot
Lecturer - Gaming and Society @ UNSW
PhD @ University of Sydney
Bad puns and worse jokes
Mostly Lurking
He/Him
Arno Görgen @pachuki.bsky.social All things #GameStudies @ HKB Bern
Podcasts:
„Design. Macht. Gesellschaft.“ (https://podcast337600.podigee.io)
"Kritische Controller" (https://kritische-controller.letscast.fm/)
Krach bei DER ATOMAT. (https://deratomat.bandcamp.com/)
Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social Communications Ph.D. academic precariat - Media Psychology - Videogames & Sexism i just can't anymore
Nicola Fox Hamilton, PhD 🍉 @nicolafh.bsky.social She/her. Cyberpsychology at IADT. Researches online communication & dating
Hosts a cyberpsychology podcast - “In Bits” with @drliam.bsky.social
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6R1n04owVEAH4k8OaajcyZ?si=evh1YzIJSX6XhNubur-A8A
Www.nicolafoxhamilton.com
Bob De Schutter @bobdeschutter.be Professor at Northeastern University • award-winning indie game dev • PhD in game design, aging, motivation & learning • helps game devs to be mindful of older players
Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
Lewis Chuang | 庄李伟 (he/him) @lewischuang.bsky.social Professor for Humans & Technology, Chemnitz University of Technology 🇩🇪 • Quant with Qual-envy • Work-in-Progress • Views are my own
Shane Tilton, Ph.D. @silnan.bsky.social Former Irene Casteel Endowed Chair at Ohio Northern University
Studies journalism, memes, and gaming
Parliamentarian-at-large
Richy Srirachanikorn @srirachanikorn.bsky.social 📟 Sociologist studying nostalgia to reimagine the future. Club Penguin, Frutiger Aero, and the "vision" & "value" of y2k-inspired thrift stores.
🌟 Co-founded @nostagain.bsky.social
🚀 https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home
Frédéric Tordo, PhD @frederictordo.bsky.social As a clinical psychologist (PhD) and researcher (Paris, France), I explore human-technology interactions, cyberpsychology and contemporary psychopathology. Author of "Le Moi-Cyborg" (The Cyborg-Self), I am a speaker on mental health in the digital age.
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social biocultural, cognitive, & psychological anthropology; ethnographic methods, qual-quant, causality; ritual & play, affect & emotion
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion & Video Games
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-avatar-faculty/paper
Kevin Koban @kevinkoban.bsky.social Postdoc @adme-uvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at researching digital well-being | digital hate | social machines
Posting professionally about academia, media psych, & comm science, less seriously about various things considered niche
Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social (they/them)
queer game maker, games are bodies
phd in media studies. teaching game design.
https://jackperse.itch.io/poke-stroke-grasp
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
International Communication Association @icahdq.bsky.social This account is for informational purposes. Please get in touch with the appropriate department for assistance. https://icahdq.org/page/ContactUs
Ailea Merriam-Pigg @ailea.bsky.social The greeneyedtrombonist (she/they)
PhD in Communication Arts
Research themes: Game/Play Studies, digital studies, disability, marginalized identity, rhetoric, communication
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
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com I'm a professor who studies politics, games, and pop culture. I stream retro adventure games every Wednesday night at twitch.tv/decafjedi. Co-host of the Quest Quest podcast. Links to all my other stuff at decafjedi.com!
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
Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com Media Psychology & Communication | Privacy & Well-Being | Open Science & Slow Science | IKMZ & University of Zurich | https://tobiasdienlin.com
Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc Educating designer & empirical philosopher of things playful & engaging. Professor of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Senior AE, @acmgames@bsky.social. https://codingconduct.cc
Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social Prof at Syracuse U's iSchool. Robots, social AI, videogames, dogs, wine, travel ...
Kathrin Gerling @kathringerling.bsky.social Professor at KIT, Germany (http://hci.iar.kit.edu). Research on human-computer interaction, accessibility, VR, and games (preferably Quake 3). ERC StG AccessVR and Real-World Lab Accessibility (http://accessibility.kit.edu). she/her
Team Rieger LMU @teamrieger.bsky.social Department of Media and Communication @ifkw.bsky.social LMU_Muenchen
Media Psychology | Extremism | (Online) Radicalization | Entertainment
Jimmy Ivory @jivory.bsky.social Professor of Technical and Scientific Communication, Virginia Tech.
Max L Wilson @drmaxlwilson.bsky.social Consumer Neurotechnology and Brain-Computer Interfaces - #mentalworkload #HCI #cogPI #fNIRS
IJHCS Deputy Editor.
CHI Conf Steering Committee.
Keynote speaker. Neurotech Consultant.
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/
https://brain-data-uon.gitlab.io/
Nancy Jennings @nancyjennings.bsky.social Professor, University of Cincinnati
Director, Children's Education and Entertainment Research (CHEER) Lab
william partin @partin.bsky.social phd | policy @youtube | esports grouch. all opinions my own!
Nick Ballou @nballou.bsky.social Early career research fellow at Imperial College London - video games, trace data, adolescents, mental health, open research.
DGPS: Media Psychology @mepsy.bsky.social Official bluesky account of the Media Psychology Division of the German Psychological Society (@dgps.bsky.social).
Professor Steve @profsteve.bsky.social PhD Rhetoric and Politics, Professor, Writer, Gamer. Interested in institutional speech, political campaigns, and how idiosyncratic choices inform our future. Lifelong fan of the power to do things with words.
Ulrike Schwertberger @uschwertberger.bsky.social 🔍Communication scientist at Team Rieger
📍LMU Munich
Researching demanding media use | media multitasking | entertainment | online radicalization.
Jesse Fox @commfox.bsky.social Kentuckian | Adventurist | Learning Addict | Communicologist | Amateur zoologist |Professor at Ohio State
gamevironments @gamevironments.bsky.social A peer-reviewed journal on games/gaming related to culture and society*
Official journal of IASGAR
https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments
Markus Appel @markusappel.bsky.social Psychology of Communication, Media Psychology, Professor at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Father and former table tennis player.
Joshua Baldwin Ph.D. @baldwin-j-a.bsky.social Assistant Professor - Division of Emerging Media Studies / Department of Mass Communication, Advertising & PR, Boston University
Positive Media Psychology, Entertainment Processing & Effect, Media & Morality, AI & Machine Learning, Experiments
Renske van Enschot 🟥 @renskevanenschot.bsky.social Assistant prof digital strategic storytelling - interactive narratives - narrative interventions - narrative persuasion - visual metaphor - text analysis - @tilburg-university.bsky.social 🇳🇱 | r.vanenschot@tilburguniversity.edu | she/her
Brendan Rooney @brenrooney.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. @ UCD Psychology Dublin
Director of Media Entertainment Psychology Lab
Research: entertainment ~ executive function ~ social cognition ~ emotion
PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue 🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is out!!!
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Jordan King @jordanking.bsky.social PhD candidate at Bournemouth University in the psychology department.
Video games, nostalgia, and well-being.
He/Him
Erika Solis, PhD (they/them) @erikasolis.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Alfred State College | PhD @ Penn State
erikasolis.com
Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Media Psychology in the Department of Communication Science at VU Amsterdam (🇳🇱) researching media effects, digital well-being, attention, mental health. Open Science, Computational Methods
🖥️ https://dougaparry.com
🇿🇦 From South Africa
Federico Alvarez Igarzábal @federicoalvarez.bsky.social Prof. of Digital Media & Game Studies at HBK Essen. I research the aesthetics of games and play combining theoretical and experimental approaches.
Book: "Time and Space in Video Games. A Cogntive-Formalist Approach" http://bit.ly/3iiMEk8
@crestsaga.bsky.social @crestsaga.bsky.social 
Torill @torillelvira.bsky.social Researcher, teacher, gamer, knitter, grandmother.
DiGRA Belgium @digrabelgium.bsky.social DiGRA Belgium is the Belgian chapter of the international association for academics (and professionals) who research digital games and associated phenomena.
Posts by @alexvandewalle.bsky.social
Kirstie Farrar @profkc.bsky.social UConn Associate Professor in Communication, mom to 3, martial artist, pet mom to two dogs and a cat! X Files, Outlander, 49ers, SFGiants, WNBA, Lego, 🥎🥎
Jamie Madigan @jamiemadigan.bsky.social My book about the psychology of Dungeons & Dragons is out! See www.psychologyofdnd.com. I'm also the author of Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games. I write and podcast at www.psychologyofgames.com
Nathaniel Poor @natpoor.bsky.social Internet sociologist, games scholar, in the non-profit sector.
Ashley Jones @apjones428.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communication with an emphasis on digital gaming and feminist theory. Lover of books, cats and dogs, coloring, and sunshine.
Matt Erxleben @matterxleben.bsky.social PhD Candidate at The Ohio State University
Maxime Scholte Albers @maximescholte.bsky.social Teacher at University of Utrecht ||Graduate from Tilburg University || Interested in the affective and relational dynamics between humans and narrative entities 📚🎮
Christine Tomlinson, PhD @socstudygames.bsky.social Interdisciplinary researcher studying video games, players, and esports. Formerly @ Activision. Current Assistant Professor of Games and Esports. 
Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com Professor at the University of Malta's @indigitalgames.bsky.social
Migrant ☆ https://gua-le-ni.com/
Author of strange literary fictions ⇒ https://www.setmargins.press/books/what-we-owe-the-dead/
@beyea.bsky.social @beyea.bsky.social 
Camis | 카밀라 @caavila.bsky.social PhD in Communication Sciences. Game Studies/Archaeogaming researcher. Art Director. 저는 한국어를 공부해요 🇰🇷.
Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social Historian @ ESHCC | History & Games | Public History | Memory | Digital Humanities | Historical Theory | Finalist Young Historian of the Year 2019 | 🇧🇪 in 🇳🇱 | He/him | Opinions are my own
Check out my dissertation: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/134918
University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau @aucklanduni.bsky.social Official account for the University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau, posting updates about research, news and events.
University of Oregon SOJC @uosojc.bsky.social Official profile of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.
100+ years of ethics, innovation & action. 
Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social Father and Husband. Professor @oii.ox.ac.uk
Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com I am an assistant professor at Tilburg University's Department of Social Psychology.
I have a website at https://vuorre.com.
All posts are posts.
Rudolf Thomas INDERST (he|him) @gamestudies.bsky.social _Prof. for Game Design & Game Studies (HNU)
_PhD Triforce Holder
_Podcast Founder "Game Studies" (NBN)
_Editor "Games" (TITEL kulturmagazin)
_Expert Advisor "Games" (DFJV)
_Xbox: Inderst1978
_Former Int. Community Strategist (Koch Media)
Pete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Science Communication | Award-winning science writer | Screen Time | Social Media | Smartphones | Video games | https://linktr.ee/unlockedbook
Jan Wysocki @spielewys.bsky.social Religions- und Spielewissenschaftler
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Scholar of Religions, Games Scholar
"Critique with Limits - The Construction of American Religion in Bioshock: Infinite"
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/5/150
Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura | Finnish society for game research @pelitutkimus.fi The Finnish society for game research. Posts FIN/ENG.
Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura on monitieteinen pelitutkimusta edistävä yhdistys. Tältä tililtä jaamme ajankohtaista tietoa pelitutkimukseen ja pelikulttuureihin liittyen.
www.pelitutkimus.fi
Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social Kulturingeniør, informasjonsflanør, jungeltelegrafist, medieøkolog og (digital) humaniora-entusiast. Gift med @sortulv.eurosky.social
Researcher and Destroyer in the (digital) humanities. PhD in Library and Information Science.
Academic hedge witch.
Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @ Tampere University, currently studying the intersections of men, masculinity, and gaming.
Also into RPGs, miniatures, pirates, pro wrestling, and video games.
orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-684X
mikkomerilainen.com
George Farmer @cybergamepsych1.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher & VL @ University of Westminster
Psychology of video games - motivations & mental health effects.
LinkedIn - https://tinyurl.com/3bkcuud7
Ryan Lange @langeryan.bsky.social Media researcher interested in automated behaviors. I lift heavy things and put them down again. Sometimes I help someone learn something.
icajsd.bsky.social @icajsd.bsky.social The official community for Journalism Studies scholars at the International Communication Association. Advancing global scholarship and research in journalism and media. https://icajournalismstudies.org/
GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social Accelerating acceptance for LGBTQ people. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.glaad.org/social
GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social The world's leading games industry website. Got something to tell us? Email news@gamesindustry.biz
Peter McDonald @pdmcdonald.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education, UW-Madison. Play scholar, potter, and dog friend.
Author of 📖The Impossible Reversal https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916220/the-impossible-reversal/ and 📖Run and Jump https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547390/run-and-jump/
The Communication & Technology Division of ICA @icacat.bsky.social Official account for the Communication & Technology Division of the International Communication Association, @katypearce
& @commfox & @anneohirsch at the wheel
The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies @coegamecult.bsky.social The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies is a joint project of the universities of Tampere, Turku and Jyväskylä, and is funded by the Academy of Finland. 
Xan Smith @bumblegumbees.bsky.social Fake gamer | PhD | they/he | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | 🥁 drummer | #gamesUR | The x makes a 'z' sound | Secretly Canadian
Vivian Chen @vivianchen.bsky.social Game developer / designer
Tiernan Cahill @utoposneos.bsky.social PhD candidate studying games and mental health \\ human preoccupied with poetry, coffee, and mountains
Thorsten Quandt @thorstenquandt.bsky.social Professor of Online Communication. Researching the transformation of communication and society. Critical optimist.
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
Shelbey Walker @shelbeywalker.bsky.social STS PhD Student
Farming video games researcher
Sarah Stang @sarahstang.bsky.social Feminist game and media scholar. Associate Professor of Game Studies and Director of STAR Lab at Brock University.
Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social Communication science, media psychology, and game studies at the University of Twente. He/him
Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social Founder of Psychgeist and DLC Leadership Program. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
M Green @narrprof.bsky.social Communication researcher and social psychologist studying how stories change minds (narrative persuasion).
Personal account.
Leonard Reinecke @leonardreinecke.bsky.social Professor for Media Effects and Media Psychology, @ifpmainz.bsky.social, University of Mainz, Germany // Greek at Heart
Kelly Boudreau @velixious.bsky.social professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
Felix Reer @ree-flx.bsky.social Researcher at University of Muenster
Chair of the ECREA Digital Games Research Section
Communication Science, Media Psychology, Online Communication, Virtual Reality, Digital Games