SCMS Graduate Student Organization @scmsgso.bsky.social The Graduate Student Organization provides fellowship, support, and advocacy for the Society's graduate student members.
GSO Co-Chairs
Jamie Hoholuk
Matthew Cooper
Farzaneh Ebrahimzadeh Holasu
Graduate Student Representative
Thomas Farrenkopf
Stefania Marghitu @dearstefania.bsky.social media studies scholar. motha. friend.
wrote a book on Teen TV (2021, Routledge). still working on that book on women showrunners.
@dmissero.bsky.social @dmissero.bsky.social Interested in all things DIY, feminist and veggie. Also a Lecturer in Film studies @ Lancaster University. EDI Rep for Lancaster Uni UCU
@sufried.bsky.social @sufried.bsky.social
@ericaannec.bsky.social @ericaannec.bsky.social
Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social Open access peer-reviewed journal for scholarship on postwar American literature and culture
post45.org/journal
Editor
@jdconnor.bsky.social
Managing Editor
@aabedkoff.bsky.social
Editor-at-Large
@arthurzw.bsky.social
Maria O’Brien @mariaobrien.bsky.social Lecturer, researcher, games, film and media. Dog owner, cocktail maker, cyclist
Allison Cooper @kinolab.bsky.social Director, Kinolab; Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Cinema Studies, Bowdoin College; Video Essayist.
MediArXiv @mediarxiv.bsky.social Non-profit, scholar-led preprint (articles, chapters, books) server for media & communication studies. Founded 2019. Follow also on Mastodon: @mediarxiv@hcommons.social
www.mediarxiv.com
Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social A media scholar - jeffpooley.com/about
Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social New here. Professor of cinema arts; director of Cary Comes Home Festival; co-founder of Angela Carter Society; chief editor of Screenworks; filmmaker, lover of cinemas & their curtains. #BristolCityOfFilm Views my own. https://linktr.ee/charlottecrofts
SCMS Digital Humanities & Videographic Criticism SIG @videoessays.bsky.social This is the official Scholarly Interest Group account of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' Digital Humanities & Videographic Criticism group.
@necsusjournal.bsky.social @necsusjournal.bsky.social
kev, it is what it is @kevinlferguson.bsky.social by popular demand
Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
@chiaragrizzaffi.bsky.social @chiaragrizzaffi.bsky.social
Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Film at the University of British Columbia. Videographic scholarship ❤️
Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social Film lecturer @ucc, writer, maker.
Co-founder of Alphaville Journal.
Researching women in film & protest media.
Runs on music.
abbkeating.wordpress.com
Laura Rascaroli 🇪🇺 @larascaroli.bsky.social Prof in Film & Screen Media @ucc.ie
Editor-in-Chief, @alphavillej.bsky.social
Essay film, documentary, art film, European & World Cinemas
https://publish.ucc.ie/profiles/L.Rascaroli@ucc.ie
Em T @emtherese.bsky.social NC mountains. Dogs and cats. LGBTQ+, antiracist, pro democracy. no DMs
Evelyn Kreutzer @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social Film/media scholar, video essay maker, feminist
www.evelynkreutzer.com
Postdoc at USI Lugano
Previously at Film University Babelsberg
PhD from Northwestern University
Comparative Cinema @comparativecinema.bsky.social We are an academic journal that approaches film from a comparative perspective. Edited by Pompeu Fabra University. https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/index
Veronika Hanakova @veronikahanakova.bsky.social AV essayist exploring New Media & Digital Culture ~ Media Archaeology ~ Researcher of gimmicky artifacts: from Star Wipe to my latest obsession the DVD ~ Member of Grassroots of Digital Europe ~ Curator for Marienbad Film Festival & Artycok.TV
David Sorfa @davidsorfa.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/david-sorfa
Dagmar Brunow @dbrunow.bsky.social Professor of film studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Works on audiovisual archives & cultural memory; film historiography & video collectives. Likes bookshops, cinemas, libraries, and archives.
sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social critic and cultural historian of genre fantasies / senior acquiring editor @leverpress.bsky.social / associate editor of sf @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social / read more: seanguynes.com
Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Film LJMU | researching film sound & production
Making video essays & exploring creative practice
Founding editor @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social
Associate Editor @intransition.bsky.social
Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social researcher, fact-checker: extremism, conspiracies, US history
critic: Paste, Time, etc.
assistant editor, Cineaste
PhD Candidate in Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
The Video Essay Podcast
views mine
www.willdigravio.com
Amsterdam University Press @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Posts in EN & NL.
Barbara Flueckiger @flueko.bsky.social film scholar turned entrepreneur, founder Timeline of Historical Film Colors filmcolors.org, Scan2Screen.com, science enthusiast, mother, baker
Cinapse @cinapse.bsky.social Cinematic discovery and discussion. www.cinapse.net
@kristimck.bsky.social @kristimck.bsky.social
Homay King @homay.bsky.social Author, teacher, scholar. Film, contemporary art, digital culture. California raised, Philadelphia based.
https://linktr.ee/homay.king
Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social Media scholar, video maker and PhD student at Tel Aviv University. TV studies, popular culture and videographic criticism.
https://www.arielavissar.work/
https://vimeo.com/arielavissar
José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social Teacher, critic; interested in all things film.
Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org The Open Library of Humanities. Building a sustainable, diamond open access future for the humanities. Part of Birkbeck, University of London & makers of Janeway
Steve Anderson @sfanders.bsky.social Scholar-artist, video essayist
https://www.realityfrictions.net
https://technocinema.net
https://criticalcommons.org
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Mark Hennessy @markhennessy.bsky.social Ireland and Britain Editor,
The Irish Times
Leading The Irish Times’ Common Ground project exploring relationships on the island of Ireland, and between Ireland and Great Britain
https://www.irishtimes.com/common-ground/
wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social
Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social Professor&Chair, Gender&Sexuality Studies, University@Buffalo. Awards: Lora Romero (ASA'13); Best Book in Food Studies (ASFS'13); Choice (2022); Alan Bray (MLA&ASA'26); Hon. Mention, Rene Wellek (ACLS '26); James Beard essay award ('23), NHC Scholar 26-27.
@sturtevant.bsky.social @sturtevant.bsky.social
Jaap Kooijman @jaapkooijman.bsky.social Associate professor Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Academic director ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis), author of Fabricating the Absolute Fake and De muziekfabriek, co-editor of The Richard Dyer Reader. www.absolutefake.com
Debra Rae Cohen @debraraecohen.bsky.social Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina; former co-editor, Modernism/modernity. Modernism and media, especially the BBC; women's writing in war and crisis. Fuck ICE and all its works. Eat the rich. Protect your neighbors. 🍉
Nanna Verhoeff @nannaverhoeff.bsky.social Prof. of Screen Cultures & Society at the Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University
Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Media and German, UC Berkeley | Book: Historical Turns (UC Press, 2024) | Edited Volumes: Technics (Amsterdam UP, 2024), Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019), The Promise of Cinema (UC Press, 2016)
Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Film, University of Amsterdam. Author of ANIMATED FILM & DISABILITY: CRIPPING SPECTATORSHIP (2023). Coeditor of TSQ Issue TOWARD A TRANS[]CRIP THEORY (2025). Newbie crocheter. Dog dad to 17yo Sasha.
The Streaming Movie Project @vodmovies.bsky.social An academic project dedicated to studying the impact of SVOD platforms (e.g. Netflix, Prime Video, etc.) on the global film industry. AKA Chris Meir, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Alex Russo @alexrusso.bsky.social Media Studies Professor. Radio, Sound Studies, Culture Industries, Media Technologies. Husband to
@LGQ. Dad to F. Y-town raised. Views my own.
Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies @UIUC; Author of PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES: HOW FILM DISTRIBUTION MADE THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM (University of Texas Press, 2024)
Selena A. Dickey @selenapino.bsky.social Media studies prof @ Furman. Into: broadcasting histories, technologies, geographies, and policies; pina coladas; getting caught in the rain.
Matthew Crain @matthewcrain.bsky.social Media prof. Proud labor union member.
Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social Longtime film critic -- Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, New York Times -- now a curator in the Department of Film of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Opinions are my own.
Dr. Cindy Conaway @drcindyconaway.bsky.social Professor of Digital Communication and Media Studies at SUNY Empire State University. I study Seinfeld and Digital Humanities.
James Harvey @jch987.bsky.social Film and Media, University of Hertfordshire | John Akomfrah (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2023)
Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria @horrorstudies.bsky.social The Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University (UK): the Home of Horror Studies
horrorstudies.com
#horrorNU
Cain Miller @cainmiller.bsky.social PhD candidate in Cinema & Media Studies. Research focuses on gender and sexuality in horror. he/him/his
Juan Carlos Ampie @juancarlosampie.bsky.social Nicaraguan film critic in exile. Director of Student Media at Marquette University’s Diederich College of Communication. Opinions are my own.
Lauren Mark @theotherdrl.bsky.social Assist prof of communication and culture @SUNY NP. Explorer of relational praxis in dance and embodied pedagogy.
Barbara Zecchi @barbarazecchi.bsky.social Film Studies professor at the University of Massachusetts. Cat lady with dogs. Videoessayist trained at Middlebury College. Author of books on women filmmakers. Co-editor of [in]Transition. Member of the Film Academy of Spain. From Venice.
Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech @kopecka-piech.bsky.social https://kopecka-piech.com/
Media Researcher | Digital Transformation Explorer | Associate Professor at UMCS
Sarah-Mai Dang @sarahmaidang.bsky.social Film and Media Studies Scholar | Humboldt Research Fellow | Zentrum Künste und Kulturtheorie (UZH/ZHdK) | Digital Film and Media History | Cultural Heritage Data | Feminism | Open Science | sarahmaidang.com | @SarahMaiDang@fedihum.org
Jiří Anger @jirianger.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ Queen Mary University of London
Media theory ~ archival studies ~ videographic criticism
Author of Towards a Film Theory from Below
https://qmul.academia.edu/JiriAnger
Kara Alaimo, PhD @karaalaimo.bsky.social FDU communication professor writing for CNN. Author of "Over the Influence" Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls - And How We Can Take It Back." I research and write about issues affecting women/girls and what social media is doing to us all.
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.
dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social fix your hearts or die 💕
Madeline McMahon @madmcmahon.bsky.social Historian, bibliophile, early modernist.
Assistant Prof in History @ UT Austin (I don’t speak for my employer)
Virginia Reinburg @vreinburg.bsky.social Historian. Feminist. Boston. France. Hawai’i. Author of Storied Places (Cambridge UP 2019). Abolish ICE
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social International, scholar-led, not-for-profit, radical open access publishing collective. Free books, journals and more on theory, culture, media, philosophy, art. Check us out at:
www.openhumanitiespress.org
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
nicolas poppe @poppe.bsky.social i guess that everybody has their thing that they yell into a well
https://linktr.ee/npoppe
Holly Kruse @hollykruse.bsky.social Media studies
–Gender & tech (Polity https://t.ly/LhLoK)
–Synth-pop (Bloomsbury https://t.ly/IUZHv)
–Networks & horse racing (MIT Press ebook https://t.ly/CJvI2)
–Music scenes (Peter Lang https://t.ly/aI__X)
Irish setters+horse+rescue dog. Iowan 4ever
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com
Mélanie Bourdaa @melaniebourdaa.bsky.social Professeure des Universités à Bordeaux Montaigne. Transmedia et Fans
Stephen Broomer @stephenbroomer.bsky.social filmmaker & writer. video essayist. host of art & trash. publisher, black zero. programmer, ad hoc. sessional lecturer, cinema studies institute, university of toronto. he/him.
Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social film, pop music, cultural studies // author, TINSEL AND RUST (oup 2025) and BACK TO THE FIFTIES (oup 2015) // both can't survive // michaelddwyer.com
T.L. Taylor @tltaylor.bsky.social Not sure I'm ready for another platform but let's see.
Theme park play research these days (yup, Disney).
tltaylor.com (links to most of my work, inc books) & instagram.com/ybikapix (for the fun stuff!)
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
Drew Morton @damorton.bsky.social Professor, videographic critic and co-editor of [in]Transition, author of Panel to the Screen, gamer, runner, bass player, wiener dog keeper.
Los Angeles/Texas
https://damorton.wordpress.com/
William Lafi Youmans @willyou.bsky.social Professor and filmmaker. Wrote 'An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America.' #footie #afc
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut
opinions mine. he/him
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
Tanya Horeck, Film and Feminist Media Studies @tanyah.bsky.social
dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social Children's horror doctor, rabbit film studies connoisseur and intermittent gremlin.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/catherine-lester/
Gregg Mitman @greggmitman.bsky.social Historian of science, medicine, and environment.
Prof at UW-Madison, LMU Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. ERC Advanced Grant: fragmentsoftheforest.com.
Chasing ecologies and power across viral divides.
SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies SIG @scmspedagogy.bsky.social Official page for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group
SCMS Media, Science, and Technology SIG @scmsmst.bsky.social
Golden M. Owens @goldenowens.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cinema & Media Studies at UW Seattle. Writing on Black women, housework, and AI, and trying to stay sane while doing it.
https://cinema.washington.edu/people/golden-m-owens
https://www.goldenmowens.com
[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. https://intransition.openlibhums.org/
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social Media Theory / Posthumanities (NYC)
Extimacy Coordinator
www.dominicpettman.com
Rory Solomon @rorshock.bsky.social Mesh networks, media infrastructure, software engineering, ham/CB radio (KD2QGX); Assistant Professor of Media & Cultural Studies at Macalester College; “very clear & cool, simple but intricate”; he/him
Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social Film scholar, director of the Cinémathèque Suisse. Research @goethe_uni Frankfurt: http://konfigurationen-des-films.de http://ceditraa.net https://age-c.eu/
Ian Alan Paul @elbienmaspreciado.bsky.social This account posts automated updates from www.ianalanpaul.com- S Steven Shaviro @sshaviro.bsky.social Stealth assassin from the clouds.