Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Pedro Diogo C.M. @pedrodcmont.bsky.social Doutorando em Direito(UnB) e Mestre em Direito Penal e Liberdades Públicas (UFBA) Pesquiso tecnologia, vigilância e segurança pública. Coordenador de Vigilância no Laboratório de Políticas Públicas e Internet (LAPIN). Advogado. Cinéfilo e fã de mangás/anim
Silvia Masiero @silviahedley.bsky.social Associate prof #UniOslo, researching unfair #digitalID - #ICT4D, #platforms4d & their discontents - #homecooking posts👩🍳
Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social We provide services, tools and training to build a world open by design where all knowledge is accessible to everyone.
#TheTechWeWant #OpenDataEditor #OpenDataCommons #SchoolOfData #CKAN
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Kelle Howson @kellehowson.bsky.social Researcher, Institute for Economic Justice, @oii.ox.ac.uk | global inequality, social protection, digital technologies
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]
nicola rushton 🌞 @nicolarushton.bsky.social #UX designer since forever. Into AI ethics, tech policy, futurism.
Leading design at a travel startup.
📍Amsterdam (ex: Sydney)
Rogério Christofoletti @christofoletti.bsky.social www.christofoletti.com
Rodrigo Vianna @rvianna.bsky.social Corinthiano, casado, 3 filhos. Ama música brasileira e literatura russa. Jornalista do ICLNotícias e do BrasildeFato. Trabalhou na Folha, Cultura, Globo, Record e Brasil247. Ganhou prêmios Herzog e Embratel. Doutor em História/USP, foco em América Latina.
Moritz Altenried @moritzaltenried.bsky.social Professor of Labor and Digital Technology at the Institute of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin. Currently: Political economy, culture and (geo-)politics of semiconductor production.
Book: The Digital Factory (Chicago).
Casilli @casilli.bsky.social 🇫🇷 Professor Institut Polytechnique de Paris
I write books 📚 Waiting for Robots, University of Chicago Press (2025)📚 and documentaries 🎥In the Belly of AI (2025)🎥
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
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
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
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.
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
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
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
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)
Esteban Morales @estebanmorales.bsky.social Assistant professor @rug.nl
Latinoamericano studying digital culture, platformized violence, and critical data studies.
Website: https://esteban-morales.com/
Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com Research on work and organising. Editor of Notes from Below and Historical Materialism.
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/
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
Catherine Knight Steele @steelecat717.bsky.social Author - Digital Black Feminism
Associate Professor @UMD
I wonder if I'll ever get to talk about my reality shows here 😔
Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social 🌍 Assistant Professor in Cultural AI, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
🔍 Governance of AI Infrastructure
🌐 www.fabianlferrari.com
Simon Schaupp @simschaupp.bsky.social Sociologist, researching work, ecology and digitalization at KU Leuven and Institute for Social Research Frankfurt.
simschaupp.de
Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social Asst Professor of Global development at Cornell University, book: Automation and the Future of Work with Verso. New articles on “beyond capitalism” in NLR and at my website. http://www.aaronbenanav.com
Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com
Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
INDL @indl.bsky.social International Network on Digital Labor. Now in session for the INDL-6 annual conference in Berlin (9-11 Oct. 2023)
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
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
Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
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
Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social Senior researcher in Political Science Department, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Technopolitics, Geopolitics, Political Parties and Public Opinion.
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social CEO Open Knowledge Foundation - Lawyer - Internationalist
Christian Fuchs @fuchschristian.bsky.social Human, writer, critic, social researcher, professor, critical communication & social theory, https://fuchsc.net Editor: http://triple-c.at
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
Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social Prof in Media and Communication // Editor-In-Chief New Media &Society // Director MA Digital Media and Society // Wonderful team @pgmt.bsky.social // platform governance, AI hype, discourse
https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/person/christian-katzenbach/
Fernanda Campagnucci @fecampagnucci.com A public-interest technologist, working to render digital infrastructures visible. Proud heir of a long lineage of word players. Mostly PT-BR, also EN-SPA. Executive Director at @InternetLab.bsky.social, Brazil. See internetlab.org.br | fecampagnucci.com
Renan Kalil @renanbkalil.bsky.social Procurador do Trabalho. Professor de direito no Insper.
chico @britocruz.bsky.social
Rafael Zanatta @rafaelzanatta.bsky.social Brazilian lawyer, activist and professor. I study and defend digital rights. PhD at University of São Paulo. Post-doc researcher (USP). Director of Data Privacy Brasil. Founder of the Global South Alliance. Father of two amazing kids.
Carlos Juliano Barros @cjbarros.bsky.social Jornalista no UOL e na Repórter Brasil. Roteirista do extremistas.br na Globoplay e do Trabalheira na Rádio Batente. Vai, Corinthians!
Open Knowledge Brasil @ok.org.br Democratizamos o acesso a dados com a Escola de Dados, construímos tecnologias cívicas como o Querido Diário e lutamos por governos mais abertos. Conheça nosso trabalho em ok.org.br
Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Critical Internet Studies Institute (@criticalinternet.bsky.social, criticalinternet.org). He/him. Views my own; shares, likes, etc. =\= endorsements.
Trying to devote my time to matters of concern to others or to no one in particular.
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social assistant prof @ univ of virginia // lead organizer w @labortechresearchnetwork.org // tech, labor, culture // karinaripley.com
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu
Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
Exploit Code Not People @cooperq.com Cybertiger. Senior Staff technologist at @eff.org Fellow @citizenlab.ca Board member @openarchive.bsky.social. "Noted activist security type." Anti-fascist. he/him. My skeets do not represent views of my employers ⵣ🏴 signal: cooperq.01
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Marielza @marielza.bsky.social Retired UNESCO Dir for Digital Inclusion, Policies & Transformation. Chair, UN University, eGov Institute.
UNESCO Women in STEM Committee
Some pottery and cyanotyping
Profile picture is of my face and torso
Banner is a picture I took of a light garden
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social Prof @Goldsmiths U of London | digital infrastructures, tech & AI in global south | New Book: 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' https://tinyurl.com/4ceyvc3s | New project: reimagining digital ID https://tinyurl.com/bdfawt64
Alex Wood @alexjwoodsociology.bsky.social Cambridge Economic Sociologist. Researching and teaching digital technology, work, power, and capitalism. Book: 'Despotism On Demand' https://academic.oup.com/cornell-scholarship-online/book/37473 https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/alex-wood
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
julie chen @julieychen.bsky.social Assistant Prof., ICCIT & iSchool, UofT
Editor, Platforms and Society
Study digital labor, platforms, and data work for AI
Jonathan Corpus Ong @joncong.bsky.social Professor of Global Digital Media and Director, GloTechLab.net at UMass Amherst. #CarnegieFellows #OracleOng 🔮
Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines 🏳️🌈 @andrewcrines.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Communication | PhD Pol. Sci. | MA Acad. Prac. | Award-winning book author & editor, peer review articles, & media comments.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/staff/andrew-crines/
Liverpool | Yorkshire | United Kingdom
@rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social
@janineberg.bsky.social @janineberg.bsky.social
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
Simon Lindgren @simonlindgren.bsky.social simon.lindgren@umu.se
Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) https://academic.oup.com/book/56385
Yasmin Curzi @yasmincurzi.com Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Virginia Karsh Institute of Democracy.
Law professor at FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro.
Adio Dinika @adiod.bsky.social Research fellow @DAIR institute | https://data-workers.org/ Exploring digital labour, platform power, & AI ethics from a global majority lense.
Creative writer| I drink whisky, and I know things
Seyi Olojo @seyiolojo.bsky.social sts, race & technology. Currently PhDing @ UC Berkeley
The Midas Project @themidasproject.bsky.social We are a watchdog nonprofit that monitors and reports on the practices of leading AI companies.
www.themidasproject.com
makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social writing about politics + the internet
formerly: @wired.com, @theverge.com
DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32
FAQ, Instagram, + everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly
Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social I think and write about the impact of technology on society // I teach and do digital humanities at the department of Information Studies at UCL.
Fernanda Rodrigues @eafernanda.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Law @ UFMG | race, regulation and technology | only personal opinions here | check my blog fernandarodrigues.blog
Cheryll Soriano @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social platforms, digital labor
Prof @DLSUComm; Editor@Platforms&Society; Fairwork Philippines; Author, Philippine Digital Cultures: Brokerage Dynamics on YouTube
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS
https://www.cheryllsoriano.com- A Anthony Rafferty @arafferty.bsky.social Professor and Director of the Work and Equalities Institute, Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester University.
Dr Nayana Prakash @nayanaprakash.bsky.social Research fellow @chathamhouse.bsky.social Writer, doctor of the Internet @oiioxford.bsky.social. Interested in tech, society, India, stories, digital culture, literature, people. and dogs 🐕
Currently writing a book. repped by Matthew Marland at RCW 📚📖
Andrea Medrado @andreamedrado.bsky.social Researcher; Diasporic Baiana; Associate Professor in Global Communications - University of Exeter / ♥️☀️🍻📕
Pablo Nunes @pblnns.com Pesquisador em segurança pública, tecnologia e dados abertos.
Criador do O Panóptico e da Rede de Observatórios da Segurança.
Doutor em Ciência Política pelo Iesp-Uerj.
🤖 Tecnologia não vai nos salvar.
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
Jack Qiu @jackqiu.bsky.social Chair and Shaw Foundation Prof of Media Technology, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Benjamin Shestakofsky @bshestakofsky.bsky.social Sociologist @cornellbowers.bsky.social studying work, technology, organizations, and political economy | Author of Behind the Startup: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/behind-the-startup/paper
Silvia Lorenzo Perez @silvperez.bsky.social Programme Director at CDT Europe, Security, Surveillance & Human Rights.
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies journal exploring how (arte)facts, processes, products shape & are shaped by society, since 1987!
Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csac20
Mehdi Ghassemi @mehdighassemi.bsky.social Head of Research & Asst. Professor in media and communication. Surveillance, AI and sociotechnical imaginaries.
Chinmayi Arun @chinmayiarun.bsky.social Law & Technology researcher. Executive Director @yaleisp.bsky.social. Lecturer & Research Scholar, Yale Law School. Posts are personal.
James Muldoon @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social Associate Professor Essex Business School, Research Associate Oxford Internet Institute. Author of Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI (2024)
jamesmuldoon.org
EGAIR - European Guild for AI Regulation @egair.eu This is the official Bluesky account of the European Guild for AI Regulation.
Artists fighting for artists rights! ✊🏻🎨
Find more on www.egair.eu
Phoebe V Moore @digigirlz.bsky.social Professor of the Futures of Work, University of Essex
Quantified Worker: https://phoebevmoore.wordpress.com/
GPE Chief Editor: https://tinyurl.com/488budxu
AI Policy Observatory: https://tinyurl.com/2795rcsx
Next book: Consent Machines
Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social Scholar, Speaker, Educator
Author, Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech & Our Fight for an Independent Future
Director, Community Data Clinic, communitydata.illinois.edu
anitachan.org