Kris Ruijgrok @krisruijgrok.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UvA, political scientist studying digital authoritarianism, internet shutdowns, computational propaganda, India & Southeast Asia, Partij voor de Dieren www.krisruijgrok.com
Marco Bastos @toledobastos.bsky.social I still would rather be emailed.
Activism Communication and Social Justice @acsj-ica.bsky.social This is the home of the ACSJ Division of ICA on BlueSky. Follow us for all news on our activities, and all things related to activism research and social justice.
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!
Träsel @trasel.bsky.social Professor e pesquisador na Fabico/UFRGS. Jornalista. Pastor na Igreja do Abençoado Lide Pentacular. Amadurecido na época da internet a lenha.
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
Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com Associate Professor at BU. Cybersecurity and Cybersafety. Come for the memes, stay for the science. Skeets are my own
Leon Yin @leonyin.org Investigative data journalist
Bloomberg News
"CTRL + F" and find out
https://inspectelement.org
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social Academic & writer. 🇨🇦Applied Public Health Chair. I study health information practices & interventions, often pertaining to vaccination and/or gender. I also bicycle & drink coffee a lot, and write fiction a little. Recovering classical bassist.
Gabrielle Lim @gabriellelim.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Political Science at the University of Toronto. Affiliated with the Citizen Lab. Mostly the politics of information, technology, and security in cyber and outer space.
More at gabriellelim.com
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
Ezra Winton @ezrawinton.bsky.social Communication prof + curator from K'ómoks (Vancouver lsIand) @ American University in Bulgaria | Co-founder @ Cinema Politica | https://ezrawinton.com | Latest book: http://surl.li/nzhwjq | Born at 327 ppm
🔎 Documentary 🌍 Ecomedia 🔥 Cultural Politics
Dr Alexei Abrahams @smokegatherer.bsky.social Head of Digital Trace at Canada's Media Ecosystem Observatory meo.ca
Author at No Starch Press nostarch.com/social-media-observatory
القصة هي الحياة التي ما كانت و الحياة هي القصة التي ما رويت
Melissa Tully @tullyme.bsky.social Professor and Director, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa
Samantha Bradshaw @sbradshaw.bsky.social Assistant Professor, American University | Studying disinfo, cybersecurity, and emerging technology 👩💻
@tanja-dreher.bsky.social @tanja-dreher.bsky.social
Felipe Soares @felipebsoares.bsky.social Reader in Disinformation Studies - London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
Jonathan de Santos @desamting.bsky.social Desk at ABS-CBN News in Manila, Chair at National Union of Journalists of the Philippines | www.jonathandesantos.com
Jason Telles @jsntelles.bsky.social PhD scholar @Monash_Arts @MonashUni 🇦🇺| Researcher of Culture and Environment Mediations thru Sport & Media; Southeast Asian pop culture | Educator @MonashCollege
paula is finally here @pllcy.bsky.social digital sociology, critical tech & virality studies
london/cambridge
Jingyi Gu @jyg-gu.bsky.social Digital cultures researcher. Assistant professor at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Emily West @emilyewest.bsky.social Professor of Communication and Graduate Program Director at UMass Amherst. Author of Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly. Working on digital platforms, promotional culture, and the climate.
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Sister Spreadsheet
César Jiménez-Martínez @cjimenez-m.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Media and Comms @lsemedia.bsky.social. I read and write.
@janethaven.bsky.social @janethaven.bsky.social
Global Citizens' Assembly Network @glocan.bsky.social International research collective on global and transnational public deliberation.
🌐 GloCAN.org
Holger Kiik @holgerkiik.bsky.social Epistemology of Democracy; Challenges & Innovations of Democracy; Critical thinking; Philosophy https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Meos-Kiik
Half-baked thoughts. Occasional pics of cats, nature or stuff that surprises me.
🇪🇪 stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦
Stuart Allan @stuartallan123.bsky.social Professor of Journalism and Communication at JOMEC, Cardiff University, UK
Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social Director, Research & Analysis @ccmnewmarkj.bsky.social. Writer. Previously Sr Fellow Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affrs. Migration + Cities, Asian digital diaspora. Pediatric transplant mom.
Vlad Bumatay @vladbumatay.bsky.social PhD student in HPS, King’s College, University of Cambridge | Works in General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy and/in Public Policy, and Epistemology | Film photography enthusiast/amateur | Filipino
JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social Sociologist of emergent tech. Dog content enthusiast. https://www.jennyldavis.com/
Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology @ University of Cambridge; researching tech workers, digital economy, class, and culture
https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/dr-robert-dorschel
Karel J. Leyva @kareljleyva.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief (https://politicsrights.com/ ; @polrightsrev.bsky.social). Dedicated to connecting the social sciences and humanities with broader audiences, promoting critical dialogue, and addressing today’s most pressing challenges.
Sahana Udupa @sahanaudupa.bsky.social professor of media anthropology @LMU Munich, Harvard BKC Fellow, ERC projects on extreme speech, AI, content moderation, social media https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/SahanaUdupa
Ellie Vate @eevw.xyz Democracy defender with many interests; books, latest tech, yoga and meditation. A believer in balance. It all co-exists🙏🏼. I read profile descriptions before following. DMs=instant block
Corpus Christi College Cambridge @corpuscambridge.bsky.social Founded in 1352 by the townspeople of Cambridge. A friendly, small College in the heart of the city.
Lori Regattieri @followlori.bsky.social Advisor Green Screen Coalition • PhD Communications UFRJ (Brasil) • Former Senior Fellow AI @Mozilla • Climate Justice • Political economy of AI • Espírito Santo/Brasília, Brasil https://olink.ai/eco-midia
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Critical Theory Tutor at the Sandberg Instituut. American, but slightly less so every passing day.
Caloy Conde @caloyconde.bsky.social Journalist then, human rights activist now. Dad in progress.
No Suma Cero @nosumacero.bsky.social Non-zero-sum games. @NSC
Tech policy. Internet & Digital Rights. AI Governance.
Who gains power when AI is deployed?
Information operations & digital authoritarianism.
Freedom of expression & Data protection.
Social media & Conflict. Networked movements.
Myria Georgiou @myriageorgiou.bsky.social Media and Communications Prof, LSE; digital cities and migration; identity and solidarities; a Londoner and a migrant.
Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social Professor for Media and Communication @ZeMKI.bsky.social
@unibremen.bsky.social // Director @pgmt.bsky.social and MA Digital Media and Society // platform governance, (generative) AI, hype, regulation, tech discourses, norms- K kalindi vora @kalindivora.bsky.social Writer, thinker, teacher.
Books: Life Support, Surrogate Humanity, Reimagining Reproduction
Prof. at Yale
#criticaltheory #sts #cres #feministsts #futureofwork #surrogacy #medicaljustice #criticalAIstudies
kalindivora.com
Jonats / Aventureiro @jnathangnzales.bsky.social They/them
Aspiring Shimanong & Data feminist
Bike commuter
Andrei @andreimartin.bsky.social data, films, music, theatre, tennis, travel 🇵🇭🇦🇺
FREE PALESTINE 🍉
https://linktr.ee/andreimartin
Paul Saproza @paulsaproza.com Political Theory / Democratic Innovations
Luiss University, Roma
https://x.com/paulsaproza
https://linkedin.com/in/boscolebrun/
Parker Bach @parkerbach.bsky.social PhD student at UNC. CITAP affiliate.
Studying online political culture - prediction markets, humor, influencers, and more.
Arguably too much hair.
www.parkerbach.com
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary social & behavioral science research & fellowship in service of generating knowledge, illuminating understandings, building fields, informing policy discourse, & creating an enduring scholarly community like no other | casbs.stanford.edu
Niels van Doorn @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social Associate Professor: University of Amsterdam. Editor: Platforms & Society. Book-in-the-making: The Platform Fix (MIT Press, forthcoming)
Jonas Kaiser @jonaskaiser.bsky.social | Associate Professor @ Suffolk University
| Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social founder @ designbeku.org. ♥️: design and data justice, embroidery, tango and cats. 🤬: "design thinking", "innovation," #AIhype & patriarchy.
➕ ESRC Digital Good Fellow.
David Ongenaert @davidongenaert.bsky.social Postdoc Researcher at Charles University/ Media, Peace, Conflict, Migration & Discourse/ Co-chair of ECREA's International and Intercultural Communication Section
Rolien Hoyng @rolienhoyng.bsky.social Digital media, technology & society, environment, Turkey, Hong Kong
MariaRepnikova @mariarepnikova.bsky.social Academician, word technician, Atlantan, Russian-American-Latvian-Jew. Associate Prof @Georgia State in Global Comm; China expert. Author of Media Politics in China and Chinese Soft Power. Currently writing China's image-making in Africa.
Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social Artist, Curator, Media and Games Researcher
President of Chinese Digital Games Research Association
https://www.hughdavies.au/
Piotr Szpunar @pszpunar.bsky.social Assc. Prof. @ UAlbany | media, memory, political violence
Currently writing about environmental media, futures, landscapes
www.piotrszpunar.com
Siyuan Yin @siyuanyin.bsky.social Assistant Professor
School of Communication | Simon Fraser University
feminist studies, cultural studies, political economy, social movements, migration
Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social AI + emerging tech + epistemic resilience; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes, https://www.samgregory.info, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster. Former Executive Director WITNESS.
Anthony Nadler @amnadler.bsky.social Media studies prof @ Ursinus College; author, Making The News Popular (http://bit.ly/31RfIlt); co-editor, News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX)
Sanja Vico @sanjavico.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Exeter | Collaborator, LSE | Research & teach digital media in contexts of migration, identity, nationalism, post-conflict justice & peacebuilding | Mixed-method research | Londoner
@vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leicester
Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Platform Studies at Aarhus University
ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Materiality of AI" (2027, Bristol University Press) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
Vec Alporha @vecalporha.bsky.social PhD Candidate at University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Emotional Historian.
Mel Bunce @melbunce.bsky.social Professor of International Journalism & Politics at City, University of London | Deputy Dean, School of Communication & Creativity | Expert on international news, media freedom, journalism & democracy.
Marikit 🇵🇭💜 @mataraykween.bsky.social Ph.D. Comparative Literature. Diasporic literature, Filipino literature in English, postmodernism, postcolonialism, gender studies 🌈 Ally. Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines. Married with kids ❤️
https://open.substack.com/pub/taraykween
Sam Chan 陳力深 @liksamchan.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Cultures @ University of Sydney | Dating app researcher | Author of 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙨 | 🇭🇰
Cecilia Ka Hei Wong @ceciliawongkh.bsky.social PhD Candidate in #CulturalStudies at CUHK | Feminist & Queer Digital Activism| Manosphere| Platform & Creator Cultures| Hong Kong 🇭🇰 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/ceciliawongkh
Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd ChemE PhD from UMass interested in polymer architecture, self-assembly, and controlled synthesis
Postdoc in the Chitnis lab
Latino, he/him/él
Website: https://lorenzana.phd
ORCiD: 0000-0002-6517-6897
🇨🇦🇺🇸🇭🇳
Heesoo Jang @heesoojang.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Media Law and Ethics, UMass-Amherst
Proud UNC J-school PhD alumna
heesoojang.com
Jason Kamilar @jasonkamilar.bsky.social Professor at UMass Amherst | primates | ecology | evolution | anthropology | transplanted New Yorker | Opinions my own | www.kamilarlab.org
UMass ISSR @umassissr.bsky.social Institute for Social Science Research at UMass Amherst. Interdisciplinary hub for new ideas, research design, methods training/consultation, and grant support.
Learn more: https://www.umass.edu/social-science-research/
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social AIAS-AUFF Fellow @ Aarhus University (DK). Vice-chair @acsj-ica.bsky.social.
Research: social movements & digital media | mutual aid | politics of tech.
Book: https://elisabettaferrariphd.com/ancbook/
Hobbies: getting angry at the Philadelphia 76ers
Amelia Johns @ameliajohns.bsky.social I am an Associate Professor at UTS (she/her). I research youth, social media and messaging| digital activism| digital citizenship| misinformation and platform regulation. I live on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people.
Giorgia Aiello @giorgiaaiello.bsky.social Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Milan. Visual cultures, digital media, cities.
Cindy Ma @cindyxma.bsky.social assistant prof. in race & media at university of leeds | UNC CITAP affiliate | sociotechnical systems, political discourse & racial inequity
Farrah Fazal @farrahfazal.bsky.social 📺Doc Producer/Director | EP
🎤Journalist: former war correspondent, fascism, race, politics, disinfo, extremism, cults, immigration, US-MX border
♥️Radical Love
🕊️”Truthful not neutral”
🌍US| AFRICA|UK|CAN|MIDDLE EAST
✊🏽SAG-AFTRA | 9 EMMYS
🦠Lyme warrior
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
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
Lilie Chouliaraki @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social LSE Prof | Media & Communications | Latest book: ICA Best Book Award “Wronged. The Weaponization of Victimhood” | https://cup.columbia.edu/book/wronged/9780231550239
Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social #firstgen #professor and #writer in #nola ❤️. Relentless advocate for #sociology. Author of non-fiction and textbooks with a new book -- Exposed: A College in Crisis Puts Science to the Test -- out in 2026. I adore what I do. And #cats!
lisa-wade.com
Nick Benequista @benequista.bsky.social Senior director of the Center for International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for Democracy. Working to strengthen media development and democracy through research and international cooperation.
Kaarina Nikunen @kaarinan.bsky.social Professor of Media and Communication Research
Tampere University
I write about datafication and social justice, emotions, affect & traces of humanity in the digital world. Also on migration, hate and the far-right.
Book: Media Solidarities (SAGE 2019)
Belle Torek, Esq. 🇭🇹🏳️🌈 @belletorek.bsky.social Law, tech policy, survivor safety & privacy @nnedv.bsky.social. Advisory Committee, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Former AI & Tech @hrc.org. Vintage style, not vintage values. Views my own.
Ozan Aşık @ozanmask.bsky.social Media sociologist/ethnographer. Lecturing @Charles University and @Bursa Uludag University. PhD @University of Cambridge. Research on digital journalism, platforms, social media use, polarization, disinformation and AI.
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
Sandra Ponzanesi @gimko.bsky.social Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. NWO project: VR as Empathy Machine: Media, Migration and the Humanitarian Predicament. Latest book: Doing Digital Migration Studies: https://tinyurl.com/5257448k
Mong Palatino @mongpalatino.bsky.social Activist. Asia-Pacific blogger. BAYAN, IFEX, Global Voices, Bulatlat, The Diplomat. Legislator (14th-15th Congress). Kabataan Partylist founder. Folding biker. Posts my own
ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social • qualitative social science academic researching tech + young identities
• new book out with @ucpress: THE KIDS ARE ONLINE https://tinyurl.com/jv33yjaf
• words in @guardian @WIRED @WSJ @glamour
• she/her
find me @ ysabelgerrard.net/home
MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London
hopeful.technology
Joanna Zylinska @joannazylinska.bsky.social Media philosopher, artist, writer
Prof @ King's College London, Digital Humanities
www.joannazylinska.net
AI : nonhuman photography : perception machine : media art : ethics : counter-apocalypse
Lyr 🦊 @lyrwar.bsky.social PC Gaymer, RPGs in all forms.
PhD Candidate (Media Studies). I think hard about the experience of existing in the virtual, by looking at games.
Interested in E-lit, (queer) bodies in media...
Insta: @lyrwar
Discord: lyrwar
he/him
Babak Bahador @babak9.bsky.social Research media/coms and peacebuilding at George Washington University (GWU). Direct, Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication (GWU), Media & Peacebuilding Project (GWU), Peace News Network: https://bsky.app/profile/peacenewsnet.bsky.social
Paul Jason Perez @pvperez1.bsky.social PhD Student, Information Science at the University of Washington iSchool. On-study leave from the University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies.
Marc Ambinder @marcambinder.bsky.social National security, politics, breaking news, cats. Author of "The Brink." Trust and safety policy @ TikTok now. Amateur Everettian quantum mechanic. 🌈
Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious.
interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue
contributing correspondent at @science.org
co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social
2024 KSJ fellow at MIT
Signal: kakape.93
Surveillance in the Majority World Network @surveillancemw.bsky.social Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network aims to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include non-Northern / Western discourses and practices.
https://surveillance-majority-world.net