Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social Historian of everyday life in England, c.1500-1700 | Bristol Uni | First Gen | Devon & Somerset
Gerald Sim @geraldsim.bsky.social Neo-Luddite | Author, Screening Big Data | 🟦 Devils ⬛️🟨 Hawks 🟥 YNWA
Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social Professional historian, consulting archivist, museum researcher, occasional academic, reader, film fan, musician, occasional DJ, one-time photographer, dad, queer, goth, Naarm resident, and maker of lists. https://mikejonesonline.com
Amy Adrion @amyadrion.bsky.social Mother, Filmmaker, Professor - getting more pissed off by the minute.
I support the Dignity of All People, Freedom of Speech, Separation of Church & State, Bodily Autonomy, Due Process, Rule of Law, 3 Co-Equal Branches of Government, Peaceful Protest 🇺🇸
Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social Journalism lecturer, writer, Talking Indonesia, Melbourne Press Club, PhD on horror + digital culture + ethnography
I also write and think about food, identity, colonialism, monsters and racism
Neon Genesis Xu-vangelion 🤖 @hellotherexu.bsky.social comedian, actor, writer, dumpling connoisseur. codex. SFWA. clarion 2026.
Manchester Metropolitan University @manmetuni.bsky.social 
Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
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. 
[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. https://intransition.openlibhums.org/ 
Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
Steve Anderson @sfanders.bsky.social Scholar-artist, video essayist
https://www.realityfrictions.net
https://technocinema.net
https://criticalcommons.org
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
Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.org & @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
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/- S Steven Shaviro @sshaviro.bsky.social Stealth assassin from the clouds.
MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture @maifeminism.bsky.social MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social A digital publication & resource that advances research on silent-era women filmmakers. Published by the Columbia University Libraries.
https://wfpp.columbia.edu/
Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social Programme Leader Open Scholarly Communication at @opensciencenl.bsky.social | Dutch Research Council (NWO) | http://www.openscience.nl | co-founded @MediArXiv.bsky.social | #openaccess | views my own | posts in 🇳🇱 & 🇬🇧 | www.orcid.org/0000-0002-9866-0239
José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social Teacher, critic; interested in all things film. 
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies @jcmsjournal.bsky.social Media studies for all. Print & online open access content. We value accessibility, transparency, diversity, & community. Published through SCMS
Online at: https://jcmsjournal.org
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
Laura Bondía @laurabondia.bsky.social Film scholar, journalist, comic-liebhaber
https://encadenados.org/
https://photo-play.net
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Homay King @homay.bsky.social Author, teacher, scholar. Film, contemporary art, digital culture. California raised, Philadelphia based.
https://linktr.ee/homay.king
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social Author, teacher, anti-authoritarian, media studies prof @ Utrecht Univ. New book – FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
Cinapse @cinapse.bsky.social Cinematic discovery and discussion. www.cinapse.net
Barbara Flueckiger @flueko.bsky.social film scholar turned entrepreneur, founder Timeline of Historical Film Colors filmcolors.org, Scan2Screen.com, science enthusiast, mother, baker
Nick Davie @nickdavie.bsky.social Film/Television PhD Researcher @ UoN: arthouse, authorship, formalism in Twin Peaks: The Return. Here for the Garmonbozia. @ whalefromtv on Twitter/X, words for various.
Nickdavie.wordpress.com
Liz Evans @lizjevans.bsky.social Professor of Screen Cultures at Uni of Nottingham. Writing about audiences, media industries, technologies, & transmedia while mum to two future superheroines. Co-Editor of ‘Participations’.
Amsterdam University Press @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Posts in EN & NL.
Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social Open research, academic culture, US politics, democracy.
I post to Mastodon more than Bluesky. But see my bridge account for B versions of the M posts.
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Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies @participations.bsky.social Interdisciplinary, independent and open access journal focused on all forms of audience research and reception studies.
NEW ISSUE: November 2025: https://www.participations.org
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
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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
Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social A charity bringing together libraries, publishers, and publishing service providers to secure the diversity and financial futures of open access book production and dissemination.
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Queline (kikikrazed) @queline.bsky.social 📺 Video essayist: BFI, GKIDS, youtube.com/@kikikrazed
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The Essay Library @theessaylibrary.com 📼 Video essay collective making weird and fun collaborative projects: youtube.com/@theessaylibrary
📱 Discord server with 900+ members dedicated to the craft of video essays: theessaylibrary.com
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/
Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social Discover films, videos made by trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming artists. https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/ Director: @laurah.bsky.social Check out our LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/transgendermediaportal
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
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. 
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
Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social Scholar and maker of activist media; fake and real; digital and material. Working in and about AIDS, (long) COVID, queer, trans, anti-racist and feminist media. Trying to act on my commitments to non-Zionism, the climate, and my union, PSC-CUNY.
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.
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
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
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
Miklós Kiss @mikloskiss.bsky.social Associate Professor of AV Arts & Cognition @rug.nl, author of this http://bit.ly/2SJM29Q, this http://bit.ly/2a4zvaw and this http://bit.ly/3A0KrPG.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9136-8200
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:
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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social openingthefuture.net is a funding model for open access books. Designed for small/med scholarly publishers, it is free to use by any Press seeking a low-risk move towards OA. Doesn't rely on BPCs, is equitable, sustainable, & part of the Copim Community.
Cydnii Wilde Harris (she/her) @cydniiwilde.bsky.social Spelman Woman / Jedi Master of Arts / Film Scholar / Bibliophile / Come on stop trying to hit me and hit me.
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
Em T @emtherese.bsky.social NC mountains. Dogs and cats. LGBTQ+, antiracist, pro democracy. no DMs
Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social English & theatre & film & fandom. Fair use advocate. In the process of building something new.
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
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
Girish Shambu @girishshambu.bsky.social I live in Buffalo and write about film culture. Book: “The New Cinephilia”.
Aca-Media @aca-media.bsky.social A podcast offering an academic perspective on media, from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
https://aca-media.org/
Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social Occasionally writing
https://lukemckernan.com 
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention.
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Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Film at the University of British Columbia. Videographic scholarship ❤️
@chiaragrizzaffi.bsky.social @chiaragrizzaffi.bsky.social 
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
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)
kev, it is what it is @kevinlferguson.bsky.social by popular demand
Journal of Electronic Publishing @jepub.bsky.social A peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal on contemporary scholarly publishing issues and practices. Co-edited by Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema, supported by @michiganpublishing.bsky.social
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/
Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social Open access peer-reviewed journal for scholarship on postwar American literature and culture
post45.org/journal
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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.
@necsusjournal.bsky.social @necsusjournal.bsky.social 
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. 
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
Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social A media scholar - jeffpooley.com/about
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
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.
Marc Garrett @mgarrett.bsky.social Buy my Feral Class book. https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1561
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Dr Marta F Suarez @martafsuarez.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Screen Studies. Researching film, TV and computer games. Transmedia. Streaming media. Popular culture. 
Maryse Elliott @maryzen.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor @amsterdamupress.bsky.social, passionate about publishing cutting-edge research in #filmstudies, #mediastudies and #communicationstudies. Happy to connect and discuss your new academic book project! 
Scholarly Communications @ MIT Libraries @mitlibscholarly.bsky.social Scholarly Communications & Collections Strategy in the MIT Libraries https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
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Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media @alphavillej.bsky.social https://www.alphavillejournal.com/
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world picture journal @worldpicture.bsky.social open-access journal + conference, c. 2008.
visit: worldpicturejournal.com
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social punctum books is a queer, scholar-led Open Access press devoted to creative modes of inquiry across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. Affiliated with UC-Santa Barbara Library & funded by university libraries across the globe. https://punctumbooks.com
Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social Academic, translation researcher, film nerd, zero waste obsessive. Opinions expressed in a personal capacity. #filmtranslationhistory
Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social https://fragments.video/
James Marsh @marshy00.bsky.social Film critic in Hong Kong: South China Morning Post / RTHK Radio 3 / Deadline / Deep Dive Movie Reviews / ScreenAnarchy / Fantastic Fest / Beyond Fest / Critics Choice / OFCS - also bits for Arrow / Umbrella / Second Sight / Film Movement / Vinegar Syndrome
Netflix Is A Joke @netflixisajoke.bsky.social We can say whatever the HELL we want. 😈
John Mulaney @mulaney.bsky.social MISTER WHATEVER
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social Associate Lecturer, AUB | Non-Executive Director, Workers Policy Project | Author of 4 books with Bloomsbury & EUP
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