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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social City & Community aims to advances urban sociological theory, promote the highest quality empirical research on communities and urban social life, and encourage sociological perspectives on urban policy. An @asanews.bsky.social journal.
Metin Koca @adagiomminor.bsky.social British Academy International Fellow @York.ac.uk Sociology
York Civic Trust @yorkcivictrust.bsky.social York Civic Trust is a membership organisation, run by volunteers for the benefit of all who live in, work in, or visit York.
Brett Smith - Professor, Durham University @brettsmithprof.bsky.social - Moving Social Work http://bit.ly/4mexJU4. https://bit.ly/3ZAC635 - CMOs Physical Activity & Disability Lead bit.ly/34jX9xb - Coproduction http://bit.ly/3L1NGdI - ResearchGate: Qualitative & PA disability papers https://bit.ly/436DsF7
Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social Head of Science and Technology Studies #STS Section @DTU 🇩🇰 Research Affiliate at InSIS @ox.ac.uk | @sydney.edu.au PhD | still writing a book about #Food #Finance #Futures | also sharing thoughts and photos on 📚🌷
School for Business and Society 🏫 @uoysbs.bsky.social It's what we're for. For better business. For fairer societies. Based @york.ac.uk. People in the School - Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/enRmVo 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/uoy-sbs/ 🔗 www.york.ac.uk/business-society
A̴̙̅Ǩ̸̫A̵̭̍ ̵̖̃F̴̛͈ȧ̸͙b̶̦́ï̵͙a̵̜̾n̸̰͠ ̸̘̾M̷̟͠u̴͉̇n̷̥͝i̷̻͆e̸̮̾ŝ̵̲a̴̹͌ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social Sparse reactions to things, augmented with academic propaganda -- from the verified author of 'The Provoked Economy' (Routledge, 2014), AKA Fabian Muniesa https://provokedeconomy.net/
Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture & Organisation at University of Westminster Wrote a book on the mundane work that makes Big Music work; do editorial bits at Journal of Cultural Economy; some other stuff... https://tgpbennett.wordpress.com
Roberto Velázquez-Quiroz @rovelazq.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Government, UAI Chile & IMFD | Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, UC Chile | My work integrates: #computationalsocialscience #statisticalmethods #socialnetworks #textdatamining #culturalsociology #socialtheory
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️ Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social Independent and open access journal of peer-reviewed, theoretical interventions into all aspects of media and communications. mediatheoryjournal.org
Open Research at York @uoyopenres.bsky.social Engaging with our research community, supporting good practice and sharing updates on all aspects of #openresearch #openaccess #opendata @york.ac.uk Open Research at York: https://york.ac.uk/open-research Email the team: lib-open-research@york.ac.uk
Holly Nelson @holnels.bsky.social PhD researcher in Sociology | University of York | researching women’s rest 🧘‍♀️
Yiannis Kalaitzis @yianniskalaitzis.bsky.social Having studied philosophy and political theory, preferring reading than writing, mainly interested in ideology, power, and digital environments.
Dr Claire Markham @culturalclare.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Criminology. Rurality, pubs, communities, social harms, sustainability, co-production. Also💜 history. Views my own. @britbeerwriters.bsky.social @drinkingstudies.bsky.social
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship ▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z ▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk ▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Mia Westrap @miawestrap.bsky.social
Jeremy Brice @jeremybrice.bsky.social Lecturer in Sustainability & Innovation at the University of Manchester. Food, futures and (increasingly) finance.
Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social The Drinking Studies Network is an interdisciplinary and international research group that connects scholars working on drink and drinking cultures. We are free to join and welcome all. More info at https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond. Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
Théo Bourgeron @theobourgeron.bsky.social Apologetic academic Researching health, financial capitalism, the far-right at the University of Edinburgh
Lucy Potter @lucypotter.bsky.social ESRC Research Fellow at the Uni of York | PhD in non-religion, apostasy & asylum | Sociologist exploring identities, human and refugee rights & (de)coloniality https://linktr.ee/drlucypotter
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography @ Durham University. The geopolitics-development nexus | China-Africa relations | South-South flows | energy & infrastructural geographies https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marcus-power/
Dr David Jarratt. @davidjarratt.bsky.social Academic. Interested in various aspects of #tourism, place and coastal communities in particular. Interdisciplinary. Preston, Lancashire.
elif buse doyuran @busedoyu.bsky.social phd in sociology at university of edinburgh
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)
Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social Digital sociologist and Associate Professor in Education, interested in identity, social media, & LGBTQ youth. Co-lead and Chair of SMSociety You can find other papers I've written here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=770gzPq
Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social @investigatedot.bsky.social 🧡 Casual Academic and PhD researcher at York St John 🎓 interested in the spatial construction of social video game experiences, online identity & digital culture w/ a lil bit of death studies on the side🦕👾💀
Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social Professor of the Sociology of Health and Illness. Researching suicide, self-harm, bodies/embodiment and 'mental' health. Lived experience & liveability. Scotland/Edinburgh. She/her. @d-liveability.bsky.social‬ #suicidecultures
Dr Anna Bull @annabull.bsky.social Senior lecturer at University of York, researching sexual misconduct in HE and CCIs and inequalities in music education. Founder and co-director of The 1752 Group. Cats. www.1752group.com
Dr Susan Watson @suwatson.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Social Policy in the School for Business and Society at the University of York. Specialist in gendered violence in the online space, previous policy maker and new Labour staffer. Avid tea drinker.
Nikolas Rose @rose-nikolas.bsky.social Social and political theorist. Hon prof at ANU and UCL. Books include ‘The Politics of Life Itself’, ‘Our Psychiatric Future’, ‘The Urban Brain’ (with D. Fitzgerald). Just out: ‘Questioning Humanity (with T. Osborne). Working on new book on biopolitics… 🇺🇦
Nathan Manning @natemanning.bsky.social Sociologist working on university education and right-wing populism, political emotions and young citizens. University of Adelaide, all views my own. Co-Editor Emotions & Society (BUP) - https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/emsoc/emsoc-o
Borthwick Institute for Archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social The Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York, UK, for records of the archdiocese, local parishes, businesses, hospitals etc. borthwick-institute@york.ac.uk
British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social
Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social Prof at the Oxford Internet Institute Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social Publications: www.markgraham.space Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities Eat the rich
Bernhard Rieder @riederb.bsky.social amsterdam univ; lisboa; history & politics of software; mechanology; platforms; digital methods; en/fr/de/nl/pt;
Tiziano Bonini @tbonini.bsky.social Associate professor of Sociology of culture and Communication at @unisi. Co-author of Algorithms of Resistance (MIT Press 2024), available in OA, MIT press website
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social Poet. Geographer.
gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here: https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/
Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Communication and media professor researching the internet, platforms & automation in society via cultural studies & digital methods. Brisbane/Sunshine Coast hinterland.🏳️‍🌈🏞🌄✨️
Carolin Gerlitz @carolingerlitz.bsky.social Professor Digital Media & Methods, Uni Siegen. Data studies, digital methods, sensory media, app studies, platforms, inventive methodologies, automation.
Simone Browne @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social
Marion Fourcade @marionf.bsky.social
Ted Striphas @striphas.bsky.social Prof. & Chair – Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder | Author, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (https://tinyurl.com/p8ad6suw) | Opinions my own
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
M @mattzook.bsky.social @mattzook.bsky.social
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/
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
Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social JCE explores how material cultural practices organise economies and societies. EICs Philip Roscoe @philiproscoe.bsky.social & Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social I research social media, platform studies, and digital intimacies. My book, OnlyFans, comes out in October 2026 https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=onlyfans--9781509567188
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech. [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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
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
Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social Historian of science working on histories of the future, the nature of human/animal relationships, and relationships between science and religion, as well as histories of the field sciences. Will witter on about SF at the drop of a warp drive. Cymraes.
Tim Highfield @timhighfield.bsky.social Internet researcher and Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.
Paul Ord-Szymaniak @ord-szymaniak.bsky.social ESRC funded PhD Sociology at University of York: death studies, critical algorithm studies, pregnancy loss, biopolitics
University of York @york.ac.uk We’re a leading UK university and part of the Russell Group 🦆 See news, events and find out more about York at: york.ac.uk
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social digital media + education | Monash University | research interests: automation, AI, tech bans, public interest ed-tech | host of 'Education Technology Society' podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1301377
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS. Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere. VP, @litsciarts.org 📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF. ☭. Not a professional account.
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics). Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social 🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her. https://elinorcarmi.com/ Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social Sociologist of technology and science, empirical philosopher, creative methods
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social Theories of affect, and this conjunctural crisis. New book co-written with Anna Secor: The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781915983299/the-politics-of-feeling/
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
Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html
Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social Bristol & Melbourne. Sociology. Geography. Urban Studies. Digital Culture. Prof in Global Inequalities, School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol; Hon Prof, School of Sociology, ANU; Adjunct Prof, Social Sciences, Adelaide University.
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies, @appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
Dr Patricia Hamilton @patriciahamilton.bsky.social Exploring the intersections between black feminist theory, reproduction and parenting. Committed procrastinator. I made a short explainer about Shared Parental Leave: https://youtu.be/Eju2uKx40C4?feature=shared
Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
Taina Bucher @tainab.bsky.social
Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social Founded in 1928, the Department of Geography at Durham University is one of the leading centres of geographical research and education in the world.
Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social Media Studies @uvahumanities.bsky.social · 📚 Author, Platforms (Polity) · 📦 NWO Veni: ‘AI Power’ · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 👥 @appstudies.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 🔗 fernandovandervlist.nl
Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social This is a space to share research and trends in global tourism geographies research, policy and practice.
Tom O'Brien @tomob-nz.bsky.social York based Antipodean 🇳🇿, political sociologist, and allotmenteer 🌾 with @petramakela.bsky.social
Pablo Molina @rossolb.bsky.social Doctoral researcher and travel addict 📚🌏
Carol Robinson @carolrobinson1.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of York, UK, with an interest in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). FHEA. Currently thinking about SoTL ethics, guest speakers in the classroom and how we teach theory. And cake.
Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social Prof, Arts, Design & Architecture, UNSW Sydney, Australia. Sociology of health and digital media research too. Personal blog: https://simplysociology.wordpress.com/
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social Reader in Management at the #University of York and general business history expert. Research interests include corporate governance, sport, transport and teaching and learning using history. Opinions expressed are mine, not the University's.
the algorithms + miscarriage project @paul-ord.bsky.social PhD research project at University of York Understanding the role of algorithmic technologies in women's remembrance after miscarriage sociology of miscarriage / critical algorithm studies / death studies
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
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social Professor in SPS, Glasgow University. PI Nuffield; PI @GLIMER_Research. co-Editor @IDjnl. FBA FRSE FAcSS. Writing in personal capacity.
Nick Gane @nickgane.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of Warwick.
Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
Susan Halford @susanjhalford.bsky.social Interdisciplinary sociologist. Co-Director ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures https://www.bristol.ac.uk/research/centres/sociodigital-futures/
Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of Edinburgh Futures Institute: A futures-focused space for learning, research, and innovation at the University of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social We are creating an environment where data-driven research can grow and thrive. Join us! #EdCDCS #DataLedResearch www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk
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
idil galip @idilg.bsky.social Web surfing meme researcher 🕸️
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Addie McGowan @addiemcgowan.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Data Civics Observatory & @adtechproject.bsky.social. University of Edinburgh (Sociology and EFI). Academic by way of digital marketing strategist. Memphis, TN + Edinburgh, UK.