Paul Gowder @gowder.io Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io
All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
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.
@amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social 
Cameron Barnett @cameronbarnett.bsky.social Teacher, writer, author of “The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water” (2017) and "Murmur" (2024) - @AutumnHouse.org. Kind of a big nerd.
Karen Adkins @ghirnblanston.bsky.social Philosophy professor, dog and tennis obsessive, Colorodan
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social Assistant Professor · Communication · Tulane University
Look, I made a hat: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/staging-a-comeback/9781978827813/
Academic Audio Transcription Ltd @aat-transcribes.bsky.social Specialist transcription services with a social impact
Supporting research, improving access, and creating fairly-paid, flexible, accessible work for disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent freelancers
https://linktr.ee/academicaudiotranscription
Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social associate prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social Documentary-maker, writer, sound artist
Associate professor and director of audio journalism at Newmark J-school at CUNY
Editor @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social
kallipearl.com
soundfields.org
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com "covers the strange and consequential with equal enthusiasm"
"I may be unable to discern the point, but it definitely made me read the whole thing"
reporter 〰️ writer 〰️ sculptor 〰 @coyotemedia.org calendar guy 〰️ they/them 〰 https://reveleth.com/
Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power at work and bikes, twin peaks & cats at home | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
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.
Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social At FSNNA we're working to create a supportive, welcoming community for developing & sharing research in the interdisciplinary field of fan studies.
Sign up for our newsletter! https://share.google/0eVsE74dUlNnBlrtQ
Website: https://fsn-northamerica.org/
shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
Meredith Guthrie @meredithea.bsky.social Transplanted Texan. Media scholar at Pitt. Co-chair of Disability Studies and Disney Studies at MAPACA. Loves baseball, movies with explosions, and being contrary. She/her.
Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead @ University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings
💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
Jenni Olson @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social I'm @JenniOlsonSF everywhere | Senior Director, Social Media Safety at @glaad.bsky.social. LGBTQ film expert & online pioneer. Maker of films. Proprietor: Butch.org
Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social Film/Media/Comm/Sound
MAKING STEREO FIT
www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/
Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Sondheim, Philip Roth, The Dark Tower, Twin Peaks, Pale Fire, Calvino, and Taylor Swift.
"The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza
Ashley Hinck @ashleyhinck.bsky.social I research rhetoric, the internet, and fandom. Associate Professor at Xavier University. PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. BA from Creighton University. 
@rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social 
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social Studying, researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian. Overly helpful
Warning: high volume of reposts and posts. If I follow you, I won't be offended if you don't follow back.- M SCMS Media Industries SIG @misig-scms.bsky.social The account for SCMS's Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group
SCMS TV SIG @scms-tv.bsky.social SCMS Television Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about tv studies.
Jacob Gaboury @jacobgaboury.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him)
Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture
Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021)
Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing
https://jacobgaboury.com
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
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.
Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social The global network for surveillance studies research. Surveillance & Society journal https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society, conferences, workshops, mentoring, prizes & more. Join us here: https://surveillance-studies.net
James N Gilmore @jamesngilmore.bsky.social Associate Professor, Communication, Clemson University
Media & Technology Studies
New book: Bringers of Order: Wearable technologies and the manufacturing of everyday life (UC Press, 2025)
nina sabak @ninasabak.bsky.social MFA-haver and lowercase deadpanner. I don't want the world, I just want your half. (all views expressed here are mine, not my employer's.)
Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of English & Assoc. Director of First-Year Writing @BaruchCollege, @CUNY | teaching, rhetoric, quant | wooder ice (lemon) | #firstgen | he/him
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
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
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/
Annette Vee @anetv.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English at Pitt, writes on computation and writing, teaching, tech. https://annettevee.substack.com/ https://www.english.pitt.edu/people/annette-vee
Jennifer Hessler @jenmhessler.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California
Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society
Views my own
Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social Fangirl, Associate Professor of media studies at UT Austin, author of "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019) and a bunch of other stuff. Posts aren't endorsements, mind your own cartwheels, etc. etc.
Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS (2026). she/her (white cis queer)
Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social NYU.edu/orphanfilm
Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social Professor, UCF T&T and English. Opinions mine. Bringing Foucault to fandom since 2006.
Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social Reimaginer of media industries and society in digital age | Prof@QUT | Strategy consultant | US expat | Fan of swimming, baked goods & nature | drtvlotz@gmail | amandalotz.com | Mostly writing on LinkedIn, glimmers of also being a human here
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
Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social 30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social Milwaukee, WI
Media Studies
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Kathryn Waring @kathrynwaring.bsky.social essayist | PhD candidate | writing a book about America's 1st epileptic colony | childless 🐱 lady | she/her
kathrynwaring.com
Raffi Sarkissian @rsark.bsky.social queer Armenian, made in L.A., live in VA, teach at CNU
media studies, queer culture, film festivals, awards discourse
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Dr. Kristen Warner is on sabbatical @kristenwarner.bsky.social Professor, Researcher, Irascible teapot. Expertise in film/media studies as it relates to black folk, employment/labor, representation and RESONANCE. Yes the plastic representation. Yes the sonic visibility.
I still don’t watch sitcoms. Except shrinking.
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com just another poet with a tabby cat | ersatz researcher, masterless ronin, island dweller, winter sparrow | we must hurry if we are going to dance | jsalowe.com
Liz Ellcessor @trilliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Virginia.
Co-editor at JCMS:Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Emergency systems, disability, and media access.
Dr Rukmini Pande @rukminipande.bsky.social Academic. Working on the intersection of race/ism in media fandom. 
mesk @meesk.bsky.social TV, media industries, algorithmic brand culture, videographic criticism. Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies, Lewis & Clark College. She/her.
sarah edwards @seedwards.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies, North Central College. Feminist media studies // influencer industry // platforms // labor // tech. Formerly: UW-Madison Comm Arts, Social Media Collective. She/her.
https://sarahedwardsphd.com/
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies at ASU. Studying technology, race, power, and ethics. Lover of general shenanigans. I refuse to call them “skeets.” Opinions my own.
Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social formerly @markboynz on Twits. Media and Comms academic. Pinko leftie socialist. Queer rights. Tangata tiriti. #Landback.
Kate Fortmueller @kfortmueller.bsky.social Media industries, labor, and unions.
Author of Below the Stars & Hollywood Shutdown (both 2021), Co-editor, Hollywood Unions (2025), Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers w/ @mirandabanks.bsky.social (2026).
Assoc. Prof @GSU
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social global media professor
author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01
español incluído.
Courtney Brannon Donoghue @cbrannondonoghue.bsky.social Associate Professor, Media Industries. University of North Texas. Author of The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere (UT Press) & Localising Hollywood (BFI Press).
Amanda: Half Animal, Half Human @amandaannklein.bsky.social media studies professor writing supernatural historical crime fiction. bylines: New Yorker, Salon, Atlantic, KERA, Vice, E!
Views expressed are my own
Millennials Killed the Video Star: https://www.dukeupress.edu/millennials-killed-the-video-star
Alisa Perren @aperren.bsky.social Media studies prof. Director of Industry Relations for the Radio-Television-Film Department at UT-Austin. Opinions are my own.
Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social Asst. prof of TV/media studies. Current book project: US radio + TV horror anthologies 1940s-1960s, gender/domestic space + media technology, the uncanny. #FirstGen. She/her.
Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social Feminist music geek
Website | https://sites.ua.edu/avesey/
Substack | https://substack.com/@alyxvesey
PMBIP | https://www.youtube.com/@ericweisbard8091
Extending Play | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/extending-play-9780190085643
Paul Booth @pbooth81.bsky.social Teacher, writer, dog-lover, reader, board gamer, tv watcher, Doctor Who enabler; annoyingly optimistic.
New Doctor Who Big Finish author: check out my Short Trips "Ahead of Time" coming out April 2025
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)
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
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
Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats --
Montreal
https://sterneworks.org
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
SCMS Fan and Audience Studies SIG @scmsfaas.bsky.social SCMS Fan and Audience Studies Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about fan studies and audience studies.
SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies SIG @scmspedagogy.bsky.social Official page for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film Studies and Production and Assistant Director of Women and Gender Studies, Oakland University.
"It's research, I swear."
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
Kevin M. Flanagan @realkmflanagan.bsky.social professor, film/TV/videogame historian, Deadhead, &c.
D(oc) Oc(k) @frittersandclam.bsky.social teaching professor in film; movies, tv, hockey, books, cats, horror, television, irish media. often retweets Hausu and Elsa Lanchester
Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social Feminist Media Histories examines the role gender has played in media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. Published quarterly by UC Press.
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Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.
SCMS Media, Science, and Technology SIG @scmsmst.bsky.social 
media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations
website: www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/
calendar: mediaarchaeologylab.neocities.org/
news: mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/
Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social The Official Bluesky account for SCMS
https://www.cmstudies.org/
Questions? Don't hesitate to get in touch with the SCMS office via the Contact Us page, and we’ll be happy to respond.
Dr. FitzPatrick @jfitz.bsky.social
Director of Digital Narrative & Interactive Design at Pitt; these views my own. World Lit, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Runner, Joyous Nerd. @Jess_Fits on the old bird platform.