Tom Byers @tom-byers.bsky.social PhD Candidate & Research Assistant @UniMelb
Renee Barnes @renbarau.bsky.social Associate Professor Journalism, University of the Sunshine Coast.
REEVALUATE EU Project @reevaluate-project.bsky.social An EU funded project that provides tools for prioritization, contextualization, 3D modeling and reuse of cultural heritage to empower museums and the public to collaborate in making heritage accessible, inclusive and secure. Visit us at "reevaluate.eu".
Media International Australia @mediaintaus.bsky.social
Ziran Zhao (Brandon) @zhaoziran258.bsky.social PhD student at @Monash_Arts👨🏻💻focusing on digital culture & game platform
@adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social Lecturer and writer in games and interactive media.
Perth, WA.
El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social Grumpy optimist. Writes about the NDIS and disability. Wiradjuri country
bluntshovels.au
Cherry Baylosis @cherrybaylosis.bsky.social Part time mountain goat. Full time Director of Policy and Advocacy @DANA
Brain and Mind Centre @brainandmindcentre.bsky.social We are at the forefront of #mentalhealth & #neuroscience #research. We collaborate across industries & disciplines to find answers to global #health challenges.
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
Jessica Balanzategui @jkbalanzategui.bsky.social Associate Professor in Media and Cinema
@RMIT University
Editor, Horror and Gothic Media Cultures @amsterdamupress
Australian Research Council Industry Fellow
Parsa @sighpaa.bsky.social Interaction Designer
https://github.com/parsaa74
https://parsaazari.xyz
Media and Communication @cogitatiomac.bsky.social Media and Communication is a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of research in communication.
2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 (Q1)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication
Dr Sheree Gregory @drshereegregory.bsky.social Employment Relations + HRM academic @ University of Newcastle. Studying care/working life in creative industries, work/life & tech, future of work, contemporary issues surrounding workplaces & households. Forthcoming bk ~ Sydney Uni Press. Views are my own
Tim Dwyer @tim-dwyer.bsky.social Honorary Associate Discipline of Media and Communications at University of Sydney and former Prof@Charles Sturt Uni researches media and communications industries, online news and regulation, media ethics and AI, law and policy
Sasha Soraine @sashasoraine.bsky.social HCI and Games Researcher. Postdoc @ UniMelb. Software Engineering PhD
investigate.games @ YSJ @investigatedot.bsky.social Investigating video games, board games and other types of play in the context of their history, production and socio-cultural value 👾
🌐 http://investigate.games
✉️ investigate.games@yorksj.ac.uk
📍 York St John University, UK
App Studies @appstudies.bsky.social The App Studies Initiative (ASI) is an international research network comprising academic experts in app-related media research who contribute to the study of apps and platforms.
🔗 appstudies.org
Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social Senior Lecturer of Digital Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University
MMU UCU committee
I'm a political economist of the internet
www.danieljamesjoseph.net
Nate Tkacz @nateeeow.bsky.social Prof Digital Media and Culture
Goldsmiths, UoL
Carolin Gerlitz @carolingerlitz.bsky.social Professor Digital Media & Methods, Uni Siegen. Data studies, digital methods, sensory media, app studies, platforms, inventive methodologies, automation.
Digital Methods Initiative @digitalmethods.net Hyperlink enthusiast.
(DMI tool updates to be found here - find us at digitalmethods.net !)
Michael Dieter @michael-dieter.bsky.social
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
Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research network developing materials and formats for collective inquiry with & about digital data, digital methods & digital infrastructures. https://publicdatalab.org/
Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social University of Warwick's hub for critical digital research: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cdi/
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.
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies,
@appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
Esther Weltevrede @esthrr.bsky.social
Micronarrative @micronarrative.bsky.social Multispecies lover. Mobile media methods. Artist. Ethnographer. Tea *and* coffee drinker.
Opal Sky Media @opalskymedia.bsky.social From its Australian origins, insider-led Opal Sky Media develops exclusive transmedia content exploring multiculturalism as lived experience: Bringing a Next Wave of Disability Film perspective to transmedia discourses.
@icasecac.bsky.social @icasecac.bsky.social
SSSHARC at Sydney @sssharc.bsky.social Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre: Seeding and accelerating collaborative research.
@ArtSS_Sydney
@sydneyuni.bsky.social
Jonny Scholes @jonnyscholes.com Making artwork about politics, abstraction, activism and futurism with equal parts code, paint, electronics and found objects.
📍 Nipaluna, Lutruwita, 'Australia'
jonnyscholes.com
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
Wing Kuang @wingkuang.bsky.social Freelance journalist, audio producer, NAATI interpreter for Cantonese.
📻: Little Red Podcast, NüVoices, Initium Reports, All The Best, SBS News, etc.
📰: The Saturday Paper, Al Jazeera English, Guardian Australia, etc.
📧: wingkuang.journalist@gmail.com
Emerson Victoria Johnston @idenarch.bsky.social currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives)
tech policy @ stanford / comms and membership @ AoIR
masters x2 @ stanford / bachelors @ northeastern
first gen 🎓 | 🏳️🌈
earvsc.bsky.social @earvsc.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow & Senior Lecturer at Monash University. Book: (Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media (OUP). Into digital migration, im/mobilities, ageing, migration brokerage, ethnography. More here: https://t.co/nz3pFN4Ppj
HookTurn @hookturn.bsky.social I’m a writer and former oncology nurse living on Wurundjeri Land in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia).
My interests include:
• Australian poetry, history and film
• English language haiku
• Gothic novels
• Psychedelic music
Formally “WeirdMelbs”
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
Read: http://placesjournal.org
Sign up: placesjournal.org/newsletter
Donate: https://placesjournal.org/donate/
Teltales @teltales.bsky.social Here to find and tell tales relating to all aspects of technology enhanced learning; educational technology; #edtech; #highered; learning design; digital education; future, current and past. Working at the University of Galway. Mo thuairimí féin.
Indigo Holcombe-James @indigohj.bsky.social Strategic Research Lead @ACMI, previously Research Fellow @ARC CoE For Automated Decision-Making and Society.
Chris Chesher @chrischesher.bsky.social Sydney Innerwestie. Author of Invocational Media: Reconceptualising the Computer. Digital Cultures Academic at Uni of Sydney
Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net ⏳ Futures Theorist
🎙 Host, FUTURESPodcast.net
🎓 Studying Humanoid Robots at University of Warwick
💡 Discover More: LukeRobertMason.net
🧬🔬🚀🤖🧠🪐🦿
#Science #Technology #Podcasting #Space #Future
Sean Spencer @cicerocantabridgi.bsky.social Byzantine worlds, aristocratic hegemony, and the rituals of power.
Half my life’s in libraries, the other in coffee queues.
Eternally optimistic Everton fan.
Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com SVP, Strategy & Operations. Building products, growing audiences and driving revenue. Previously TIME and VICE News. Posting about media, technology and AI.
Website: https://tylerborchers.com/
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tylerborchers/
Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country // President @aussts.bsky.social
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
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
Anthony McCosker @amccosker.bsky.social Professor in Aus, on the verge of working it all out. Leading a research institute called SIRI. Researching digital, data and AI capabilities.
Rod Benson, PhD @ethicl.bsky.social Literature, poetry, philosophy, ethics, politics, history, theology, religion, food. Writer, blogger, educator. PhD in systematic theology. Sydney-based, living on unceded Dharug land. Opinions are mine. Be kind. Pls don’t DM. He/him. https://rodbenson.com
Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto | For info about Fellowships, funding opportunities, events and more, sign up for our newsletter http://eepurl.com/dhuDJv
Josh Trigg @joshltrigg.bsky.social #Health | #Risk | #BehaviouralScience | #Horror Enthusiast | #PublicHealth Researcher/Educator | FlindersHMRI | Assoc Editor Health Prom J | #FirstGen | on Kaurna Land | Views own | flinders.edu.au/people/joshua.trigg
Yaron Meron @yaronmeron.com Senior Lecturer in Design & researcher @ University of Sydney | ‘Resting’ design professional | Photographer, bad guitarist & some other things.
Carol Silverman @belongingsvr.bsky.social XR Creator - BelongingsVR.com
Film Set Decorator
James Meese @jammh.bsky.social Media and communications researcher. Interested in telecommunications, news media, personalisation, and recommendation.
Latest book is 'Digital Platforms and the Press': https://intellectdiscover.com/content/books/9781789388336
Alex Beattie @drlxbt.bsky.social Media academic 📱 📚 | Dad👨👧| Gardener 🍀🌸🌴 | Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka
James Lewis @trentjim.bsky.social Nottingham Trent University - Senior Lecturer Virtual Reality. Started with VRML in '99
evangelising & criticising #3D #VR #AR & #MR via the media of #UnrealEngine #3DS & #Unity.
Research interest straddles Neuroscience, Rehabilitation and Neurodiversity
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.
Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social 💼 IxD Professor, Aalto University
🧪 UX, HCI, spirituality researcher
🎙️ ACM distinguished speaker
🛠️ Ex-SDU, -Nokia, -Philips
🎓 Alum TUe, UTEM
📣 Views my own
Kim Barbour @kjbarbour.bsky.social Persona studies + digital media researcher and lecturer at Uni Adelaide, Kaurna country. Current special interest = Hermitcraft. Views mine unless otherwise attributed.
Tara Hawes @tarahawes.bsky.social Kiwi DJ & edtech leader living in MK/UK with my cat Rosa. Senior Manager - Global Online Learning @CUOL. SFHEA. DJing for fun as FlibbertiGibbet & half of Amaluna. Free-Spirit Records resident DJ. Strategy Advisor @Psy-Sisters: psysisters.com
Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com PhD candidate researching queer community online, emerging technologies and digital harms @RMIT
https://joelhumphries.com.au
Digital & Social Media UTS @utsdsm.bsky.social Digital & Social Media /
School of Communication /
University of Technology Sydney
Nat Tencic @nattencic.bsky.social presenter Drive on ABC Alice Springs
living on Arrernte Country
ex-triple j, ex-Radio National
consciously unbranding
VRTO @vrto.bsky.social VRTO Returns June 24-26
Toronto https://bit.ly/vrto2026tix
#VRTO #Spatial #Media World #Conference & #Expo
Since 2016
https://conference.virtualreality.to
The industry's #XR event for mavericks, & change agents in #immersive #tech #vr #ar
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social Professor Inger Mewburn, Director of researcher development at ANU. I do research on research and think about stuff. Here to support researchers. Find my writing and podcasts on www.thesiswhisperer.com #realtwin
aleesha rodriguez @aleeshajoy.bsky.social Research Fellow @digitalchildau l STS & digital media | a tech-sociologist generating better (digital) futures📱🌱| PhD @qutdmrc | they/them | https://linktr.ee/aleeshajoy
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.
Dr Caitlin McGrane @caitlinaithne.bsky.social she/her
Researcher at RMIT. Board member of Digital Rights Watch. Interested in gender and technology in everyday life, and how we can build a better digital world.
Ultra-marathoner in my spare time 🌿
Zoë Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social 🤓 Feminist Media Scholar | Digital Ethnographer | Internet Culture Enthusiast
🌟 Postdoc at Microsoft's Social Media Collective
💖 Co-Founder: The Digital Ethnography Collective & The Content Creator Scholars Network @weareccsn.bsky.social
💻 www.zoeglatt.com
Stefanie Duguay @dugstef.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Director of the Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab (digslab.net). Posts and opinions are my own.
Fan Yang @fanyang.bsky.social Research fellow at melbourne law school node of ARC centre of excellence for automated decision-making society (adm+s)
Study tech, information, migration, and labour
web: fanyang.fan
based in Naarm
Michael Richardson @richardsonma.bsky.social Associate Professor. Drones, AI, war, culture, affect, witnessing. UNSW. Media Futures Hub. ADMS Centre. He/him. Nonhuman Witnessing with @dukepress.bsky.social https://t.ly/cQW5N
Melissa Gregg @melgregg.bsky.social Professor and advisor on sustainable digital futures at University of Bristol. On loan from lutruwita/Tasmania. https://melgregg.com
Jonathon Hutchinson @dhutchman.bsky.social Associate Professor Media & Communication @USyd. Researching: intermediation studies, internet & technology, Vietnam, young people and media, social & public media 🎓📽📲.
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.
Jiaru Tang @jiarut.bsky.social PhD candidate @QUT DMRC| AI-generated content, cultural production, creative industries🤖🎨🪄| bubble milktea expert🧋
Corey Wakeling @coreywakeling.bsky.social writer-translator-scholar
PhD University of Melbourne
associate professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
Suneel Jethani @skjethani.bsky.social Dr Suneel Jethani, Writer, Vinyl DJ + Academic
STS, Media Theory, Experimental Humanities.
Senior Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney
Jo Williams @joannakatelin.bsky.social Someday soon I’ll finish my PhD (exploring the production of sexual health information on social media).
Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social Research fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University |
Non-resident fellow, John Curtin Research Centre
César Albarrán-Torres @calbarrantorres.bsky.social Digital media and screen studies academic. Dad. Lab owner. Drinks coffee.
Stephan Kesting @stephankesting.bsky.social Martial artist, scientist, outdoorsman
Lydia Hales @lhales.bsky.social Freelance science journalist, editor & em dash enthusiast living in lutruwita. Equally happy to hear about your research or your unhinged D&D campaign.
🏳️🌈🌊🐦⬛
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social Professional book nerd (writer, editor, critic - former publisher, bookseller). Deputy Editor, Books & Ideas, The Conversation: @aunz.theconversation.com. Co-editor, Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Autistic Writers (UQP).
Batshit Australia @batshit-auspol.bsky.social Weird and wild moments from Down Under. Smash follow!
(And for clarity, just because something's Batshit that doesn't mean we think it's bad)
Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social Comm, Media & Tech Studies + empire, capital, state, power, politics, energy, environment, work, war, play, ed, left-right activism https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/research/researcher-profiles/dr.-tanner-mirrlees.php
The Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies @dgtl-culturesuq.bsky.social https://hass.uq.edu.au/centre-digital-cultures-societies
Rachel Buchanan @rayedish.bsky.social Latte sipping, feminist, digital sociologist with distinct nerd tendencies. A/Prof in Education and Deputy Head of College in the College of Human & Social Futures at Uni Newcastle. Living, working and quilting on Awabakal land.
Milovan Savic @nav0lim.bsky.social Research Fellow at Social Innovation Research Institute & ADM+S
@Swinburne University. Interested in youth, digital media, social connections, digital inclusion, privacy, AI.
Peter Hannam @phannam.bsky.social Soon to be at the Climate Change Authority. Former economics corro for Guardian Australia, ex-enviro editor for SMH/Age.
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
Jarren Nylund @jarrennylund.bsky.social 🎓 Doctoral Researcher, Net Zero Observatory
🌱 Member of @GreenpeaceAP.bsky.social’s General Assembly
🌏 @ClimateRealityProject.org Leader
💁🏻♂️ Pronouns: He/him
🔗 Find me on other platforms: bio.site/jarrennylund
Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social ARC Future Fellow, & Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, Swinburne University of Technology. Currently researching the intersections of sexualities, genders, data, tech & sexual health.- 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.
Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
Brooke Erin Duffy @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social social media researcher and author
associate professor at Cornell University
platforms, power, and the creator economy
www.brookeduffy.com