Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
Veronica Paredes @veroyque.bsky.social book in-progress called SURVIVING CINEMA about how race matters within repurposed movie palaces in Downtown Los Angeles.
Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles, helped start #DHmakes. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Some Random Monk @phranicholas.bsky.social Educator. Community builder. ☸️ monk. Tragically woke. Race traitor. Tends not to reply to DMs. https://linktr.ee/phranicholas
Paul Kim @mediapk.bsky.social phd candidate @ ucsb film+media studies | working on race, recommendation + the subject
Luca Turin @lucaturin.bsky.social Biophysicist, University of Buckingham, UK
luca.turin@buckingham.ac.uk
lucaturin.substack.com
Forest Gregg @bunkum.us bunkum.us
ontological expert
"using my custom formula, I would get a prediction"
technomalinche @technomalinche.bsky.social Inauthentic Ethnic. Practical Radical. Class Traitor. Feminist Fatale. Postcolonial Cyborg. Queer Sympathizer. Migrant Professor. Malcontent. Mutant.
Anhedonio Banderas @nashgrey.bsky.social Ding Dong, yo
He / him
Catherine Johnston @cathyanne.bsky.social Adoptee, knitter, reader, hiker/runner, thinker, parent, love where I live, good with complicated things.
she/her
Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social At Johns Hopkins University Press, we envision a future where knowledge enriches the life of every person.
Home to @projectmuse.bsky.social
press.jhu.edu
Lana Swartz @lanalanalana.bsky.social New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA
https://llaannaa.com/
https://digitalculturesandeconomies.com
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
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.”
Matthew I. Thompson @quickpickles.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Film at the University of Regina
Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine
from the colonies
https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
T. Krown @mumbles-j.bsky.social I’m an old.
Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur.
Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research.
Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break.
San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Göran Bolin @goranbolin.eurosky.social Media & Communications professor who teaches and writes on digital culture, information management, AI and data value at Södertörn University
sh.se/mkv
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)
Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social unqualified
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish. 
sam @samthielman.com Sam Thielman | Graphic novels at NYT Book Review, seen NYer, Flaming Hydra, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE w/Sean Howe forthcoming | I know I can come off a little proactive, and for that I’m sorry.
Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social Professor, UCF T&T and English. Opinions mine. Bringing Foucault to fandom since 2006.
Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us Sound Designer & Re-Recording Mixer. He/him. CAS–MPSE–IATSE. MSP→LA.
Posts here are my own, lots of spoofs and goofs.
Avatar: Кругозор face.
Banner: Delia Derbyshire working tapes
Links: https://squad51.us
Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social Open Source Investigator. Jack of all trades. Wife guy. She/her.
Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social Trying to stop being the wrong kinds of annoying and to start being the right kinds of annoying.
brianhood
Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social Not actually a beet. Proud to be Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Fiction writer of no renown. She/ her/ y'all
Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social Bone Jail
I draw comics i think that’s a nice way to spend my time
instagram.com/roryblank
patreon.com/roryblank for my monthly print zine
roryblank.bigcartel.com for cool shirts
https://rawpaw.ink/collections/rory-blank (reprints of a few shirts)
Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at York. I research tourism as a key site of digitisation, tracing how mobilities, hospitality work, and urban economies are governed by algorithms and platforms.
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
David B. Nieborg @nieborg.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies @UofT • Books: Platforms & Cultural Production (Polity) • Mainstreaming & Game Journalism (MIT Press) • Toronto/Amsterdam
The Register @theregister.com Your favorite enterprise technology news vultures, flying high in the Bluesky – On the web since 1998 – More here: https://www.theregister.com/
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Alleged Human @alleged-human.bsky.social sure I fail ‘are you a robot’ not taking it personally
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Malte Ziewitz @zwtz.bsky.social I rarely post. 
@aprylw.bsky.social @aprylw.bsky.social 
Julia Ticona @jticona.bsky.social Assistant Prof. UPenn Annenberg, Mama, Researcher, Teacher, Writer - Labor, Tech, Women, Care.
Margy Avery @mavery.bsky.social university press publishing. books. motorcycles - Italian. kitties. horses. ardent lover of infrastructure. mobility. migration. borderlands. STS. landscape. animals. nature. environment. technology. participant researcher in publisher as boundary object.
Benjamin Mako Hill @mako.cc 
Yuriko Furuhata @underground259.bsky.social Environmental media studies, cinema, architecture, art, weather control. Recent book: Climatic Media. Views personal
Virginia Eubanks @virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social Writer working for an abundant, peaceful, and equitable future.
NEW MEMOIR (8/11/26): A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care and Survival. Preorder: bit.ly/4hAFUJb https://virginia-eubanks.com/
System Crash @handle.invalid A tech news podcast to help you sort through the wreckage.
Hosted by @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social. Music by @com.y-a-c-h-t.com. Production by @ericwickham.ca.
Ben Zhang @bzfzhang.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UMSI study data, AI infrastructure, labor, mobility and identity | he/him
http://benzhang.info
Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press is an independent nonprofit publisher. Our books spark engaging discussions and present bold ideas from leading experts worldwide.
Joshua Harold Wiebe @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social visiting assistant professor in film+media studies
critical theory, labour, cinema, aesthetics
Mutale Nkonde (she/her) @mutalenkonde.bsky.social Phd Student University of Cambridge I Columbia alum
Studies how AI systems impact Black people
Founded non profit AI for the People
Compassionate I Respectful l Seeks online civility
Proud British - American
#Blacksky
. @curtisperry.bsky.social .
@hannahws.bsky.social @hannahws.bsky.social 
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon @emdillon.bsky.social Literature professor at Northeastern University. Book-in-progress: Sweetness and Ruin: A History of Sugar, Race, and Capitalism (Dutton 2027). From the 17th-century plantation to 21st-century diabetes epidemic.
Writing: https://emdillon.substack.com
Max Evjen @cantus94.bsky.social I work in Digital Humanities and in the Arts & Cultural Management and Museum Studies program at Michigan State University. Guitar IG: @2bpband. Board Member of Museum Computer Network. #musetech #digitalhumanities https://evjendav.msu.domains/ he/him
Sara M Abdulla @saramagdeline.bsky.social PhD/JD student at Northwestern University- Media, Technology, and Society
CSET-Georgetown, Georgia Tech, and Georgia State Uni graduate
GA -> DC -> Chicago
https://saraofmagdeline.substack.com/
Kara Keeling @professorkk.bsky.social 
Kate Mullen @cammamls.bsky.social Assistant Editor, Duke University Press | Ethnomusicology PhD | Popular music and community archives | Information studies | Eyes emoji enthusiast 👀 | she/her
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info 🏳️⚧️he/him | PhD student @ the University of Michigan School of Information | online communities + trans tech | librarian sometimes | mayworms.info
Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social Ex-historian of social and political thought (Cambridge, Birkbeck). Ex-Amazon (Alexa, AGI). LRB reader. 2025-26 side-mission: fighting global bias on Wikidata & Wikipedia.
"Only that which has no history can be defined"
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies. Author of Bad Film Histories. Writing a book about reference. Views my own. Most get deleted.
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, scams & fraud, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Renyi Hong @renyihong.bsky.social labor researcher. associate professor at National University of Singapore (nus). Author of "passionate work". Writing on plasticity, ecology, and child work.
Taina Bucher @tainab.bsky.social 
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Simone Browne @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social 
Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social Archives and dissertations, labor and libraries. Too much service. Shepherding CUNY history at @cdha.bsky.social. AAUP Council. Views my own.
She/her, white/Mexican. Not actually Iranian. Queens is the future 💫
https://roxanneshirazi.com/
Cella @cellllla.bsky.social She/her | Postdoc @ UVA DTD | Previously: CMU HCII, Data & Society, UCI Informatics, Big Cartel Workers Union. Views are my own. http://cella.io
Cameron Brown @camlbrown.bsky.social (he/him) PhD Candidate in Media Studies @ UIowa - Reality TV, TikTok, Audiences, & Emotional Labor - Viva la Vyvanse - CW: ~Lots~ of Foolishness
Michelle Laura Flood @michellelauraflood.bsky.social 
Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of Popular Music at University of California, Riverside
PREPROGRAMMED: HOW ELECTRONIC PRESETS CHANGED MUSIC AND MEDIA, out Sept. ‘26: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/preprogrammed/paper
Social histories of music, sound, technology, & media
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/
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
Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social Researcher of AI @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
www.dangnguyen.digital
Owen Gray @veryowengray.bsky.social essentialgray.com for all links
X: veryowengray
IG: alphabet_leg
Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social Musicologist and Occasional Academic. Musicology, Disability Studies, & Digital Studies. Queer + AuDHD. They/He
Lab Member - Digital Accessible Futures — part of The DISCO Network
(@disconetwork.bsky.social)
Ph.D. Pre-Candidate @umichsmtd.bsky.social
Mary L. Gray @marylgray.bsky.social Senior Principal Researcher | teacher | seeker | MacFellow
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social We study ethical, social, and aesthetic implications of digital technologies - particularly focusing on digital media & race, disability, gender, and power.
Ann Arbor, MI
Website: digitalstudies.umich.edu
@saralit.bsky.social @saralit.bsky.social 
Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social editor/writer
in film, vulture, etc
mostly on ig
@lindseydcameron.bsky.social @lindseydcameron.bsky.social 
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
Kate O'Riordan @kathleenor.bsky.social Academic, queer, digital culture, technoscience, science and media studies. Sea swimming. Based in the UK. 
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social Prof Humanities @universityofleeds. Personal and cultural stories to head off divisive times. Mixed race, Asian Jewish, trans veteran. Most recent: Loving Strangers. Working on: Holocaust Torah scroll shoe soles from Salonika. https://www.jayprosser.com
Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University. Director, Knowledge Commons. Author, LEADING GENEROUSLY. All opinions my own and not those of my employer, especially the sweary ones.
M. Remi Yergeau @remiyergeau.bsky.social I like donuts and ELO.
VJ Um Amel (Laila Shereen Sakr) @vjumamel.bsky.social Socially conscious cyborg with a data body. Digital artist, author, programmer, and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara
https://vjumamel.com
Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social America’s stepdad
Casey Boyle @caseyboyle.fail assoc prof of rhetoric
caseyboyle.fail
wells @wells.bsky.social critical (of) AI, critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI
all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan.
pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️ she/her
Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Harvard | Mom, writer, 老外
jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social creator culture expert @LeedsUniMedia.bsky.social
Assoc. editor, CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES
Writing PLATFORM HYGIENE (Duke UP)
Repped by Aevitas Creative Management
Hot takes are my own!
www.jessrauchberg.com
Misha Mihailova @mihailova.bsky.social Assistant Professor, School of Cinema, San Francisco State University. PhD, Yale University. President of the Society for Animation Studies. 🇧🇬 Research: animated media, AI, vfx, video games. Latest: https://academic.oup.com/screen/article/67/2/111/8719517
Emily Maemura @emae.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UIUC School of Information Sciences. Researching web archives, digital curation, digital preservation, data + infrastructure studies.