blair @blairaf.com Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Asst. Prof, sci-fi creator @ UAlberta
Transfeminist AI governance, ethics, policy: blairaf.com
Gay trans cyborg warriors vs. AI monsters: objecttype3.app
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
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
Kelly Boudreau @velixious.bsky.social professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
Bree McEwan @mcewan.bsky.social Communicologist @uoft.bsky.social @uoftmississauga.bsky.social ICCIT/Sociology. Data Sciences Institue. McMC Lab. Studies Social Media, Virtual Reality. Author of Interpersonal Encounters https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/interpersonal-encounters/book23785
Sarah Stang @sarahstang.bsky.social Feminist game and media scholar. Associate Professor of Game Studies and Director of STAR Lab at Brock University.
Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social Book history, disability studies, and digital humanities. Specialty in tactile reading. Certified braille transcriber. she/they. ocd & chronic pain & cane user.
Environmental Media Lab (EML) @envmedialab.bsky.social Based at Queen’s University (2024); University of Calgary (2019-2023).
Director: melhogan.bsky.social
environmentalmedialab.com heliotropejournal.net
Sarah Smith @smithsarah.bsky.social CRC in Art, Culture & Global Relations @westernufims.bsky.social @westernu.ca | Co-founder @nacdi.bsky.social | New open access book 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵 https://www.ubcpress.ca/asset/103563/1/9780774868938_OA.pdf
saraheksmith.com
linktr.ee/saraheksmith
Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
cms @camillemarys.bsky.social Researching museums & extraction
cmsharp.ca
jake @jakeadampitre.bsky.social i teach film studies. a very sensitive piece of horse flesh. http://unwantedutopias.substack.com. http://boxd.it/20r7.
Scott DeJong @scottdejong.bsky.social Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
Cait Mckinney @caitmckinney.bsky.social Assistant Prof at SFU Communication Studies working on queer media history.
Cansu Ekmekcioglu @cansuekmekcioglu.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Information Systems, McMaster University
Yuriko Furuhata @underground259.bsky.social Environmental media studies, cinema, architecture, art, weather control. Recent book: Climatic Media. Views personal
Arun Jacob @arungapatchka.bsky.social 
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
Julián Posada @posada.website 💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu
📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026)
🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms
🌐 https://posada.website/
Dan Guadagnolo @danguad.bsky.social Assistant prof at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Communication, Culture, information & Technology
katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social assistant professor @ university of copenhagen, "Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies"
researching internet histories, web archives, platform temporalities
katiemackinnon.xyz
Dylan Mulvin @dmulvin.bsky.social Associate Professor at the LSE. Histories of media and technology.
dylanmulvin.com
Andy Lee @unsurprisinglee.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UofT, graduate research fellow @ Centre for Culture and Technology; studying us military and militarism, milsim videogames, and the history of computation. she/her 🏳️⚧️
Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social postdoc at @inrsciences.bsky.social // phd from Concordia University // working on anime/-ation, gender & technology // prev intern at Microsoft Research, Uottawa, UQAM 🤖💋 // she/her // 📍MTL 🇨🇦
https://www.aurelie-petit.com
Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board.
Music in Orbit now available: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
PK @pklawton.bsky.social Rock and Roll Sociologist
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
@djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social Associate Professor
Dept of Communication, School of Info Studies (ESIS), & Institute for Science, Society & Policy (ISSP), University of Ottawa.
Personal Acct (Not uOttawa)
Lowell Gasoi @lowellgasoi.bsky.social Communication and media studies prof at Carleton and University of Ottawa. Theatre maker and cultural policy person. Performance studies and sci-fi geek. 
Armond Towns @townsarmond.bsky.social Williams College
Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social Available 23/7
https://mariosantamaria.net
https://internetour.com/
nika 🪷 @petalledheart.bsky.social 🇰🇭🇨🇳 PhD candidate in cinema + sexual diversity studies at U of T | staff director of Sundress Publications
📝 on surveillance, aesthetics, ethics, race, queer theory, trans studies
Claudia S @claudsicon.bsky.social ✨PhD cinema & studies✨ Assistant Prof / UTSC / Arts & Media ✨mom in academia, web gleaner, cinephile, feminist, reader, eater, walker ✨I like watching pictures move ✨Treaty 13, Tkaronto, she/her
Ishita Tiwary @analoguefutures.bsky.social Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Concordia University. Director, Raah Lab. Author: Video Culture in India : The Analog Era, OUP Press. past; 80's media history; present; SVOD platforms, migration. Good scrambled eggs maker
Jessica Ringrose @jessicaringrose.bsky.social Prof University College London, UK. Canadian Feminist Sociologist studying youth, social media, digital activism, tech facilitated harms and educational interventions
New books: Teens, Social Media, & Image Based Abuse; and Postdigital Intimacies
Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social academic, researcher of the internet, writer, traveler...
STS, Critical Internet Studies, Critical University Studies, Critical Data Studies, Critical Theory, Interpretive methods, etc. #AoIR ista and leftist like Will Rogers
Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
Sydney L Forde @sydneyforde.bsky.social Postdoc @asc.upenn.edu @miccenter.bsky.social
PhD from @bellisariograded.bsky.social | SSHRC doctoral fellow | @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social fellow | Political Economy of Comm | Critical Theory | Media Policy | 🇨🇦
https://www.sydneyforde.com/
Joshua Harold Wiebe @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social visiting assistant professor in film+media studies
critical theory, labour, cinema, aesthetics
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
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
Rohan Alexander @rohanalexander.bsky.social I spend too much money on books. And too much time writing them. 🇦🇺🇨🇦.
https://rohanalexander.com
http://tellingstorieswithdata.com
Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy
Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/
Ruoyun Bai 多伦多媒体研究白若云 @ruoyunbai.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies/Comparative Literature, Univ. of Toronto, working on Chinese Media, Culture and Society. Author of "Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics" and co-editor of 3 books. Writing a book on scandals in China.
David Cecchetto @davidcecchetto.bsky.social Digital theory and sound studies prof (yorku); past pres SLSA; quasi-practicing (non)musician.
-Co-edit Proximities book series (UMinn)
-Author: Humanesis: Sound and Posthumanism (UMinn); Listening in the Afterlife of Data (Duke), and others
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
Camille A @camillea.bsky.social Enseignant qui enseigne, chercheur qui cherche, à Montréal et ailleurs : communication et affects numériques, désinformation et influence.
Ici : antifascisme, sciences sociales et shiposting!
Dr. Emma Vossen @emmavphd.bsky.social 🎮Assistant Professor, Game Studies, Brock University
📚"Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (2025) and "Feminism in Play" (2018).
End the Genocide. Free Palestine 🍉
Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social Communication and Labour Studies prof at SFU. Forza Roma, ovunque e comunque.
Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social they/them/祂 || assistant professor @sfucmns.bsky.social || trans / race / beauty / fashion / media || banner art by @jeniegao.bsky.social
https://www.eriquezhang.com/
Ryan Burns, PhD, FRCGS @burnsr77.bsky.social AAAS S&TPF fellow, FRCGS, visiting prof @ Erlangen-Nuremberg
Critical digital geographer, urban STS, runner, reader, writer, drinker of unhealthy amounts of tea
🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com Porn & Platform Research 💦📚☕💻 PhD Candidate @UofT Faculty of Information + Advisory board to ECP Canada / Pornhub (2023-2026) | #1 Animorphs Fan
www.internetmaggie.com
Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
Nicolette Little @nicolettelittle.bsky.social New book 📕: From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada (UBC Press, 2026)
Feminist media activism, tech-facilitated violence, & memory @UAlberta
Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social I research labour and media. Books: New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists and Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age | culturalworkersorganize.org
Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Digital Media 👾🧑🏫
Northeastern University Vancouver 🇨🇦
Critical Games + Tech Researcher 🖥️✒️
New book out Spring 2027: https://dukeupress.edu/gaming-exhaustion
Find me at https://www.rainforestsb.me/
Alex Custodio @alexcustodio.com PhD candidate studying videogame history at Concordia University. My dissertation focuses on the Game Boy’s afterlives, including hacks, mods, and emulation. Pixel artist and cross-stitcher. They/them.
Andrei Zanescu @andreizanescu.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro @Concordia
Blockbuster & Cultural Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows
Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press)
www.andreizanescu.com
David Kocik @davidkocik.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
Francesco Teopini @drfingerstyle.bsky.social Classical guitarist, recording artist, music educator, musicologist (PhD), Classical/Pop Int. Examiner 🎸💿🔎🎶
Follow me on 👇
YouTube: youtube.com/@FrancescoTeopini
IG: instagram.com/francesco_teopini
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3mOYZ1urMzWb
Jean Ketterling @jeanketterling.bsky.social she/her ✨ Assistant Prof in Political Studies - Gender, Sexualities and Social Justice at USask✨ Interdisciplinary legal/pornography/games studies scholar working on sex in video games ⚖️💦🎮 The Pornography, Platforms and Play Project www.pppproject.com 🅿️
Andrew Bailey @andrewrbailey.bsky.social SSHRC postdoc researching/creating videogame archives at the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Lab at Concordia University. Teaching games studies and new media art history at OCAD University. He/him.
📚 https://arbailey2297.github.io
Mathew Iantorno (he/him) @mathewiantorno.com 📚 PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (iSchool + ICCIT)
🤖 Studies the history, labour, & public impact of retail automation
🛰️ mathewiantorno.com
Noah… @noahspringer.com Senior Acquisitions Editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf
Dany Guay-Belanger @videogamehistorian.bsky.social Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
melian dialogue tree @vogontheater.bsky.social Wordsman, gameswright. || Narrative Designer [Intern] @ Behaviour || Designer of Shadow Doge || Youtube: Vogon Theater || stephenfriedrich.com || He/er/il || Views are yours
ᗷOᑎᔕ ᔕOᑎᔕ @bonssons.bsky.social *~ blog de sons et de musique apaisants ~*
Marc Saurette @saurette.bsky.social Medievalist, Cluny-phile, DH and Historical Game Studies dilettante. @Carleton University (Ottawa). Ex-Winnipeger. 
Atelier Leanna @wisefae.bsky.social Fantasy Farmer 👩🌾
Bibliophile 📚
Silly Goose 🪿
She/Her 🍂 Late 20's
Simon Dor @simondor.com Prof in game and media studies. FR/EN. He/him. Il/lui.
Florida Man, PhD @casusscribere.bsky.social Kirk M Lundblade, PhD (he/him)
Digital Humanities @ UCF History (RICHES)
Digital cultures + historical game studies @ UCF T&T
Dissertation: Crusader Kings and the Crusader Kings community.
Karen K @karenk44344.bsky.social Undergrad in anthropology, pagan, she/her, former reservist, owned by a husky, neurospicy, witch
Cross-stitch, photography, soap stone carving, drawing, reading, gardening, ttrpg
Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester ➡️ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social if D&D has no haters then i'm 💀 • coined 'D&D industrial complex' • STS/Comms • recovering larp burnout • i love pizza & cats
videos & cards: https://www.youtube.com/@noizangel
https://linktr.ee/nicolewinchester
she/her/any/all 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
Andrew Kemp-Wilcox @akemp-wilcox.bsky.social PhD in killing time. Narrative design, game design, game communities. I probably loved your favorite movie.
DiscoStarslayer @disco.camp 🇨🇦 Reverse engineering games software and hardware for preservation and repair.
Git: http://github.com/DiscoStarslayer
Blog: http://blog.dtho.mp
Tim Oxley @timoxley.bsky.social Technical Director
C++ #gamedev #techart & #gamedesign in #UnrealEngine
Former #JS #TS specialist. CampJS & SingaporeJS founder
#NodeJS in Action coauthor
Lived 🇦🇺→🇸🇬→🇺🇸
Bad artist & musician #ADHD
Vegetarian
Father of 2 amazing girls
He/him
DreamOre @dreamoredigital.bsky.social 2D, 3D, and pixel. For hire!
DreamOreStudio5.artstation.com
Matt Wells - working on Frenzy @mattjwells.bsky.social • Play Frenzy Mission 0 demo: https://semioticblocks.itch.io/frenzy-mission-0
• Post-PhD, self-diagnosed game developer, working on Frenzy, a Far Cry demake from an ecofeminist perspective
• Fan of '90s video games, '80s hip hop, and '70s computer science
Courtney Blamey @courtneyblamey.bsky.social professional overthinker
PhD Candidate @ Concordia University | GAMERella Co-Director
critical design; values/meaning; emotional game design
she/her courtneyblamey.com
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
Teodomo @teodomo.bsky.social I make lists about Latin American games: https://backloggd.com/u/Teodomo/lists/recent/ to help promote them to English speakers. Had a little comic book store, organized geek cons, occasional GM, interested in video game history, literature teacher.
Justin Roberts ✨ @justinrobs.bsky.social MA Media Studies graduate and Queer Game Studies scholar.
Sometimes I stream 👾
Known to be a messy everything.
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
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue 🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is out!!!
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Jesse Yules | Director @jesseyules.com Animation and Games | Currently making UnderSoot in Toronto 🇨🇦 www.jesseyules.com
#Unreal #Blender #UnderSoot
Peter McDonald @pdmcdonald.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education, UW-Madison. Play scholar, potter, and dog friend.
Author of 📖The Impossible Reversal https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916220/the-impossible-reversal/ and 📖Run and Jump https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547390/run-and-jump/
dennis jansen 🟥 @dennisjansen.bsky.social PhD researcher on play, technology and militarization @ Utrecht University
Sebastian Möring @sebomat.bsky.social (he/him) #gamestudies, media, and culture researcher, Prof. of Game Design at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences. Books http://bit.ly/3MWJ5vM and https://bit.ly/4yA52aj. Website: http://sebastianmoering.com.
Christine Tomlinson, PhD @socstudygames.bsky.social Interdisciplinary researcher studying video games, players, and esports. Formerly @ Activision. Current Assistant Professor of Games and Esports. 
Robin L. Zingarelli @BDiGRA26 @robinzingarelli.bsky.social Doctoral researcher working on transgender representations in video games, game designer, London based coffee enthusiast.
Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @ Tampere University, currently studying the intersections of men, masculinity, and gaming.
Also into RPGs, miniatures, pirates, pro wrestling, and video games.
orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-684X
mikkomerilainen.com
Peter Kao @peterkao.com • Founder at @MetanautLabs.com
• 18+ years of tech entrepreneurship
• 10+ years of running a VR studio
• Current: https://risingtheory.com (fintech)
Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker 📹💾
📍Toronto
Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️
Scholar of Asian religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
kbarnes (she/her) @barnfeline.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6
Pinkie “Food Professor” Pie @pinkiepie.bsky.social MLA for Equestria-West | Critic for Memes and Friendship | The Pink Menace | Marxist-Ponyist | A reader of many fine books | Communism with Equestrian characteristics
All skeets represent official Alberta government policy
Kenzie Gordon 🍉 @kenzitronic.bsky.social Settler on treaty 6, PhD candidate in feminist game studies @ ualberta, itinerant social worker, parent, usually in over my head on a wild DH scheme.
She/her