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Alison Harvey @digitalpromises.bsky.social Professor of Communications, Glendon College, York University
Nick Taylor @nickttaylor.bsky.social Media professor at York U in Toronto. Happy to be here.
Grounds of Gaming is out from University of Indiana Press. It's about the places in which we play games, and who is and is not allowed.
https://iupress.org/9780253071231/the-grounds-of-gaming/
Jรฉrรฉmie Pelletier-Gagnon @jeremiepgagnon.net Humanitรฉs numรฉriques, game studies, รฉtudes japonaises | Professeur @Universitรฉ de l'Ontario franรงais | Co-editor (English) @Journal of Replaying Japan | ๆฅๆฌ่ชใงOK!
Dr Kyle McPhail @drkylemcphail.bsky.social they/them
Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Studies and Art History at Mount Allison University
Trans and Disability Representation in Art and Visual Culture, mainly focusing on disability aesthetics in video games and digital art
I'm bad at social media
Adam Crowley @dradamcrowley.bsky.social DM for Podcast guest and/or public speaking info.
Playing to Save the World: Videogames and Environmental Humanities (2024)
The Wealth of Virtual Nations: Videogame Currencies (2017)
Representations of Poverty in Videogames (2022)
Aaron Langille (๐น๏ธ)โข๏ธ @aaronlangille.bsky.social he/him | Game design prof๐
| Game Designer ๐น๏ธ | Author: A Gamer's Introduction to C# (out now), A Gamer's Introduction to MonoGame (coming soon)
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university of Toronto Mississauga
Digital media & game studies
Samuel Heine @sadmediahistorian.bsky.social Canadian researcher and lecturer in media and game history or spaces.
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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 ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social Assoc Prof, English, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU); Director, TMU Centre for Digital Humanities, https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-digital-humanities/. Research interests include connections between literary studies and video games, eLit, queer DH
Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker ๐น๐พ
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Justin Roberts โจ @justinrobs.bsky.social MA Media Studies graduate and Queer Game Studies scholar.
Sometimes I stream ๐พ
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Courtney Blamey @courtneyblamey.bsky.social professional overthinker
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critical design; values/meaning; emotional game design
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Cindy Poremba @cloobot.bsky.social Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
Prof Matthew @profmatthew.bsky.social Media Studies, Film Studies, Game Studies Professor. I study nerd stuff.
Co Editor The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies
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
Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ in ๐บ๐ธ. academia has 4 parts: research, teaching, service & politics. i got the 1st 3 right. posts mine & might be info.
my passport says i am 183cm tall.
when you're burned, you've got nothing. no pets, no insta & you're not going anywhere.
รงa que c'tait.
A Gay Magikarp @masc4magikarp.bsky.social A level 5 Magikarp aspiring to be a Game Studies Scholar, interested in Interactivity, Game-Player Relations, and LGBTQ+ Storytelling
Eric Stein (he/him) @steinea.bsky.social Producer at EA SPORTS
Games researcher
Former game development instructor
Tabletop game designer
Occasional poet
steinea.ca / steinea.fyi
andrea braithwaite @ahbraithwaite.bsky.social Nancy Drew nerd, pop culture prof, bookaholic.
Jason Hawreliak @profjay.bsky.social Associate Professor of Game Studies. Director, GAME Program. Brock University, Department of Digital Humanities.
Matt Wells - working on Frenzy @mattjwells.bsky.social โข Play Frenzy Mission 0 demo: https://semioticblocks.itch.io/frenzy-mission-0
โข Post-PhD, self-diagnosed game developer, working on Frenzy, a Far Cry demake from an ecofeminist perspective
โข Fan of '90s video games, '80s hip hop, and '70s computer science
kbarnes (she/her) @barnfeline.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6
MadeInDex ๐ฐ ๐ @madeindex.bsky.social ๐ The #Sustainability Index
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Thomas Conner, PhD @thesonginmyhead.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Practice: writing, arts criticism, media literacy. Theory: holograms, memory, hauntings, oh my. ๐ป Ex-music critic, forever gardener. he/him/his
๐ซ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ข ๐๐ค๐ฐ๐ด๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ โ๏ธ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ โโ:โโ ๐งย แถสฐแตแตโฑโฟ โป หขแตสณโฑโฟแต แตแตหกแตแถป @becaecosystem.bsky.social โพ๏ธ Below The Blue | Game Dev & Designer ๐
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๐ฑ ilknurergin.github.io/ilknurergin/
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Gal Ravia @galravia.bsky.social Visiting Fellow @lsemedia.bsky.social | Human-machine communication, memory studies, and everything in between | Collector of cute socks
NickKauf @nickkauf.bsky.social XR Cities, Music, UrbanTech, CivicTech, Experiential/immersive media. NYC + Maine. Charitable Mechanic. Founding fellow, Temporary Institute
Ondrej from Charles Games ๐ @charlesgames.bsky.social Prague-based studio pushing boundaries of what games can do and say. Hidden-object Velvet 89 out now, new game We Grew Up in War in the works.
www.charlesgames.net
Michael Sherman @michaelsherman.bsky.social as solid as they come
Film and Moving Image Studies MA at Concordia University
Bookshelfie โญ๏ธ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Wired / NYT Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Free "Linkfest" newsletter ("the opposite of doomscrolling"): https://shorturl.at/XcutG. Built https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/
Chris Dehghanpoor @ckd.sh OSINT reporter, Washington Post investigations โข @chrisd9r on twitter โข https://ckd.sh
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
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 ๐ | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Jacob T. Fisher @jacobtfisher.online Associate professor at Michigan State University studying attention, cognition, and digital media. ๐: jacobtfisher.com
Katy Coduto @katycoduto.bsky.social Assistant professor of media science @ Boston U. Researching sexting, swiping, + other online behaviors. Usually watching horror movies.
kdcoduto.com
Francesca Tripodi @ftripodi.bsky.social Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online
www.spillab.com
Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology, University of Warsaw โข Critical Data Studies | Environmental & Climate Sociology | Contentious Politics โข He/him/his
Ian @hylian.bsky.social Educator. Husband. Art Historian. Video Game Scholar/Academic.
Always searching for the weird
Look over there!
PNW - Olympia, WA area.
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Video Games as Literature @videogamesaslit.bsky.social Just a regular human writer, blogging about literary video games since 2012. Aka Ringwraith10 all over. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โฟ (she/her)
@videogamesaslit on most other socials.
www.videogamesaslit.com
๐ DM me to join the Literary Game Club
See also @ringwraith10.bsky.social
kai dejesus (they/them) @thebetteradversary.bsky.social game designer. writer. artist. nyu mfa โ27
find my games: https://thebetteradversary.itch.io/
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finlay back to school edition @finlayis.bsky.social game center mfa '27 | former middle school teacher | programming squad @ geeks out | victorian history, ducks & frogs | they/them/any
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social Game director of "The Abbess Garden", a cozy & historical gardening game๐ฟ
Steam page https://store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/The_Abbess_Garden/
Newsletter https://mdstudiogames.com/newsletter/
Dr and researcher CHCSC lab, Univ of Versailles ๐
(she/her)
Isabel Garcรญa Valdivia, Ph.D. @igarciavaldivia.bsky.social asst. prof. | Ph.D. @UCBerkeley | Immigration. Life course/Aging. Race/Ethnicity. Family. Educator. Pup-mom. Retweets โ endorsement. My takes are my own.
University Press Sales Bot @unipresssalesbot.bsky.social 
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
perulainen @perulainen.bsky.social Mauricio Castro Valdez.
My stuff:
https://perulainen.com
https://castrovaldez.com
https://mastodon.social/@perulainen
https://pixelfed.social/perulainen
Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social gay artist, game dev // website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
just released Radiator Forever, a gay game collection: https://radiator.debacle.us
making Tryhard, a gay rugby RPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
United Academics of the University of Oregon, AAUP-AFT 3209 @uauoregon.bsky.social UA is the exclusive union representative of faculty at the University of Oregon. As faculty representatives, stewards, and leaders, we work every day to improve our university and the state of higher education in Oregon. 
Sasha Senderovich ๐ป @returnstosender.bsky.social ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ฆ๐ธ ๐๐ข๐ด ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ (Harvard, 2022) https://bit.ly/SovietJewBook | ๐๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ต (Stanford, 2026) https://www.sup.org/books/jewish-studies/shadow-holocaust | he/him | Opinions my own | My website: sashasenderovich.weebly.com
Niema Moshiri @niema.net Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science at UC San Diego, consulting for PlayStation and Blizzard, Bioinformatician by training, SD-raised. https://niema.net
Alexander (TOTAL RELOAD game creator) @torshock.bsky.social ๐ฎ Dev of the puzzle indiegame TOTAL RELOAD: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2412090/Total_Reload/
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/KzVB4YKvPu
๐ Newsletter / Press Kit:
https://torshock.kit.com/total_reload
Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social editor/writer. games, travel, theme parks, music, movies, etc. recently at Kotaku. writing the Moon College Football Weekends guide (2028), and writing about theme parks at https://easily-amused.beehiiv.com. ex-Paste, ex-AV Club, could be ex-your site too.
Michael Dieringer @michaeldieringer.bsky.social Alternative media and journalism, journalistic legitimacy, epistemics of journalism, trust in news. PhD candidate at the University of Missouri.
Saeed Dabbour @saeeddabbour.bsky.social reality tv, video games, and swana // phd candidate
Brittany Wheeler @b-wheeler.bsky.social 
Openvibe @openvibe.social The App for Connecting Open Social Web
Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, Threads in ONE app, in ONE feed โจ
https://openvibe.social
Kylie Falcione @kyliefalcione.bsky.social Media mental health researcher at the intersection of Neuroscience ๐ง , Developmental Psychology ๐ง, & Media Communication ๐ฑ๐ฎ
Do Own (Donna) Kim @doowndonnakim.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Illinois Chicago. Digital cultures & technologies. PhD, USC Annenberg. KFAS & Korea University alum. She/her. https://www.doowndonnakim.com/
Swati Pandita @pandascholar.bsky.social Depending on the language, my last name can mean 'little panda' or 'scholar.' So I took both.
Postdoctoral Researcher @Caltech's Fear Lab
Previously @Cornell's Virtual Embodiment Lab
swati.info
Daniel Pietschmann @empi2k.bsky.social Researcher at Institute for Media Research, Chemnitz University of Technology- G Gretchen @gretchen001.bsky.social
Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social The Media Neuroscience Lab promotes research and teaching at the intersection of media psychology, technology, and neuroscience | https://medianeuroscience.org
Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC) @gpccomm.bsky.social Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC) publishes rigorous, iterative, and impactful scholarship covering all conceivable dimensions of communication studies. As an open-access journal, we elevate the availability and impact of top-tier scholarship. 
The Communication & Technology Division of ICA @icacat.bsky.social Official account for the Communication & Technology Division of the International Communication Association, @katypearce
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VRCC @vrcc.bsky.social The OFFICAL VRCC Bluesky Account
The VRCC is the BIGGEST VR Community!
We have tons of the best VR YouTubers & Devs!
Owned by @Superpopfizz
If you're followed by this account, and you're not in the VRCC that means you're invited!
Check pinned for more!
Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network (TransDI), Chair: Dr Liang Ge (Univ of Manchester) @liangge11.bsky.social
HAMLET EU Project @hamleteuproject.bsky.social An EU-funded project bringing AI to the CCIs. Through HAMLET's Hub, artists, creative directors, writers, game developers, and AI experts co-create with tools for adaptive storytelling, dance analysis, 3D assets and more. https://hamlet-project.eu/
Bรผลra EREN KARALAR @berenkaralar.bsky.social Game Studies ~ Media Design (proficiency in arts student) ~ Currently studying narratives on VR and learning Unreal Engine ๐~~ยฐ
Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social Academics reading and celebrating the style, substance, and sublimity of all kinds of comics. By scholars, for everyone. Led by @annapeppard.bsky.social & Dr. J. Andrew Deman.
@zhuohangshi.bsky.social @zhuohangshi.bsky.social 
David B. Nieborg @nieborg.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies @UofT โข Books: Platforms & Cultural Production (Polity) โข Mainstreaming & Game Journalism (MIT Press) โข Toronto/Amsterdam
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Jim Malazita @jmalazita.bsky.social Associate Prof of Games & Experiential Media at RPI. STS scholar. Author of "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" from the MIT Press. DiGRA Board Member.
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
Mihaela Popescu @mihaelapopescu.bsky.social Prof of Media Studies and Director, The xREAL Lab at CSUSB, https://www.csusb.edu/xreal-lab. PKM geek. Current interests: ๐ Privacy & Surveillance |๐ฅฝ VR in learning | ๐ค Embodied Pedagogical Agents |๐ Project-based Learning.
Kyria โก @kleinevampier.bsky.social 26. MA Kunstwetenschappen (Performance Studies) @UGent. Researches larp. Hater of Hegels. Honorary Vampire. Reads a lot.
~ Lest we die unbloomed
Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb.bsky.social Scholar & Teacher of American Literature, Culture, & Digital Games
Book: Melville's Wisdom http://tinyurl.com/mrx658vn
New Project: Digital Games and American Culture
Joe Yizhou Xu @joexu.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Old Dominion University | Former journalist/documentarian | Researching China's mobile tech/game industry. #gamestudies #mediaindustries 
@schneiderfa.bsky.social @schneiderfa.bsky.social 
Magdalena Saldaรฑa @magdalenasaldan.bsky.social Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catรณlica de Chile School of Communications | Associate Director, www.mepop.cl | Associate Researcher, www.imfd.cl | Associate Editor, @digitaljournalism.bsky.social
@apdonaldson.bsky.social @apdonaldson.bsky.social Comm Studies lecturer and debate coach in NorCal (Goudiโni).
Author: The Alien Movie Project: Studying the Narrative, Affective and Production Politics of Alien Stories in Cinema.
Co-host: Alien Movie Project, Reel War Project, Fields of Glory Podcast
@adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social Lecturer and writer in games and interactive media.
Perth, WA.
Dr Evelyn Polacek Kery @evelynpk.bsky.social Researcher of social media, YouTube, youth, critical thinking and media literacy
๐ PhD from @sussex.ac.uk
๐ฉโ๐ซ Journalism & media lecturer at UWL
๐ฐ @theguardian.com assistant prod editor
๐ฉโโ๏ธ Judge at Press Awards 2025
๐ฅ๏ธ www.evelynkeryova.com
Chaeyun Lim @chaeyunl.bsky.social 
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
Hannah Greber @hannahgreber.bsky.social Post-Doc @polcomvienna.bsky.social // Emerging Media and Political Communication // Immersive Journalism // Construcitve Journalism // Visual Communication// she/her/hers
Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social Digital Journalism is an international, peer-reviewed, top-ranked journal that publishes cutting-edge research and concepts. Editor-in-Chief: Oscar Westlund.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rdij20
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 ๐พ
๐ http://investigate.games
โ๏ธ investigate.games@yorksj.ac.uk
๐ York St John University, UK
Flaming Monkey Studio @flaming-monkey.itch.io Indie game development studio
Creator of Hydroplane: Riptide Racers on Steam
Follow for updates on new releases!
https://flaming-monkey.itch.io/
@crestsaga.bsky.social @crestsaga.bsky.social 
Kirstie Farrar @profkc.bsky.social UConn Associate Professor in Communication, mom to 3, martial artist, pet mom to two dogs and a cat! X Files, Outlander, 49ers, SFGiants, WNBA, Lego, ๐ฅ๐ฅ