Fandom | Cultures | Research @fcr-journal.bsky.social international OA journal for fan and audience studies based in Germany | bilingual (DE/EN) | 2 issues per year | different formats – ranging from full papers to reviews, conference reports, and data papers
https://journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/index
Maria Boyd @profboyd.bsky.social Associate Professor at a Community College in Pennsylvania, teaches film, new media and communication. Nerd. Dog mom.
Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social Feature documentary GHOST IN THE MACHINE. Watch now on PBS and YouTube. notaidoc.com
Nina Vindum Rasmussen @ninavindum.bsky.social Digital Media Scholar. Currently writing a book on screen production in a streaming era for The MIT Press. She/her.
PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social Hollywood historian. Technology, media industries, labor, craft. Program Coordinator of Cinema and Media Studies@ USC. Hollywood Unions (Rutgers, 2025), Engineering Hollywood (Oxford, 2021)
Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social Senior editor @ LARB, freelance culture writer, mom in the DC burbs. Here for the nuanced takes, the good faith arguments, and the jokes
Kayti Lausch @kaytilausch.bsky.social TV scholar of conservative media industries, identity, culture and politics. Asst Professor of Film Studies at Montana State. Prepare for random tennis and figure skating likes/posts
s_carinat @scarinat.bsky.social (30) PhD Comm student. Interests are fan studies, media studies, Asian American studies, and mixed race studies.
I love going to pop culture conventions, watching anime, and playing video games.
Hunting Horn enthusiast!
Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social asst prof film, media & culture @UvA_Amsterdam | historical materialism - critical theory - horror cinema - pop culture | he/him
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social Always open-access, Contemporaries publishes curated conversations and critiques in the form of clusters—groups of essays centering around specific themes, topics, and discourses. 
Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Carleton University. Studying comic cons and festivals as interfaces between media industries and fan communities. Reading comics, playing TTRPGs, cooking Chinese food. #CatDad
Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social Associate Professor of Geography at University of Washington https://www.erinmcelroy.net; Anti-Eviction Mapping Project https://antievictionmap.com/; Silicon Valley Imperialism https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism
Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com Union Researcher. Historian/Scholar of media industries law. Maker of delicious foods, baseball enjoyer (Twins Daily / DiamonCentric / Baseball Prospectus contributor) plabuza @ gmail.
www.labuzamovies.com
Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social Media scholar/eulogist, higher ed administrator, teacher, spouse, parent, child, procrastinator, physical media stan, music omnivore, flâneur. Disappointed with the internet since 1995.
Posts do not reflect views of my employer.
Kyle Barnett @kylebarnett.bsky.social Media studies professor. Participant observer. Itinerant Hoosier. Author, Record Cultures (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2020). Faculty adviser/occasional DJ, Bellarmine Radio.
https://www.kylesbarnett.org/
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)
Lindsey Decker @lindseydecker.bsky.social Horror film and TTRPG enthusiast. Former academic (film studies, British horror). Bread lover. Forever GM. 🏳️🌈
Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social DGA Director KELLY & CAL, RUST CREEK, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek:Discovery, Titans
https://www.jenmcgowan.com
I boop snoots
Ally to all except jerks, jerks you're on your own
#RESIST she/her
melisser3, w that ol 3rd place razzle dazzle @melisser3.bsky.social film AND media studies?! in this economy?! // childfree catlady // climber of Inside Rocks // reader of Novels // backgammon nerd // bassist // knitter // shitpost appreciator
Kaz @serenity22.bsky.social Aotearoa born and bred. 🇳🇿
Grandmama, digital strategist, political obsessive (wish I didn't need to be). #ewwdavid
She/her
Jen @proctorj.bsky.social Maker of images and sounds. Rider of bikes. Lover of cats and frogs. Professor of light, time, and soundwaves.
Matt Hills @matt-hills.bsky.social Independent scholar, former Professor of Fandom Studies, life-long Doctor Who fan, lover of genre fiction (especially SF and crime), frequently astonished reader of contemporary political commentary 
Dr. Andy Owens @andyowens85.bsky.social Instructional Associate Professor, University of Iowa. Researching/teaching film & TV history, genre studies/horror, and LGBTQ+/critical race theory. Author of DESIRE AFTER DARK (Indiana UP, 2021).
Kevin Sanson @kevinsanson.bsky.social Media industries professor who writes about labor, globalization, and business. Latest book: Mobile Hollywood
Brisbane (🇦🇺) by way of Chicago, Austin, Santa Barbara (🇺🇸).
Mostly scrolling.
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.
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
The Streaming Movie Project @vodmovies.bsky.social An academic project dedicated to studying the impact of SVOD platforms (e.g. Netflix, Prime Video, etc.) on the global film industry. AKA Chris Meir, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Hemrani Rywant @hemranirywant.bsky.social TCM programmer | Atlanta | She/her
Mike Wayne @mikewayne.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media and Creative Industries, Erasmus University Rotterdam https://eur.academia.edu/MichaelWayne 
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
Josh Braun @joshbraun.bsky.social Associate Professor at UMass Amherst studying the civic impacts of media distribution. I work in our Journalism Department and also co-edit the Distribution Matters series for The MIT Press.
Mastodon: @josh@sciences.social
Banner text by F.E.D McDowell- M SCMS Media Industries SIG @misig-scms.bsky.social The account for SCMS's Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group
Andrew deWaard @adewaard.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
"Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (UC Press, 2024)
andrewdewaard.com | ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media | cultcap.org | macrolab.ucsd.edu
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.
Jaap Kooijman @jaapkooijman.bsky.social Associate professor Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Academic director ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis), author of Fabricating the Absolute Fake and De muziekfabriek, co-editor of The Richard Dyer Reader. www.absolutefake.com
Alexandra Juhasz @mediapraxis.bsky.social Scholar and maker of activist media; fake and real; digital and material. Working in and about AIDS, (long) COVID, queer, trans, anti-racist and feminist media. Trying to act on my commitments to non-Zionism, the climate, and my union, PSC-CUNY.
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
Steve Coulson @stevecoulson.bsky.social The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa.
Matthew Hockenberry @mhockenberry.bsky.social Assistant professor at Fordham University working on media, supply chains, logistics past / present.
Supply Studies: https://supplystudies.com
Manifest: https://manifest.supplystudies.com
Assembly Codes: https://dukeupress.edu/assembly-codes
Erin Hanna @doc-eh.bsky.social 
Felan @felantron.bsky.social 
olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher
tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective
phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social The Cinema of Extractions (2025), Media Climates (2022), In the Studio (2020), Studios Before the System (2015)
Writing about Art, Media, Energy, Environment. Next book: oil, gas, and media culture in France+empire
Caltech Professor of Visual Culture
tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social 🏳️🌈(He)📺 Broadcast historian focusing on marginalized histories/media policy, TV Lamp collector, Media Studies Prof. 👵 Golden Girls book coming soon! University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. 🌈
matthew ellis @matthiasellis.bsky.social academic. i think about cinema and media, capitalism, theory, history, politics
LB: letterboxd.com/mattellis/
www.historiesofthepresent.com
Sam Close ButNoCigar @butnocigar.bsky.social Academic, knitter, video game player. Into popular culture, digital media, labor, and creativity. Known to make a video essay now and then.- P Pooja Rangan @p8ja.bsky.social Professor of English + Film & Media at Amherst College, Author of The Documentary Audit (Columbia 2025 *coming soon*) Immediations (Duke 2017) and co-editor of Thinking with an Accent (UC Press 2023)
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
Aymar (AJ) @thehost.theinvite.us professor @ Northwestern
affiliate @ Harvard Berkman Klein
jury @ Peabody Awards
co-founder @weareotv
BOOKS:
Reparative Media, MIT Press Fall 2025
Media Reparations, coming soon on Polity
The Cookout, out now ⬇️
http://linktr.ee/ajescoffery
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html
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
Dr Rukmini Pande @rukminipande.bsky.social Academic. Working on the intersection of race/ism in media fandom. 
Sophie Bishop @sophiebishop.bsky.social She/her
Studying influencers & ‘influencer creep’ in creative industries
Associate Professor in Media & Communication, University of Leeds
Pre order Influencer Creep now: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/influencer-creep/paper
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
Julián Posada @posada.website 💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu
📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026)
🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms
🌐 https://posada.website/
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
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
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.
Liz Evans @lizjevans.bsky.social Professor of Screen Cultures at Uni of Nottingham. Writing about audiences, media industries, technologies, & transmedia while mum to two future superheroines. Co-Editor of ‘Participations’.
Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social Author, teacher, anti-authoritarian, media studies prof @ Utrecht Univ. New book – FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
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
Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social Doctor of Audiences 🎭 🎥 📚 Ass Prof extraordinaire. Agent JP Marshall, she/her, opinions: model’s own
Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social Media Studies Lecturer and PhD Student studying fangirls @ Uni of Huddersfield, girlhoods, popular music, fan politics, celebrity etc
Uni of Leeds and Emerson College alum, from LA now cozying up in the Yorkshire countryside.
queer audhd disabled
Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD @pcbryan.bsky.social Have PhD, will travel. Americanist by training, fan/media studies by trade. Scholar of fan studies, adaptation, Disney, comics - happy to talk intersections of translation/gender/disability. First book out; next book soon. He / him.
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.
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
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.
Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social writer. gardener. cailleach na luatha 🦋
moryan.com 💚
linktr.ee/maureenryan 🚀
I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica. I wrote a book about Hollywood titled Burn It Down. I’ve been a critic & journalist for 100 years. More at links above 🌸 Abolish ICE
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com A news outlet owned & run by journalists covering NYC: https://hellgatenyc.com
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Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
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.
Allison McCracken @shegiles2010.bsky.social American Studies prof at DePaul; cultural history, pop culture & media, gender/queer/feminist/madness studies. Wrote REAL MEN DON’T SING. Peak tumblr is my aesthetic.
Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social Media scholar, video maker and PhD student at Tel Aviv University. TV studies, popular culture and videographic criticism.
https://www.arielavissar.work/
https://vimeo.com/arielavissar
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
nicolas poppe @poppe.bsky.social i guess that everybody has their thing that they yell into a well
https://linktr.ee/npoppe
Mélanie Bourdaa @melaniebourdaa.bsky.social Professeure des Universités à Bordeaux Montaigne. Transmedia et Fans
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)
[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. https://intransition.openlibhums.org/ 
David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Culture & Media @ The New School.
Living at the crossroads of Media Theory, Black Horror / Zombie Movies, and AI / Digital Culture.
- F Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social She/Her. LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies.
Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
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
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
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/
Kathleen Loock @kathleenloock.bsky.social American studies and media studies | Leibniz University Hannover, Germany | New book: Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Prequels Shape Industry and Culture (UC Press, 2024) | Emmy Noether Research Group: Hollywood Memories
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social I write, talk, and make media about the environmental impacts of data centers, chip manufacturing, energy, rare earth mining, and digital infrastructure in the Arctic. Stay tuned for some new film projects! https://youtube.com/@zanegtcooper
Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social Professor, UCF T&T and English. Opinions mine. Bringing Foucault to fandom since 2006.
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.
Aca-Media @aca-media.bsky.social A podcast offering an academic perspective on media, from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
https://aca-media.org/
Michael Kackman @mkackman.bsky.social Media historian at the University of Notre Dame, and given the circumstances, a reasonably friendly grump. 
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.