Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social law professor / computer scientist / other things
I write about tech, law, speech, and suicide
Jmiers@uakron.edu
Bill(y) Fogarty @billfogarty.bsky.social Associate Professor, English, UCF. Author of Politics of Speech in Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-07889-7- 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.
@kishonna.bsky.social @kishonna.bsky.social 
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
Alexis Lothian @alothian.bsky.social Scholar and sometimes practitioner of queer speculation, critical fandom, digital social justice, and feminist world building. Associate Professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Maryland.
Dr. Media @drmediaprof.bsky.social Associate Professor at Western State. Likes movies, dogs, coffee, and hiking. Opinions mine but should be yours.
AI Fearz Bot @ai-fearz.bsky.social Telling you about all the terrible things AI can do hourly. Humorous bot created with Blue Bots, Done Quick: https://bluebotsdonequick.com/bots/ai-fearz.bsky.social
University Strategic Plan Bot @uni-strategic-bot.bsky.social You too can write a university strategic plan! 100% freshly procedurally generated content hourly. Created with Blue Bots, Done Quick: https://bluebotsdonequick.com/bots/uni-strategic-bot.bsky.social
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Alicia Kozma @johnnyrico.bsky.social I love the idea of shutting up but it’s just not for me / profesional movie theater ghost; prof on movies, movie theaters, gender, and labor. Director + programmer of @iucinema. Author THE CINEMA OF STEPHANIE ROTHMAN.
www.aliciakozma.com | views my own
John T. Murray @lucidbard.bsky.social He/him. Assoc. Professor of Games and Digital Media, UCF. Co-PI NSF Virtual Experience Research Accelerator. VR, AI, Interactive Narratives, Authoring Platforms. Co-author of Flash: Building the Interactive Web, Adventure Games: Playing the Outsider
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net Ignore my late night posts.
Award winning author!
I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf
…and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf
Openly Black.
Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr*
andrebrock.academia.edu
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
Dr. Kristen Warner is on sabbatical @kristenwarner.bsky.social Professor, Researcher, Irascible teapot. Expertise in film/media studies as it relates to black folk, employment/labor, representation and RESONANCE. Yes the plastic representation. Yes the sonic visibility.
I still don’t watch sitcoms. Except shrinking.
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
Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Com and Media Studies @ Washington College | current Delawarean | I do work on gender, space, media, and belonging and also comedy studies | she/her
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.
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Laurel Westbrook @laurel-westbrook.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at U.C. Santa Barbara
Studies gender, sexuality, violence, activism, and surveys
Author of Unlivable Lives https://www.ucpress.edu/books/unlivable-lives/paper
Pronouns: They/them
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
mesk @meesk.bsky.social TV, media industries, algorithmic brand culture, videographic criticism. Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies, Lewis & Clark College. She/her.
Dialogues on Digital Society @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social A brand new interdisciplinary, international journal exploring how digitalisation has changed our world. Articles are in dialogue format with each article having peer commentary. https://journals-sagepub-com.may.idm.oclc.org/home/DDS 
Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
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.
Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social This account was born on March 6, 2024 when Elise Stefanik asked, “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”)
Send complaints to @helenkennedy.bsky.social 
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
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.
Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social Looking into it. Chief Looker: @jenn.bsky.social
Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social formerly @markboynz on Twits. Media and Comms academic. Pinko leftie socialist. Queer rights. Tangata tiriti. #Landback.
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
emily @ekj.bsky.social Associate Professor, Associate Chair, English. (TechComm/DH/Texts & Technology at UCF). Recovering middle school teacher
https://ekjphd.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-k-johnson-497a7439
https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/zc77ss95p
Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social Trademark, advertising, and more
Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social English & theatre & film & fandom. Fair use advocate. In the process of building something new.
Catherine Knight Steele @steelecat717.bsky.social Author - Digital Black Feminism
Associate Professor @UMD
I wonder if I'll ever get to talk about my reality shows here 😔
K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social Assistant Prof at ASU. Research/Teach: Media studies, digital culture, and female desire in pop-media. (She/Her.) Views mine and not my employers.
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
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.
Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social At FSNNA we're working to create a supportive, welcoming community for developing & sharing research in the interdisciplinary field of fan studies.
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BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
Amanda, Est. 1976 @amandaannklein.bsky.social media studies professor writing supernatural historical crime fiction. bylines: New Yorker, Salon, Atlantic, KERA, Vice, E!
Views expressed are my own
Millennials Killed the Video Star: https://www.dukeupress.edu/millennials-killed-the-video-star
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
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.
JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com just another poet with a tabby cat | ersatz researcher, masterless ronin, island dweller, winter sparrow | we must hurry if we are going to dance | jsalowe.com
UCF Texts & Technology PhD @ucftandt.bsky.social Texts & Technology PhD Program at the University of Central Florida. Highlighting news, events, and publications of our great faculty, students, and alumni! tandt.cah.ucf.edu
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film Studies and Production and Assistant Director of Women and Gender Studies, Oakland University.
"It's research, I swear."
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/