University of Pennsylvania Russian & East European Studies Dept. @penn-rees.bsky.social he Russian and East European Studies department at Penn is a tight-knit community dedicated to advancing knowledge of a vast and unique region of the world. Our faculty’s interests and expertise span many centuries, countries, languages, and disciplines.
sanjay jolly @sanjayjahlee.bsky.social Power Ranger
Directing the LPE Program @harvard.edu
Dissertating @asc.upenn.edu
Once described as "petite and avuncular"
Billy Pierce @billwpierce.co philly | phd candidate @ upenn annenberg, incoming jd candidate @ stanford
studying the political economy of the internet
Rodney Benson @rodneybenson.bsky.social professor NYU Media, Culture, & Comm, & Sociology; new book How Media Ownership Matters (Oxford, April '25), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-media-ownership-matters-9780199931316?lang=en&cc=us
Curd Knüpfer @curdknupfer.bsky.social Associate professor of political communication @ddc-sdu.bsky.social, University of Southern Denmark.
Focus on digital & right-wing media + parties.
Associate Editor @ International Journal of Press/Politics
Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org Europe's leading NGO coalition fighting dangerous climate change!
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
Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social A crash-scene investigation at the crossroads of new media & public policy. Against media consolidation; for robust local journalism & actual digital democracy. Still attempting to master a cold take.
www.freepress.net - This Free Press is not for sale.
International Communication Association @icahdq.bsky.social This account is for informational purposes. Please get in touch with the appropriate department for assistance. https://icahdq.org/page/ContactUs
Annenberg Public Policy Center @appc.upenn.edu Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Research and engagement that matter. Home of FactCheck.org & the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics.
Hanna E. Morris, Ph.D. @hannamorris.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Toronto | climate change media & politics| Author of “Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power” (Oxford University Press, 2025)| Associate Deputy Editor at Climatic Change | https://hannamorris.com
ABOLISH ICE (anti-ICE merch in bio) @fed-up-studio.bsky.social Anti-ICE merch: www.etsy.com/shop/FedUpStudio
Our country is under attack by fascist/racist agents of Trump. ICE OUT.
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Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social critical scholar of infrastructure & emergent technology | Rutgers AAUP AFT | views mine
New Book, Radical Infrastructure: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper#reviews
Chair, AAUP cmte on AI: https://bit.ly/4lkuKu1
UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social United Academics of Maryland-University of Maryland (UAM-UMD). Affiliated: AAUP (@aaup.bsky.social), AFT (@aftunion.bsky.social). RT&Follow≠Approve. Join now & help us make University of Maryland a better place to work for all: https://tinyurl.com/4z3b6rn3
AFT Higher Education @afthighered.bsky.social 400,000 workers in higher education defending democracy and protecting a pathway to opportunity for all.
Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit group working to prevent authoritarianism. This account is owned and operated by Protect Democracy United.
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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social Media. Fin/Tech. Capitalism. Selfhood. Higher Ed. Justice.
Co-director @starlingcentre.bsky.ca
Exhausted but still feisty.
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social journalism strategist; former journalism prof at a public school; civic media organizer @NewsFutures; digital media literacy advocate; former social justice-communities reporter. 🇧🇧 🇺🇲
RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social Union of graduate workers, faculty, postdocs and EOF counsellors at Rutgers University since 1970 | http://linktr.ee/ruaaup
Sascha Meinrath @saschameinrath.bsky.social Feisty professor, open tech champion, civil liberties maven, tinkerer, gardener, biker, hiker. Founder: Open Technology Institute, X-Lab; Co-Founder: Open Technology Fund, M-Lab; President: Defending Rights and Dissent 
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social Ph.D Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Youth Digital Cultures | Hip Hop, Media Makers, Participatory Cultures | Critical Digital Literacies
📍Delhi | Philly
Mom, Cat Worshipper, Filmmaker. Staying with Anger.
Lauren Tokos @ltokos.bsky.social PhD-ing @ UPenn Annenberg
Political economy, communication history, satellites, and suppression of dissent
Cat mom and Oregonian 🐈⬛🌿
Jinsook Kim @jinsookkim.bsky.social Feminist media scholar | Assistant professor, Media Studies, Emory University | Writing a book about digital media, online misogyny, and feminist activism in South Korea | she/her | Views my own
www.jinsookkim.com
Kleinman Center for Energy Policy @kleinmanenergy.bsky.social Creating the conditions to advance energy policy outcomes through education, research, and outreach at Penn and beyond. #EnergyAtPenn
Cameron Moy @cmoy11.bsky.social PhD Student @ UPenn Annenberg School for Communication ~ studying race, platforms, and power structures
Philly | MI
Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com
The LPE Project @lpeproject.bsky.social Legal scholars, students, & practitioners working to expose & transform law's role in the perpetuation of economic, racial, & gender inequality. & check out our Blog: @lpeblog.bsky.social
Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @pcgvr.org Collaborating with journalists, researchers and the survivor community to advance more empathetic, ethical and impactful reporting. PCGVR.org
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University defends the freedoms of speech & the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education.
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Truthout @truthout.org Independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues.
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Thomonique Moore @hellothomo.bsky.social you ever wonder what it all really mean? 💫
Thinking about // PhD-ing in Black technoculture, education, + digital media stuff at Penn Annenberg
Raised at @Howard.edu
thomoniquemoore.com
Liz Hallgren @lizhallgren.bsky.social Thinking about the culture and politics of news and journalism @annenbergpenn.bsky.social 😺
IAMCR @iamcr.org The International Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR - is a global professional association of media and communication researchers.
Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social Dir. of Global Partnerships, Inst. for Information, the Internet & Democracy, NEU | Union of Concerned Scientists 2024 Defender of Science |
Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/
https://expertvoicestogether.org/
https://independenttechresearch.org/
Union for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social Communication researchers, journalists, media producers, policy analysts, academics and activists dedicated to critical perspectives in communication theory, media production, and the study of popular culture | https://www.democraticcomm.org/
Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social Prof of Media and Communication at the University of Edinburgh. Based in Politics/IR. Researching #AI, #Journalism and #Public Service Media. Views own. She/Her
Mike Wagner @prowag.bsky.social William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea, Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, U of Wisconsin-Madison. Director, Center for Communication and Civic Renewal. Inflated sense of karaoke ability. 10/10 Room Rater. 
Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their workplaces and careers. https://linktr.ee/transjournalists
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Pawel Popiel @ppopiel.bsky.social Media policy + platforms + political economy | Assistant Prof @ Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University | US Team Research Lead - GMICP.org | Affiliate @ MIC Center, UPenn and CITAP, UNC | Philly expat | pawelpopiel.com
Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com Expert repro journalism that inspires. Home of @AngryBlackLady.blacksky.app Chronicles, Baby Boom! Lawyered and The Fallout 📧
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Dr. Jennifer Henrichsen, PhD @drjennhenrichsen.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Washington State University's Murrow College of Communication. Affiliated Fellow: Yale’s Information Society Project, UPenn's Media, Inequality & Change Center. 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. PhD from UPenn Annenberg.
Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social Writers Guild of America East, AFL-CIO, is a labor union representing writers in film, television, news, podcasts, and online media.
Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is a labor union representing writers of motion pictures, television, radio, and internet programming.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press Protecting, defending public interest journalism in the 21st century.
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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org Reporters Committee provides free legal help to journalists and protects their First Amendment rights. Find us at rcfp.org.
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Tejas @h-tejas.bsky.social PhD student.
Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social Free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook.
Coord. by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org We use the law to advance a bold, vibrant democracy for all people by defending progress, disrupting extremism, and building for the future. Join us at democracyforward.org
OpenSecrets.org @opensecrets.org The most comprehensive, nonpartisan money-in-politics resource. Follow the money at opensecrets.org
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
Fix Media Now (by the Media and Democracy Project) @fixmedianow.bsky.social Fighting for better media & a well-informed public 🇺🇸 #FixMediaNow #PressFreedom
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social Non-partisan civic advocacy group working to improve our media and defend our democracy 🇺🇸 #PressFreedom #BlockTheMerger
mediaanddemocracyproject.org
All our links: linktr.ee/FixMediaNow
Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center @makingworlds.bsky.social 
Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social Sociology & communication prof at Penn researching: Internet, activism, digital media & technology, narrative, emotion, sinology. All views my own. Website: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/guobin-yang-phd
Benjamin Toff @benjamintoff.bsky.social Professor at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Minnesota Journalism Center. On sabbatical for 2026 with the News and Information team at Pew Research Center. I study trust in news, news avoidance, public opinion, and changing media.
Molly de Aguiar @mollydea.bsky.social Philanthropy professional w/ 20 yrs experience funding grassroots media. Faves: Philly, architecture, graphic design, travel, snail mail, dogs, ferries, riding bikes.
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
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/
Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news.
🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/
Democracy Now! @democracynow.org Independent, daily global news hour.
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Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp.bsky.social Prof., Annenberg School for Communication @Upenn; focus on media & cultural change in postcolonial & diasporic contexts; Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/aswin-punathambekar-phd
Antoine Haywood, Ph.D. @cratebeats.bsky.social Journalism Assistant Prof., University of Florida. Passionate about fostering community-centered media, collecting vinyl records, and watching college football. @Penn @Morehouse Alumn.
CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social Promoting critical scholarship on digital culture, technology, and society from Annenberg School for Communication and SAS Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/center-on-digital-culture-and-society
Christopher Ali @christopherali.bsky.social Pioneers Chair & Professor in Telecommunications @ Penn State Bellisario College of Communications. Researcher of all things broadband. Author of Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity.
Husband, dog dad, Murder She Wrote groupie. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social Official account of the @APSAtweets & @icahdq #PolComm Divisions | posts by @igoncalves.com | https://www.facebook.com/groups/politicalcommunication.org | @polcomm@mastodon.social | https://politicalcommunication.org/
Melissa B. Skolnick-Noguera @melib.bsky.social Doc filmmaker, cultural producer, multimodal researcher.
Joint PhD in Communication & Social Welfare, from Annenberg School for Comm & SP2 at UPenn.
(she/her/ella)
Louisa Lincoln, PhD @ljlincoln.bsky.social probably talking about nonprofit news 🗞️ // minneapolitan
Hendrik Theine @theine.bsky.social postdoc JKU Linz & MIC Center UPenn. Into media discourses, economic inequality & the climate crisis
hendriktheine.eu
Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) @annenbergcargc.bsky.social Advancing Critical Knowledge on Global Media, Communication, and Public Life.
anjali dassarma @dassarma.bsky.social phd candidate at @asc.upenn.edu | she/her
studying history, race, colonialism, capitalism & journalism
“the ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.” - michel-rolph trouillot
Media@Risk @ascmediarisk.org The Center for Media at Risk is devoted to fostering free and critical media practice and scholarship. 
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
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.
Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Furthering our understanding of the role of communication in public life through research, education, and service.