Ben Rhodes @rhodesben.bsky.social Pod Save the World. NYT opinion. MSNBC. Author: After the Fall and The World As It Is
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
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
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
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
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
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app Chair @cunyenglish.bsky.social I study books, Blackness & pop culture! Leftist & left handed 🇰🇳 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️
One of many Jonathan Grays
I maintain Blackademics the scholarly side of Blacksky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7
Personal account
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author.
Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social Sociologist at UC San Diego. Author of Automating Finance (2019) & The Quantified Scholar (2022) http://tinyurl.com/2p82v69n Director Latin American Studies (2023-?) and the International Institute (2024-26) at UC San Diego.
Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social five out of eight computers on a scale of computers
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE, Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
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.
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
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
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
ON A SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social professor of media, culture, and communication. editor, public culture. organizer, oikos working group on kinship/economy. enthusiast.
(@fstflofscholars over yonder)
Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
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
Katie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social i study how labor platforms shape the way we live in cities. geographer. senior fellow @ainowinstitute.bsky.social. newish book: DISRUPTING D.C. (Princeton Univ Press 2023 and 2025 paperback)
Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS.
Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere.
VP, @litsciarts.org
📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF.
☭.
Not a professional account.
Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/
Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social Fan, celebrity & cultural studies academic. Senior lecturer in media & cultural studies in Singapore. Intermixing posts on shows I'm watching/discovering, fandoms, academia, and occasionally, life. Opinions strictly my own.
Julián Posada @posada.website 💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu
📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026)
🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms
🌐 https://posada.website/
Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social 🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin Uni (Boorloo/Perth West Australia);
🔎 @digitalchildau.bsky.social (GenAI & Datafication);
🐘 @tama@aoir.social; he/him.
[Views mine; RT/❤️/etc ≠ endorsement]
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
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
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) @aadh.bsky.social The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Inc (aaDH): A community strengthening digital humanities research in Australia & Aotearoa (New Zealand) | https://aa-dh.org/ | Our 2025 conference: dha25.org
Patrick LeMieux @alt254.bsky.social Media artist, game designer, electronic musician, and Associate Professor at UC Davis. Wrote Metagaming w/ @chouxsalad. http://linktr.ee/patricklemieux
🥩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
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 😔
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
Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social Researcher | geographies, infrastructures, technologies, politics, lifeworlds 
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.
Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social 
Zizi Papacharissi @zizip.bsky.social UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication + Poli Sci, Head of COMM@UIC Books: After Democracy; Affective Publics; A Private Sphere; A Networked Self series
Dr Rukmini Pande @rukminipande.bsky.social Academic. Working on the intersection of race/ism in media fandom. 
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut
opinions mine. he/him
Armin Beverungen @arminb.bsky.social prof at Leuphana Uni, https://logistical.city, http://smartnesswealth.net, organization studies, STS, media studies, formerly @arminbev T/X,
Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a non-profit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms.
Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social Academic Editor and Writing Coach at https://www.indeliblevoice.com ・🤖 Communication and/or technology researcher・📚 Author of "Politics Recoded"・They/them・All links https://bio.site/aure
Ted Striphas @striphas.bsky.social Prof. & Chair – Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder | Author, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (https://tinyurl.com/p8ad6suw) | Opinions my own
Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social Prof. Economic Geography, Durham, UK.
Managing Editor @econsocjournal.bsky.social
Finance, money, FinTech, and more.
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/paul-langley/
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
Maxwell Foxman @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Game Studies
Co-author of Mainstreaming and Game Journalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5657/Mainstreaming-and-Game-Journalism
🧵: sushilovinfun
🐘: maxwellfoxman@mastodon.social
🐦: maxwellfoxman
Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. Some other stuff.
Sociologist.
https://www.devikanarayan.com/
Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social Associate professor of Japanese literature and media at Cornell. Poetry, video games, and disability. Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media out now in open access from UC Press!
コーネル大学の日本文学とメディアの准教授。詩とか、ゲーム、障害学。詩人と翻訳者。
Mercedes 🤦♀️ Bunz @mrsbunz.bsky.social King’s College London. Interested in reading ML as a ‘calculation of meaning’ 🧮📝📚✍️🎨. Creative AI Lab with Serpentine’s Eva Jäger. Left AI ✊
Stuart Marks @smarks.bsky.social Java/JDK/OpenJDK developer, Oracle Corporation. The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle. Mostly on @stuartmarks@mastodon.social ; formerly @stuartmarks on Twitter.- 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.
Florian Sprenger @floriansprenger.bsky.social Medienwissenschaft/RUB/Roboter/Situiertheit/Environments/Virtualität/Fotografie/Fahrrad/Berlin/Bochum
Sun-ha Hong @sunhahong.bsky.social Wrote Technologies of Speculation (NYUP, 2020). Writing Predictions Without Futures. right now: Stanford Humanities Centre Fellow, soon: UNC Chapel Hill. 
Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk
VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG
Outside cat; but more of a dog person really.
bodyofwork.in
Rachel O'Dwyer @rachelodwyer.bsky.social Writer. Living Currency. Author of Tokens
Devon Powers @devonjp.bsky.social Professor at University of Michigan. Metafuturist. Music nerd. Karaoke enthusiast. Fun at meetings, boring at parties.
xiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech recognition, and related data practices; general tomfoolery.
Jing Wang @jingwang.bsky.social Assistant Prof, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW-Madison; New academic mom; Feminist
Co-Founder 结绳志 https://tyingknots.net
Website: https://www.jing-wang.net/
#GlobalMedia #GlobalComm #GlobalChina #China #Anthropology #Wisconsin #Madison
Nishant Shah @latelyontime.bsky.social Feminist. Humanist. Technologist. Professor Global Media (CUHK), Director (Digital Narratives Studio), all-around rambler and general purpose story-teller. Trying to find reticence in battles of things that can and cannot be said.
Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
Armond Towns @townsarmond.bsky.social Williams College
Sam Hind @samjhind.bsky.social PhD from UoSheffield | Researching speculative flesh ecologies and speculative conservation zones 🌍 | Vegan 🌱 | She/her 🏳️🌈
Burc Kostem @bkostem.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media and Technology Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. Interested in ecology, affect, theories of value, infrastructure, technology and media. Dungeon Master. He/him
Toshiro Mitsuoka @tsrmtok.bsky.social Professor, Tokyo Keizai University. Interested in 'media and everyday-ness'. Co-editor of Doing Screen Studies in Japan (in Japanese, University of Tokyo Press, 2019). A dirty bird watcher in NFL. http: http://toshiromitsuoka.com/index_en.php
Leigh Phillips @leighphillips.bsky.social Journalist & science writer (Nature, Sci Am, New Scientist, Guardian, Telegraph, Jacobin). Almost a geologist. Co-author of People’s Republic of Walmart (Verso, 2019). Author of Austerity Ecology (Zer0 Books, 2014).
jake @jakeadampitre.bsky.social i teach film studies. a very sensitive piece of horse flesh. http://unwantedutopias.substack.com. http://boxd.it/20r7.
Florian Hoof @florianhoof.bsky.social Media theory, media infrastructure & security studies | Author: Angels of Efficiency
@oxunipress | Organizer: Harvard-Frankfurt Conference www.aftersurveillance.info | PD & Research Associate @NormativeOrders University Frankfurt
Benjamin Peters @bjpeters.bsky.social Writing on (post-)Soviet AI and #RussHack. (Books: Your Computer is on Fire. Soviet Internet. Digital Keywords.) Media theorist, historian, frisbeeist, parent
Carlos A. Scolari @cscolari.bsky.social @UPFBarcelona Full Prof: interfaces, transmedia & media evolution + PI H2020 @Trans_literacy + fiction https://hipermediaciones.com/ 
Paula Bialski @bialski.bsky.social digital sociologist, ethnographer, STS scholar, musician. New book out now http://tinyurl.com/4f29px33
Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social Researcher of AI @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
www.dangnguyen.digital
Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social Scholar of Japanese literature, media, cultural analytics. Now working on platforms, television, cultural AI. "The Values in Numbers" (2021). Offline: cooking, ceramics, watercolor. Professor at University of Chicago.
https://hoytlong.github.io
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
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
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