Rachel Fagen @rachelfagen.bsky.social Tech, democracy, and civil society // social internet platform and AI governance
Norma Musih @normamusih.bsky.social Researcher of Visual Culture and Digital Media.
Thinking about political imaginations for dark times.
Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social Reader in Languages and Linguistics, Manchester Met • UKRI Metascience AI Fellow • Contrastive/Corpus Linguistics • Climate Discourse • ELT • Co-Editor Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics & Corpus Linguistics Guides • FRSA
➡️ https://linktr.ee/niallrcurry
Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social Labor + Tech | Currently @techequity.bsky.social | Formerly Coworker(.)org, Coworker Solidarity Fund, Change(.)org, International Labor Rights Forum
Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social Prof. of IR. Director, New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway | Co-Editor: Media, War and Conflict journal | Co-author: Strategic Narratives | Book series editor: AI Politics
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me Designer/Artist https://nasibov.me
Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social Here to help you to publish and make an impact with your research.
Max Muth @maksumuto.bsky.social Wirtschaftsjournalist bei der Süddeutschen Zeitung
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social Philosopher of technology | Professor at Philosophy Department University of Vienna | Author of AI Ethics, Why AI Undermines Democracy, and Artificial Religion | member UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI | https://coeckelbergh.net
Critical Theory in Berlin @ktbberlin.bsky.social The Bluesky representation of the Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/
SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu SCRIPTS is an Excellence Cluster that examines the nature, causes, and potential consequences of contestations of the liberal script in a global, comparative, and historical perspective. Hosted at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social and funded by @dfg.de.
Tilman Baumgärtel @tilmanbaumgaertel.bsky.social Professor of Media Theory
Hochschule Mainz
https://piazzavirtuale.multiplace.org/
https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/now-forever-theory-history-loop
Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social I write mostly about the intersection of tech & art/culture which these days means I spend nearly all my time trying to address the exploitation underlying current AI models. A secular humanist interrogating modern religions.
Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io Software Engineering researcher; Associate Professor at UTFPR, Curitiba, Brazil.
https://adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com/
https://ko-fi.com/adolfoneto
Posts mostly in English.
#ElixirLang enthusiast (I also love #LeanLang, #LuaLang, #Erlang).
Podcaster.
Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology, University of Warsaw • Critical Data Studies | Environmental & Climate Sociology | Contentious Politics • He/him/his
Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
Eva Nieto McAvoy @evanmcavoy.bsky.social now researching AI Afterlives www.syntheticpasts.com
MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social Field-defining Cambridge Journal of Memory, Mind & Media
Edited by Andrew Hoskins and Amanda Barnier
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/memory-mind-and-media
Anna Schjøtt @annaschjoett.bsky.social Technological Anthropology PhD working at University of Amsterdam on knowledge production in AI development and use in the media sector with a focus on politics and ethics.
Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social PROF. of AI, MEMORY & WAR
University of Edinburgh
AI & MEMORY
https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.16
https://www.andrewhoskins.net/about
ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War
5 year project
https://tinyurl.com/yjem9a4w
Technology, Power, and Domination @digipolicy.bsky.social Research group “Technology, Power, and Domination” @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/digital-infrastructures-in-democracy/technology-power-and-domination/
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
Visual Politics Research Program @visualpolitics.bsky.social Visual Politics Research Program at the University of Queensland. We promote creative work and interdisciplinary collaborations. https://www.rolandbleiker.com/visualpolitics
Artificial Memory @artificialmemory.bsky.social Artificial Memory investigates the consequences of the surge of artificial intelligence (AI) – particularly generative AI – and its reception in memory studies.
https://artificial-memory.net/
Maintained by Frédéric Clavert (C²DH - uni.lu)
Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network (TransDI), Chair: Dr Liang Ge (Univ of Manchester) @liangge11.bsky.social
Kareem El Damanhoury @kareemeldamanhoury.bsky.social Multimedia Journalism & Digital Storytelling Professor, Uni of Denver | Emmy-award winning Journo & Producer, CNN | News Junkie & E-E enthusiast | 2xIronman 70.3
www.keldamanhoury.com
Joëlle Swart @joelleswart.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen / Researching changing everyday news use & news literacy
Eedan Amit-Danhi @eedanamitdanhi.bsky.social She/Her | #FirstGenAcademic | Digital Political Visualizations | Assistant Prof. of Dig. Humanities & Media at @univgroningen | Raised at @HujiComm | Peace-Seeker | Zero chill.
Marília Gehrke, Ph.D. @gehrke.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Interested in gendered disinformation, transparency, fact-checking and data journalism
Johana Kotišová @johana.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Amsterdam | Conflict reporting, journalists' emotions & well-being | Mountain enthusiast & hiking curator
Yevgen Matusevych @yevgenm.bsky.social Assistant professor @GroNLP, Center for Language and Cognition Groningen
https://yevgen.web.rug.nl/
Language acquisition, computational cognitive modelling, computational linguistics, cross-language transfer, human speakers vs language models
Rik van Noord @rikvannoord.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Humane AI and NLP at the University of Groningen (GroNLP)
Leandra Thiele @leandrathiele.bsky.social Researcher in the field of multimodal linguistics, discourse and semiotics at the University of Bremen. Analysing different kinds of multimodal media. Current and past foci: digital games, film, news and educational videos.
UCSB Media Skill Lab @mediaskill.bsky.social The media skill lab, led by Dr. Kristy Hamilton, uses empirical research to understand how aspects of our digital environment enable & alter strategic decision-making surrounding our media use
https://www.kristyahamilton.comm.ucsb.edu/media-skill-lab/
digital cultures and arts @digitalculturesandarts.ch DIZH bridge professorship
University of Zurich
Zurich University of the Arts
digitalculturesandarts.ch
Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage. French-born, London-based cosmopolite. Literary #Archives & #DigitalHumanities #DH #AI
www.lisejaillant.com
Michele Zappavigna @michelezappavigna.bsky.social Associate Professor at UNSW, Sydney | Social Semiotics | Systemic Functional Linguistics | Discourse analysis
Currently working on LLM chatbot conversations 🤖💬🤦🏻♀️
Virginie Iché @virginieiche.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Linguistics (Univ. Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France). Currently working on failed repair in mockumentary sitcoms & cringe humor.
Research interests: pragmatics, stylistics, multimodality, miscommunication & humor
@louiseravelli.bsky.social @louiseravelli.bsky.social
Yiting W @wyt.bsky.social Researches digital media and visual communication.
Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social Visual Communication journal is dedicated to exploring the dynamic and interdisciplinary field of visual culture, offering cutting-edge scholarship https://journals.sagepub.com/home/VCJ |🌿
Marcos Dias @marcospdias.bsky.social Assistant Professor - DCU School of Communications / Chair - ECREA Media, Cities and Space section / Author: The Machinic City: Média, Performance and Participation (Manchester University Press): https://tinyurl.com/3ce2xkrv
Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social Lecturer in Media at Monash University
Media Theory & STS - The Body in Error - Canguilhem/Foucault/Derrida/Hyppolite - Work and Automation - Face Recognition - Sensors - Etc
Amelia Johns @ameliajohns.bsky.social I am an Associate Professor at UTS (she/her). I research youth, social media and messaging| digital activism| digital citizenship| misinformation and platform regulation. I live on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people.
Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social I am a Lecturer in Data Analytics in the Social Sciences at the University of Sydney where I am also deputy director of Centre for AI, Trust and Governance. francescobailo.net
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Josh Gellers @joshgellers.bsky.social Dean and Inaugural Faculty Fellow for AI. Expert, Global AI Ethics Institute. Research Fellow, Earth System Governance Project. https://www.joshgellers.com
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
Daria Dergacheva @dariadergacheva.bsky.social Associated researcher at the Platform Governance, Media and Technology Lab, ZeMKI, University of Bremen. Platform and AI regulation, Governance of speech by platforms and AI models, Russian disinformation and propaganda, journalism in exile
Omar Rivasplata @omarrivasplata.bsky.social Manchester Centre for AI FUN | Machine Learning Theory | Maths Prob & Stats | Deep Thinker | Posts/reposts might be non-deep | Carpe espresso ☕
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news
Member @redico.eu www.redico.eu
Join the research hub: hub.redico.eu
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE is the moderate position.
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
Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social Dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. Likes/Reposts/Shared Articles are not necessarily endorsements.
Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social Senior Editor, Technology @ NBC News
Signal: beng.38
https://linktr.ee/bengoggin
benjamin.goggin@nbcuni.com bgoggin@protonmail.com
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Cornelia Brantner @corneliabrantner.bsky.social Austrian in Sweden. Professor in the Department of Geography, Media and Communication at Karlstad University.
Elisa Serafinelli, Ph.D @eliserafinelli.bsky.social SL in Digital Media and Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University with a strong passion for emerging visual technologies.
🍝🍕🍷🤌
Daniel Binns @clockworkpenguin1.bsky.social creative tech maker + thinker, genAI, screencultures, altcomputing. senior lecturer, media @ RMIT; assoc investigator @ADM+S
Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country // President @aussts.bsky.social
Ryan Thomas @ryanjthomas.bsky.social 🏴 Welsh | Assoc. Prof. & Director of Graduate Studies, Murrow College of Communication @ Washington State University | Journalism studies, ethics, sociology of news etc | Would like to be on a beach, but probably on a committee
Joanne Kuai @joannekuai.bsky.social
Hannah Overbye-Thompson @overbye.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor at MSU ComArtSci AD + PR | I study how people detect, perceive & respond to AI/algorithmic bias
https://www.hannahoverbye.com/
Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Johns Hopkins University | Prev: Stanford & EPFL | https://piccardi.me/
University of Groningen | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen @rug.nl We are the University of Groningen (short: UG) (Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, kort: RUG), an open academic community since 1614 🎓 www.rug.nl
Posts in Dutch and English.
Questions? Our chat is open! 📩
Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen @facultyofartsug.bsky.social We are the Faculty of Arts at the Uni of Groningen. Posts in ENG&NL about education, events, and cutting-edge research in the Arts & Humanities. www.rug.nl/let @unigroningen.bsky.social
ADAPT #DiscussAI @discussai.bsky.social National Conversation about Artificial Intelligence & ethics led by the Research Ireland ADAPT Centre 👩💻🛰️📲🚘 #DiscussAI
Events etc: https://linktr.ee/discuss_ai
Katharina Lobinger @klobinger.bsky.social Associate professor at the Institute of Digital Technologies for Communication, USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland. Passionate Visual Communication researcher. President of SGKM - SSCM - SACM
Dr. Edward A S Ross (he/him) @edwardasross.bsky.social | teaching fellow . university of reading |
| #classics . #buddhism . #centralasia . #criticalAI |
| Reading (PhD), HKU (MBuddhStud), and McGill (BA) alumnus |
edwardasross.wordpress.com
Alberto Lusoli @albertolusoli.bsky.social SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow studying AI and creative labor
Digital Democracies Institute Deputy Director
Human being
Research updates 👉 https://labora.co/
Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social Researching communication, brand and visibility in creative industries; queer representation in mainstream media | Lecturer Public Relations at RMIT
CNBC @cnbc.com First in business worldwide. 💰
Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social Communication+ Researcher - see http://nicocarpentier.net/
Niall Martin @niallnl.bsky.social Teacher, Literary and Cultural Analysis #LCA, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Researcher, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis #ASCA
Staff page: https://www.uva.nl/profiel/m/a/n.martin/n.martin.html
#noise #replaceability #illiteracy #plagiarism #genai
AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social A network for science and technology studies (STS) scholars in Australia and New Zealand
Alex Hope @dralexanderhope.bsky.social Lecturer at UAM, Madrid. Linguist (metaphor, CLIL, conversation analysis, CDA), critical theorist (Malabou, Derrida, Deleuze, posthumanism, technicity) mountain biker, cat feeder
Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social Social Media Explorer 🦆
PhDing; Communication; HebrewU
Founding Member @weareccsn.bsky.social
🤳🏽 Content Creators
🧲 Audiovisual Memes
🧨 Algos and Hate
📵 Tech Appropriation
👩🏽🎤 TikTok Cultures
Emily Faux @emilyfaux.bsky.social Working with Stories & Fiction, Nuclear Weapons & War. Creative Methods.
PhD Newcastle University; Teaching Univerity of Leeds.
Mathieu O'Neil @mathieuon.bsky.social Professor of communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal country • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council • Civic information literacy for schools • Political economy of digital commons • https://dcpc.info/actions/
Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social Intersectional feminist and neuroaffirmative researcher & educator | Media Studies & Education | MU | Neurospicy Nerd | She/Her | Views are your ma's.
Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social Professor of media and communications at ZeMKI and Commfigurations, Uni Bremen, on #mediatization, #datafication, #pioneercommunities, #pioneerjournalism, #ComAI, #AI, #digitalfutures.
Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social ST&HV is a journal that publishes cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sth
Sonia Livingstone @sonialivingstone.bsky.social LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
Kate Miltner @katemiltner.bsky.social Lecturer (Asst. Prof) in Data, AI & Society @ The University of Sheffield Information School. Member of the UK Young Academy.
katemiltner.com
Journal of Digital Social Research @jdsr.bsky.social Independent, interdisciplinary, open access.
jdsr.io
Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social Sociologist | MPI for Political and Social Science, Göttingen https://www.ips.mpg.de | HU Berlin https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/makro/mitarbeiter/Prof_Mau l social change, inequality, conflict, borders (pic Gesine Born), personal views
Simone Natale @snatale.bsky.social Associate Professor in Media Theory and History at the University of Turin, author of Deceitful Media: AI and Social Life after the Turing Test (Oxford University Press 2021)
IAMCR @iamcr.org The International Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR - is a global professional association of media and communication researchers.
João C. Magalhães @jcmagalhaes.bsky.social Platforms, politics & democracy. Senior Lecturer at University of Manchester. More at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcmagalhaes/
NBC News @nbcnews.com News updates from around the 🌎, all day, every day.
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social EDGI works to build environmental data and governance systems that are more just, equitable, and effective.
Website: envirodatagov.org
Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/cf3rjd46
Volunteer: https://envirodatagov.org/volunteer/
Donna Kidwell @drdonnakidwell.com Technology is wonderful, let's make it trustworthy too. Chief Information Officer, University of Toronto
Morten Bay, Philosophiae Doctor. @mortenbay.bsky.social Media and tech scholar. Teaches at USC Annenberg. Writes stuff for normal people too. Stings in a tribute band. Author of six books, with the latest being 'Mediating Plureality: Technology, Perception, and Ethics in a Divided Democracy'.
Andrew Maynard @andrewmaynard.net Professor of Advanced Tech Transitions at ASU. Consummate undisciplinarian. Write about tech, society and the future at https://futureofbeinghuman.com/ and co-host the Modem Futura podcast: https://modemfutura.com
Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@cnbc.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla & spacex (some climate tech). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
Sarah Ciston @sarahciston.com 🌈 coding care | 🤖 intersectional ai | 🌀 making datasets and labyrinths
Aitor Jimenez @aitorjimenez.bsky.social Reading, teaching, and writing about law, technology, and capitalism at the University of the Basque Country. Anticarceral, antifascist, and aging (post)punk
The Crimes of Digital Capitalism / NYU Press 2025
Enemigos del Imperio / Verso Libros 2025