Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Ever Josue Figueroa, Ph.D. @everfigueroa.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. PhD from UT Austin. Media Representations | Media Sociology | Sports Communication | Journalism Studies
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
Norton Communication @nortoncomm.bsky.social 
Nicole K. Stewart @nicolestewart.bsky.social Views are my own. 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸
Researches: platform studies / communication technologies / digital media + cultures
Paulo Cepeda @paulocepeda.bsky.social Journalist · Periodista 🔆 To Teach is to Learn Twice · Enseñar es aprender dos veces 🎓 EdTech, Communication & Digital Ecosystem
Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social Métis Research Chair @PowleyInstitute | Communication & Culture, PhD @yorkuniversity
| Infoscape Lab | Institute for Research on Digital Literacies |
Métis Studies, Media, Surveillance
The Politics of Media Scarcity (2024) out now.
Dr Stephanie Farnsworth-Meek @mutanttheorist.bsky.social Lecturer of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. Researcher of Mutant Theory and monstrous bodies. https://stephaniefarnsworth.co.uk
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.
melisser3, happening again in a slow diagonal @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
alexandra boutros @alexandraboutros.bsky.social associate prof | communication and cultural studies | wilfrid laurier university | pop culture | pop music | critical race theory | media, religion, and identity |
anja schürmann @schalkewins.bsky.social researching the photobook & history/theory of photography as an art historian & permanent researcher at @kwi-essen.bsky.social. whistling at the gap between reading & writing.
https://linktr.ee/schalkewins
robin manley @robinmanley.bsky.social phd candidate @ berkeley rhetoric // editor @ qui parle // cybernetics in intellectual history, philosophy of technology, & media theory
Michael Mirer @michaelmirer.bsky.social Associate Professor studying sports-related media and journalistic professionalism at UW-Milwaukee. Aspiring boat guy.
Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social associate professor somewhere
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
* posts do not reflect the views of my employer
Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social assoc prof @ UW CMS, editor Feminist Media Histories, lover of tea, pickleball addict, collector of (filmic) junk
Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst
bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/
Joshua Harold Wiebe @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social visiting assistant professor in film+media studies
critical theory, labour, cinema, aesthetics
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
David Cecchetto @davidcecchetto.bsky.social Digital theory and sound studies prof (yorku); past pres SLSA; quasi-practicing (non)musician.
-Co-edit Proximities book series (UMinn)
-Author: Humanesis: Sound and Posthumanism (UMinn); Listening in the Afterlife of Data (Duke), and others
Jessica Ghilani @jesspgh.bsky.social Comm + media studies professor focused on history, emerging tech, information integrity, telecomm policy, platforms, propaganda, and culture. From Pittsburgh.
Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social Media theory, art history professor
Books:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912543/endless-intervals/
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517902261/elements-of-a-philosophy-of-technology/
Surplus data: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/2022/48/
Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board.
Music in Orbit now available: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
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
Grace Han @ghahahan.bsky.social Stanford PhD candy thinking abt CG & AI through animation aesthetics; film critic on asian/diaspora cinema; GALECA secretary; 🍅 & 🍉
https://art.stanford.edu/people/grace-han
📍SF Bay Area
hank gerba @hankg.bsky.social phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
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)
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social Writes about media, sound, technology & democracy
Book:`Danger Sound Klaxon: The Horn that Changed History' https://tinyurl.com/47k7hft5
Director: newsliteracy.psu.edu
Exec Producer doc series: huminfocus.psu.edu
Brian Creech @briancreech.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Lehigh University Department of Journalism and Communication
Colin Burnett @colinburnett.bsky.social Program director & assoc. prof. of Film & Media Studies at WashU, assoc. editor of Journal of Cinema & Media Studies (JCMS), author of The Invention of Robert Bresson (2017), finishing up a new book, Serial Bonds: The Shape of 007 Stories.
matthew ellis @matthiasellis.bsky.social academic. i think about cinema and media, capitalism, theory, history, politics
LB: letterboxd.com/mattellis/
www.historiesofthepresent.com
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Sandra Ristovska @sristovska.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies (courtesy appointment in Law) at CU Boulder. Founding Director, Visual Evidence Lab @visualevidencelab.bsky.social Studies video evidence, AI, justice, and human rights. Author of Seeing Human Rights (MIT Press, 2021)
@nambrose.bsky.social @nambrose.bsky.social 
NateTheCameraGuy @natethecameraguy.bsky.social Camera Operator for the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks, Fargo Force and NDSU Athletics | Camera Experience w/ Banana Ball | #MNTwins #SKOL #MNWild #BisoNation | #T1D for 14 years
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
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.
Thomas Ruys Smith @thomasruyssmith.com Prof of Lit and Culture, mostly nineteenth century. Coming soon: 🎅 🔎 Searching for Santa Claus: An Anthology of the Poems, Stories and Illustrations That Shaped an American Icon. Writing a book about Mark Twain & London.
http://www.thomasruyssmith.com
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.
Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social English professor in Fukuoka, Japan; research focus on utopias in literature with forays into science fiction, ecocriticism, & monster theory. Immigrant, LGBTQIA+(bi).
https://dystopianflower.leaflet.pub/
https://linkat.blue/azzageddi.myatproto.social
Michael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social Wrote a book about G.K. Chesterton and literary modernism. Now working in uni admin, but still doing research - see pinned thread for info on my current project, 'Inscribing Pandemonium'. Also posting about music, culture, politics, random nonsense.
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social Prof of History at The New School | Author, FIT NATION (2023) + CLASSROOM WARS (2015) | Last Pod: EXTREME for BBC | Words: WSJ, MS NOW, NYT, CHE, etc | Fellow, Carnegie Corp/NEH Public Scholar | Mom | NYC
Robert Dahlberg-Sears @dahlbergsears.bsky.social PhD in Punk Stuff, Sendai dweller, ethno/musicology, folklore, and anthropology
Punk/alt. musics in Japan
he/him
Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
Learn more: jaivirdi.com
Corinne Matthews, Ph.D. @corinnekathryn.bsky.social Scholar of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Fantasy, & Consent | English PhD | Cohost of Sex. Love. Literature., a Pop Culture Podcast, found at @sexlovelitpodcast.bsky.social
Niki Dolfi Hall @profdolfi.bsky.social Sociologist by birth, weird-ass human by training. Researching religious discrimination | nontheism | microaggressions | pop culture. Coming soon chapter on Father Brown & nontheism
Me: 🌱🍽🎤🎨🎬🏳🌈♿
Follow ≠ Endorse. Mix of personal + professional posts.
Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸. academia has 4 parts: research, teaching, service & politics. i got the 1st 3 right. posts mine & might be info.
my passport says i am 183cm tall.
when you're burned, you've got nothing. no pets, no insta & you're not going anywhere.
ça que c'tait.
Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social scholar of art/cinema/media
https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
Sam Thomas @literarymetal.bsky.social Associate Professor of American Studies
Pynchon | Film & TV | Metal & Experimental Music | Genre & Franchise Culture | Political Violence | Star Wars
he/him
Views my own
Nilanjana Bhattacharjya @nilanjana.bsky.social Teaching professor at a large public university in Arizona. I start more books than I finish and write on music and films. (I also photograph trees.)
Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies. Author of Bad Film Histories. Writing a book about reference. Views my own. Most get deleted.
Kristine Toft Rosland @kristinerosland.bsky.social Associate Professor University of South-Eastern Norway. Reader of weird texts, from Nag Hammadi to fanfiction
🏳️⚧️Critical Kate Willært @katewillaert.bsky.social (Pronounced WILL-ert) | Investigating forgotten gaming history | Creator of the greatest Metroid video on Youtube | Asexual, autistic, artistic, 🏳️⚧️(she/her) | Linktree: https://katewillaert.com/link-tree
Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social Feminist academic and ECR. Lecturer in Sociology @ University of Manchester, UK. Author of Feminist Fandom (2024). Interested in youth, gender, digital/pop culture, platforms + anti/feminisms. She/her. https://linktr.ee/brionyhannell
Dr Thomas Baudinette @tbaudinette.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Global Cultures at Macquarie University; East-SE Asia (Kpop, BL, idols), esp. queer media; opinions my own
Louisa @fanvidcrit.bsky.social Mother, scholarfan, remix vidder. Associate Prof of Film & Media Culture and Middlebury College. She/they https://criticalcommons.org/user/Lstein/media
Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social Historian | Author of DEFENDING THE ARCTIC REFUGE, SEEING GREEN, & NATURAL VISIONS | Environmental History & Visual Culture | North American West, Arctic, & other places
Arctic Refuge Public History site: defendingthearcticrefuge.com
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.
Kimberly Pierce @kpierce624.bsky.social Critic. Archivist. Author.
Co-Chair Denver Film Critics.
https://piercingpopculture.substack.com/
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.
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social Modernism and media studies at UC Berkeley. Mediocre film photographer. Excellent baseball fan.
Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.
Dr Jennie Gouck @jenniegouck.bsky.social WiRe Fellow at University of Münster 📚 Researches girlhood in American YA 🤓. ChLA Membership Committee 👥. Reviewer for Kids Books Ireland 🇮🇪. She/her.
Dr. Shelby Judge @shelbyjudge.bsky.social Lecturer • researches feminist myth retellings and, sometimes relatedly, incels • Seed Talks speaker on folklore & myth • good at book recs • she/her 🏳️🌈
Marcelo Ribeiro 🇵🇸 @marcelorsr.incinerrante.com militonto do inutilitário, pós-doutor honoris causa em línguística pela unipântano, pesquisador de anarqueologias, professor de cinema-delírio e entropólogo
Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social Film historian in German cinema. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the Universität Leipzig researching German cultural diplomacy at film festivals during the Cold War. Lecturer at the Europa-Universität Viadrina.
www.elizabeth-ward.com
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.
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators 
Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen @sheribiesen.bsky.social Cinema Professor. Film History. Jazz. Books: Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style. Blackout: World War II & Origins of Film Noir. Film Censorship. Music in the Shadows📚📽️🎷
https://noirbooks.blogspot.com
https://SheriChinenBiesen.blogspot.com
Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social I write about music and musicians, activism, climate + environmental crisis, México. Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music @KCL. Nie wszystko co pozytywne jest realne
Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking at Lancaster University, researching technology and society, and sometimes fandom. Co-Director of @Imaginationlanc.bsky.social. Wrote for @blackarchive.co.uk. She/her.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
Dr Ross Garner @drrossgarner.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @Cardiff JOMEC. Co-Investigator of media.cymru media tourism research. Co-editor of Popular Communication journal. Ask me about #Pokemon #JurassicPark and #Dinosaurs
More information at: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/garnerrp1
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’.
Paul Gagliardi @pgagliardi.bsky.social Teaching Assoc Prof at Marquette University, Dad, Terrible hockey player
https://paulgagliardi.squarespace.com/
Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social Dr Cyberpunk PhD. Literature and Games academic replete with an untended plastic minis addiction, brass band love, and an optimistic perspective on walkable distances. He/Him
Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social Associate Prof of English at Duke. My new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First Century Literature (Columbia UP) comes out Summer 2026! More about me here: https://aarthivadde.com
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 only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
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
Cariad Martin @cariadroseandco.bsky.social PhD researcher and lecturer in Media Studies | Family media and fandom, digital childhood, media ethics | Tragic Millennial | Parent | She/her
Matthew Thompson @drmatthewthompson.bsky.social Academic. PhD on historical reconstructions of the Whitechapel Murders. Writes about toxic masculinity, Neo-Victorianism and historical reconstruction. Currently researching the vampire in interactive media. He/Him
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/
Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social Book history, disability studies, and digital humanities. Specialty in tactile reading. Certified braille transcriber. she/they. ocd & chronic pain & cane user.
Nick Davie @nickdavie.bsky.social Film/Television PhD Researcher @ UoN: arthouse, authorship, formalism in Twin Peaks: The Return. Here for the Garmonbozia. @ whalefromtv on Twitter/X, words for various.
Nickdavie.wordpress.com
Louis Dominquez, M.Ed @loubowski.bsky.social Godzilla first, Husband, Father, Grandfather, Astros, Spurs. Love what I do and I want more and better for San Antonio and Texas.
Emma L. Davies @edgarallanhole.bsky.social horror author | bristol | ahrc funded phd | bog gothic 🌱
lb: https://boxd.it/455UF
David Pattie @davidpattie.bsky.social Teaches Drama at University of Birmingham. Scot. And unfeasibly tall.
Written about Beckett, UK theatre, popular music, Eno, Kraftwerk, Velvets, Talking Heads, and why gigs look the way they do. 
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
Dr Darren Gray @drdarrengray.bsky.social Researcher in Literature, Film and Cultural Studies | The Gothic, Horror, Technology, Disability | Currently writing ‘Horror and Disability’ for the University of Wales Press Horror Studies series.
Proudly neurodivergent (ADHD)
𝓗𝓪𝓷 @thehns.bsky.social 𝓝𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓷. 𝓦𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓻. 𝓕𝓲𝓵𝓶 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻. 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶𝓼 𝓐𝓬𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓶𝓲𝓬. 𝓟𝓸𝓹 𝓒𝓾𝓵𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮. 𝓒𝓪𝓽𝓼. 𝓢𝓱𝓮/𝓗𝓮𝓻🌈
𝓦𝓮𝓫𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓮: https://www.thehns.co.uk
𝓛𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓫𝓸𝔁𝓭: https://boxd.it/2gPz
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism 
Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social When I'm not busy cooking or being sarcastic, I work on digital religion & gender.
If you meet me in person, I'm probably the one wearing purple.
Website: https://giuliaevolvi.com/
Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social Exploring the circulation of Buddhist material culture in Western historical media, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social.
📜 #buddhasinthewest
🌟 Summer Hiatus 🏖️
Victoria Sturtevant @vsturtevant.bsky.social Media Studies Faculty. Author of It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy. Always up to talk comedy, gender, popular media, and reproductive politics.
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330449/
Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) - archive and research on the music of the Vietnam War, 6,000+ songs identified. Founding Editor Dr. Justin A. Brummer - on the hunt for new songs 🎵 🧐 Austin, TX. Est. 2007
https://linktr.ee/vietnamwarsongproject
Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social Online digital media researcher (horror) with the worst taste in movies that you’ll ever see.
@ Newcastle University 💜
Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social Visual representation and French cultural history 1789-1914. Comments and likes are my own and do not implicate my employer. https://jannmatlock.weebly.com/ 
Seo-Young J. Chu (she/they) @seoyoungjchu.bsky.social disabled queer Korean Am semi-feral writer/CUNY prof. A Refuge for Jae-in Doe; I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley; Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation; The DMZ Responds; Postmemory Han; #MeToo
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social global media professor
author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01
español incluído.