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
Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social National security journalist: https://thehighside.substack.com
Host on @theteamhouse.bsky.social
Military Thriller, The Most Dangerous Man: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803651/the-most-dangerous-man-by-jack-murphy/9798892424509/
Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social oil market researcher
founder of https://CommodityContext.com
former bank economist
markets, code, barbecue
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
substack.com/@gtconway
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Dr. Daniela Dimitrova @profdimitrova.bsky.social University Professor & Editor-in-Chief of @JMCQuarterly.bsky.social. ✍️ Global journalism. 🌎 Political news reporting. 🧐 Refugee communications. ☕️ and 🍫. *NB: Views my own.
CJ Reynolds @reynoldscj.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Copenhagen. Researching finfluencers, gamblers, and general troublemakers. Still missing GeoCities.
Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social Not a WH Staffer | Politics, NatSec, and Snark - Your Mileage May Vary | Subscribe to my Patreon newsletter for free: https://www.patreon.com/AWHSBlog |
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
Veli-Matti Karhulahti @mkarhulahti.bsky.social science, gaming, art (senior researcher at university of jyväskylä)
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social 
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
julie chen @julieychen.bsky.social Assistant Prof., ICCIT & iSchool, UofT
Editor, Platforms and Society
Study digital labor, platforms, and data work for AI
Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam on Data Bodies, Critical AI in Health Decision-making | Ethics & Politics of AI systems, Platforms, Political Economy | she/her | 🔗 https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/u/d.luitse/d.luitse.html
Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social Communication and Labour Studies prof at SFU. Forza Roma, ovunque e comunque.
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social Lecturer - Games and Interactivity @Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
Jiaru Tang @jiarut.bsky.social PhD candidate @QUT DMRC| AI-generated content, cultural production, creative industries🤖🎨🪄| bubble milktea expert🧋
Jonathon Hutchinson @dhutchman.bsky.social Associate Professor Media & Communication @USyd. Researching: intermediation studies, internet & technology, Vietnam, young people and media, social & public media 🎓📽📲.
Jack Qiu @jackqiu.bsky.social Chair and Shaw Foundation Prof of Media Technology, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
Indrek Ibrus @indrekibrus.bsky.social Professor of media innovation at BFM, Tallinn Uni.
Esther Weltevrede @esthrr.bsky.social 
Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social Prof at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Eat the rich
Jake Goldenfein @jakegoldenfein.bsky.social Melbourne Law School, CI at ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society - Studying data governance, data commodification, and automated decision-making.
Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social Prof of Media and Journalism Studies @unigroningen.bsky.social | director RMeS | coordinator UNL Digital Society | chair Digital Literacy Coalition | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcel-Broersma
Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) https://academic.oup.com/book/56385
Laurens Verhagen @laurensvhg.eurosky.social AI-redacteur bij de Volkskrant / Filosofie / Media / Tech / AI / Auteur van de Techbro's https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/de-techbros/
Alessandro Gandini @afrontiercity.bsky.social “Your favorite sociologist’s favorite sociologist” (cit). Researching platforms, work, digital cultures & methods @ University of Milan. PI of @ercresearch.bsky.social funded "CRAFTWORK" - https://craftwork.unimi.it/
Jeroen de Kloet @jeroendekloet.bsky.social Professor of globalisation studies at Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. PI of RESCUE, on resilient cultures in contemporary art, folk and indie music, and queer cinema in mainland China and Hong Kong.
Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social University Professor, School of Communication, American University; Editor Emerita, In These Times; Author of books about documentary film, Kartemquin Films, the copyright doctrine of fair use and creativity, "political correctness," and more
Lina Dencik @linadencik.bsky.social Professor and University Research Leader in AI Justice at Goldsmiths, University of London. Co-Founder of Data Justice Lab.
Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social A media scholar - jeffpooley.com/about
Kevin Mellet @kevkerkev.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Sociology at Sciences Po / Centre de Sociologie des Organisations
Internet & social sciences / Market Studies / Marketing Studies
@schneiderfa.bsky.social @schneiderfa.bsky.social 
Pei-Sze Chow @c-ps.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Digital Culture and New Media,
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 🇸🇬 #CulturalStudies #CreativeLabour #MediaIndustries #CulturalProduction and #AI
Dasol Kim 김다솔 @everysol.bsky.social Assistant Prof at SUNY New Paltz | 📚 working on a book manuscript about K-beauty! | sites.google.com/view/dasolkim-
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
Nik John @ilovejazzmusic.bsky.social Internet scholar at University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk
Former Prez of @aoir.bsky.social
Pessimist
Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social OA, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of social media and its implications for society. Follow for cutting edge trends in this emerging field. Read more at journals.sagepub.com/home/SMS
Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, serial entrepreneur, and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts.
Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋
Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University.
My latest book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@rwg, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Ergin Bulut @bltergin.bsky.social Teaching at Goldsmiths
Jim Malazita @jmalazita.bsky.social Associate Prof of Games & Experiential Media at RPI. STS scholar. Author of "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" from the MIT Press. DiGRA Board Member.
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
Mark Deuze @markdeuze.bsky.social 👨🎓 Professor Media Studies, U of Amsterdam
🎸bass: Skinflower; new music at Bandcamp
📚 latest books: Life in Media (MIT Press), Happiness in Journalism (Routledge)
🔊 🎥 Deuzevlog on YouTube and Spotify
🚴 Ride on!
🎓ORCID: 0000-0002-1986-5050
Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social Digital journalism professor 🏝️AE at Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly/ Author, “Digital Journalism and the Facilitation of Hate” (2023) 🇺🇸🇨🇦 actively 🏃♂️🧑💻#firstgen.
Aleena Chia @aleenachia.bsky.social 谢能安 Lecturer in Game Studies & Media Studies at Goldsmiths UoL. Research on videogame production and digital wellness: how media technologies automate work, optimise life, and shape inequalities. http://www.aleenachia.org
Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social Communication science, media psychology, and game studies at the University of Twente. He/him
David Nemer @davidnemer.com Assoc Prof of Media Studies & Anthropology at the University of Virginia. Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. Anthropology of Tech/STS Books: Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press); Favela Digital (GSA)🇧🇷🇺🇸
https://linktr.ee/davidnemer
Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
https://clarafv.com
Jaroslav Švelch @electroslav.bsky.social game scholar and historian at Charles University
vocalist and lyricist at Rest in Haste
svelch.com
Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
Amanda Phillips 🌈🇲🇽🇺🇸🎮🎓💀💙✊🏼🐰♍♑ @gamertrouble.bsky.social They/he/she. Ass. Prof LV 2, Georgetown. Gamer Trouble + Queer/Trans/Digital/Diaspora (NYU Press). Transmasc Latinx feminist bunny boi. V srs academic. Subtext for days.
Whitney Phillips @whitneyphillips.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Information Politics and Ethics at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. I write about quasi-religion & politics at http://populardemonology.substack.com- 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.
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.
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
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
Atoosa Kasirzadeh @atoosakz.bsky.social societal impacts of AI | assistant professor of philosophy & software and societal systems at Carnegie Mellon University & AI2050 Schmidt Sciences early-career fellow | system engineering + AI + philosophy | https://kasirzadeh.org/
Guus Valk @guusvalk.bsky.social Journalist NRC
Host Haagse Zaken, een wekelijkse podcast over politiek
Niels van Doorn @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social Associate Professor: University of Amsterdam. Editor: Platforms & Society. Book-in-the-making: The Platform Fix (MIT Press, forthcoming)
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies,
@appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
Emilija Jokubauskaitė @emilijajok.bsky.social just got a phd researching webcam sex platforms https://www.plexxxi.org
owner of a last name you are scared to pronounce out loud
|| in my heart always a researcher at oilab https://oilab.eu
Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Platform Studies at Aarhus University
AdTech Project @adtechproject.bsky.social A study of online advertising based at University of Edinburgh & funded by the ESRC. Project team: donaldamackenzie.bsky.social, Koray Caliskan, @crommers.bsky.social, @addiemcgowan.bsky.social, & Frances Burgess. Learn more: https://adtech.sps.ed.ac.uk
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.
Addie McGowan @addiemcgowan.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Data Civics Observatory & @adtechproject.bsky.social. University of Edinburgh (Sociology and EFI). Academic by way of digital marketing strategist. Memphis, TN + Edinburgh, UK.
Alkım Yalın @alkimyalin.bsky.social Lecturer at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Global digital media, creative industries, influencers, platform work
Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. Some other stuff.
Sociologist.
https://www.devikanarayan.com/
Rahul Mukherjee @rahmuk.bsky.social Associate Professor, Penn CIMS. Wrote "Radiant Infrastructures" (DUP, 2020). Just completed "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution (MIT, 2026)." Platforms, Energy, Environment
Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social Asso Prof @ UvA Media Studies || PI of ERC Research - China Africa Fashion Power (2022-27) || Editor of Int’l Journal of Fashion Studies || IIAS Board Member
Judith Keilbach @juikei.bsky.social Media scholar Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | environmental humanities, media industries and infrastructures, media and history | Greening the Digital Society | co-editor of necsus
Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social Journal for internet studies. Interdisciplinary & open access. Published by @hiigberlin.bsky.social & @cais-research.bsky.social in cooperation with @create-glasgow.bsky.social @cis-cnrs.bsky.social IN3 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social & Skytte Institute UT
Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social Media Studies @uvahumanities.bsky.social · 📚 Author, Platforms (Polity) · 📦 NWO Veni: ‘AI Power’ · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 👥 @appstudies.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 🔗 fernandovandervlist.nl
Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social Platforms & Society hosts critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization, examining their impacts on and embeddedness in economies, cultures, and institutions around the world.
Armen Hakhverdian @hakhverdian.bsky.social Politicoloog met telraam || UvA || Auteur 'Nepparlement?' || Vertegenwoordiging, ongelijkheid, verkiezingen || StukRoodVlees-podcast
Cecilia D'Anastasio @cecianasta.bsky.social reporter covering video games and digital culture for Bloomberg News
www.cecianasta.com
Discord: ehvee
Signal: Cecilia.01
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Hannah Wohl @hannahwohl.bsky.social Associate Prof of Sociology at UCSB. Author of Bound by Creativity. Ethnographer of culture, markets, platforms. Currently writing about the porn industry.
Julia Ticona @jticona.bsky.social Assistant Prof. UPenn Annenberg, Mama, Researcher, Teacher, Writer - Labor, Tech, Women, Care.
Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social OSINT, geolocations, air/sea data. Snarky AvGeek.
Cites: NYT, Мілітарний, Newsweek, The Aviationist, TWZ, A&SF Mag
"Sharp-eyed aviation buff & flight tracker" ~ Brian Williams
https://buymeacoffee.com/vcdgf555
She/her
Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social STL native, UM-St. Louis x Michigan State alum. (Full) Prof at Newhouse School (Syracuse U, USA) studying gaming + emerging media. Launch Editor, Global Perspectives of Communication (Oxford x ICA).
Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC) @gpccomm.bsky.social Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC) publishes rigorous, iterative, and impactful scholarship covering all conceivable dimensions of communication studies. As an open-access journal, we elevate the availability and impact of top-tier scholarship. 
CCSN @weareccsn.bsky.social Content Creator Scholars Network (CCSN) 🤳🏽✨ An interdisciplinary community for humanistic + qualitative studies of digital creators and emerging platform economies and cultures. Join us!
Tom Louwerse @tomlouwerse.nl Politicoloog/Political Scientist | @UniLeiden.bsky.social | @Peilingwijzer.bsky.social | @stukroodvlees.bsky.social | Opinions are my own | Dutch & English
https://www.tomlouwerse.nl
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
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