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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social Official account of the research project 'Performing Space / Spatializating Performance: Space and Performance in 21st Century Cinema' at the University of Zaragoza https://transnationalspacesinthecinema.wordpress.com/ https://shorturl.at/ws9S8
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.
SWPACA @swpaca.bsky.social #SWPACA27: February 17-20, 2027 FB @southwestpca • BS @swpaca.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/swpaca
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩‍🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻‍♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨‍🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
PCAS / ACAS @pcas-acas.bsky.social The Popular Culture / American Culture in the South 2026 Conference: Oct 15-17, New Orleans, LA Pcasacasconference.org
olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social STS, cultural studies, media, environment, climate, energy Bikes, cats, synths, barbells, good recipes
Trent Wintermeier @trentwintermeier.bsky.social Rhetoric & Writing PhD Candidate @ University of Texas at Austin | Digital Rhetorics, Community Literacy, Sound Studies On the academic job market! www.trentwintermeier.com
DWRL @dwrl.bsky.social UT-Austin's site for exploring emerging digital literacies through writing, research, instruction, hardware, and theory. Posts usually from trentwintermeier.bsky.social
Haunted Futures @hauntedfutures.bsky.social Haunted Futures Conference, University College Cork 29th — 30th September 2026.
Gilles Deleuze For You @deleuzeforyou.bsky.social The writings of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher, pure metaphysician.
The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies @coegamecult.bsky.social The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies is a joint project of the universities of Tampere, Turku and Jyväskylä, and is funded by the Academy of Finland.
Patrick Fiorilli @patfio.bsky.social writer, critic, & theorist; games & literature; bylines in the LA Review of Books, Gamers with Glasses, Bright Wall/Dark Room; lecturer in media arts & design at the University of Chicago; he/him; read my newsletter, "Critical Theorycraft," at www.patf.io
50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the #50501Movement ❌👑#NoKings 3/28 Made History!! Join the Movement > https://FiftyFifty.one
🕷️𝖕𝖆𝖕𝖆 𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖍🕷 @coffeeslug.bsky.social // coffee • metal • bjj • lift heavy shit ⛓️🦷
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies at ASU. Studying technology, race, power, and ethics. Lover of general shenanigans. I refuse to call them “skeets.” Opinions my own.
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
Dr. Kristen Warner is on sabbatical @kristenwarner.bsky.social Professor, Researcher, Irascible teapot. Expertise in film/media studies as it relates to black folk, employment/labor, representation and RESONANCE. Yes the plastic representation. Yes the sonic visibility. I still don’t watch sitcoms. Except shrinking.
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
Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
#TenureTrackHustle @meredithdclark.bsky.social I escaped the Upside Down, but I still visit
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
Lin Zhang @linzhang.bsky.social Critical Innovation Studies, Pro@UNH; Author of The Labor of Reinvention (Columbia UP, 2023). Working on a book about transnational biotech https://linzhangweb.org/
Evelyn Shih @amethystjazz.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota; Chinese & Korean cultural studies; media, ecologies, phenomenology; comedy. Sound and noise, signifying everything.
David Humphrey @hagured.bsky.social Japanese media studies, digital studies, and STS. Author, ‘The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan’ (UMich, 2023) http://press.umich.edu/12233973. Motivational speaker on dystopias and the end of days. Opinions my own
Aaron Gerow @dengerow.bsky.social Prof of Film and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale. Scholar of Japanese and other East Asian film and media (TV, manga, etc.). Likes rakugo, cats, and cycling. Views are my own. イェール大学教授、日本と他の東アジア映画とメディアの研究者。落語、猫と自転車。
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.
Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com Since 2018. Going beyond the clickbait headlines to tell the story of a changing, evolving Japan. https://unseen-japan.com/newsletter?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social-bio&utm_campaign=newsletter
Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/ Support open-access projects: http://patreon.com/prcurtis, http://ko-fi.com/prcurtis
China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social The CMP is an independent research project studying the Chinese media landscape within the PRC and globally, as well as the CCP's media and political discourse.
Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies. I research Japan's Politics/Nationalist Activism/History Disputes/Pop Culture. Shares/Likes ≠ endorsements. https://linktr.ee/jeffreyjhall
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
@mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social
𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social Knight Errant of the Meritorious Order of Sima Qian | Show: Qing [清朝], Xianfeng [咸豐] Era, 19th c. | Support Us & Extras: http://patreon.com/thehistoryofchina
Julien Bouvard @julienbouvard.bsky.social Maître de Conférences en études japonaises - Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 日本学科リヨン第３大学准教授 Cultural studies, history of manga and Jp subculture. Français+日本語+English université-lyon3.academia.edu/JulienBouvard
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies, Penn. Books: Drawing on Tradition (2012), Faking Liberties (2019); New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025); Animating Action (coming Dec 2026); Difficult Subjects (coming Fall 2027). More: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
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
永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara @hiromunagahara.bsky.social MIT historian of Modern Japan　 MIT教員・近代日本史 https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/ Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles Public transit-appreciator and photo-taker
Matteowatz @matteowatz.bsky.social PhD student. Film & anime studies, audiences, media history. Animation critic & historian, translator フリーアニメライター•研究者、翻訳家、博士課程1年 FR/EN/日本語
Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social historian of science & technology, itinerant potter 🐛 🐢 🐛 🐢 🐛 🐢 Sericulture 養蚕 Amami Ōshima tsumugi 奄美大島紬 (animal) biomaterials (動物)生体材料・バイオマテリアル Cocoon Cultures @DukeUP, 2027 RTAWD, Proteins & Fibers Working Groups @MPIWG-Berlin
Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
James Welker @jameswelker.bsky.social ジェームズ・ウェルカー（he/him） I research queer cultures, feminisms, and popular culture & media in and beyond Japan・クィアスタディーズ、フェミニズム、グローバリゼーション、日本文化史を研究しています More: https://linktr.ee/james.welker
宇野常寛 @uno1978.bsky.social 批評家。PLANETS編集長。 wakusei2nd@gmail.com
Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social
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
Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social Scholar and translator, modern Japanese literature and culture; I also write fiction, music criticism, and sundry other things. Plus the occasional sumo and baseball post. Faculty at University of Chicago. www.bourdaghs.com
Paul Roquet @inqualia.bsky.social other spatial mediations | proquet.mit.edu
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
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
Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔 @historianzhang.bsky.social Historian of China who studies, among other things, how people bought jobs in the government during the Qing dynasty. #tea addict. My book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674278295
Jingyi Li @becedo.bsky.social Assistant professor at Occidental College. Cultural historian of 19th ce Japan. Podcaster on New Books Network. I read kuzushiji and crochet. 日本語ペラペラ
Grace Ting 丁恩宜グレイス・ティン @graceenyiting.bsky.social 🇭🇰🇹🇼Taiwanese American queer feminist scholar in HK (they/she)✨👭🏻 Transnational Asian feminisms & queer politics, Japanese literature, girls’ culture, manga, cute culture, care, crip/disability studies Mostly English (中文: Threads)
Brian "Dr." White @androidacademia.bsky.social Asst Prof of Japanese. SF, discourse, and subjectivity. Nerd for games of all stripes. He/him/あいつ. Do not quote the old skeets at me, witch. I was there when they were written. 🚫AI 日本SF、言説、主体性を研究している教師。TTRPG、ボードゲーム好き。投稿はほぼ英語で。
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。
Sayaka Chatani @sayakachatani.bsky.social Historian at NUS. A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan (Stanford UP, 2026) Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire: primary sources translated for teaching purposes -> japaneseempire.info
@thechinaproject.bsky.social @thechinaproject.bsky.social
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
xiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech recognition, and related data practices; general tomfoolery.
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.
Jessamyn Abel @jessamynabel.bsky.social Historian of Japan at PSU, interested in democratization, infrastructure, international relations, sports, animals, and vending machines
Shintaro Miyazaki @algorhythm.bsky.social Digital Media & Computation, Media Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, https://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~miyazash/ #commoning Minibook, German, https://www.transcript-open.de/isbn/6626 +-same, English, https://meson.press/books/counter-dancing-digitality
Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social
BungakuReportEN（文学通信海外版） @bungakureporten.bsky.social Publisher. Mainly tweets about news, books, events related to Japanese studies. Japanese account→ https://bsky.app/profile/bungakureport.bsky.social 国内外の日本研究・文化関連の情報を収集・発信。出版社です。担当は渡辺。
yutaka kubo @yutakakubo.bsky.social Researcher in Japanese cinema and queer cinema. Associate professor of film studies at Kanazawa University. Currently working on projects on food, loss and grief, aging, affect, gay porn, and queer archives. Works: https://researchmap.jp/y_kubo315
KOIKE Ryûta 小池隆太 @peacemark51k.bsky.social Sémiologie, Semiotics, Narratologie. 記号学・記号論・物語論。写真／マンガ／アニメの領域を中心にメディアにおける「物語」フレームの構造を研究しています https://researchmap.jp/koike_ryuta
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
K 水嶋一憲 @kazunori.bsky.social
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
Marie Pruvost-Delaspre @mariepruvostd.bsky.social MCF Cinéma Université Paris 8 Histoire des métiers et des techniques, cinéma d’animation français et japonais
Nitin Govil @nitingovil.bsky.social Film/media/cultural studies prof., University of Southern California
Smith Mehta @mediaindustries.bsky.social Academic, Assistant Prof @Uni. of Groningen. More active on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/smithmehta
Stevie Suan @steviesuan.bsky.social Anime research at the intersection of Media Studies, Performance Studies, and Asian Studies | steviesuan.com
K @akkunigami.bsky.social scholar of film, media, race, and aesthetics.
Brian Ruh @brianruh.bsky.social Independent scholar (that's what they call it when academia doesn't want you), PhD in communication and culture, occasional writer, always looking for a new project. I wrote a book on Mamoru Oshii’s films.
Florian Schneider @flrnschndr.bsky.social
Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social Researcher of AI @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social www.dangnguyen.digital
Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com Promoting and facilitating academic approaches to Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga). News, announcements, links, commentary, questions, thoughts. www.animemangastudies.com - featuring the Anime and Manga Studies Database
Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social Anime + manga expert, PhD History and New Media (UC Berkeley), writer + researcher. Eisner Award winner MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY: HOW CREATORS AND FANS MADE JAPANESE COMICS, 1905-1989 available now! 日本語でOK She/her. Bay Area. linktr.ee/ahorbinski
Akiko NOGI @nog-ak.bsky.social 凡なる脳味噌から日々言葉を絞り出す脚本担当。日常ポストは基本ポンコツ。ネットメディア等、他媒体へのポストの無断転載は使用料100万円もらいますね。もらったら寄付しますね。よろしくね。 screenwriter,JAPAN
wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social sociologist of disasters pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. (views aren't even my own) roll tide. come on, come on, get down to goodison park.....wooh!
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. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social Associate Professor at SUNY Canton. YA series books, C19AmLit, WWI, fandom. Queer (pan/demi) Wiccan. 🏳️‍🌈📚☕ Views my own, not employer's. https://linktr.ee/emilyhamiltonhoney
dr victoria ✨ @cvetman.bsky.social fka colleen • not that kinda doctor • pop culture enthusiast • sometimes scholar • dog mom/demon supervisor • perpetually tired • disabled • queer • 33 • she/her • "glorious bitch" according to my therapist
Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. Americanist. „Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social. https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
Rebecca Rowe @drbecca.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Texas A&M Commerce. Children's lit and media scholar. Lover of Disney, animation, adaptation, musicals, and fairy tales.
Dr Robyn Muir @drrobynmuir.bsky.social Lecturer in Media & Communication at University of Surrey researching Disney Princess Phenomenon and Influencer Culture 👑 Founder @DisNet 🏰 Founder @IJDisneyStudies Views own 🌻
SCMS Fan and Audience Studies SIG @scmsfaas.bsky.social SCMS Fan and Audience Studies Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about fan studies and audience studies.
Aca-Media @aca-media.bsky.social A podcast offering an academic perspective on media, from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies https://aca-media.org/
Dr. Acafanmom @acafanmom.bsky.social Asst Professor in perpetuity | researching fandom and popular culture | RPs are sometimes bookmarks for myself | Osaka
Dr Bethan Jones (she/her) @memorieschild.bsky.social Research Associate/lecturer at Cardiff Uni School of Journalism, Media and Culture; honorary research fellow at Amgueddfa Cymru Museum Wales; @fanstudies.bsky.social. Writes about fandom, cult TV, true crime, tattoos, cancel culture and other fun stuff.
Dr. Rebecca Gibson @drrgibsongirl.bsky.social Corset scholar; bioanth PhD; chaotic neutral--harlequin aspect; bibliophile; tattooed; advocate 4 the dead; cyborg/transhuman/robot lover; bad example 4 hire. amazon.com/author/rebeccagibsonbioanthro
Rebecca Frost @rebeccafrostwrites.com Knitter, writer, teacher, PhD. Ask me about serial killers, true crime, and Stephen King. https://rebeccafrostwrites.com/links/
Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demons • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/her
Liz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social writer, editor, scholar, cat lover Books: The Computer’s Voice (U Minn, 2020) Robot Suicide (Bloomsbury, 2023) Under the Mistletoe (McFarland, 2024) Worker Bots (U Minn, in progress) https://www.lizfaber.com/
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012. https://fanstudies.org/
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, work. Opinions strictly my own.
Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead at University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings 💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social Public historian, editor, & literary critic. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Popular Film & Television. Associate Editor, The Complete Letters of Henry James @ctrhjstudies.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social.