Dr Joe Smith @drjoesmith.bsky.social Lecturer in Journalism, University of Leicester | Research: fans, fandom, age & ageing, sports and political comms and journalism pedagogies
gray-film @gray-film.wsocial.eu Magazine for those who want to program #films.
Revista para quem quer programar #cinema.
https://6.gray-film.eu/
Director: @machado.wsocial.eu
Janica Hollmann @janicaezz.bsky.social PhD Candidate in International Relations @UofGSPS
📚Researching #VisualPolitics and #Migration | BISA EPIR Convenor
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Darren Purcell @darrenpurcell.bsky.social 
@virtualangel16.bsky.social @virtualangel16.bsky.social 
Zhenxing Jiang @zjiang.bsky.social PhD candidate at Massey University New Zealand
Research interest: popular political communication | Chinese dance drama | critical discourse studies | popular authoritarianism
Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social Associate Professor at SUNY Canton. YA series books, C19AmLit, WWI, fandom, gender studies. Queer (pan/demi), feminist, Wiccan. 🏳️🌈📚☕ Views my own, not employer's. https://linktr.ee/emilyhamiltonhoney
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
Dr Harriet Fletcher @harrietfletcher.bsky.social Writer & academic | Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication @ ARU | 💀⭐ #GothicCelebrity (Bloomsbury) | pop culture | horror | feminism | bimbo-ologist 💅 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/harrietfletcher
Beth Meroski @merosky.bsky.social comedy/classic tv/western programming @ pluto tv, previously/forever team coco
dr clementine v-a @clemmie.bsky.social witty catchphrase, you know what I mean?
visiting postdoc research fellow @ University of Leeds | film studies + media | makeover movies, horror, feminism, and beauty culture | culture + screenwriting | schemingthirdwife.substack.com
@maryamsmusings.bsky.social @maryamsmusings.bsky.social PhD Research in Media and Communications. Exploring the use of social media to negotiate identity, culture and social practices through food 🥘 
Brittany Melton @brittanymelton.bsky.social (she/her)
PhD candidate in Media Studies at
Western University
studies gendered online communities
Jasmine Proctor @iamjazzrae.bsky.social media studies phd candidate at western university • fan studies, queerness, platforms, & hallyu • she/they • 🍞🌹
François Mouillot @fmouillot.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the Hong Kong Baptist University • DIY Cultures • Infrastructures & Platforms • Minority & Marginalized Cultures • Disabled Traveller🇫🇷🇨🇦🇭🇰
Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social Official account of the research project 'Performing Space / Spatializing Performance: Space and Performance in 21st Century Cinema' at the University of Zaragoza
https://transnationalspacesinthecinema.wordpress.com/
https://shorturl.at/ws9S8
Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Korean film, pop culture, theatre & performance @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
📚 Beyond the Sewol (U of Hawaii Press, Sept 2025) & K-Pop Fandom (@uofmpress.bsky.social, Feb 2026)
📧 areumjeong@gmail.com
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
✨ Rachel (she/her) ✨ @researchbrb.bsky.social Aspiring adult and media scholar. Ph.D. in Internet Studies. 🇳🇿 Pākehā, currently based in Boorloo Perth. 🐨 Living in the frenzy of feeling. 🌟
🏡 Website rachelberryman.com
🦇 Co-founder darcmode.org
📱 Member ierlab.com
Eldonedwards @eldonedwards.bsky.social I am a business researcher. I am also very interested in artificial intelligence and business and education and medicine. Also, I am very interested in popular culture and music. I strive to live a simple healthy life. DTM and CBI.Score counselor.
Emma Carroll Hudson @emmahudson.bsky.social Fan advocacy scholar • BTS ARMY • PhD student at American University • UTK and SU alum • DC-based • Scorpio
Jingya Wang @jingyawang.bsky.social I am a researcher with a keen interest in fan culture and youth subcultures, although I must confess I am a bit of an amateur in the field.
Sandra Ponzanesi @gimko.bsky.social Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. NWO project: VR as Empathy Machine: Media, Migration and the Humanitarian Predicament. Latest book: Doing Digital Migration Studies: https://tinyurl.com/5257448k
CSA Student Concerns Subcommittee @csa-students.bsky.social Official account for the Student Concerns Subcommittee of the @csa-scs.bsky.social
See where else you can find us & links from our post⤵️
https://linktr.ee/csa_students
Stephen Charbonneau @screenangst.bsky.social Author, Projecting Race; Co-Editor, InsUrgent Media; Film/Media Prof; Florida Atlantic University; He/Him. Grateful Kidney Recipient.
Tim Snelson @timsnelson.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media History (UEA) https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/tim-snelson
Bonnie Yue Liang @wildcaughtbonnie.bsky.social Lifetime #K-pop fangirl. PhD student at UMass Amherst. Researching East Asian popular culture, transnational/transcultural fandom in global contexts; subculture, resistance and feminism on digital platforms.
цуккини @ageevich.bsky.social they/them
russian. queer. feminist.
wrote a thesis about blackface in Russian cosplay community.
hopefully, a future aca-fan.
Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
Kiah Bennett @offscreenphd.bsky.social big fan of the Bravo Televisual Universe.
PhD in media studies. Hollywood production cultures, media industries, TV, race, disability, + comedy. learning to sew, bake, and crochet.
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/
Anirban Mukhopadhyay @anirban009.bsky.social Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign;
Media History, Media Policy, Radio, Social Movements, Postcolonial theory, Critical AI
Nancy Thumim @nancyt.bsky.social I teach, research and write about media, audiences, representation, and everyday life. I work at the University of Leeds. Here sporadically.
Myria Georgiou @myriageorgiou.bsky.social Media and Communications Prof, LSE; digital cities and migration; identity and solidarities; a Londoner and a migrant.
@jsoberacker.bsky.social @jsoberacker.bsky.social 
J (they/zir) @voidmydarling.bsky.social • Bread Cryptid •
Nonbinary, Queer, Neurodivergent (Technically also a queer & fandom studies PhD candidate in sociology)
"Buckle in as we tokyo drift between genres"
Stephanie! @doctorstephy.bsky.social Doctoral candidate studying teen Latine/x girls in media & putting the diss in dissertation at UIUC 🪅
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Media and Communication @ University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social 🎓 School of Media and Communication | We cannot fully understand modern societies without understanding media and communication | https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media | linkedin.com/company/school-of-media-and-communication🎓
Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social Department of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies @GoldsmithsUoL
#2 in 🇬🇧 2023 QS world rankings
Student/staff work
Free public events
Anu Thapa @anu-thapa.bsky.social Film and Media professor, NCSU|Food enthusiast| has pets and peeves| should be writing
Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social Professor media & culture. Teaches film history @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Social and political aspects of film culture. ERC project www.reelborders.eu. Research group ECHO: Media, Culture & Politics
Zizi Li, Ph.D. @zizilizizi.bsky.social 💜 Movement & Arts
✨ 1st gen college student ➡️ digital culture researcher
👩🏻🏫 A cinephile teaching film and media studies
✍🏼 Digital Cultures, Media Arts, Labor, Technologies
https://www.zizili.net
Sarah Thomas @sarah-thomas.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media and Film at UoL. Co-director of Centre for Converged Screen Media & Entertainment (COSME). Stardom and screen performance. Hollywood. Artificial Intelligence and immersive technologies.
valerie gritsch @valderie.bsky.social loud disabled academic who’s obsessed with her dog. MA in celebrity & fan studies, currently a MLIS student. creator of spottedhounddesign. suffering mets and destiel fan. she/her.
Abby Kirby @abbykirby.bsky.social Middle school ELA// MA in Media Studies// Fandom Researcher// Gravity Falls & Psych Fan// Fanfic Enthusiast
Jennifer Hessler @jenmhessler.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California
Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society
Views my own
kirsten @kirstencrowe.bsky.social they/she | comm phd student @usc annenberg | trans/queer & fandom studies & creator cultures |
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.
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.
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies @jcmsjournal.bsky.social Media studies for all. Print & online open access content. We value accessibility, transparency, diversity, & community. Published through SCMS
Online at: https://jcmsjournal.org
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
Dr. Acafanmom @acafanmom.bsky.social Asst Professor in perpetuity | researching fandom and popular culture |
RPs are sometimes bookmarks for myself | Osaka
¯\_(ヅ)_/¯ syn @kiyarulwa.bsky.social still just here following folks emigrating from twitter. mostly a lurker, but may post about rofan webtoons, otome games, plave, academia, etc.
Muhammed @muhammedgisseh.bsky.social Always dreams big
charlotte durham @charlottedurham.bsky.social phd-ing @ university of leeds, uk | disnet exec member | bodies, space, disney + the everyday hypermediated environment ✨ | she/her
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/pgr/5805/charlotte-durham
Joanna Doona @jdoona.bsky.social Senior lecturer & director of studies media and communication studies, Lund University. Work on cultural citizenship in popular, internet and fan culture; satire/humour/comedy engagement and audiences; and whatever other ways I can research civic silliness
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Ruth Richards @ruthelizabeth.bsky.social Lecturer in Media
Interested in all things, but especially animation/feminism/television/liveness.
Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social Editing and indexing agency helping interdisciplinary scholars write and publish awesome texts, enliven public conversations, and create more just worlds.
ideasonfire.net
✿ Dr Laura J Minor ✿ @lrjdmnr.bsky.social senior lecturer in TV and media @ the university of salford ❈ women & UK comedy book: https://shorturl.at/iD3Q5 ❈ tv & class project: https://shorturl.at/uIkTP ❈ l.j.minor@salford.ac.uk
https://salford-repository.worktribe.com/person/1178868/laura-minor
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 🌻
The International Journal of Disney Studies @ijdisneystudies.bsky.social A peer-reviewed journal drawing from a variety of academic and industrial methods to examine the Walt Disney Company (not affiliated with the Disney company).
intellectbooks.com/ijds
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/- M SCMS Media Industries SIG @misig-scms.bsky.social The account for SCMS's Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group
Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈 @svegaard.bsky.social Post-doc in polarisation, populism, fandom, identity and all the feels with @snurb at QUT DMRC.
🇩🇰 in 🇦🇺, residing on Turrbal and Yugara country.
QaF.
Plant🪴dad. Once and future cat person.
he/him
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
Georgina @georgevrt.bsky.social Researcher, keen DIYer/bodge-jobber, decrepit five-a-side footballer. AuDHD. Past lives as an academic and a journalist. Also mum to the world’s goofiest greyhounds, wife to the coolest woman on earth.
pfp from Giant Days by John Allison
Katharina @katharinah.bsky.social Researching Transcultural Fandom and Manga. Sometimes Gender Representation, Video Games and Horror, too. Love Gardening and Reading. She/Her 💗💜💙 http://icon.hhu.de
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
Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net By day: reasonably mild-mannered Swansea-based digital media lecturer. But by night: reasonably mild-mannered Swansea-based digital media lecturer. Siarad Cymraeg, all the way. He/him/fo a fe
https://swan.ac.uk/staff/rhys.jones/
https://analog.newydd.net/
Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social Kids media researcher and critic. Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University.
Have brain - will travel.
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.
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 Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead @ University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings
💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams