The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social The Price Lab for Digital Humanities @ The University of Pennsylvania
The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social Non-partisan civic advocacy group working to improve our media and defend our democracy 🇺🇸 #PressFreedom #BlockTheMerger
mediaanddemocracyproject.org
All our links: linktr.ee/FixMediaNow
Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social associate professor of technology studies, UNC Comm
🧿 Raina Bhagat 🧿 @wrynaa.bsky.social English Asst Prof @ Hunter College, CUNY / PhD in Comp Lit @ NorthwesternU / Writing and railing about nuclear energy + science fiction + race / rainabhagat.com (she/her)
Lana Swartz @lanalanalana.bsky.social New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA
https://llaannaa.com/
https://digitalculturesandeconomies.com
Zachary Furste @iiil.li New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam
https://zach.click
Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social U Calgary associate professor. Communications policy and various random thoughts, usually music.
Dr Caitlin McGrane @caitlinaithne.bsky.social she/her
Researcher at RMIT. Board member of Digital Rights Watch. Interested in gender and technology in everyday life, and how we can build a better digital world.
Ultra-marathoner in my spare time 🌿
Kenichi Miyata @miyata-kenichi.bsky.social Professor of Business History at Meiji University, Tokyo; historian of modern U.S. business and corporate growth.
Website: www.kenichimiyata.com
Jülide Etem @julideetem.bsky.social Author of Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey-US Relations | Assistant Professor of Media Studies & Director of Film Studies Concentration at the University of Virginia
Kathy Morrow @kathyjmorrow.bsky.social asst prof of film studies
Chinese film and media
Stephen Yang! @stephenyang.bsky.social PhDing @USCAnnenberg // studying media, technology, environment // prev @Cornell @MSFTResearch @CDT // Angelino & 臺灣人
https://www.stephen-yang.com/
hieyoon kim @0absentia.bsky.social write and teach about cinema, media, and politics; author of Celluloid Democracy (UC Press, 2023); prof at Brown
@suvankur.bsky.social @suvankur.bsky.social PhD-ing @UCSB
Ergin Bulut @bltergin.bsky.social Teaching at Goldsmiths
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
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.
Gökçe Günel @drgokcegunel.bsky.social Anthropologist at @RiceAnthro.bsky.social
author of Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi
(@dukepress.bsky.social, 2019)
co-lead @patchworkethno.bsky.social
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy Learning about moral economies, researching media histories, imagining post-platform futures. Also, helping with moderation on aoir.social and professoring in Media […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@kdriscoll, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London | Interested in platforms, digital labour & creator cultures
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/tugce-bidav
Lauren E Bridges @laurenebridges.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Media Studies at UVA |Faculty Associate @BKCHarvard | Affiliate @UNC_CITAP | PhD from @AnnenbergPenn | environmental politics of the cloud + digital labor + surveillance infrastructures
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only.
banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
Christian Fuchs @fuchschristian.bsky.social Human, writer, critic, social researcher, professor, critical communication & social theory, https://fuchsc.net Editor: http://triple-c.at
Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social Media. Fin/Tech. Capitalism. Selfhood. Higher Ed. Justice.
Co-director @starlingcentre.bsky.ca
Exhausted but still feisty.
Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social Communication and Labour Studies prof at SFU. Forza Roma, ovunque e comunque.
Lindsay Palmer @lindsaypalmer.bsky.social Professor at UW-Madison. I’m an antiracist, white cis woman who’s pansexual and a trans ally. I study press freedom and international news from a decolonial and feminist perspective. Author of The Fixers: the Underground Labor of International Reporting.
Stefanie Duguay @dugstef.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Director of the Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab (digslab.net). Posts and opinions are my own.
Kat Higgins (aka Kathryn Claire) @kat-hig.bsky.social Lecturer (Assist Prof) in Global Digital Politics @ Goldsmiths
📚 Co-author of Believability: Sexual Violence, Media and the Politics of Doubt (Polity)
✍️ Writing about vulnerability politics, violence, (de)criminalization & media
she/her
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social I study popular music and digital culture 💾🎶 PhD in Media and Communication from Temple University, postdoc at
@cdcspenn.bsky.social
Wazhmah Osman @wazhmah.bsky.social Associate prof @tukleincollege.bsky.social
https://www.wosman.net
Azsaneé Truss, PhD @azsaneet.bsky.social she/her | Thinking Artist | new @annenbergpenn.bsky.social alum | Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoc
https://www.azsaneetruss.com/
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
Renyi Hong @renyihong.bsky.social labor researcher. associate professor at National University of Singapore (nus). Author of "passionate work". Writing on plasticity, ecology, and child work.
Taina Bucher @tainab.bsky.social
Brooke Erin Duffy @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social social media researcher and author
associate professor at Cornell University
platforms, power, and the creator economy
www.brookeduffy.com
Kevin Sanson @kevinsanson.bsky.social Media industries professor who writes about labor, globalization, and business. Latest book: Mobile Hollywood
Brisbane (🇦🇺) by way of Chicago, Austin, Santa Barbara (🇺🇸).
Mostly scrolling.
Anu Thapa @anu-thapa.bsky.social Film and Media professor, NCSU|Food enthusiast| has pets and peeves| should be writing
Salma @salmasiddique.bsky.social Currently speculating about film spectatorship, otherwise a media historian, a badminton addict in Berlin, also research faculty at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social Associate Professor | Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile) | Researching how platforms and AI affect work at Fairwork (OII) | Millennium Center on the Evolution of Work (M-NEW) | Cultura Social Media Lab. https://sites.google.com/view/arturoarriagada
Sangita Gopal @mumuamma.bsky.social professor of film and media at the University of Oregon. Director for the Study of Women and Society at University of Oregon
Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social music listening, films, media, communication, cultural studies
Usha Raman @usharaman.bsky.social Writer and academic; study and teach media, dabble in fiction and poetry. Just published my first novel.
Josh Braun @joshbraun.bsky.social Associate Professor at UMass Amherst studying the civic impacts of media distribution. I work in our Journalism Department and also co-edit the Distribution Matters series for The MIT Press.
Mastodon: @josh@sciences.social
Banner text by F.E.D McDowell
Pete Johnson @itstv.bsky.social Studying media industries, finance, & US television history. Visiting Assistant Professor @ NYU Gallatin
Self-hating Yankees fan. anti Kalshitification of culture
Bish Sen @bish3000.bsky.social Academic: TV, music, global media
Dibyadyuti Roy @dibyaroy86.bsky.social Associate Professor, Cultural Studies, Media Studies & Digital Humanities @universityofleeds.bsky.social |@datasociety.bsky.social Affiliate | Cultural Analyst of Dominant+Emergent Technologies
Shikha Jhingan @shikhajhingan.bsky.social Associate Prof. Cinema Studies at JNU. Research areas include sound, voice, and music in cinema. New Media Studies. Sound Cultures of South Asia.
Aymar (AJ) @thehost.theinvite.us professor @ Northwestern
affiliate @ Harvard Berkman Klein
jury @ Peabody Awards
co-founder @weareotv
BOOKS:
Reparative Media, MIT Press Fall 2025
Media Reparations, coming soon on Polity
The Cookout, out now ⬇️
http://linktr.ee/ajescoffery
Zoë Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social 🤓 Feminist Media Scholar | Digital Ethnographer | Internet Culture Enthusiast
🌟 Postdoc at Microsoft's Social Media Collective
💖 Co-Founder: The Digital Ethnography Collective & The Content Creator Scholars Network @weareccsn.bsky.social
💻 www.zoeglatt.com
Devina Sarwatay @devinasarwatay.bsky.social I study young people and digital cultures
Kanu @kanupandey.bsky.social Assistant Professor @CommUCSB; alum @AnnenbergPenn @IIITDelhi; democratic citizenship & political humor; improv comedian
http://mastodon.social/@kanupandey
Preeti Raghunath @preetiraghunath.bsky.social I research Communication Technologies, Policies and Lived Experiences, also from a historical lens.
Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Ruoyun Bai 多伦多媒体研究白若云 @ruoyunbai.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies/Comparative Literature, Univ. of Toronto, working on Chinese Media, Culture and Society. Author of "Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics" and co-editor of 3 books. Writing a book on scandals in China.
Mohammed Rashid @mohammedia.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Critical Cultural Comm at University of Southern Mississippi. Former Postdoc at CDCSPenn @annenbergpenn.bsky.social. Writing on South Asian queer digital media and teaching Global media and comm cultures. www.mohammedrashid.net
R. Trebor Scholz @trebors2025.bsky.social Prof at The New School | Founder, Platform Cooperativism Consortium + Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy | Author, OWN THIS! (2023) + UBER-WORKED & UNDERPAID (2016) | Faculty Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center | Advocate for Digital Labor Rights |
jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social creator culture expert @LeedsUniMedia.bsky.social
Assoc. editor, CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES
Writing PLATFORM HYGIENE (Duke UP)
Repped by Aevitas Creative Management
Hot takes are my own!
www.jessrauchberg.com
N.Srikanth @drsrikanth.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of Media Studies @GITAMUniversity, Hyderabad; PhD @IIT Tirupati; MPhil @JNU, New Delhi; MA @HydUniv; BA @EFLU, Hyderabad; first-gen student
David Hesmondhalgh @hesmondthing.bsky.social Professor of Media, Music and Culture at University of Leeds; Town Councillor in Yorkshire (Green Party); Fellow of the British Academy; lover of music, film, poetry, football, walking, churches; over-user of semi-colons
Sahana Udupa @sahanaudupa.bsky.social professor of media anthropology @LMU Munich, Harvard BKC Fellow, ERC projects on extreme speech, AI, content moderation, social media https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/SahanaUdupa
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice.
Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social Film scholar, director of the Cinémathèque Suisse. Research @goethe_uni Frankfurt: http://konfigurationen-des-films.de http://ceditraa.net https://age-c.eu/
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Armond Towns @townsarmond.bsky.social Williams College
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)
Burc Kostem @bkostem.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media and Technology Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. Interested in ecology, affect, theories of value, infrastructure, technology and media. Dungeon Master. He/him
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Carrie Rentschler @carrierentschler.bsky.social Feminist media studies, STS, digital culture, social movements, diabetes and technology, McGill Professor
Plus: cats, snacks, drums
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Studies, Digital Media and Technopolitics at the University of Naples L'Orientale. Author: Network Culture (2004), After the Internet (2022)
Yuriko Furuhata @underground259.bsky.social Environmental media studies, cinema, architecture, art, weather control. Recent book: Climatic Media. Views personal
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
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.- P Pooja Rangan @p8ja.bsky.social Professor of English + Film & Media at Amherst College, Author of The Documentary Audit (Columbia 2025 *coming soon*) Immediations (Duke 2017) and co-editor of Thinking with an Accent (UC Press 2023)
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social teacher, writer, curator
media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
Tara McPherson @taramcpherson.bsky.social professor, cat lover, author, activist, etc.
Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social Media Scholar in the Wild | Assistant Prof at Pitzer College | Studying oceans, energy, and tech 🍉
Simone Browne @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social
Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social STS, cultural studies, media, environment, climate, energy
Bikes, cats, synths, barbells, good recipes
Liz Ellcessor @trilliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Virginia.
Co-editor at JCMS:Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Emergency systems, disability, and media access.
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social Author: Pipeline Populism (2022). also into subsurface protection, climate politics, affect, infrastructure, marxism. Geographer, International Studies, VCU.
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
Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social Walker of woods, lover of forests, friendly with trees. Theorist of mediation. Arboreal nonhumanist. Zayde. Recovering academic.
Lakshmi Padmanabhan @shmi.bsky.social Close reader, slow writer | Kannodu kaanbadhan ellam thalaiva, kanngalikku sondham illai
Hannah Tollefson @hnnht.bsky.social 🔸 logistical media, infrastructure, climate politics, critique of political economy 📕 Banting Postdoc U of T Geography
Iggy Cortez @iggycortez.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Film and Media, UC Berkeley
Global Cinema / Night Studies
Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social Indigenous studies, information studies, justice studies, professor at School of Social Transformation, yoem hamut, xicanx. "En el país de los ciegos el tuerto es rey."
Hanna E. Morris, Ph.D. @hannamorris.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Toronto | climate change media & politics| Author of “Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power” (Oxford University Press, 2025)| Associate Deputy Editor at Climatic Change | https://hannamorris.com
Adrian Ivakhiv @eevakheev.bsky.social JS Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver. Author, Shadowing the Anthropocene; Ecologies of the Moving Image; et al. Co-edit Media+Environment. Blog at Immanence (blog.uvm.edu/immanence) & UKR-TAZ (blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv-ukrtaz)
Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social Editor at Columbia University Press. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own.
Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social prof of media, culture, and communication @ nyu
history & theory of digital media, electronics, computing
disability studies / disability arts
banner: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/730402
avatar: jojo doodles conference sketches
Kareem Estefan @kareemestefan.bsky.social Writing about worldbuilding and Palestinian visual culture, teaching film and screen studies at Cambridge
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.
Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Communication and media professor researching the internet, platforms & automation in society via cultural studies & digital methods. Brisbane/Sunshine Coast hinterland.🏳️🌈🏞🌄✨️