Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social Historian. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (UNC, 2023); Dollars for Dixie (Cambridge, 2017). In progress books: educational radio on the ground and a history of alternative music in 10 bands.
https://linktr.ee/katherinejewell
Andrew deWaard @adewaard.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
"Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (UC Press, 2024)
andrewdewaard.com | ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media | cultcap.org | macrolab.ucsd.edu
Contexts Magazine @contexts.org Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge sociology research accessible to general readers. Edited by David Grazian, with managing editor Elena van Stee.
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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social The latest social science books reviewed by academics and experts at the London School of Economics and beyond
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.
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Ozan Aşık @ozanmask.bsky.social Media sociologist/ethnographer. Lecturing @Charles University and @Bursa Uludag University. PhD @University of Cambridge. Research on digital journalism, platforms, social media use, polarization, disinformation and AI.
Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social Associate Professor, Deputy Head @lsemedia.bsky.social
Research on digital journalism/ war reporting/ mediated history/ communication geopolitics
Editor @ Middle East Journal of Culture & Communication
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Ghassan Hage @anthroprofhage.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology. Researching social vaccines and cures for the colonial and ethno-national virus in the midst of the pandemic. Daily swimmer. Cook. Cabinetmaker. Grandfather.
Matt Walsh @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. Trustee at The Conversation UK and BJTC. Chair of the judges, 2025 Orwell Prize for Journalism. Hacked about a bit.
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social AI governance. Tech. Media. Political economy. Human rights. Director, Center for Journalism & Liberty cjl4news.bsky.social at Open Markets. Fellow at Brookings, CIGI, CDT, MRC. Former CPJ, UNESCO, NYT
Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture & Organisation at University of Westminster
Wrote a book on the mundane work that makes Big Music work; do editorial bits at Journal of Cultural Economy; some other stuff...
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Imke Henkel @imkehenkel.bsky.social Lecturer in Journalism and Media @leedsunimedia.bsky.social. Interested in what media do to democracy. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-69503-3. UK Co-Investigator for the Worlds of Journalism Study (https://worldsofjournalism.org/)
Giorgia Aiello @giorgiaaiello.bsky.social Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Milan. Visual cultures, digital media, cities.
Eric Lagneau @elagneau.bsky.social Journaliste à l'AFP et sociologue, chercheur associé au Lier-FYT (EHESS/CNRS)
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Yena Lee @yenalee.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow @AnnenbergPenn CDCS researching political creators & social movement | PhD @NorthwesternU MTS | she/they
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Mike Koncewicz @mikekoncewicz.bsky.social Political Historian of the 1960s and 1970s, Associate Director of NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge (@ipk.bsky.social), Author of They Said No to Nixon and Tom Hayden Biography (forthcoming).
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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.
Jon Schleuss @jschleuss.com President of @newsguild.org, the largest union of media workers in North America.
Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social Teaches media and communication studies at Massey University.
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Gavin Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Husband and father. 40th Governor of California. Former Lt. Governor of California. Former San Francisco Mayor. Personal account.
Pod Save America @podsaveamerica.crooked.com A no-bullshit conversation about politics with hosts Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Tommy Vietor & Jon Lovett.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
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Ekin Yasin @ekoshy.bsky.social Director | Teaching Professor | Podcast co-host | Perpetual host of dinners | Future of work and AI 🔮 Communication 📠 Politics 🗣️ Literature 📚 Transformative Learning 🎓 https://paa.ge/itallhappenedbefore/
Journal of Communication @journal-of-comm.bsky.social The Journal of Communication (JoC) is the flagship journal of the International Communication Association.
anjali dassarma @dassarma.bsky.social phd candidate at @asc.upenn.edu | she/her
studying history, race, colonialism, capitalism & journalism
“the ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.” - michel-rolph trouillot
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
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Theodora Ruhs @theodoraruhs.bsky.social PhD holder and teacher of journalism at a CT university. Currently too tired to be any good at social media-ing. (She/Her)
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Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
Lauren Tokos @ltokos.bsky.social PhD-ing @ UPenn Annenberg
Political economy, communication history, satellites, and suppression of dissent
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email I'm a newsletter (and sometimes other stuff) about the internet (and sometimes other stuff)
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Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Editor in Chief, MeidasNews. Former Fed & State Prosecutor, Marine, Attorney. Switched parties from R to D in 2020. MeidasPlus.com/subscribe
MariaRepnikova @mariarepnikova.bsky.social Academician, word technician, Atlantan, Russian-American-Latvian-Jew. Associate Prof @Georgia State in Global Comm; China expert. Author of Media Politics in China and Chinese Soft Power. Currently writing China's image-making in Africa.
Ofcom @ofcom.bsky.social Official account for Ofcom, the UK’s independent communications regulator.
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Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy @shorensteinctr.bsky.social We’re a research center at Harvard Kennedy School dedicated to studying the crisis in our information ecosystem and its impacts on society.
Matthias Revers @drfell.bsky.social Assoc. Prof @LeedsUniMedia, Interim Prof @unihamburg, working dad, metalhead, coffee lover, reluctant social media user.
Paddy Leerssen @pjleerssen.bsky.social Postdoc @ivir_uva | DSA Observatory | social media law
Reece Peck @reecepeck.bsky.social Assoc. Prof @ The Cuny Grad Center & College of Staten Island. Author of Fox Populism (Cambridge, 2019). Populist rhetoric/partisan media/class politics. The Hill, Vice, Salon, Jacobin.
Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social Director of Editorial at @reutersinstitute.bsky.social. Journalist. I love trains, opera and books. From León, Spain
Vaclav Stetka @vstetka.bsky.social Professor of Digital Political Communication, European University Viadrina
New book: "The Illiberal Turn: Media in Polarized Societies" (Open Access, https://tinyurl.com/34p67pn2)
Tiziano Bonini @tbonini.bsky.social Associate professor of Sociology of culture and Communication at @unisi. Co-author of Algorithms of Resistance (MIT Press 2024), available in OA, MIT press website
Johan Lindén @johanlinden.bsky.social Broadcaster turned AI implementor managing developing teams in Sweden, Data Scientist, PhD, MSc IT, MSc DS, MBA IT
Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social ProPublica AME.
Working: “Make Them Pay: The 250-year Fight to Tax the Rich”: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Make-Them-Pay/Jesse-Eisinger/9781668072202
@sarahellison's husband. “Succession” S3 consultant. Pulitzer-winner. Green Bay Packers.
Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social New York Times journalist covering cities and urban policy for The Upshot. emily.badger@nytimes.com, ebadger.21 on Signal
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Tina Nguyen @tinanguyen.bsky.social Senior Reporter at The Verge and author of Regulator, covering Big Tech vs Big Government. Formerly Puck/Politico/Vanity Fair. Wrote a book called THE MAGA DIARIES. Send your juiciest/most apocalyptic goss to tina@theverge.com or @tina_nguyen.19 on signal.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social I write mostly about the intersection of tech & art/culture which these days means I spend nearly all my time trying to address the exploitation underlying current AI models. A secular humanist interrogating modern religions.
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people.
Ezra Klein @ezraklein.bsky.social Columnist at The New York Times, host of "The Ezra Klein Show" podcast.
John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social Economics writer at The New Yorker. Author of “Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI" and other beach reads.
Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social Reporter covering Meta, social media and other topics (hopefully) for Reuters' investigative Team.
Charlie Firestone @charliefirestone.bsky.social Retired from career in communications law and policy, 30 yrs at the Aspen Institute, first president of the Rose Bowl Institute. Resides in Santa Barbara, CA.
Mike Janssen @mjanssen.bsky.social Editor @current.org, banjo noodler, on guitar at the dad jams. I like to make cocktails, coffee, pizza, faces. W-A-S-H-I-N-G, T-O-N, baby, D-C
Music: boundarystones.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/thatmikejanssen
Damian Tambini @damiantam.bsky.social Author of ‘Media Freedom’. Tech, journalism, media reform.
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
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Tori Smith Ekstrand @toriekstrand.bsky.social Professor, Media Law, UNC-Chapel Hill, School of Journalism and Media. Former AP exec. Speaking for myself & not UNC. "Take up space. Pitch it faster. Run harder. Put another plate on the bar. And NEVER tone it down." - Ilona Maher. #academicfreedom
IAMCR @iamcr.org The International Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR - is a global professional association of media and communication researchers.
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.🏳️🌈🏞🌄✨️
Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social Professor @ a large Midwestern U
Author of Thinking like an Economist, Creating the Market University
Trying to understand how ideas about economic value have shaped capitalism + its regulation, from the first Gilded Age to the second
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social @TheNation. @CapTimes. @freepress. @theprogressive. Tom Paine. Quaker. Latest book (w/ Sen. Bernie Sanders): NYT bestseller: It’s OK to be Angry About Capitalism.
Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com Managing Editor, @denverpost.com | Host of "Dark Wave" on SiriusXM's 1st Wave, 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday night | "There's a bit of magic in everything, and then some loss to even things out" — Lou Reed
Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social The official account of Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel laureate economist
at Columbia University. Co-president, Initiative for Policy Dialogue.
Co-chair, ICRICT. Latest books: The Road to Freedom; The Origins of Inequality & Policies to Contain It
Kathy Roberts Forde @krforde.bsky.social Co-director Stand Together for Higher Ed, journalism professor at UMass Amherst, historian of US press/democracy/political struggle, dog lover, reader, trekker. Southerner in New England. I do not speak for my university.
Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social Author, Teacher, Partner, Leader, Dean & CEO
@nuqatar.bsky.social, Founder @iasnuq.bsky.social, Professor
@northwesternu, Board Chair @ACLS1919 Board Member
& @AnnenbergCARGC & @Casar_Aub
Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social Prof @Goldsmiths U of London | digital infrastructures, tech & AI in global south | New Book: 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' https://tinyurl.com/4ceyvc3s | New project: reimagining digital ID https://tinyurl.com/bdfawt64
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
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Tales Tomaz @talestomaz.bsky.social Apenas um rapaz latino-americano | Ass. Prof of Media Policy & Economics at the Universiy of Salzburg | Manager of the Euromedia Ownership Monitor (https://media-ownership.eu) | Parenting | Global South
Lisa Fung @lisafung.bsky.social I write about public policy issues for Blueprint magazine. Former Arts & Entertainment Editor at LA Times, Executive Editor at The Wrap. Founding editor of Culture Monster. Teach arts reporting at USC.
Kevin Coe @kcoe.bsky.social Professor of Communication | Political communication, media, identity, democracy | Book: "The Ubiquitous Presidency" | Product of public schools
A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of BROADCAST HYSTERIA; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER. Michigan Wolverine with a Princeton PhD.
Jayson Harsin @jaysonharsin.bsky.social Professor, American U. Paris. Dir., Ctr 4 Media, Comm, & Global Change. @ topical x-roads of Political Deception, Persuasion, Influence, gender,Economic Rights. For my recent publications, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1gK3IjoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi
Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social Helping scholars write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚
Tips at newsletter.manuscriptworks.com & in THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK and MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK (Princeton UP)
Courses + free resources at manuscriptworks.com
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Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy | cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
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
Daniel Chomsky @danielchomsky.bsky.social
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
Geneva Overholser @genevaoh.bsky.social Veteran newspaperwoman. Journalism critic. Democracy lover. Trying to feel hope.
Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social Sociology & communication prof at Penn researching: Internet, activism, digital media & technology, narrative, emotion, sinology. All views my own. Website: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/guobin-yang-phd
Myria Georgiou @myriageorgiou.bsky.social Media and Communications Prof, LSE; digital cities and migration; identity and solidarities; a Londoner and a migrant.
@desfreedman.bsky.social @desfreedman.bsky.social
Sarah Sobieraj @sobieraj.bsky.social Sociologist @ Tufts University
political culture & communication • digital abuse and harassment • social inequalities • media/society • democracy
Josh Stearns @jcstearns.bsky.social Working at the intersection of journalism, community and democracy.
Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Furthering our understanding of the role of communication in public life through research, education, and service.