@media-environ-sig.bsky.social @media-environ-sig.bsky.social 
SCMS TV SIG @scms-tv.bsky.social SCMS Television Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about tv studies.
SCMS Horror Studies SIG @scmshorrorsig.bsky.social This page is for the Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.
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
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.- F Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social She/Her. LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies.
Sound & Music SIG @soundmusicscms.bsky.social The Sound and Music Studies scholarly interest group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
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.
Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social Media scholar, video maker and PhD student at Tel Aviv University. TV studies, popular culture and videographic criticism.
https://www.arielavissar.work/
https://vimeo.com/arielavissar
Carly A. Kocurek @sparklebliss.bsky.social Experience design, video game history, writing. Prof and associate dean @ Illinois Tech. Books: Coin-Operated Americans (Minnesota), Brenda Laurel (Bloomsbury), Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum). 
Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/
Amanda, Est. 1976 @amandaannklein.bsky.social media studies professor writing supernatural historical crime fiction. bylines: New Yorker, Salon, Atlantic, KERA, Vice, E!
Views expressed are my own
Millennials Killed the Video Star: https://www.dukeupress.edu/millennials-killed-the-video-star
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Caetlin Benson-Allott @caetlin.bsky.social Professor of English and Film & Media Studies, marathon runner, shih tzu fanatic. If you're looking for more info, check me out at www.benson-allott.com 
Steph Dick @mysdick.bsky.social Historian of math, computing, and the mind. Assistant Prof. of Communication at SFU. Co-editor of Abstractions and Embodiments. PhD from Harvard. Likes cats, writes pysanky eggs, working on a comic book about AI ✨
Paul Roquet @inqualia.bsky.social other spatial mediations | proquet.mit.edu
hank gerba @hankg.bsky.social phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
Jacob Gaboury @jacobgaboury.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him)
Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture
Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021)
Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing
https://jacobgaboury.com
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Jean Ketterling @jeanketterling.bsky.social she/her ✨ Assistant Prof in Political Studies - Gender, Sexualities and Social Justice at USask✨ Interdisciplinary legal/pornography/games studies scholar working on sex in video games ⚖️💦🎮 The Pornography, Platforms and Play Project www.pppproject.com 🅿️
Marika Cifor @marikac4.bsky.social Asst Prof @ UW iSchool | archives, digital studies, HIV/AIDS, gender and sexuality studies | she/her 
🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com Porn & Platform Research 💦📚☕💻 PhD Candidate @UofT Faculty of Information + Advisory board to ECP Canada / Pornhub (2023-2026) | #1 Animorphs Fan
www.internetmaggie.com
Golden M. Owens @goldenowens.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cinema & Media Studies at UW Seattle. Writing on Black women, housework, and AI, and trying to stay sane while doing it.
https://cinema.washington.edu/people/golden-m-owens
https://www.goldenmowens.com
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/
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.
[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. https://intransition.openlibhums.org/ 
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations
website: www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/
calendar: mediaarchaeologylab.neocities.org/
news: mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
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
Critical Design Lab @criticaldesignlab.bsky.social Disabled artists, designers, and researchers using disability cultural methods to do critical design. https://criticaldesignlab.com/
NEH Office of Digital Humanities @neh-odh.bsky.social Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Funding experimentation with technology in the humanities. Reposts ≠ endorsements.
Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social assoc prof @ UW CMS, editor Feminist Media Histories, lover of tea, pickleball addict, collector of (filmic) junk
Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social Social media professor + expert
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL + PARASOCIAL
Repp’d by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine
Whit Pow (they/them) @poww.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University. Trans media studies | Trans histories of glitches, electronic art, software, video games, and networked & computational media. https://linktr.ee/whitpow
Cait Mckinney @caitmckinney.bsky.social Assistant Prof at SFU Communication Studies working on queer media history.
Environmental Media Lab (EML) @envmedialab.bsky.social Based at Queen’s University (2024); University of Calgary (2019-2023).
Director: melhogan.bsky.social
environmentalmedialab.com heliotropejournal.net
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.
ACH @ach.bsky.social Association for Computers and the Humanities, the US-based professional society for the digital humanities. #digitalhumanities
The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social The Price Lab for Digital Humanities @ The University of Pennsylvania
David C. Brock @dcbrock.bsky.social Works at the Computer History Museum, but everything here is solely my fault.
Noah… @noahspringer.com Senior Acquisitions Editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf
Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
SHOT, Society for the History of Technology @shothisttech.bsky.social The Society for the History of Technology (since 1958) is dedicated to the historical study of technology, its relations with politics, economics, labor, business, the environment, public policy, science, and arts. Organizes Annual member meetings and more
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Avery Dame-Griff @adamegriff.bsky.social - Curator, Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com)
- Author, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023)
- Lecturer in WGSS @ Gonzaga University
- Collects your old technology junk and cats.
Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social Historian of tech @MITPSTS @MIT. Author Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Co-curator Cómo diseñar una revolucón // How to Design a Revolution. #sci #tech #politics #history #data #design #LatinAmerica #humanrights. Views my own.
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
Drew Morton @damorton.bsky.social Professor, videographic critic and co-editor of [in]Transition, author of Panel to the Screen, gamer, runner, bass player, wiener dog keeper.
Los Angeles/Texas
https://damorton.wordpress.com/
Julie Turnock @julieturnock.bsky.social Professor of Media and Cinema Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana. Film Scholar, s/vfx. Author of Plastic Reality and The Empire of Effects. Inaugural Director, Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies, UIUC.
Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS (2026). she/her (white cis queer)
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
J.D. Schnepf @jdschnepf.bsky.social Assistant Professor of American Studies. Contemporary lit and culture, US imperialism, gender, technology, digital media
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/
Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social historian of mind & media I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy I Founding Editor of @parapraxismag.bsky.social
SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies SIG @scmspedagogy.bsky.social Official page for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group- M SCMS Media Industries SIG @misig-scms.bsky.social The account for SCMS's Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS.
Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere.
VP, @litsciarts.org
📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF.
☭.
Not a professional account.
Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info. & Culture @babbageinstitute.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research center & leading archives in computing, software & networking. Symposia ("Just Code" "Automation by Design" etc.), publishing, editorial leadership, oral history, archives (320+ diverse collections).
https://www.cse.umn.edu/cbi
Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social Writer I Speaker I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. I Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture; Prof. HST/STS, U of MN
Co-Edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk srs. Research-Social Study of AI, Privacy/Sec., Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker 📹💾
📍Toronto