Alex Turvy @alexturvy.bsky.social Internet culture researcher | PhD Candidate in Sociology | alexturvy.com
Alexis-Carlota Cochrane @alexiscarlota.bsky.social (she/they) ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ต๐ช
โ PhD(c) and Sessional Instructor @ McMaster
โ Coordinating Digital Scholarship @ scds.ca
โ Researching power and precarity on platforms
โ Digital Harms, Queer Theory, Platform Studies, Critical Data, Digital Scholarship
โ alexiscarlota.ca
Mรฉl 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.
๐ท๐ณ๏ธโ๐
๐๏ธ thedatafix.net
๐ heliotropejournal.net
Stephen Hughes @stephenhues.bsky.social Associate Professor in STS at University College London | Emotional dynamics in science/technology/society relationships (Fantasy, Denial, Ambivalence, Trust) | NEW BOOK: Affect, Emotion & Feeling in Science Communication 2027 with Bristol University Press
Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social media studies professor, TV lover, feminist, mom
molly taft @mollytaft.com disaster dyke on the apocalypse beat @wired.com . very tall with a very short dog. they/them. molly_taft@wired.com, signal: @mollytaft.99. mollytaft.com
James Rushing Daniel @jamesrushingdaniel.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of English at Seton Hall University. Author of TOWARD AN ANTI-CAPITALIST COMPOSITION. Writing a critical history entrepreneurship in higher education for Johns Hopkins UP.
Benjamin Shestakofsky @bshestakofsky.bsky.social Sociologist @cornellbowers.bsky.social studying work, technology, organizations, and political economy | Author of Behind the Startup: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/behind-the-startup/paper
Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social Academic. Pleasure activist. Author of Bodyminds Reimagined & Black Disability Politics. Both open access from Duke University Press. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/samischalk
Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social President of American Association of University Professors, VP of American Federation of Teachers, Professor at Rutgers University, Dad, Author, Against Fascism! College4All!
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Union for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social Communication researchers, journalists, media producers, policy analysts, academics and activists dedicated to critical perspectives in communication theory, media production, and the study of popular culture | https://www.democraticcomm.org/
Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology @ University of Cambridge; researching tech workers, digital economy, class, and culture
https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/dr-robert-dorschel
@mirandabanks.bsky.social @mirandabanks.bsky.social 
Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social I cover workers for the NY Times. New Book: "Mutiny, the Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class." https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610814/mutiny/
MediaJustice @mediajustice.bsky.social MediaJustice builds power to challenge how corporations and governments use media and technology to shape our collective future.
Sustain our work in 2026:
https://mediajustice.org/donate
Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social Humanist/atheist chaplain at places. Opinions mine not Harvard's/MIT's. NYT Bestselling & award-winning ๐ Good Without God + Tech Agnostic. Reclaiming my last name from evil. Reforming the tech religion. Took '25 off social media, now ~back.
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor of AI & Society at Binghamton University (SUNY) - Civics of Technology Board Member - Luddite Praxis - Dad Life - he/him
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.
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social Putting the movement back in the labor movement since 1979. linktr.ee/labornotes
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social Supporting all workers in any workplace. You deserve a union.
Free resources & trainings on how to organize and start a union @ workerorganizing.org
More: https://linktr.ee/organizeworkers
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)๐ซ
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Nina Hahne @ninahahne.bsky.social ๐ป Science manager @cais-research.bsky.social
๐ Deputy editor @policyr.bsky.social
PhD from @unihalle.bsky.social
โ๏ธ #writing #digitaltransformation #openaccess #ruhrgebiet๐
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
Melanie Simms @melaniesimms.bsky.social Professor of Work and Employment. Specialism in unions and worker voice. Promoter of social sciences. Fascinated by pretty much everything. She/her
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Justin Kehoe @justinkehoe.bsky.social acquisitions editor at the MIT Press
musician at Constellation Myths
raised in Vermont, resides in Boston
he/him
University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social Innovative, thoughtful, digitally-forward books in partnership with Michigan Publishing and Fulcrum.
https://press.umich.edu/
The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social The University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the United States and a distinguished publisher of trade and scholarly books and journals. Refining minds since 1891!
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/
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledgeโthrough the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic filesโbeyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social First University Press in the US
Established 1869
http://cornellpress.cornell.edu
University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social University of Illinois Press / Publisher of scholarly and regional trade books and journals since 1918
University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social Book publisher, est. 1925.
NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social "Downtown to the World," NYU Press amplifies NYU's leadership in global higher education and research through influential publications that embody the university's core mission and creative identity.
Find us at: nyupress.org
Andrew Michael Gorin @andrewgorin.bsky.social writer, assistant professor of poetics, media, public sphere andrewmichaelgorin.info, organismforpoeticresearch.org
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.
Kevin Driscoll ๐ณเฉฏโงฬอกโฌฎ @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 [โฆ]
๐ bridged from โ https://aoir.social/@kdriscoll, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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
Kate Mullen @cammamls.bsky.social Assistant Editor, Duke University Press | Ethnomusicology PhD | Popular music and community archives | Information studies | Eyes emoji enthusiast ๐ | she/her
Lina Khan @linamkhan.bsky.social Served as 57th Chair of the Federal Trade Commission.
The Media, Inequality & Change Center @miccenter.bsky.social The Media, Inequality & Change Center explores the intersections between media, democracy, technology, policy, and social justice.
nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10 
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social โ๐ฝ โข RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code โข VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want โข IMAGINATION: A Manifesto ๐www.ruhabenjamin.com
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Michelle Lipinski @michellelipinski.bsky.social Senior editor @ucpress.bsky.social. Finicky reader. (She/her)
Yena Lee @yenalee.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow @AnnenbergPenn CDCS researching political creators & social movement | PhD @NorthwesternU MTS | she/they
https://yenaleephd.com/- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. โThe Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internetโ out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Devon Powers @devonjp.bsky.social Professor at University of Michigan. Metafuturist. Music nerd. Karaoke enthusiast. Fun at meetings, boring at parties.
Natasha Tusikov @ntusikov.bsky.social She/her. Assoc. prof at York University in Toronto. All things tech governance, especially internet of things, smart cities, femtech & platform governance. Book (open access): The New Knowledge: Information, Data & Remaking of Global Power- P Philip Napoli @pmnapoli.bsky.social James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy; Director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy; Sanford School of Public Policy; Duke University
Aisha Zia Khan @aishaziak.bsky.social researching creators in uneven (digital) worlds. the internet isnโt flat.
PhD (Human Geography+Comm & Media) @lborouniversity.bsky.social
Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social Journal for internet studies. Interdisciplinary & open access. Published by @hiigberlin.bsky.social & @cais-research.bsky.social in cooperation with @create-glasgow.bsky.social @cis-cnrs.bsky.social IN3 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social & Skytte Institute UT
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
David B. Nieborg @nieborg.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies @UofT โข Books: Platforms & Cultural Production (Polity) โข Mainstreaming & Game Journalism (MIT Press) โข Toronto/Amsterdam
Matthew N. Hannah @tinkeringhuman.bsky.social Studying the political economy of digital platforms and conspiracy theories.
"Conspiracy, one is tempted to say, is the poor person's cognitive mapping in the postmodern age." - F. Jameson
Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social Visiting Scholar & Incoming Assistant Professor in Sociology (LTA) at UNBSJ | Studying Labour Organizing in the Cultural Industries | Eyeliner aficionado
https://www.madisontrusolino.com
PB Berge ๐ @persephone.blue ๐ฅ ludoarsonist
๐น๏ธ media scholar
๐ฎ game breaker
๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ is out!!!
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. ๐ trans play ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ TTRPGs ๐ฒ extremism ๐ & the โจunplayableโจ
๐ https://persephone.blue ๐ฒ https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
blair @blairaf.com Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Asst. Prof, sci-fi creator @ UAlberta
Transfeminist AI governance, ethics, policy: blairaf.com
Gay trans cyborg warriors vs. AI monsters: objecttype3.app
Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social Forklift-certified journalist in Chicago. Words in the Chicago Reader, Unraveled Press, The TRiiBE, South Side Weekly, Courthouse News Service and some other ones I forget right now. All opinions & bad jokes my own. DM me for news tips/Signal info.
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Emily Tseng @emtseng.bsky.social Postdoc at MSR, soon a prof at UW HCDE, got my PhD at Cornell IS. I think about power, privacy, and participation in HCI, security and AI.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com
hunter harris @hunterh.bsky.social writes a newsletter called hung up / formerly gossip girl, nymag
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University ๐จ๐ฆ | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social โmiddle-brow theoristโ aiming for low-brow. just a private citizen speaking on matters of public concern
Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social PhD in History, professor of Feminist + Social Justice Studies; food, environmental, gender, +tech history, queer, founder of Disrupting Disruptions
https://www.alexketchum.ca/
https://linktr.ee/aketchum
Moya @moyazb.bsky.social Moya Bailey. Quirky Black Girl. Queer Androgyne. 90s R&B Lover. Teacher. Gatherer. Mozzarella Stick Aficionado.
https://linktr.ee/moyabailey 
Cait Mckinney @caitmckinney.bsky.social Assistant Prof at SFU Communication Studies working on queer media history.
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
Labor Research and Action Network @labor-research.bsky.social A national network of union researchers, labor scholars and worker center staff, working to help the labor movement. A project of Jobs with Justice.
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social Lead research engineer @dairinstitute.bsky.social, social dancer, aspirational post-apocalyptic gardener ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ท
I run workshops @dairfutures.bsky.social. Always imagining otherwise.
they/he
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Stephen Maynard Caliendo @smcaliendo.bsky.social 412 -> 312. Dean, College of Arts and Sciences & Prof of Political Science @ North Central College. I study Political Comm, Political Psych, & REP. "That one guy on TV in Chicago." Boilermakers, NCC Cardinals, Pirates, Steelers, Sky, Bulls. All the music.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
๐ https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Rebecca Stafford @rebeccahazelstaff.bsky.social YA author ๐ THE ENDING YOU DESERVE on preorder now! Link below for retailers.
also: RABBIT AND JULIET paperback out on Sept 1
https://linktr.ee/rebeccastafford
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Oesterle Library at North Central College @oesterlelib.bsky.social Oesterle Library is a student-centered resource center focused on creating a diverse and responsive environment of access, creativity, and learning.
https://library.noctrl.edu/
Kelley Cotter @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Penn State | Digital and algorithmic literacies and inequalities, technocultural discourses and imaginaries, tech ethics and governance.
TechCrunch @techcrunch.com Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams.
Got a tip? http://techcrunch.com/tips
Julia Ticona @jticona.bsky.social Assistant Prof. UPenn Annenberg, Mama, Researcher, Teacher, Writer - Labor, Tech, Women, Care.
Colten Meisner @coltenmeisner.bsky.social Ann Arbor, MI
more: coltenmeisner.com
readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social I do digital pedagogy things professionally, coach swimming for my sanity, sew my own clothes amateurishly, parent the best I can.
Co-host of the All The Things ADHD podcast, editor of the National Teaching and Learning Forum.
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social Tech's growth should benefit everyone. We're addressing how tech intersects with the most consequential areas of the economy: housing and labor.
nanocrit @nanocrit.bsky.social NANO: New American Notes Online is an indexed, Open Access, and Open Source humanities journal. NANO never charges to submit or to read content. Account managed by the editor, Sean Scanlan, PhD.
https://nanocrit.com
Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social Cartoonist, killjoy, co-host of saucepodcast.com, creator of the beloved feminists superhero parody comic gynostar.com
she/her
Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social Working on disaster justice & the climate crisis. Emergency Management PhD. Author of ๐DISASTEROLOGY ๐ she/her
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge