Rutgers University Press @rutgersupress.bsky.social Rutgers University Press is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge to scholars, students, and the general reading public. The Press reflects and extends the University’s core mission of research, instruction, and service.
miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social Lecturer in Film and Media, University of Leeds. I primarily research popular feminism in superhero films, TV & comic books. Leeds UCU Rep 🇩🇪🇬🇧 she/her
Women in Marvel Films https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-in-marvel-films.html
Vincent Haddad @vincenthaddad.bsky.social Scholar of literature and popular culture.
Author of The Detroit Genre (Lever Press, 2024) and Next Time on Dragon Ball (U Minn Press, 2026)
Armaan Babu @armaanautomatic.itch.io Freelance writer, most often at ComicsXF. Critic, game designer and GM, fascinated with all the ways stories are told.
Find me and my stuff at: https://linktr.ee/ArmaanBabu
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
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.
Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social five out of eight computers on a scale of computers
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
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.
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Managed by @zizilizizi.bsky.social @kaareeenah.bsky.social
Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
Katie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social i study how labor platforms shape the way we live in cities. geographer. senior fellow @ainowinstitute.bsky.social. newish book: DISRUPTING D.C. (Princeton Univ Press 2023 and 2025 paperback)
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.
Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social 🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin Uni (Boorloo/Perth West Australia);
🔎 @digitalchildau.bsky.social (GenAI & Datafication);
🐘 @tama@aoir.social; he/him.
[Views mine; RT/❤️/etc ≠ endorsement]
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
Patrick LeMieux @alt254.bsky.social Media artist, game designer, electronic musician, and Associate Professor at UC Davis. Wrote Metagaming w/ @chouxsalad. http://linktr.ee/patricklemieux
Sophie Bishop @sophiebishop.bsky.social She/her
Studying influencers & ‘influencer creep’ in creative industries
Associate Professor in Media & Communication, University of Leeds
Pre order Influencer Creep now: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/influencer-creep/paper
Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social Researcher | geographies, infrastructures, technologies, politics, lifeworlds 
Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social 
Zizi Papacharissi @zizip.bsky.social UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication + Poli Sci, Head of COMM@UIC Books: After Democracy; Affective Publics; A Private Sphere; A Networked Self series
Armin Beverungen @arminb.bsky.social prof at Leuphana Uni, https://logistical.city, http://smartnesswealth.net, organization studies, STS, media studies, formerly @arminbev T/X,
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
Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social Prof. Economic Geography, Durham, UK.
Managing Editor @econsocjournal.bsky.social
Finance, money, FinTech, and more.
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/paul-langley/
Krysten Stein, PhD @krystenstein.bsky.social professor + expert on platforms, care, & digital culture
writing AND HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL? [ @uc_press ]
my curated life | thoughts mine
Maxwell Foxman @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Game Studies
Co-author of Mainstreaming and Game Journalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5657/Mainstreaming-and-Game-Journalism
🧵: sushilovinfun
🐘: maxwellfoxman@mastodon.social
🐦: maxwellfoxman
Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. Some other stuff.
Sociologist.
https://www.devikanarayan.com/
Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social Associate professor of Japanese literature and media at Cornell. Poetry, video games, and disability. Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media out now in open access from UC Press!
コーネル大学の日本文学とメディアの准教授。詩とか、ゲーム、障害学。詩人と翻訳者。
Mercedes 🤦♀️ Bunz @mrsbunz.bsky.social King’s College London. Interested in reading ML as a ‘calculation of meaning’ 🧮📝📚✍️🎨. Creative AI Lab with Serpentine’s Eva Jäger. Left AI ✊
Stuart Marks @smarks.bsky.social Java/JDK/OpenJDK developer, Oracle Corporation. The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle. Mostly on @stuartmarks@mastodon.social ; formerly @stuartmarks on Twitter.
Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk
VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG
Outside cat; but more of a dog person really.
bodyofwork.in
Rachel O'Dwyer @rachelodwyer.bsky.social Writer. Living Currency. Author of Tokens
Devon Powers @devonjp.bsky.social Professor at University of Michigan. Metafuturist. Music nerd. Karaoke enthusiast. Fun at meetings, boring at parties.
xiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech recognition, and related data practices; general tomfoolery.
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
Jing Wang @jingwang.bsky.social Assistant Prof, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW-Madison; New academic mom; Feminist
Co-Founder 结绳志 https://tyingknots.net
Website: https://www.jing-wang.net/
#GlobalMedia #GlobalComm #GlobalChina #China #Anthropology #Wisconsin #Madison
Nishant Shah @latelyontime.bsky.social Feminist. Humanist. Technologist. Professor Global Media (CUHK), Director (Digital Narratives Studio), all-around rambler and general purpose story-teller. Trying to find reticence in battles of things that can and cannot be said.
Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
Sam Hind @samjhind.bsky.social PhD from UoSheffield | Researching speculative flesh ecologies and speculative conservation zones 🌍 | Vegan 🌱 | She/her 🏳️🌈
Toshiro Mitsuoka @tsrmtok.bsky.social Professor, Tokyo Keizai University. Interested in 'media and everyday-ness'. Co-editor of Doing Screen Studies in Japan (in Japanese, University of Tokyo Press, 2019). A dirty bird watcher in NFL. http: http://toshiromitsuoka.com/index_en.php
Leigh Phillips @leighphillips.bsky.social Journalist & science writer (Nature, Sci Am, New Scientist, Guardian, Telegraph, Jacobin). Almost a geologist. Co-author of People’s Republic of Walmart (Verso, 2019). Author of Austerity Ecology (Zer0 Books, 2014).
Florian Hoof @florianhoof.bsky.social Media theory, media infrastructure & security studies | Author: Angels of Efficiency
@oxunipress | Organizer: Harvard-Frankfurt Conference www.aftersurveillance.info | PD & Research Associate @NormativeOrders University Frankfurt
Benjamin Peters @bjpeters.bsky.social Writing on (post-)Soviet AI and #RussHack. (Books: Your Computer is on Fire. Soviet Internet. Digital Keywords.) Media theorist, historian, frisbeeist, parent
Carlos A. Scolari @cscolari.bsky.social @UPFBarcelona Full Prof: interfaces, transmedia & media evolution + PI H2020 @Trans_literacy + fiction https://hipermediaciones.com/ 
Paula Bialski @bialski.bsky.social digital sociologist, ethnographer, STS scholar, musician. New book out now http://tinyurl.com/4f29px33
Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social Researcher of AI @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
www.dangnguyen.digital
Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social Scholar of Japanese literature, media, cultural analytics. Now working on platforms, television, cultural AI. "The Values in Numbers" (2021). Offline: cooking, ceramics, watercolor. Professor at University of Chicago.
https://hoytlong.github.io
Shawn Bender @shawnbender.bsky.social Anthropologist, Japan and elsewhere | Dickinson College | Researching ag labor & automation | Books: Feeling Machines, Taiko Boom
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social Pol Sci Prof at CalLutheran. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol Univ Press) and "Machine Liberalism" (Forthcoming from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press)
https://josemarichal.github.io/
Henrik D Kugelberg @henrikdku.bsky.social Assistant professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Warwick. Working on the political philosophy of artificial intelligence, public reason, and the digital public sphere.
www.henrikdkugelberg.net
michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
Sara Reinis @sarareinis.bsky.social researching internet culture, algorithms, self-help, spirituality, and assorted rabbit holes that strike my fancy | currently: PhD student at Penn Annenberg
Ben Grosser @bengrosser.bsky.social Artist, recomposing social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures. Known for works like Demetricator, Computers Watching Movies, and minus.social. Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Harvard, Prof @ UIUC. bengrosser.com
Jinsook Kim @jinsookkim.bsky.social Feminist media scholar | Assistant professor, Media Studies, Emory University | Writing a book about digital media, online misogyny, and feminist activism in South Korea | she/her | Views my own
www.jinsookkim.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/
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html
Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Miguel Dobrich @migueldobrich.bsky.social Journalist and educator based in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Founder of Dobcast and Amenaza Roboto (@amenazaroboto.bsky.social).
2024 & 2023 Pulitzer Center grantee. Oxford Climate Journalism Network alum. 2018 Tow-Knight Fellow.
Orit Halpern @ohalpern.bsky.social Professor@TU Dresden, historian of science and STS scholar critically engaging AI, cybernetics,infrastructure, environment, and design.
https://againstcatastrophe.net
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
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
Morten Bay, Philosophiae Doctor. @mortenbay.bsky.social Media and tech scholar. Teaches at USC Annenberg. Writes stuff for normal people too. Stings in a tribute band. Author of six books, with the latest being 'Mediating Plureality: Technology, Perception, and Ethics in a Divided Democracy'.
martin johannes riedl @martinriedl.bsky.social asst prof, school of journalism and media @ university of tennessee | topics: political influencers, platform governance, content moderation, chat and messaging apps, journalism | he/him | 🇪🇺 alien | www.martinriedl.com | opinions: own
Charlton McIlwain @cmcilwain.bsky.social Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social Post-work politics and technofeminism
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
Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social Social Media Explorer 🦆
PhDing; Communication; HebrewU
Founding Member @weareccsn.bsky.social
🤳🏽 Content Creators
🧲 Audiovisual Memes
🧨 Algos and Hate
📵 Tech Appropriation
👩🏽🎤 TikTok Cultures
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
Joshua Neves @joshua-neves.bsky.social underbelly of the digital. Prof @Concordia University
books: In/Convenience / Technopharmacology / Underglobalization / Asian Video Cultures
胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "knows when to stop speculating"
paranom.asia
kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social over-explainer for fame & fortune, analog enthusiast, 9-5 academic.
informatics PhD (computer/networking histories, LGBTQ+ activism, STS & HIV/AIDS). you might know me from video games
once: uc irvine
now: u of michigan
💾🌿💽 kb.place 💽🌿💾
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.🏳️🌈🏞🌄
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Teaching; Art, Justice, and Digital Media & Core Faculty in Creative Technologies @ UCSC | Research in Voice Recognition, Assistive Technologies, Emergency Infrastructures | Co-founder of 5️⃣ & 9️⃣
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Thays Pantuza @thayspantuza.bsky.social Struck me like a chord (ter pressa que seja tarde pr'eu conseguir adormecer).
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🎓 MA Game Studies, BA Film Studies
✊ Women In Games Ambassador
🎮 Producer & Narrative Designer
💼 Zumbido @zumbido.bsky.social
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+ https://thayspantuza.com/
camila freitas @xcafreitasx.bsky.social •Assistant Professor
•PhD
•Media and Game Studies researcher
Siwei Wang (She/Her) @siweiwang.bsky.social PhD candidate, Princeton CompLit. Working on the idea of “experiment” in global socialist literature and media (1950-1970s). Broader interests: Materialist Aesthetics, Social Realism, PoCo, Global Marx, Afro-Asia. https://princeton.academia.edu/SiweiWang
Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social Executive Director, Sam Gilliam Foundation; UCLA professor emeritus; and left-handed art historian who sees lots of shiny objects. Opinions expressed here are my own.
Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
User #396,109 :)
Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
Where's the #skiing community?
becimay @becimay.bsky.social Senior lecturer, Cymraes. Author of Granular Modernlsm (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (Forthcoming from OUP, 2025).
Julie Beth Napolin @voicesbend.bsky.social Only the Void Stands Between Us out now on Silver Current Records | The Fact of Resonance @FordhamPress | co-editor at The Faulkner Journal | Former President of the New School AAUP https://linktr.ee/juliebethnapolin
Lyr 🦊 @lyrwar.bsky.social PC Gaymer, RPGs in all forms.
PhD Candidate (Media Studies). I think hard about the experience of existing in the virtual, by looking at games.
Interested in E-lit, (queer) bodies in media...
Insta: @lyrwar
Discord: lyrwar
he/him
AnwohnerIniSchanze @schanzenini.bsky.social AIS steht für unsere AnwohnerInitiative Schanzenviertel - kein Ballermann in der Schanze! #StreetArt 📸 #Photography #urbanspaces
Madeline Hunter (she/her) @madelineandraia.bsky.social Weird geeky broken chick.
Is 37, 🇨🇦, and v socialist + agnostic.
AuDHD, white, she/her, queer AF.
About 50% Angrily Queer Socialist Hissing by volume.
As seen on the Light Blue Hellsite.
PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social Historian of media, pop culture, and the Middle East; senior lecturer @dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Q IS FOR GARDEN out July 2026. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.
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