Julian Seltzer @julianseltzer.com Producer of Perfectly Good Moment now streaming on Tubi & available to rent/buy on Amazon Video. Brooklyn-based.
Previous producer credits on documentary films and series for HBO, Max, Peacock, Oxygen, ID and more.
https://letterboxd.com/jseltzer/
STARLOG @starlogmedia.bsky.social STARLOG, the legendary sci-fi magazine, returns–exploring the intersection of science fiction, technology & culture.
Podcast | Newsletter | Magazine Coming Late 2026
50 Years. Since 1976
https://thelodestar.starlog.com/
Josh Mayfield @bean525.bsky.social Hey, I'm Josh, and among other things, I made the Star Trek Title Generator at trek.epicrandomness.com, and I run the Trans Rights Screenshot Generator.
Be excellent to each other!
Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
flickchart @flickchart.com Build a list of your favorite movies by ranking them against each other, share and compare with friends, and discover the top films you've never seen.
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Tom Vaughan @storyandplot.bsky.social I post about screenwriting. I teach it at http://storyandplot.com and my beloved alma mater The University of Houston 🐾 Writer of 8 films, including WINCHESTER and more to come.
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Turner Classic Movies @tcmtv.bsky.social Turner Classic Movies presents the greatest classic films of all time from one of the largest film libraries in the world. tcm.com
Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social Car and racing writer with too many hobbies and not nearly enough vintage Mercedes sedans
alisha mughal @alishamgl.bsky.social journalist and film critic in Toronto; words in Film Daze, RogerEbert[dot]com, Catapult, Exclaim!, The Asian Cut; book on The Crow out via ECW
Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social Football. Basketball. Cream cheese.
Editor. Writer.
Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social Experimental archivist and librarian. Writes about useful radio. Makes archival events for noisy audiences. No film left unscanned. Lives and works in San Francisco, on Ohlone land.
cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats --
Montreal
https://sterneworks.org
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
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.
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/
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
Skip Elsheimer @avgeeks.bsky.social That guy who has that house with all those 16mm films. If you are nice to him, he'll show you some of them..
Alix Beeston @alixbeeston.bsky.social Writer and academic | Author of *In and Out of Sight* (Oxford UP) and coeditor of *Incomplete* (U Cali P) | Coming in 2027: *Image Encounters* (Penn State UP) and *Women, Sisters and Friends: Selected Plays and Screenplays of Kathleen Collins* (U Cali P)
Girish Shambu @girishshambu.bsky.social I live in Buffalo and write about film culture. Book: “The New Cinephilia”.
Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.- 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.
David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Culture & Media @ The New School.
Living at the crossroads of Media Theory, Black Horror / Zombie Movies, and AI / Digital Culture.
Nathan Lee @nathanlee.bsky.social Assistant Professor (allegedly). Defrocked film critic.
Unreconstructed gay Nietzschean.
aphid @aphid.org net artist, garden pest
scraper/scholar of media, metadata,
oversight &counterintelligibility
i teach "new" media histories, theories, and practices at uc santa cruz
they/he- S Steven Shaviro @sshaviro.bsky.social Stealth assassin from the clouds.
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. 
Ian Alan Paul @elbienmaspreciado.bsky.social This account posts automated updates from www.ianalanpaul.com
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/
Rory Solomon @rorshock.bsky.social Mesh networks, media infrastructure, software engineering, ham/CB radio (KD2QGX); Assistant Professor of Media & Cultural Studies at Macalester College; “very clear & cool, simple but intricate”; he/him
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social Media Theory / Posthumanities (NYC)
Extimacy Coordinator
www.dominicpettman.com
[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. https://intransition.openlibhums.org/ 
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
SCMS Media, Science, and Technology SIG @scmsmst.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
Gregg Mitman @greggmitman.bsky.social Historian of science, medicine, and environment.
Prof at UW-Madison, LMU Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. ERC Advanced Grant: fragmentsoftheforest.com.
Chasing ecologies and power across viral divides. 
Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social Silent cinema, curating, and feminist practice and theory at the University of Amsterdam; project manager/editor, @WFPProject.
Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social NYU.edu/orphanfilm
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.
dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social Children's horror doctor, rabbit film studies connoisseur and intermittent gremlin.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/catherine-lester/
Tanya Horeck, Film and Feminist Media Studies @tanyah.bsky.social 
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
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
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
opinions mine. he/him
Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social Professor, UCF T&T and English. Opinions mine. Bringing Foucault to fandom since 2006.
Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich
William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024)
Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U
eszter.com
T.L. Taylor @tltaylor.bsky.social Not sure I'm ready for another platform but let's see.
Theme park play research these days (yup, Disney).
tltaylor.com (links to most of my work, inc books) & instagram.com/ybikapix (for the fun stuff!). Currently on sabbatical and a fellow at CASBS.
Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social film, pop music, cultural studies // author, TINSEL AND RUST (oup 2025) and BACK TO THE FIFTIES (oup 2015) // both can't survive // michaelddwyer.com
Stephen Broomer @stephenbroomer.bsky.social filmmaker & writer. video essayist. host of art & trash. publisher, black zero. programmer, ad hoc. sessional lecturer, cinema studies institute, university of toronto. he/him.
Mélanie Bourdaa @melaniebourdaa.bsky.social Professeure des Universités à Bordeaux Montaigne. Transmedia et Fans
MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture @maifeminism.bsky.social MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com
Holly Kruse @hollykruse.bsky.social Media studies
–Gender & tech (Polity https://t.ly/LhLoK)
–Synth-pop (Bloomsbury https://t.ly/IUZHv)
–Networks & horse racing (MIT Press ebook https://t.ly/CJvI2)
–Music scenes (Peter Lang https://t.ly/aI__X)
Irish setters+horse+rescue dog. Iowan 4ever
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
Kênia Freitas @kenialice.bsky.social Aqui de novo
(Ela/Dela) 
Carol Almeida 🇵🇸 @caroltypes.bsky.social Cinema, brasilcalíptico, basquete. “A Europa é indefensável”, Aimé Césaire. A exaustão q habita em mim saúda a exaustão q habita em você. Ela/dela.
Sites: https://foradequadro.com/
https://caroltypes.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/carol__almeida
Uva niágara @belaodara.bsky.social Uma fruta gogóia
Renata Gomes @renatagames.bsky.social criptosemioticista insolente, subdeleuziana esculhambada, media scholar feminista
insolent cryptosemioticist, crooked sub-deleuzian, feminist media scholar
OMEXPLICADORES GO HOME
https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/fronteiras/article/view/22582
Marcelo Ribeiro 🇵🇸 @marcelorsr.incinerrante.com militonto do inutilitário, pós-doutor honoris causa em línguística pela unipântano, pesquisador de anarqueologias, professor de cinema-delírio e entropólogo
nicolas poppe @poppe.bsky.social i guess that everybody has their thing that they yell into a well
https://linktr.ee/npoppe
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
Christopher Cwynar @cwynar.bsky.social Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Communications, Trent University Durham GTA. Interested in public (service) media, podcasting, and cycling. 
Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social Reimaginer of media industries and society in digital age | Prof@QUT | Strategy consultant | US expat | Fan of swimming, baked goods & nature | drtvlotz@gmail | amandalotz.com | Mostly writing on LinkedIn, glimmers of also being a human here
Aviva Dove-Viebahn @avivadv.bsky.social feminist scholar & screenwriter | 🏳️🌈 she/her | opinions are my own | assistant professor at Arizona State | writer at Ms. Magazine | rotten tomatoes approved critic
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick @jnp1966.bsky.social Media studies professor at DePauw University; drummer; podcaster; putterer. [he/him]
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/
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
Brian Ruh @brianruh.bsky.social Independent scholar (that's what they call it when academia doesn't want you), PhD in communication and culture, occasional writer, always looking for a new project. I wrote a book on Mamoru Oshii’s films.
Mark Deuze @markdeuze.bsky.social 👨🎓 Professor Media Studies, U of Amsterdam
🎸bass: Skinflower; new music at Bandcamp
📚 latest books: Life in Media (MIT Press), Happiness in Journalism (Routledge)
🔊 🎥 Deuzevlog on YouTube and Spotify
🚴 Ride on!
🎓ORCID: 0000-0002-1986-5050
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.- W Will Straw @wstraw.bsky.social James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University. Scholar of cities, media, night Follow news of night culture at https://theurbannight.com/ or visit my research site at https://willstraw.com/
Filmscalpel @filmscalpel.bsky.social Audiovisual thoughts about audiovisual arts. Filmscalpel creates, collects and curates video essays at www.filmscalpel.com
Rob Drew @slobster48602.bsky.social Prof @svsu, author Karaoke Nights: An Ethnographic Rhapsody (AltaMira, 2001) and Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable (Duke, 2024).
Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Digital Media, Georgia Tech, graduate of Bx Science HS, author "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" (MIT Press updated edition 2017) . Current book in progress:"Digital Delusions" .
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab. 
Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of Popular Music at University of California, Riverside
PREPROGRAMMED: HOW ELECTRONIC PRESETS CHANGED MUSIC AND MEDIA, out Sept. ‘26: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/preprogrammed/paper
Social histories of music, sound, technology, & media
Carolyn Birdsall @carobirdsall.bsky.social Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Currently leading the TRACE research project & latest book now out: Radiophilia - carolynbirdsall.com
Image credit: ironicitalics.com
scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social writer of books • founder of magazines • professor of NYU students • learner of things • listener of tracks • viewer of flicks • tired of everything
Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app Chair @cunyenglish.bsky.social I study books, Blackness & pop culture! Leftist & left handed 🇰🇳 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️
One of many Jonathan Grays
I maintain Blackademics the scholarly side of Blacksky
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Personal account
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.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social Milwaukee, WI
Media Studies
Kristina Köhler @anitsirkk.bsky.social Kunst- und Mediengeschichte @UniCologne | mit einem großen 💜 für frühe Film- und Kinogeschichte | Mode, Stoffe, Texturen, Luftschlangen, Konfetti, Diskokugel in Filmen und im Leben | mother of 2
Desiree Foerster @dfoerster.bsky.social senior research associate @ UChicago. studies phenomenology of digital and environmental media.
Book: https://meson.press/books/aesthetic-experience-of-metabolic-processes/
Web: https://dfoerster.org
Aaron Hunter @aaronhunter.bsky.social Movie doctor: Trinity College Dublin
Women and New Hollywood, Polly Platt, Hal Ashby
he/him, dad, drummer
Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social Fan, celebrity & cultural studies academic. Senior lecturer in media & cultural studies in Singapore. Intermixing posts on shows I'm watching/discovering, fandoms, academia, and occasionally, life. Opinions strictly my own.
Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies at ASU. Studying technology, race, power, and ethics. Lover of general shenanigans. I refuse to call them “skeets.” Opinions my own.
Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
pjmaciak.substack.com
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social 30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.
Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead @ University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings
💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
Axel Bruns @snurb.info Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.
He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺
🕸️ snurb.info
🐘 @snurb@aoir.social
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Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social formerly @markboynz on Twits. Media and Comms academic. Pinko leftie socialist. Queer rights. Tangata tiriti. #Landback.
Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social Prof of literature, culture, & media. Buckeye. Higher ed chronicler, academic freedom militant. Hobbies include music, plants, & counting pills. 🥄😵💫⚡️ 🕎 Unpopular opinions mine; the popular ones belong to the commons
http://campus-novel.ghost.io
Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social researcher, fact-checker: extremism, conspiracies, US history
critic: Paste, Time, etc.
assistant editor, Cineaste
PhD Candidate in Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
The Video Essay Podcast
views mine
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