betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Phoebe Maares @phoebemaares.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at IRex, @unituebingen.bsky.social
Journalism and its boundaries. @univie.ac.at Alumn. she/her
Eunbi Lee (She/her) @eunbi1228.bsky.social Avid reader and listener.
Assistant professor in the Communications and New Media Department at National University of Singapore
@magdalenawojciesza.bsky.social @magdalenawojciesza.bsky.social
Rodney Benson @rodneybenson.bsky.social professor NYU Media, Culture, & Comm, & Sociology; new book How Media Ownership Matters (Oxford, April '25), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-media-ownership-matters-9780199931316?lang=en&cc=us
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
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
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social Associate Prof @uwcomm. I study tech & inequality in 🇦🇲 & 🇦🇿. Posts research & pop culture & parenting. She/her.
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
Noshir Contractor @noshir.bsky.social Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University. He investigates how networks form and perform.
Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com Prof, Media and Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been dubbed “that hybrid media guy.” More active on LinkedIn these days.
andrewchadwick.com
Occasional posts on music.
Polcom Vienna @polcomvienna.bsky.social Political Communication Research Group at University of Vienna
https://polcom.univie.ac.at
Ismaharif I. @ismaharif.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ UCSB || Media Effects, Intergroup Relations, Identity, Motivation
I study (meta)interventions and how to bridge social divides. I also dabble in psychometrics, latent variables and computational methods.
https://linktr.ee/ismaharif
Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social Professor of media and communications at ZeMKI and Commfigurations, Uni Bremen, on #mediatization, #datafication, #pioneercommunities, #pioneerjournalism, #ComAI, #AI, #digitalfutures.
Rebecca M. Townsend @rmtownsend.bsky.social Deliberation, democracy & public engagement scholar #TeamRhetoric politics in US & #CEE #transportation, public memory, Town Meeting. Lifter. Aromanian. Views here are personal & do not represent my employer #WMASS @TownModerator.bsky.social
Scott A. Eldridge II @seldridge.com Journalism Scholar
seldridge.com
Associate Professor | Centre for Media and Journalism Studies | University of Groningen, NL
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social
@unigroningen.bsky.social
Banu Akdenizli @banuakdenizli.bsky.social Public Diplomacy & Media Studies @NorthwesternUniversityQatar| USC CPD fellow 2016-2018
Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social Assistant Professor @uwmadison.bsky.social
Miles Kenney-Lazar @mklaz.bsky.social political ecologist, human geographer at the university of melbourne (https://shorturl.at/SG30C)
Hot off the Press: Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025) (https://shorturl.at/GxHC4)
Sahana Udupa @sahanaudupa.bsky.social professor of media anthropology @LMU Munich, Harvard BKC Fellow, ERC projects on extreme speech, AI, content moderation, social media https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/SahanaUdupa
Mike Franz @mikefranz.bsky.social Professor of Government at Bowdoin College
Co-director, Wesleyan Media Project (@wesmediaproject.bsky.social
& mediaproject.wesleyan.edu); policomm, polisci, interest groups, political advertising, campaign finance reform
https://mikemfranz.com/
Magdalena Saldaña @magdalenasaldan.bsky.social Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Communications | Associate Director, www.mepop.cl | Associate Researcher, www.imfd.cl | Associate Editor, @digitaljournalism.bsky.social
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
Muhammad Ittefaq, Ph.D. @ittefaq.bsky.social Assistant Professor: Michigan State University
Host: @scitalkofficial.bsky.social
Science Talk YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ScienceTalkOfficial/featured
Ashis Basu @ashis.bsky.social Knowledge is Power. Share it.
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.
Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 on the way: How WE Make American Democracy. Wide Awake. Views mine, ~90% right. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆 nathankalmoe.com
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Sarah Moser @sarahkmoser.bsky.social Urban geography professor at McGill University • new cities built from scratch, cultural politics, graphic novels 🇨🇦
Porismita Borah @pborah.bsky.social Professor, Washington State University-Pullman I Director of Digital Media & Society Lab I EIC International Journal of Public Opinion Research I Web: http://porismitaborah.com/ I
Raquel Recuero @raquelrecuero.bsky.social Professor/Researcher at UFPEL/UFRGS. MIDIARS Lab director.
Also @raquelrecuero@aoir.social
https://wp.ufpel.edu.br/midiars/
https://wp.ufpel.edu.br/raquelrecuero/about-me/
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)
Apeksha Shetty @apeksha.bsky.social She/her | PhD Candidate at Complexity Science Hub & University of Vienna's @compcommlab.bsky.social | Currently studying misinformation & social identity on social media | Mundus Journalism alumna
Stefanie Walter @stefaniewalter.bsky.social Emmy Noether Fellow | Techical University of Munich | #citizens #diversity #EU #climatechange #news #textanalysis #css
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
Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @reutersinstitute.bsky.social | Northwestern University and Universidad de Costa Rica alum | Usual disclaimers
Shelley Boulianne @shelleyboulianne.bsky.social R. Klein Chair in Communication Studies at @mountroyalu.bsky.social 🇨🇦
North American Editor @icsjournal.bsky.social & Associate Editor @sscratsage.bsky.social
Research fellow at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 🇩🇪 &
@ddc-sdu.bsky.social 🇩🇰
Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social Digital journalism professor 🏝️AE at Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly/ Author, “Digital Journalism and the Facilitation of Hate” (2023) 🇺🇸🇨🇦 actively 🏃♂️🧑💻#firstgen.
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary social & behavioral science research & fellowship in service of generating knowledge, illuminating understandings, building fields, informing policy discourse, & creating an enduring scholarly community like no other | casbs.stanford.edu
European Digital Media Observatory @edmo-eu.bsky.social We bring together fact-checkers, media literacy practitioners, scholars, journalists, and online platforms to tackle disinformation. Based at @eui-eu.bsky.social. Visit us at www.edmo.eu.
Allison Archer @allisonarcher.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Houston researching media and politics.
allisonarcher.com
Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social asst. prof. @uwsjmc.bsky.social rossdahlke.com
Adrian Rauchfleisch @adrauc.bsky.social Distinguished Professor @ National Taiwan University
Yariv Tsfati @yarivtsfati.bsky.social Department of Communication, University of Haifa; Studies trust and other audience perceptions of media.
https://yariv.com.haifa.ac.il/
Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social Political Scientist at @griffith.edu.au, Brisbane / Assoc. Editor @democratization.bsky.social/. Interest groups, authoritarian politics, disinformation, electoral integrity, trust.
Julia Metag @juliametag.bsky.social Professor of Communication Science, Research on science communication and political communication
@ University of Muenster
@reginalawrence.bsky.social @reginalawrence.bsky.social
Joost van Spanje @joostvanspanje.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, RH University of London
elections | new parties | cordons sanitaires | hate speech | militant democracy | political communication
Bitcoin and politics, media & public opinion
ERC Consolidator Grant | NWO Veni & Vidi
Jack Qiu @jackqiu.bsky.social Chair and Shaw Foundation Prof of Media Technology, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ozan Kuru @ozankuru.bsky.social Asst Prof, National University of Singapore
Bio: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/18898-ozan-kuru
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T6KRMogAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ozan-Kuru
Sebastián Valenzuela @sebavalenz.bsky.social Professor in Communications at U Catolica de Chile | Researcher with IMFD and NUDOS | Chief Science Officer http://IPIE.info | Political communication, technology, journalism
Joe Phillips @polpsychjoe.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Political Science, Trinity College Dublin. Political Psychology. Polarization. Political Communication.
Josh Pasek @joshpasek.com Prof of Comm and Polisci @UMich studying how people get & use political information and social measurement.
Competencies: data sci, DIY solar, election analytics, carpooling, #polcom, #polpsych, survey methods, AI literacy (views=own, overuses speech2text)
Talia Stroud @taliastroud.bsky.social Prof UT-Austin, Director Center for Media Engagement
TJ Billard @billard.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication & Sociology at Northwestern University. Executive Director of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies. Author of Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere (Oxford UP, 2024).
Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Pol Comm at UoLiverpool. Online Pol Comm / Elections / Gender. UCU Rep. Socialist. Feminist. She/her. Views mine
Lindsay Palmer @lindsaypalmer.bsky.social Professor at UW-Madison. I’m an antiracist, white cis woman who’s pansexual and a trans ally. I study press freedom and international news from a decolonial and feminist perspective. Author of The Fixers: the Underground Labor of International Reporting.
Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com
Deana A. Rohlinger @deanarohlinger.bsky.social Sociologist studying digital technologies, political participation, & politics. Editor in Chief of Social Science Computer Review. Getting by in Florida.
Rosemary Pennington @rompenni.bsky.social Professor & Chair Department of Media, Journalism & Film at Miami University. Host Stats + Stories podcast. The horrors persist and so do I. Opinions my own. she/her
Silvio Waisbord @swaisbord.bsky.social Professor @SMPA/GWU, past president @ICA, editor @International Journal of Communication, journalism, politics, social change, communication studies. Guitarist, charangoist
Claudia Mellado @claudiamellado.bsky.social Professor of Journalism @pucvperiodismo 🇨🇱 Profesor Titular Periodismo PUCV | Journalism studies, JRPproject, journalistic cultures, comparative research
Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com Political communication researcher at @ascor.bsky.social | @algosoc.org affiliated | PhD @unibern | Media effects, social media, and computational stuff
https://ernesto-deleon.com/
Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social Prof of Media and Communication at the University of Edinburgh. Based in Politics/IR. Researching #AI, #Journalism and #Public Service Media. Views own. She/Her
@rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social
Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
Maurits Meijers @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Antwerp 🇧🇪 || ERC Starting Grant holder DEMO-LIES: Deception in Democracy: Political Lying Accusations and Their Effects on Democratic Citizenship"
Jade Vrielink @jadevrielink.bsky.social PhD student in Political Communication at
@WUR
| The impact of online data-driven political targeting on political attitudes and behavior
Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social Researcher of UK-EU relations, euroscepticism and learning & teaching. Open University and formerly UK in a Changing Europe. Renowned for my bubbly personality, I imagine.
Kristine Graneng @kgraneng.bsky.social Postdoc at Center for European integration, Freie Uni. Berlin | Political communication and public debates about European integration | Knitter and bookworm |
Mike Cowburn @mikecowburn.bsky.social Research Fellow, @demolaw.bsky.social, Zeppelin Universität
Intra-Party Politics | Candidate Selection | Legislative Politics | PolComm | Primaries
Author: Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries https://tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx
www.mikecowburn.com
Bilyana Petrova @bpetrova.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech. Inequality, redistribution, and political economy.
Giulia Sandri @giuliasandri.bsky.social Research and Development Manager,ECAS| Associate Researcher,Université libre de Bruxelles| Technology Internet and Policy Group @techpolicy.bsky.social| Research on AI & digital policy+ democracy + EU Politics|
Dominika Betakova @dbetakova.bsky.social She/her | First-gen 🎓🏳️🌈 | Postdoc at the Centre for Journalism @sdu.dk | PhD from @ipkw.bsky.social | news consumption & avoidance ❌📰 constructive journalism 🌱🗞️ media use 📺📱 polcom & journalism studies
Damian Trilling 🟥 @damiantrilling.net Professor of Journalism Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. About me: https://damiantrilling.net . Our group is here: @journstudiesvu.bsky.social and here: https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/faculties/faculty-of-humanities/more-about/journalism
Mike Wagner @prowag.bsky.social William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea, Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, U of Wisconsin-Madison. Director, Center for Communication and Civic Renewal. Inflated sense of karaoke ability. 10/10 Room Rater.
Jessica Feezell @jessfeez.bsky.social Professor and Citizen Farmer at UNM
Political Comm - Digital Media - Democracy
Diego Mazorra @mazorra.bsky.social Center for Communication and Democracy - SJMC - University of Wisconsin-Madison. Political communication, polarization. Ph.D. Student
Eric Merkley @ericmerkley.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Toronto | Director of the Policy, Elections, and Representation Lab (PEARL) | Political behaviour, political and science communication, Canadian/American politics
www.ericmerkley.com
www.pearluoft.com
@silviamajo.bsky.social @silviamajo.bsky.social
anurag @researchgap.bsky.social PhDing in Communication | Interests: Political Economy, Media and Technology Law, Internet Regulation, Misinformation, Minority Rights, Telecom Policy, Football, Running, Origami etc | All views are mine.
Hajo Boomgaarden @hajoboo.bsky.social Communication scholar @ Uni Vienna. Political communication & computational methods.- S Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social COYG
*Not really active on here anymore.*
Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social Associate professor of IR at Oslo New University College (ONH). Fulbright, UWC, and UVa alumna. Fall’24 Fulbright Visiting Scholar @ClementsCenter UT Austin
Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu Computational Communication Scientist #rstats | Postdoc Researcher | University of Amsterdam | @ascor.bsky.social | @algosoc.org | Blog: favstats.eu | Running on plant-based fuel 🌱 | he/him
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
Sanne Kruikemeier @skruikemeier.bsky.social Professor Digital Media & Society • Wageningen University & Research • Strategic Communication (COM) group • ERCStG • NWO VIDI
Krissy Lunz Trujillo @klunztrujillo.bsky.social Political Science Prof at Boston College. Studies rural politics, identity, trust, health politics, and political behavior. Proud mom + daughter + wife to my best friend https://kristinlunztrujillo.weebly.com/
makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social writing about politics + the internet
formerly: @wired.com, @theverge.com
DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32
FAQ, Instagram, + everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly
Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social Professor, Political Science | Syracuse University, Maxwell School | American politics, political psychology | Co-author of Anxious Politics and Pandemic Politics
Ayşenur Dal @aysenurdal.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. - Dept. of Communication & Design at Bilkent Uni., Türkiye
#PolComm, Pol Psych, Digital Repression, Privacy
Ohio State - Comm (PhD)
www.aysenurdal.com
Heidi Schulze @hdschulze.bsky.social 🕵🏻♀️ research associate at team rieger
📍 lmu munich - department of media & communication
📚 political communication online // radicalization // extremism // telegram // hyperpartisan media // computational methods
Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
Preeti Raghunath @preetiraghunath.bsky.social I research Communication Technologies, Policies and Lived Experiences, also from a historical lens.
Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Nicolette Little @nicolettelittle.bsky.social New book 📕: From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada (UBC Press, 2026)
Feminist media activism, tech-facilitated violence, & memory @UAlberta
@suruchimaz08.bsky.social @suruchimaz08.bsky.social
Soma Basu @somabasu.com Anthropologist of outsourced selves and distributed humans.
somabasu.com
Devina Sarwatay @devinasarwatay.bsky.social I study young people and digital cultures