Social Forces @socialforcesfan.bsky.social Unofficial social media for the journal Social Forces
Digital Futures, Digital Literacies Lab @dfdl-yorku.bsky.social DFDL investigates digital platforms & users’ experiences, from social media to gaming platforms to AI.
York University, Toronto, ON
https://www.yorku.ca/laps/research/questioning-kidtech/
Padre Florecita @flourishklink.com Assistant Priest at Christ & St Stephen's (Upper West Side, NYC). Formerly of @fansplaining.bsky.social. They/them 🏳️⚧️.
Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.
Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social English & theatre & film & fandom. Fair use advocate. In the process of building something new.
Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social At FSNNA we're working to create a supportive, welcoming community for developing & sharing research in the interdisciplinary field of fan studies.
Sign up for our newsletter! https://share.google/0eVsE74dUlNnBlrtQ
Website: https://fsn-northamerica.org/
Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social Associate Professor at SUNY Canton. YA series books, C19AmLit, WWI, fandom, gender studies. Queer (pan/demi), feminist, Wiccan. 🏳️🌈📚☕ Views my own, not employer's. https://linktr.ee/emilyhamiltonhoney
It’s a Fandom Thing @itsafandomthingpod.bsky.social We are a podcast covering all things fandom and pop culture primarily from the female perspective. New episodes release every Wednesday and Friday. Hosted by Erin Marlow. https://itsafandomthingpod.com/
Fansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social An independent, subscriber-supported publication of reporting, criticism, and more—all by, for, and about fandom. 🎉 fansplaining.com
(Plus 9 years as a podcast: 250+ episodes in our back catalog!)
Lucie Ronfaut @lucieronfaut.com J'écris sur internet. Je parle dans Internet Exploreuses.
🌐 Journaliste et productrice chez @origami.ng
📚 Autrice (Les Règles du jeu ; Internet aussi, c'est la vraie vie ; Corps Mecha)
David Nemer @davidnemer.com Assoc Prof of Media Studies & Anthropology at the University of Virginia. Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. Anthropology of Tech/STS Books: Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press); Favela Digital (GSA)🇧🇷🇺🇸
https://linktr.ee/davidnemer
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
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
jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social data justice, tech policy, cities & nighttime governance | asst prof of data science & public policy | they•them 🏳️⚧️ | 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸
Carin Runciman @carinrunciman.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Johannesburg. Editor-in-Chief at The Sociological Review
Michelle Amazeen @commscholar.bsky.social Associate Dean of Research, College of Communication
Associate Professor of Mass Communication,
Director, Communication Research Center,
Boston University
New book – Content Confusion: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553605/content-confusion/
Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social Communist and Post-Communist Studies (CPCS) is an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal featuring comparative research on current and historical developments in the communist and post-communist world.
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social Social sciences journal publishing new research on #identities, #race, #ethnicity & #culture since 1994. Published by Taylor & Francis. https://linktr.ee/identitiesjournal
Journal of Political Economy @jpolecon.bsky.social One of the oldest and most prestigious journals in economics, the Journal of Political Economy presents significant and essential scholarship in economic theory and practice. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jpe/about
Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social JD/PhD, UToronto historian of post-1500 Chinese law/politics/culture/intl relations; law & empire & postcolonial studies. Author of "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics”.
Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social Author of LEFTOVER WOMEN: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China and BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China. https://letahongfincher.com
Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social Leiden University, Professor of Chinese History 🐌 🇳🇱 🇨🇳🇩🇰
Joint PhD in History & Women’s Studies (Univ of Michigan)
Premodernist, 14-18th century political culture, gender, family, bureaucracy, religion, etc.
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies @fairbankcenter.bsky.social A world-leading center on Greater China at Harvard University. Dedicated to advancing scholarship and research for over 65 years.
China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net https://chinadigitaltimes.net/ – a Berkeley-based nonprofit publishing news and translations focused on human rights and freedom of expression in China
South China Morning Post @scmpnews.bsky.social 
New China Books 📚 @newchinabooks.bsky.social All the books you could ever read about China.
Formerly on Twitter, please follow me here and spread the word!
ChinaObservers @chinaobservers.eu CHOICE is an independent platform for monitoring & evaluating the influence of China in the CEE region.
Designed and run by the Association for International Affairs (AMO).
#ChinaObservers
Jane Duckett @j-duckett.bsky.social Professor, Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Chinese politics, local government, social and health policy.
Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social Asso Prof @ UvA Media Studies || PI of ERC Research - China Africa Fashion Power (2022-27) || Editor of Int’l Journal of Fashion Studies || IIAS Board Member
Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com Lesbian Icon, Yurijin, Speaker, Writer, Editor, Researcher. Always looking for opportunities.
By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga on sale now! https://yuricon.com/product/bys/
Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Korean film, pop culture, theatre & performance @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
📚 Beyond the Sewol (U of Hawaii Press, Sept 2025) & K-Pop Fandom (@uofmpress.bsky.social, Feb 2026)
📧 areumjeong@gmail.com
Licheng Qian @lichengqian.bsky.social Lecturer at Birmingham City University, UK | PhD from University of Virginia | Cultural/Historical/Political/Global Sociology, Memory, China, East Asia
Rose Luqiu @roseluqiu.bsky.social 🌍 Journalist Extraordinaire | 🎓 Journalism Professor | ✍️ Wordsmith | 🍽️ Foodie Adventurer | ✈️ Globe Trotter | Sharing stories from around the world, one bite and one journey at a time!
https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/en/persons/ROSELUQIU
Daria Impiombato @dariimpio.bsky.social China, tech, media, human rights, grassroots movements | Analyst @ASPI_ICPC | Calabrese ☀️ | Proud feminist 🌈 | she/her | Views my own
Newsletter: Aussie China News https://dariimpio.substack.com/
Jun (Philip) Fang @philipjfang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto | Culture, creativity, globalization, censorship, ethnography | Book on China & Hollywood in progress | philipjunfang.com
Kecheng @fangkc.bsky.social Teaching and Researching Journalism @ The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Steven W. Lewis 劉瓊毅 @liuqiongyi.bsky.social C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow, @BakerInstitute.blsky.social and Prof. in the Practice, Department of Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University; Sinologist studying China center-local political communication, propaganda, energy. My own views.🏳️🌈
Dr Cora Lingling Xu 许玲玲博士 @coralinglingxu.bsky.social Author: The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social
Asso Prof @durham-university.bsky.social Exec Editor @bjse.bsky.social; Director @chiedmobilities.bsky.social; Soc of time, Bourdieu, China; https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Time-Inheritors
Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social Sociologist studying contentious & elite politics, state & empire, social networks, knowledge, theory, & China.
Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social 2023 Guggenheim Fellow; UCLA Prof of Chinese Lit & Film. Director, Center for Chinese Studies. Author and translator.
https://michael-berry.com
www.alc.ucla.edu/person/michael-berry/
Sinan Chu @chusinan.bsky.social Researcher @giga-hamburg.de
Editor @jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social
Alumni @syracuseu.bsky.social @maxwellsu.bsky.social
Bio: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/the-giga/team/chu-sinan
China, intellectuals, ethnic politics, IR
Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
Diyi Liu @deeliu97.bsky.social "D-E", Postdoc@UCPH, PhD @oiioxford.bsky.social, researching platform governance, content moderation, human-computer interaction
Sojin Lim @sojinlim.bsky.social PhD, FRAS, FHEA, Reader/Professor 교수, Routledge Research on Korea series co-editor, Asia Pacific Viewpoint Journal Editor-in-Chief, World Scientific Asia Pacific in Global Development series editor
http://linkedin.com/in/sojin-lim-56385117
ECPR Digital Authoritarianism Research Network @digitalaut-ecpr.bsky.social The Research Network is dedicated to studying digital authoritarianism and counterpart concepts like computational propaganda, PsyOps, or InfoOps, across countries and platforms. 
Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC) @gpccomm.bsky.social Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC) publishes rigorous, iterative, and impactful scholarship covering all conceivable dimensions of communication studies. As an open-access journal, we elevate the availability and impact of top-tier scholarship. 
ecpr - SG Political Communication @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social Standing Group on Political Communication. Tag us for sharing!
Conveners:
@lcjacobs89.bsky.social
@johannaburger.bsky.social
@alenakluknavska.bsky.social
@olgaeisele.bsky.social
@thieled.bsky.social
@marikenvelden.bsky.social
Xueyan @xueyancao.bsky.social PhD student at @CUHKofficial, BA & MA at @WHU_1893 ✨Health Communication | Human Machine Communication | her/she✨ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xueyan-Cao-3
Jan-Hendrik Passoth @janpassoth.bsky.social Professor for Sociology of Technology, Director European New School of Digital Studies, VP Research Viadrina University, Science & Technology Studies, also @jhpassoth@mastodon.social
Prof Esther Turnhout🦄🌎🌼💚 @estherturnhout.bsky.social Chair of Science, Technology and Society, University of Twente. Explores ways to transform science & create better knowledge. Posts about #Nature #Conservation #STS #Politics of Knowledge #IPBES #Biodiversity #TransformativeChange #Justice
Sally Wyatt 🟥 @sallywyatt.bsky.social Professor of #DigitalCultures at Maastricht University
#STS
Most of my research is about digital technologies- in #healthcare and what they mean for the production of knowledge
Lee Vinsel @leev.bsky.social I do technology studies, make the Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded The Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS) @stsucl.bsky.social Understanding the past, present and future of science and tech. Subscribe to our newsletter - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-newsletter
Kate Henne @k8henne.bsky.social Prof at Australian National University studying how science, tech, + inequality affect the governance of health + wellbeing. Recent book: Violent Impacts https://www.ucpress.edu/books/violent-impacts/paper
katehenne.com
Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) @viadrina.eu Europa studieren. Weltweite Chancen nutzen. Gesellschaft gestalten.
Website: https://www.europa-uni.de/de/index.html
Impressum: https://www.europa-uni.de/de/admin/impressum/index.html
E-Mail: socialmedia@europa-uni.de
Digitalegesellschaft.de @digiges.bsky.social Engagiert gegen Rückbau von Freiheitsrechten im Netz und für Realisierung digitaler Potentiale bei Wissenszugang, Transparenz, Partizipation, und Kreativität.
www.digitalegesellschaft.de
Technologiestiftung Berlin @tsbberlin.bsky.social Wir arbeiten für eine menschengerechte Digitalisierung. https://www.technologiestiftung-berlin.de/
Impressum: https://www.technologiestiftung-berlin.de/impressum
Andrea Schlüter @schluesky.bsky.social All things digital, Trustworthy AI, Startup, Finance & Fintech, History, Politics, Diversity | Resolutely pro democracy | she/her/they | views are my own 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Louis Ravn @louravn.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Critical AI Studies. @University of Amsterdam. deep-culture.org. He/him. All views are my own.
STS | critical AI | critical data studies | social theory
Centre for Digital Cultures @cdcleuphana.bsky.social The Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) at #Leuphana University of #Lüneburg is dedicated to central questions of digital culture and the effects of the current polycrisis on social life. We rethink #technology, #media, and #culturalstudies.
Esteban Morales @estebanmorales.bsky.social Assistant professor @rug.nl
Latinoamericano studying digital culture, platformized violence, and critical data studies.
Website: https://esteban-morales.com/
Luís António Santos @luissantos.bsky.social Curious. Portuguese. Born in Mozambique. Used to be a journalist. Now a university professor. Into new forms and formats for journalism. And sound production.
Niki Cheong @nikicheong.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at King’s College London @kingsdh.bsky.social. I research misinformation and the everyday navigation of political information. Former journalist. www.nikicheong.com
Anthony Kelly @anthonypkelly.bsky.social teaching fellow, ucd ics | phd, lse media & comms | reactionary political influencers and their social media audiences | views my own
Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication, specializing in Digital Media, Culture Industry, and Pro Wrestling
I live in The Medium Place (Cincinnati, OH)
Everything I say is me saying it, not my employer…
(Profile art by Angel Trazo)
Dr. Julia (Largent) Kuttler (she/her) @juliakuttler.bsky.social Acafan who studies #documentaries & #fanstudies. Alumna of Manchester University (in Indiana), Ball State University, and Bowling Green State University. Associate Professor of Communication and College Student Media Adviser at McPherson College in Kansas.
Dr Brandon Harris @drbrandonharris.bsky.social Husband + cat dad + Prof in AL studying: twitch, gaming, platforms, media industries, labor, & content creators one unhinged study at a time.
Kurt Sengul @kurtsengul.bsky.social Political communication and media scholar. Macquarie University postdoctoral research fellow. Researching: the far right, media, populism, fascism, and democracy 🌈
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WfjJQqYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Sydney L Forde @sydneyforde.bsky.social Postdoc @asc.upenn.edu @miccenter.bsky.social
PhD from @bellisariograded.bsky.social | SSHRC doctoral fellow | @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social fellow | Political Economy of Comm | Critical Theory | Media Policy | 🇨🇦
https://www.sydneyforde.com/
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
Yasemin Beykont @yaseminbeykont.bsky.social Visiting Asst. Prof. At Marist University, PhD from Penn State, UWM & Istanbul Bilgi University alum, memes + critical advertising + political economy + popular culture, she/her
yaseminbeykont.com
Jesse Stommel (Jessifer) @jessifer.bsky.social Irascibly optimistic. Ungrading. Critical Digital Pedagogy. Professor at U of Denver. Owner of PlayForge. Co-founder of Hybrid Pedagogy. Author of Undoing the Grade and An Urgency of Teachers. One of Hazel’s dads. he/him. https://www.jessestommel.com
Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social Associate Prof of #Sociology at Uni of Southampton. Queer lives, visual methods, kinship & identity.
Ask me about my queer feminist trans agenda. She/they 🌈🏳️⚧️
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0885-2908
Anna Gjika @gjikaphd.bsky.social Sociologist. Author of WHEN RAPE GOES VIRAL. Research on #gender #techabuse #sexualviolence #digitalculture #youth.
Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social Intersectional feminist and neuroaffirmative researcher & educator | Media Studies & Education | MU | Neurospicy Nerd | She/Her | Views are your ma's.
Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social Australian academic (media production & journalism), historian of gendered labour & technology in media industries, factual content producer. Lover of radio & GLAM. She/her. Dharawal country, Wollongong & Awabakal country, Newcastle, Australia.
Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social I think and write about the impact of technology on society // I teach and do digital humanities at the department of Information Studies at UCL.
EL Putnam @fleshandcircuit.bsky.social artist-philosopher; performer; creative coder www.elputnam.com
Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social CEO @Vizlegal.bsky.social | Co-founder @righttoknow.bsky.social | #FOIA, #legaltech, journalism, OSINT, urban design | Fmr Innovation Dir @Storyful |
"Very Irish" 🇮🇪 https://gav.substack.com
Cork, Ireland.
Dr Luke Buckmaster @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social Guardian Australia's film critic, chief critic of Flicks.com.au and "The VR Critic" (thevrcritic.com). PHD in virtual reality. Creator of Nicolas Cage fan site The Cage Gauge: https://www.flicks.com.au/cagegauge/
Nicolette Little @nicolettelittle.bsky.social Researcher, author & erstwhile prof
New book 📕: From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada (UBC Press, 2026)
Media activism, tech-facilitated gender-based violence & memory
McGill & UAlberta
Casilli @casilli.bsky.social 🇫🇷 Professor Institut Polytechnique de Paris
I write books 📚 Waiting for Robots, University of Chicago Press (2025)📚 and documentaries 🎥In the Belly of AI (2025)🎥
Maria Rasskazova @mrasska.bsky.social 📚Digital Economics PhD student at USPN in Paris.
📑Content production, monetisation and moderation on social media.
🍵 Anxious tea drinker
Stephanie Costello @stephaniecostello.bsky.social Journalist (currently on a study break) at Dublin Inquirer and elsewhere PhD candidate in trust and social class in Irish media and journalism lecturer at TU Dublin.
Sebastián Lehuedé @slehuede.bsky.social Tech & Climate Justice. Lecturer @kingsdh.bsky.social. He/him http://slehuede.me.
Laura Williams @ljwilliams.bsky.social Part-time PhD student researching running, information behaviour and social media. Librarian. Slow runner. Stroke survivor and neurodivergent. Evertonian. Prone to typos.
Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology. I write on feminism and conflict, state violence, gender and social movements, and academic precarity. She/her. 🍉
Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social Prof Media/Film | Author: Imagining the Method http://bit.ly/43QVOa4 | Research: acting, celebrity, screen histories, Arctic media | he/him
𝙳𝚛. 𝙹. 𝙲𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝙿𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚜 @jclarkpowers.bsky.social From Davidson to Wake
To McClennan to Chatham to Harnett
To Genève to l'Ain to Wake to Louth
www.jclarkpowers.ie
Niamh Kirk @niamhkirk.bsky.social Associate Prof in Social Media and Data Communication. Sci-fi and fantasy nerd, impatient gardener, dog worshiper. Sharing my thoughts at theharrier.ie. Portfolio at niamhkirk.com
Dan Kotliar @danmk.bsky.social 🎓 Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, U of Haifa.
Previously: Stanford, Hebrew U.
Studying algorithms & culture, AI ethics, AI Hype, data infrastructures, microbiomic futures & more.
🏡 https://www.dankotliar.com/
Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social Professor of Celtic Studies & Head of the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University. History of medicine & linguistics; early Irish literature; manuscripts; #Gaeilge
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts-humanities/our-people/deborah-hayden
Carys Hill @caryshill.bsky.social phd researcher @ warwick sociology researching feminists + the digital economy / ucu PGR rep
Cathie Shiels @shiels.bsky.social Dublin via Donegal 
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social Professor in Information Studies at LU. ”Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy: The Crisis of Information" 2022 with J Haider http://tinyurl.com/2p9f63mu
Simon Lindgren @simonlindgren.bsky.social simon.lindgren@umu.se
Inga Luchs @lynxlynxly.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Editor at meson press | Digital Culture, Machine Learning, Big Tech Critique
Digital Culture & Education @digitalculture.bsky.social An international open acess peer-reviewed journal dedicated to an interdisciplinary exploration of digital technology's impacts on society, culture, & education
http://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com