Turnfollow @turnfollow.itch.io
---------------
https://turnfollow.site/
Dominic McIver Lopes @domlopes.bsky.social Philosopher working in aesthetics at the University of British Columbia.
andres isaza @aisaza.bsky.social human machine
artist researcher
i2ADS, Porto
https://isaza.xyz/
Sandra Ristovska @sristovska.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies (courtesy appointment in Law) at CU Boulder. Founding Director, Visual Evidence Lab @visualevidencelab.bsky.social Studies video evidence, AI, justice, and human rights. Author of Seeing Human Rights (MIT Press, 2021)
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social Walker of woods, lover of forests, friendly with trees. Theorist of mediation. Arboreal nonhumanist. Zayde. Recovering academic.
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social teacher, writer, curator
media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
matthew ellis @matthiasellis.bsky.social academic. i think about cinema and media, capitalism, theory, history, politics
LB: letterboxd.com/mattellis/
www.historiesofthepresent.com
Armond Towns @townsarmond.bsky.social Williams College
Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs.
Occasional Words: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
Colin Burnett @colinburnett.bsky.social Program director & assoc. prof. of Film & Media Studies at WashU, assoc. editor of Journal of Cinema & Media Studies (JCMS), author of The Invention of Robert Bresson (2017), finishing up a new book, Serial Bonds: The Shape of 007 Stories.
Brian Creech @briancreech.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Lehigh University Department of Journalism and Communication
Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social Writes about media, sound, technology & democracy
Book:`Danger Sound Klaxon: The Horn that Changed History' https://tinyurl.com/47k7hft5
Director: newsliteracy.psu.edu
Exec Producer doc series: huminfocus.psu.edu
Akana Phenix 🧡 @akanaphenix.bsky.social Award-Winning Author of "The Empire Wars"
Film/TV Agents: CAA
Future Filmmaker
University: Harvard/MIT 📚
2000s kid
#filmsky #booksky
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social When I'm not busy cooking or being sarcastic, I work on digital religion & gender.
If you meet me in person, I'm probably the one wearing purple.
Website: https://giuliaevolvi.com/
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social sensitive comrade | taga ilog hanggang dagat
cultural history of the atomic bomb and nuclear age, screen media, opera
views my own etc. etc.
Grace Han @ghahahan.bsky.social Stanford PhD candy thinking abt CG & AI through animation aesthetics; film critic on asian/diaspora cinema; GALECA secretary; 🍅 & 🍉
https://art.stanford.edu/people/grace-han
📍SF Bay Area
Leila Germano 🪑 @leilagermano.bsky.social Trabalho falando e ouvindo falar.
contato@hojetempodcast.com
Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social scholar of art/cinema/media
https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social 🏳️🌈(He)📺 Broadcast historian focusing on marginalized histories/media policy, TV Lamp collector, Media Studies Prof. 👵 Golden Girls book coming soon! University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. 🌈
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board.
Music in Orbit now available: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Evan Fleischer @evanfleischer.bsky.social Writer.
https://evanfleischer.org/
https://orangecatwritingworkshop.com/
Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social Media theory, art history professor
Books:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912543/endless-intervals/
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517902261/elements-of-a-philosophy-of-technology/
Surplus data: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/2022/48/
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social Academic Editor and Writing Coach at https://www.indeliblevoice.com ・🤖 Communication and/or technology researcher・📚 Author of "Politics Recoded"・They/them・All links https://bio.site/aure
Burc Kostem @bkostem.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media and Technology Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. Interested in ecology, affect, theories of value, infrastructure, technology and media. Dungeon Master. He/him
Vanisha Sukdeo @vanishasukdeo.bsky.social B.A., LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D., lawyer and Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Author of 4 books. Focusing on corporate law, workers' rights and climate. Next book 2026.
Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social on Signal: reece_rogers.01
Florian Fuchs @fuchsflrn.bsky.social literature, media, phil at Princeton German / projects: socionarratology . theory films . pre-Grimm folklore . early modern personal devices / books: “Civic Storytelling“ . “Hans Blumenberg Reader” . “Affordances of Short Forms” / fuchsflorian.com
David Cecchetto @davidcecchetto.bsky.social Digital theory and sound studies prof (yorku); past pres SLSA; quasi-practicing (non)musician.
-Co-edit Proximities book series (UMinn)
-Author: Humanesis: Sound and Posthumanism (UMinn); Listening in the Afterlife of Data (Duke), and others
Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social The Cinema of Extractions (2025), Media Climates (2022), In the Studio (2020), Studios Before the System (2015)
Writing about Art, Media, Energy, Environment. Next book: oil, gas, and media culture in France+empire
Caltech Professor of Visual Culture
Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me Director, Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Experimental media aesthetics, history of computing, theory and technology geekery of various kinds.
Jacob Gaboury @jacobgaboury.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him)
Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture
Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021)
Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing
https://jacobgaboury.com
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social Modernism and media studies at UC Berkeley. Mediocre film photographer. Excellent baseball fan.
Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.
Joshua Harold Wiebe @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social visiting assistant professor in film+media studies
critical theory, labour, cinema, aesthetics
Shawna Malvini Redden @drshawna.bsky.social Writer. Professional people watcher. Messy cook. Pilot. Puzzler. Communication researcher and professor studying organizing. She/Her. Represented by Bookends Literary. www.drmalviniredden.com
Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst
bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/
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
Martin L. Johnson @martinlj.bsky.social Film historian and urbanist. Co-president of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema. Coming attractions include A Teaching Companion to Silent Cinema (Rutgers) and a history of advertising film (Illinois).
Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social assoc prof @ UW CMS, editor Feminist Media Histories, lover of tea, pickleball addict, collector of (filmic) junk
Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social Will (he/him) on Zoom
Bassist for HR Lady and the Smoothgroins
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social associate professor somewhere
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
* posts do not reflect the views of my employer
profchander @profchander.bsky.social bad at most things
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Michael Mirer @michaelmirer.bsky.social Associate Professor studying sports-related media and journalistic professionalism at UW-Milwaukee. Aspiring boat guy.
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history.
Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.
ák @lankee.bsky.social she/they, queer AF, exhausted, librarian. half sweet half sour. Iranian American.
robin manley @robinmanley.bsky.social phd candidate @ berkeley rhetoric // editor @ qui parle // cybernetics in intellectual history, philosophy of technology, & media theory
Graham Harman @objectoriented.bsky.social Yes, this is my real account. Long Beach, California.
erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social professor of media, culture, and communication. editor, public culture. organizer, oikos working group on kinship/economy. enthusiast.
(@fstflofscholars over yonder)
Craig Gent @vivaharehills.bsky.social Author of CYBERBOSS. Work at LSE. Part of StreamArtNetwork. Critical algorithm studies, livestreaming, solidarity, labour, hybrid media. Co-host Heart Reacts. Previously Novara Media. http://c-gent.net/
https://shop.novaramedia.com/products/cyberboss
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.
- P Pooja Rangan @p8ja.bsky.social Professor of English + Film & Media at Amherst College, Author of The Documentary Audit (Columbia 2025 *coming soon*) Immediations (Duke 2017) and co-editor of Thinking with an Accent (UC Press 2023)
Lyn Goeringer @lyngoeringer.bsky.social Sound, expanded frames/intermedia, dance, and more. 
Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social Film/Media/Comm/Sound
MAKING STEREO FIT
www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/
Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Sondheim, Philip Roth, The Dark Tower, Twin Peaks, Pale Fire, Calvino, and Taylor Swift.
"The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza
Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her
Joshua Synenko @synenko.bsky.social Associate Prof & Director of Cultural Studies Graduate Program, Trent University; Co-Editor of Media Theory meejatheory.bsky.social
joshuasynenko.com
Caddie Alford @caddiealford.bsky.social Associate Prof of Rhetoric at VCU // critical AI, platform and media studies + rhetorical theory + writing pedagogies // Co-Lead of AI Futures Hub // 📕 = Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality // 1st Gen // #TeamRhetoric
https://caddiealford.com
Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
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
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only.
banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
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/
anja schürmann @schalkewins.bsky.social researching the photobook & history/theory of photography as an art historian & permanent researcher at @kwi-essen.bsky.social. whistling at the gap between reading & writing.
https://linktr.ee/schalkewins
Ethan Plaut @ethanplaut.bsky.social Research: Disconnection, tech refusal & beautiful, broken media. Sometime coder & dusty journo. Now Aotearoa NZ, always Chicago, formerly Stanford, SF, Phnom Penh, Fukui. Silence when I can. Music when I can't. Tangata Tiriti, Jew, he/him.
ethanplaut.com
Gabor Halasz @gaborhalasz.bsky.social ARD-Korrespondent. Im Hauptstadtstudio. Von 2012-2016 in Südasien. Privater Account. Meine Meinung.
Lauren Smith @laurensmith.bsky.social Professor, Rowan University | Research Director - Center for Sports Comm & Social Impact | Researching effects of narratives & portrayals of gender, race, & social issues in sport | Triathlete | Ironman x 3 | Traveling the 🌎 w/ Kenny Smith | War Eagle
alexandra boutros @alexandraboutros.bsky.social associate prof | communication and cultural studies | wilfrid laurier university | pop culture | pop music | critical race theory | media, religion, and identity |
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
melisser3, in the watery part of the world; driving off spleen @melisser3.bsky.social film AND media studies?! in this economy?! // childfree catlady // climber of Inside Rocks // reader of Novels // backgammon nerd // bassist // knitter // shitpost appreciator
Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
Chris Becker @chrisbecker.bsky.social Associate Professor in Film, Television, and Theatre and the Sport, Media, & Culture Minor at University of Notre Dame. Working on a local TV history project: https://sites.nd.edu/boc-project/
Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social film & lit scholar, CUNY prof, culture writer, higher ed unionist, author of Elaine May (U of Illinois Press, 2025) and Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction (Ohio UP, 2019).
Carly A. Kocurek @sparklebliss.bsky.social Experience design, video game history, writing. Prof and associate dean @ Illinois Tech. Books: Coin-Operated Americans (Minnesota), Brenda Laurel (Bloomsbury), Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum). 
Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston. 
Emma Fraser @frazbelina.bsky.social I write about TV. Words at many places including The Daily Beast, Elle, Marie Claire, IGN, The Playlist, Backstage Magazine, and more. Talking about costumes, fashion and Felicity’s hair.
Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social The Official Bluesky account for SCMS
https://www.cmstudies.org/
Questions? Don't hesitate to get in touch with the SCMS office via the Contact Us page, and we’ll be happy to respond.
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
Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social Music professor (ethnomusicology and etc.) at USC’s Thornton School of Music. I research at the intersections of oral traditions and digital technologies. Focus: Irish music; jazz; soundscapes; digital humanities; media and identity. Projects posted below.
Dr Stephanie Farnsworth-Meek @mutanttheorist.bsky.social Lecturer of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. Researcher of Mutant Theory and monstrous bodies. https://stephaniefarnsworth.co.uk
Florian Sprenger @floriansprenger.bsky.social Medienwissenschaft/RUB/Roboter/Situiertheit/Environments/Virtualität/Fotografie/Fahrrad/Berlin/Bochum
Rafal Zaborowski @zaborowski.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (Assoc Prof) at King's College London. Media, audiences, popular music, virtual idols, migration, Japan, brewing, wrestling, board games, stuff no one else finds funny.
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators 
Zach | Somm at the Vineyard @azachurateman.bsky.social Somm & Wine Educator in Oregon.
I love History, Travel, Science, Nature, Books, Movies, Music, and other nerdy stuff.
Happily Married Cat Dad
Anti-MAGA and Pro Democracy💙💙
You’ll Never Walk Alone
#RCTID #LFC #BillsMafia #Sabres
Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social Métis Research Chair @PowleyInstitute | Communication & Culture, PhD @yorkuniversity
| Infoscape Lab | Institute for Research on Digital Literacies |
Métis Studies, Media, Surveillance
The Politics of Media Scarcity (2024) out now.
Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social Academic studying 20-21 C. World Lit and Book/Media History.
New project: The World Republic of Data.
Books: Making World Literature (UMass Press) and Selling Books With Algorithms (Cambridge UP)
Opinions Mine
Paul Roquet @inqualia.bsky.social other spatial mediations | proquet.mit.edu
Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
Paulo Cepeda @paulocepeda.bsky.social Journalist · Periodista 🔆 To Teach is to Learn Twice · Enseñar es aprender dos veces 🎓 EdTech, Communication & Digital Ecosystem
Leni @leni.bsky.social »Hausmeisterin des Widerstands«, »Songwriterin der Revolution«
Marxist media scholar, researching intellectual property in digital capitalism. Proofreading, translating en⇆de, taking photos. Singing in @anomic.bond (www.anomic.bond).
Whit Pow (they/them) @poww.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University. Trans media studies | Trans histories of glitches, electronic art, software, video games, and networked & computational media. https://linktr.ee/whitpow
👁️ @nathanjurgenson.com author, The Social Photo (Verso)
former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea
los angeles
Ted Striphas @striphas.bsky.social Prof. & Chair – Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder | Author, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (https://tinyurl.com/p8ad6suw) | Opinions my own
Media Reform Coalition @mediareformuk.bsky.social Campaign for a more independent, accountable & democratic media, where diversity, ethical journalism & public good come before the private gain of a few media moguls.
Join the movement to fix the UK's broken media system:
linktr.ee/mediareformcoalition
Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social Los Angeles since 2003. Media Studies, Critical Finance; power ballads; history of this wild city Find me at michellechihara.com
Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats --
Montreal
https://sterneworks.org