Clair Richards @tellyclair.bsky.social telly, film and media obsessive. writer by trade 
Stephanie Jones @stephaniejones.bsky.social Lecturer in Film, Television and Media | Co-editor, Media History | 007's critical friend | Dysgu Cymraeg, Top of the Pops 🌈
SCMS Fan and Audience Studies SIG @scmsfaas.bsky.social SCMS Fan and Audience Studies Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about fan studies and audience studies.
Hannah Hamad @hannahhamad.bsky.social Feminist media studies academic. Reads, runs, remains. Forthcoming book: ‘Film, Feminism and Rape Culture in the Yorkshire Ripper Years’ (London: BFI)
Victoria @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social phding, grad rep, teaching in dept of film studies at king's college london 🚀 researching masculinity, politics, laughter in post-2016 us pop culture 🔮 AFHEA 🛸
Jennifer O’Meara @jomeara.bsky.social Associate Prof. in Film Studies & Research Ireland Laureate, Trinity College Dublin. Digital theory, screen voices, sound, immersive tech and synthetic media.
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
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
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 |
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick @jnp1966.bsky.social Media studies professor at DePauw University; drummer; podcaster; putterer. [he/him]
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
Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social Mostly posts about film and television, architecture and design, music and photography. Professor. Dept. of English, U of Winnipeg. he/him.
Cynthia Meyers @cynthiameyers.bsky.social Media & advertising historian, #brandedcontent past & present; author of "A Word from Our Sponsor: Admen, Advertising, and the Golden Age of Radio," working on "Sell-e-vision: Madison Avenue & 1950s-60s TV"
profcynthiameyers.com
Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social Milwaukee, WI
Media Studies
Mike Van Esler @mikevanesler.bsky.social associate prof. of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. bad movies, streaming media, anime, and jrpgs
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/
Michael Kackman @mkackman.bsky.social Media historian at the University of Notre Dame, and given the circumstances, a reasonably friendly grump. 
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov This account is maintained by federal staff to share services and legislation relevant to constituents of NY-14.
James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social DC Studios co-CEO, #Superman, #GuardiansoftheGalaxy, #Peacemaker, dog owner, husband, servant to my cat.
The Streaming Movie Project @vodmovies.bsky.social An academic project dedicated to studying the impact of SVOD platforms (e.g. Netflix, Prime Video, etc.) on the global film industry. AKA Chris Meir, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Tanya Horeck, Film and Feminist Media Studies @tanyah.bsky.social 
Smith Mehta @mediaindustries.bsky.social Academic, Assistant Prof @Uni. of Groningen. More active on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/smithmehta
Carol Kiernan @ckiernan.bsky.social Irish Australian feminist living on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people, land never ceded. Co-founder Honour a Woman working to achieve safer more empowered communities where all forms of discrimination are eliminated.
Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD @pcbryan.bsky.social Have PhD, will travel. Americanist by training, fan/media studies by trade. Scholar of fan studies, adaptation, Disney, comics - happy to talk intersections of translation/gender/disability. First book out; next book soon. He / him.
Camilo Porras Sandoval @camporsa.bsky.social PhD candidate at JGU-Mainz | Film studies | 🇨🇷 en 🇩🇪Tonto con suerte. he|him
Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social Media studies researcher, Penn State professor, past and future television blogger.
Cara Dickason @caradickason.bsky.social Lecturer in Communication at Johns Hopkins. Research on surveillance, technology, and women’s TV. #FirstGen
she/her/hers.
Wickham Clayton @wick85c.bsky.social
Award-winning filmmaker. Author of See!Hear!Cut!Kill!: Experiencing Friday the 13th, The Wicker Man (BFI Film Classics, forthcoming). Editor of Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film and The Bible Onscreen in the New Millennium.
Pronouns: Any
SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies SIG @scmspedagogy.bsky.social Official page for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group
Stefan Schönwetter @stefan-schoenwetter.de Digitale Bildung | Games | Stiftungswesen | Datenschutz | Balkon-Gärtner | Podcast: Jakobi & Schönwetter reden über Bildung im Interwebs
www.jakobi-und-schoenwetter.de
www.stefan-schoenwetter.de
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
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Jonathan Wroot @jlwroot.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Greenwich. Researcher of Zatoichi movies, Japanese films and horror cinema. Part-time film critic (open to writing offers). All views and opinions shared are my own.
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
Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social Durham Classicist (languages, Linear B, epigraphy, archaeology). Member of WCC UK and WIASN. Blogging (intermittently) at http://itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com. She/her
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.
Steph Brown @stephjayb.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Literature in Tucson | Surveillance Studies | C20 Caribbean and Brit Lit
Books: Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State (2024) | The Call (2019)
rock scrambler | hawk enthusiast | she/her
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social global media professor
author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01
español incluído.
Lesley Willard @lesleyawillard.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Emerson College. UT Austin alum. I spend my time yelling about platforms & capitalism. Unionize.
Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social asst. prof. @uwsjmc.bsky.social rossdahlke.com
Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social media studies professor, TV lover, feminist, mom
Amy C. Chambers 🧬🎬🍿 @amycchambers.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM #SciEnt #SciComm #WomenMakeSF #WomenMakeSFPod
Women Make Science Fiction Project:
https://bsky.app/profile/womenmakesf.bsky.social
she/her/Dr | https://linktr.ee/amycchambers
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
Dr. Kristen Warner is on sabbatical @kristenwarner.bsky.social Professor, Researcher, Irascible teapot. Expertise in film/media studies as it relates to black folk, employment/labor, representation and RESONANCE. Yes the plastic representation. Yes the sonic visibility.
I still don’t watch sitcoms. Except shrinking.- 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.
Ezra @handle.invalid 
Simone @simoned.bsky.social Assistant professor in Media and Popular Culture 
Kathleen Loock @kathleenloock.bsky.social American studies and media studies | Leibniz University Hannover, Germany | New book: Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Prequels Shape Industry and Culture (UC Press, 2024) | Emmy Noether Research Group: Hollywood Memories
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
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social Chair of Go Eco.
Green Party candidate.
Former Hamilton City Councillor.
Gardener, knitter, nerd. She/they.
Auth by: M Ross, greens.org.nz
🏳️🌈♿🌱💛
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.
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
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.🏳️🌈🏞🌄✨️
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]
Kylie @styla73.bsky.social You're gonna say that I'm on a high horse, I think that my horse is regular sized
💚Romantic anti-capitalist💚Don't use my posts for your article. (She/they)🌈
Anne @anotherdramakid.bsky.social Project coordinator and #firstgen PhD candidate researching Scottish crime fiction @ UniKasselversität. Chaotic drama kid for life, HEMA fencer, and occasional streamer (twitch.tv/anotherdramakid). | 🌈 she/they
Robert Wolff @robertwolff.bsky.social Historiker, historische Protest- und Gewaltforschung, Geschichten der Revolutionären Zellen und der Stadtguerilla, Politische Bildung, Gedenkstätten
Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities @cccuartshumsed Heritage, medieval buildings (castles), food, sensory pasts. Dog person.
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
Dr. EJ Nielsen @direjackalope.bsky.social Academic looking at visual culture, gender, fans, and monsters. They/them. Sometimes I make stuff. Frequently fannish. Retweets & likes =/= endorsements.
Dr Rukmini Pande @rukminipande.bsky.social Academic. Working on the intersection of race/ism in media fandom. 
Dr Ross Garner @drrossgarner.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @Cardiff JOMEC. Co-Investigator of media.cymru media tourism research. Co-editor of Popular Communication journal. Ask me about #Pokemon #JurassicPark and #Dinosaurs
More information at: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/garnerrp1
Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. 🏴
Julie Lobalzo Wright (she/her/hers) @drjlw.bsky.social Associate Professor in Film and Television at University of Warwick; disappointed sports fan; Babs and Goldie gal
DJ Saramanda @serenityfound.bsky.social Angry, sleepy, creaky former higher ed professional just trying to make it through. TV, dogs, social justice, & goofiness.
#ToastieTwitter #feminist #ace #acab #blm #supporttransyouth
Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social film & 20th C lit scholar, CUNY prof, culture writer, sometimes editor, higher ed unionist, author of Elaine May (U of Illinois Press, 2025) and Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction (Ohio UP, 2019).
Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. Americanist. „Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
Charlotte Stevens @charstevens.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Birmingham City University (film/tv, fandom, games), she/her
K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social Assistant Prof at ASU. Research/Teach: Media studies, digital culture, and female desire in pop-media. (She/Her.) Views mine and not my employers.
more tacos, please @tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social Author of Ugly War Pretty Package (2009) and The Television Code (2018). Writing about death and TV. Co-editing The Cocktail Lover’s Guide to TV History. Highland Coo fan account. Will eat any sugary treat you give me.
Caroline N. Bayne @fkaponytail.bsky.social phd in critical media/media history of the american south; currently researching local television history in mississippi; assistant prof at millsaps college; televangelist (i worship tv)
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film Studies and Production and Assistant Director of Women and Gender Studies, Oakland University.
"It's research, I swear."
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)
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.
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
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
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
Liz Ellcessor @trilliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Virginia.
Co-editor at JCMS:Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Emergency systems, disability, and media access.
Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social A collaborative research community at @princeton.edu advancing computational & data-intensive humanities scholarship to create a more just future. Publisher of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social.
Subscribe: cdh.princeton.edu/news/newsletter
Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social West coast editor for New York Mag's Vulture. (Middle-aged) child of television. Allen Ludden superfan. YouTube archaeologist.
Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social Chief Television Critic, The Hollywood Reporter. General social media dabbler.
Most of my content/writing/word-spewing can be found here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/e/the-fien-print/
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Philip Sewell @othershoe.bsky.social Media (broadly construed) scholar and historian with far too many open projects. Wrote Television in The Age of Radio. Working on a cultural history of the monopoly that long controlled Texas film exhibition.
Don't ever take your car all the way apart
Myles McNutt @memles.bsky.social Media Scholar at Old Dominion University and Editor-in-Chief of TV criticism newsletter Episodic Medium
inessentials @inessentials.bsky.social philosophy. film. football. the other football.
Jennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social Media critic, journalist, anti-racist feminist
*Author: IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S MEDIA (Substack + graphic novel); REALITY BITES BACK
*Founder: Women In Media & News
*Speaker: DM for TV/talks/workshops
*Pundit: ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/VICE
*Comedy nerd
She/Her
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.
Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social writer. gardener. cailleach na luatha 🦋
moryan.com 💚
linktr.ee/maureenryan 🚀
I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica. I wrote a book about Hollywood titled Burn It Down. I’ve been a critic & journalist for 100 years. More at links above 🌸 Abolish ICE
Greeney28 @greeney28.bsky.social Sometimes I teach people things.
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- M SCMS Media Industries SIG @misig-scms.bsky.social The account for SCMS's Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group
Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social Helping scholars write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚
Tips at newsletter.manuscriptworks.com & in THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK and MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK (Princeton UP)
Courses + free resources at manuscriptworks.com
Knitter, 2X Jeopardy! champ 🤓
Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies @UIUC; Author of PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES: HOW FILM DISTRIBUTION MADE THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM (University of Texas Press, 2024)