Veronika Hanakova @veronikahanakova.bsky.social AV essayist exploring New Media & Digital Culture ~ Media Archaeology ~ Researcher of gimmicky artifacts: from Star Wipe to my latest obsession the DVD ~ Member of Grassroots of Digital Europe ~ Curator for Marienbad Film Festival & Artycok.TV
Beth Hunt @befleppard.bsky.social PhD student in Music at University of Liverpool, studying concerts of film, tv, and game music 🎬📺👾
Barbara Zecchi @barbarazecchi.bsky.social Film Studies professor at the University of Massachusetts. Cat lady with dogs. Videoessayist trained at Middlebury College. Author of books on women filmmakers. Co-editor of [in]Transition. Member of the Film Academy of Spain. From Venice.
Toby Huelin @tobyhuelin.bsky.social Researching and teaching music and screen media @ University of Leeds | Media composer and BAFTA Connect member
Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social founder @ designbeku.org. ♥️: design and data justice, embroidery, tango and cats. 🤬: "design thinking", "innovation," #AIhype & patriarchy.
➕ ESRC Digital Good Fellow.
Will Glover @williamjglover.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chemistry at NYU Shanghai and Director of the NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry. Interested in excited-state dynamics, embedding, and photodamage.
@anirbanbaishya.bsky.social @anirbanbaishya.bsky.social 
Salma @salmasiddique.bsky.social Currently speculating about film spectatorship, otherwise a media historian, a badminton addict in Berlin, also research faculty at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 
Anu Thapa @anu-thapa.bsky.social Film and Media professor, NCSU|Food enthusiast| has pets and peeves| should be writing
Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) @annenbergcargc.bsky.social Advancing Critical Knowledge on Global Media, Communication, and Public Life.
Dattatreya Ghosh @dattag.bsky.social PhD candidate and SYLFF fellow in Film Studies @jadavpuruniversity | Charles Wallace Fellow | Studying cinema, crisis, film discourse, public sphere etc.
Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian (PhD), she/her @drsrivi.bsky.social SU Newhouse Prof & Endowed Chair 🍊; Editor, Comm Monographs. Director: CODE^SHIFT (Collab for Data Equity, Social Healing, Incl. Futures, & Transformation).
Media Literacy, Community Engaged Research, Global Media, Youth. Views my own. See: drsrivi.com
V. Prasad @quickdarshan.bsky.social Detroit-based filmmaker. Screenwriting Lecturer at UofM. Curator of SOUTH ASIAN FILM SERIES. Author of the forthcoming WRITING THE ENSEMBLE FILM for UofM Press.
@manishita.bsky.social @manishita.bsky.social 
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social anthropologist researching water, cities, climate justice and infrastructure. www.nikhilanand.info
Lotte Hoek @mediaautomatiek.bsky.social Thinking about mediation | film cultures | media anthropology | Prof of Cultural Anthropology at University of Edinburgh
Nirdiganta @sevendeviled.bsky.social Replacing facts & logic with my emotions. Indian academic in Amreekan weeds. Lives to eat. Capitalocentric worldviews. Cis. Ace. She/her. Kannada/Tamil.
Taberez A. Neyazi @taberez.bsky.social Associate Professor | Director of Digital Campaign & Propaganda in Asia at NUS| Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Press/Politics| Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2025-26)|
Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social music listening, films, media, communication, cultural studies
tkarlekar @densestuff.bsky.social Global film and media scholar; writing coach and editor at OneLitPlace; always in between
Swapna Gopinath @hyphenatedgreys.bsky.social Academic, researcher from Majority World, writes about films, culture and spaces, feminist to the core, podcaster @hyphenated greys, and a lot more...
Tula Goenka @proftulago.bsky.social Professor; Filmmaker; Author; Social Justice Activist; News Junkie; Cancer Survivor; TEDx; Mom of Humans/Dog; Spiritual Being (she/her) - Views my own
Shakuntala @banaji.bsky.social Media Professor LSE /disinformation/social change/young people; trade unionist/ socialist - everything’s ideological but some ideologies lead to affordable healthcare, forests and public parks; others lead to discrimination and genocide.
Usha Raman @usharaman.bsky.social Writer and academic; study and teach media, dabble in fiction and poetry. Just published my first novel.
Ashwin Nagappa @ashwinnag.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow
ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)
Queensland University of Technology
ashwinnag.com
Ishita Tiwary @analoguefutures.bsky.social Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Concordia University. Director, Raah Lab. Author: Video Culture in India : The Analog Era, OUP Press. past; 80's media history; present; SVOD platforms, migration. Good scrambled eggs maker
Anupama Prabhala @anupamaprabhala.bsky.social Film, TV and Media Studies Prof Loyola Marymount University
Diehard Gardener
@monikamehta.bsky.social @monikamehta.bsky.social 
Sam Close ButNoCigar @butnocigar.bsky.social Academic, knitter, video game player. Into popular culture, digital media, labor, and creativity. Known to make a video essay now and then.
Jeff Romero Middents @middento.bsky.social "Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul." (James)
"What would it be like, he asked himself, a world where everything was foreign?" (Fouad Laroui)
The Essay Library @theessaylibrary.com 📼 Video essay collective making weird and fun collaborative projects: youtube.com/@theessaylibrary
📱 Discord server with 900+ members dedicated to the craft of video essays: theessaylibrary.com
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Steve Anderson @sfanders.bsky.social Scholar-artist, video essayist
https://www.realityfrictions.net
https://technocinema.net
https://criticalcommons.org
Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org The Open Library of Humanities. Building a sustainable, diamond open access future for the humanities. Part of Birkbeck, University of London & makers of Janeway
Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.org & @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social Programme Leader Open Scholarly Communication at @opensciencenl.bsky.social | Dutch Research Council (NWO) | http://www.openscience.nl | co-founded @MediArXiv.bsky.social | #openaccess | views my own | posts in 🇳🇱 & 🇬🇧 | www.orcid.org/0000-0002-9866-0239
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
maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + soon: incoming president / owner of milestone films. film curator + writer + curious about the world. NYC!
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.
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.
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. 
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
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
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”.
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.
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. 
Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies. Author of Bad Film Histories. Writing a book about reference. Views my own. Most get deleted.
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
jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social Professor, cinephile, treehugger 🌱🪵🪲🦬
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social Media Theory / Posthumanities (NYC)
Extimacy Coordinator
www.dominicpettman.com
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. 
Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS (2026). she/her (white cis queer)
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
William Lafi Youmans @willyou.bsky.social Professor and filmmaker. Wrote 'An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America.' #footie #afc
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.
Victoria Sturtevant @vsturtevant.bsky.social Media Studies Faculty. Author of It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy. Always up to talk comedy, gender, popular media, and reproductive politics.
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330449/
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
Mélanie Bourdaa @melaniebourdaa.bsky.social Professeure des Universités à Bordeaux Montaigne. Transmedia et Fans
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. 
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.
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.