C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social Lvl 50 Writer of Wrongs. SINISTER 1 & 2. DOCTOR STRANGE. THE BLACK PHONE 1 & 2. THE GORGE. V/H/S/85. SEA OF RUST. DAY ZERO. WE ARE WHERE THE NIGHTMARES GO. Six books, seven movies. Podcaster with JUNKFOOD CINEMA. Frogman. Tio do Churrasco. Misfit toy.
UT Radio-Television-Film Department @utexasrtf.bsky.social Radio-Television-Film Department at The University of Texas at Austin. https://rtf.utexas.edu/
Berenice Garcia @beregarcia.bsky.social Rio Grande Valley reporter for The TexasTribune via Report for America. Formerly @ The Monitor. If the apocalypse comes, beep me.
Laura Duclos (she/her) @duclos.bsky.social howdy! I’m a visual journalist making videos and helping texans understand state politics at @texastribune.org. | 🇲🇽🇺🇸 she/her/ella
Juan Salinas II @4nsmiley.bsky.social A 20-something who covers politics in America’s heartland for @nebraskaexaminer.com.
| Past gigs: Texas Tribune, KERA news, and Fort Worth Report |
💌: jsalinas@nebraskaexaminer.com
Signal: x4nsmiley.91
Joshua Fechter @joshuafechter.bsky.social @texastribune.org journalist covering housing, transportation, cities, property taxes & more. Have tips? Email me at joshua.fechter@texastribune.org.
Alejandro Serrano @serranoalej.bsky.social politics reporter @texastribune.bsky.social | email me: alejandro.serrano@texastribune.org
Rob Reid @robcat26.bsky.social Education Data Developer @texastribune.org, proud product of public schools, immersing myself in all things Texas through reading and building community and long-distance walking
Matt Ewalt @mjewalt.bsky.social Senior director of events and live journalism at The Texas Tribune. Prev: VP, Emily and Richard Smucker Chair for Education at Chautauqua Institution.
Terri Langford @tlangford.bsky.social Texas health services reporter at Texas Tribune. Pro-dogs/ outdoors/truth. terri.langford@texastribune.org
Carla Astudillo @carla-astudi.bsky.social Journalist making news apps at @ProPublica.org (previously @texastribune.org @nj.com). Send me tips and data in need of scrutiny and accountability.
Email: carla.astudillo@propublica.org
Signal: Carla_Astudillo.87
Matthew Choi @matthewchoi.bsky.social Washington Post reporter
Vianna Davila @viannadavila.bsky.social Deputy Editor - ProPublica & The Texas Tribune Investigative Unit. Contact me: vianna.davila@propublica.org; Signal: 512-596-0148. A San Antonio native living amongst Austinites. Prev: Seattle Times & San Antonio Express-News
Lomi Kriel @lomikriel.bsky.social Investigative reporter @texastribune.org Prior: @propublica.org
@houstonchronicle.com @reuters.com, etc. Polk Award winner, Pulitzer finalist. Immigrant, proudly 🇿🇦. 📧lkriel@texastribune.org or Signal/Whatsapp 832-729-3421. Tell me stuff.
Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
Matt Adams @mattadams.bsky.social Director of Audience and Growth @texastribune.org
The thing about the old days, they the old days.
📍Austin, TX
Alejandra Martinez @alereports.bsky.social Environmental reporter at The Texas Tribune. Have a tip? Email me at alejandra.martinez@texastribune.org
Kayla Guo @kaylaguo.bsky.social politics reporter @texastribune.org. formerly @nytimes.com and @politico.com. tips to kayla.guo@texastribune.org or kaylaguo19 on signal.
Texas Tribune @texastribune.org Independent news. Trusted by Texans. We pursue the truth so Texans can shape our future. Sign up for our daily email: http://trib.it/signup
Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social Texas news, politics, food, culture, travel, yee-haw, and more since 1973. 🤠
Texas Observer @texasobserver.org A nonprofit newsroom covering Texas through investigative journalism & narrative storytelling since 1954.
Follow our journos: https://go.bsky.app/EdSL3Co
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UT Austin @utaustin.bsky.social 
Nitin Govil @nitingovil.bsky.social Film/media/cultural studies prof., University of Southern California
Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social Milwaukee, WI
Media Studies
Kate Fortmueller @kfortmueller.bsky.social Media industries, labor, and unions.
Author of Below the Stars & Hollywood Shutdown (both 2021), Co-editor, Hollywood Unions (2025), Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers w/ @mirandabanks.bsky.social (2026).
Assoc. Prof @GSU
Andrew deWaard @adewaard.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
"Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (UC Press, 2024)
andrewdewaard.com | ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media | cultcap.org | macrolab.ucsd.edu
Pete Johnson @itstv.bsky.social Studying media industries, finance, & US television history. Visiting Assistant Professor @ NYU Gallatin
Self-hating Yankees fan. anti Kalshitification of culture
Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social media studies professor, TV lover, feminist, mom
Lesley Willard @lesleyawillard.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Emerson College. UT Austin alum. I spend my time yelling about platforms & capitalism. Unionize.
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/
Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social Hollywood historian. Technology, media industries, labor, craft. Program Coordinator of Cinema and Media Studies@ USC. Hollywood Unions (Rutgers, 2025), Engineering Hollywood (Oxford, 2021)
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
Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com Union Researcher. Historian/Scholar of media industries law. Maker of delicious foods, baseball enjoyer (Twins Daily / DiamonCentric / Baseball Prospectus contributor) plabuza @ gmail.
www.labuzamovies.com
Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
Skadi Loist @skadiloist.bsky.social Associate Prof Film Studies at NTNU Trondheim, focus on film festivals, screen industries, DH, gender*queer & sustainability. #FFRN co-founder
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.
Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html
Mark Deuze @markdeuze.bsky.social 👨🎓 Professor Media Studies, U of Amsterdam
🎸bass: Skinflower; new music at Bandcamp
📚 latest books: Life in Media (MIT Press), Happiness in Journalism (Routledge)
🔊 🎥 Deuzevlog on YouTube and Spotify
🚴 Ride on!
🎓ORCID: 0000-0002-1986-5050
Katie Hoovestol @kthoov.bsky.social m.a. in media studies from UT Austin; working in industry audience research
audiences, media industries, streaming, teen tv.
uga grad 🐶- M SCMS Media Industries SIG @misig-scms.bsky.social The account for SCMS's Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group
Liz Evans @lizjevans.bsky.social Professor of Screen Cultures at Uni of Nottingham. Writing about audiences, media industries, technologies, & transmedia while mum to two future superheroines. Co-Editor of ‘Participations’.
Josh Braun @joshbraun.bsky.social Associate Professor at UMass Amherst studying the civic impacts of media distribution. I work in our Journalism Department and also co-edit the Distribution Matters series for The MIT Press.
Mastodon: @josh@sciences.social
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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social Reimaginer of media industries and society in digital age | Prof@QUT | Strategy consultant | US expat | Fan of swimming, baked goods & nature | drtvlotz@gmail | amandalotz.com | Mostly writing on LinkedIn, glimmers of also being a human here
Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social Assistant Professor · Communication · Tulane University
Look, I made a hat: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/staging-a-comeback/9781978827813/
Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social Fangirl, Associate Professor of media studies at UT Austin, author of "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019) and a bunch of other stuff. Posts aren't endorsements, mind your own cartwheels, etc. etc.
Dr. Molly Schneider @moschneids.bsky.social TV Historian. she/her
Out now from University of Texas Press:
Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama & Midcentury American Culture
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329276/
Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social Feminist music geek
Website | https://sites.ua.edu/avesey/
Substack | https://substack.com/@alyxvesey
PMBIP | https://www.youtube.com/@ericweisbard8091
Extending Play | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/extending-play-9780190085643
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.
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
Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social Professor, UCF T&T and English. Opinions mine. Bringing Foucault to fandom since 2006.
Melissa Aronczyk @aronczyk.bsky.social Media Studies Professor @ Rutgers
Adjunct Research Professor @ Carleton
New book with M Espinoza: A Strategic Nature: Public Relations & the Politics of U.S. Environmentalism (Oxford UP 2022)
Pubs and media @ melissaaronczyk.com
Matthew Crain @matthewcrain.bsky.social Media prof. Proud labor union member.
Selena A. Dickey @selenapino.bsky.social Media studies prof @ Furman. Into: broadcasting histories, technologies, geographies, and policies; pina coladas; getting caught in the rain.
Marina Fontolan @marinafontolan.bsky.social https://www.marinafontolan.com/
Pawel Popiel @ppopiel.bsky.social Media policy + platforms + political economy | Assistant Prof @ Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University | US Team Research Lead - GMICP.org | Affiliate @ MIC Center, UPenn and CITAP, UNC | Philly expat | pawelpopiel.com
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)
Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats --
Montreal
https://sterneworks.org
Smith Mehta @mediaindustries.bsky.social Academic, Assistant Prof @Uni. of Groningen. More active on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/smithmehta
Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social Media studies researcher, Penn State professor, past and future television blogger.
Mike Wayne @mikewayne.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media and Creative Industries, Erasmus University Rotterdam https://eur.academia.edu/MichaelWayne 
Deron Overpeck @doktamoox.bsky.social Associate Professor, Eastern Michigan University School of Communication, Media and Theatre Arts
Historian of the US film industry
He/him or they/them, and she/her won’t bother me
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
Krysten Stein, PhD @krystenstein.bsky.social professor + expert on platforms, care, & digital culture
writing AND HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL? [ @uc_press ]
my curated life | thoughts mine
Shannon Sweeney @shannonsweeney.bsky.social University of Iowa Media Studies PhD candidate. I study the TV industry. MFA in film/tv studies from Boston University. she/her
Kimberly Owczarski @kimbao.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media at TCU. Wolverine. Longhorn. New to Nova Nation. Lover of sharks. She/her.
Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com Writer, author, media historian.
Columns @ The Hollywood Reporter
News/Reviews @ MovieWeb
Media studies @ Marquette University
Books: The Warner Brothers; Hollywood Hates Hitler…
Adventures in the Archive newsletter: chrisyogerst.substack.com- 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.
Barb G.-Stolz, PhD @tvdrbarb.bsky.social 📺 TV Prof ; Collecting “homes” 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇱🇺 ; #WIASN #Jayhawk #firstgen 🌈 🦄 Kenzi’s & Billie’s mom. ❤️
🥊 ,🧘♀️, 💃🏼 #survivor2019 🌴🥥 #SurvivorGermany
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.
Casey Joe Walker @caseyjoewalker.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Instruction -
UT Austin, Radio-Television-Film
Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her
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
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.🏳️🌈🏞🌄
Jennifer Hessler @jenmhessler.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California
Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society
Views my own
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.
Alex Russo @alexrusso.bsky.social Media Studies Professor. Radio, Sound Studies, Culture Industries, Media Technologies. Husband to
@LGQ. Dad to F. Y-town raised. Views my own.
Courtney Brannon Donoghue @cbrannondonoghue.bsky.social Associate Professor, Media Industries. University of North Texas. Author of The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere (UT Press) & Localising Hollywood (BFI Press).
Betsy Walters @betsywal.bsky.social VAP of Film and Media at Emory, PhD in American Studies from BU. Researching the film/TV industry in/re awards & film fests. Board @hamlischawards.bsky.social. She/her.
Chuck Tee @chutry.bsky.social High school ESL teacher and political activist based in Quincy, MA. In my previous life as a media studies professor I wrote three books, including On-Demand Culture and Reinventing Cinema. Chihuahua wrangler.
Hemrani Rywant @hemranirywant.bsky.social TCM programmer | Atlanta | She/her
mesk @meesk.bsky.social TV, media industries, algorithmic brand culture, videographic criticism. Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies, Lewis & Clark College. She/her.
Dr. Katie Quanz @kqsound.bsky.social Film and Media studies @UrsinusCollege and @MuhlenbergCollege. phd @WLU.
sarah edwards @seedwards.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies, North Central College. Feminist media studies // influencer industry // platforms // labor // tech. Formerly: UW-Madison Comm Arts, Social Media Collective. She/her.
https://sarahedwardsphd.com/
Caetlin Benson-Allott @caetlin.bsky.social Professor of English and Film & Media Studies, marathon runner, shih tzu fanatic. If you're looking for more info, check me out at www.benson-allott.com 
Christopher Ali @christopherali.bsky.social Pioneers Chair & Professor in Telecommunications @ Penn State Bellisario College of Communications. Researcher of all things broadband. Author of Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity.
Husband, dog dad, Murder She Wrote groupie. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
Tim Piper @tpiper.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Media scholar of identity, industry, and history. He/him.
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Associate Professor, University of Colorado
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism 
Katie Bird @arthousedirectr.bsky.social Video Essayist, Independent Film Scholar, Lapsed Academic. Hollywood Film Labor and Film History.
Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social Senior editor @ LARB, freelance culture writer, mom in the DC burbs. Here for the nuanced takes, the good faith arguments, and the jokes
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
martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social asst prof in film studies. post-2008 film/tv + real estate • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her
https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/
Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social formerly @markboynz on Twits. Media and Comms academic. Pinko leftie socialist. Queer rights. Tangata tiriti. #Landback.
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.
Greeney28 @greeney28.bsky.social Sometimes I teach people things.
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.
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
Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social Author, teacher, anti-authoritarian, media studies prof @ Utrecht Univ. New book – FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/