✨ Rachel (she/her) ✨ @researchbrb.bsky.social Aspiring adult and media scholar. Ph.D. in Internet Studies. 🇳🇿 Pākehā, currently based in Boorloo Perth. 🐨 Living in the frenzy of feeling. 🌟
🏡 Website rachelberryman.com
🦇 Co-founder darcmode.org
📱 Member ierlab.com
Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association @jaliajournal.bsky.social Publishes research on library science and information research and practice within the Australian and Southern Asia Pacific regions.
Current issue is here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ualj21/current
Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology @morgancentre.bsky.social University of Manchester Sociology Department | Digital Media & Tech, Digital Methods, Gender & Sexuality, ESEA Creative Industries and Popular Cultures | they/them
DIY Digital Safety @diydigsafety.bsky.social Digitally Informed Youth (DIY) is a Canadian research project empowering young people and providing resources against technology-facilitated sexual violence.
www.diydigitalsafety.ca
Jess Hardley (she/they) @jesshardley.bsky.social Digital technologies, ethnographic methods, feminist geography & theories of embodiment
Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University
Marjo Kolehmainen @marjokolehmainen.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @utu.fi, PI: Networked Care: Intimate Matters in Online Mental Health Support (2023-2027). Editor at The Sociological Review.
https://www.marjokolehmainen.net/
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
Andrew Burrell @andrewxburrell.bsky.social Practice-based researcher + educator: digitally mediated environments and interactions between physical and digital ecologies. More-than-human storytelling + world building. Digital humanities, Design research, senior lecturer visual communication UTS
Samantha Mannix @smannix.bsky.social (She/her) Postdoctoral researcher @ Swinburne Uni. Interested in the mess of digital sexual cultures, health, data, and intimacies. 
Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP) @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social We're an academic team of Research Data Specialists enabling data-intensive and data-informed research across disciplines
@unimelb www.unimelb.edu.au/mdap
Jo Williams @joannakatelin.bsky.social Someday soon I’ll finish my PhD (exploring the production of sexual health information on social media).
Joel Humphries @joel.queercomputer.com PhD candidate researching queer community online, emerging technologies and digital harms @RMIT
https://joelhumphries.com.au
Melissa Gregg @melgregg.bsky.social Professor of Digital Futures at the University of Bristol. Author, ethnographer, nature defender. On loan from lutruwita/Tasmania. https://melgregg.com
Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social Supporting children growing up in a digital world. Find out more at digitalchild.org.au
Sonia Livingstone @sonialivingstone.bsky.social LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
@markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social 
AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social A network for science and technology studies (STS) scholars in Australia and New Zealand
Fabio Giglietto @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino - Principal investigator https://mine.uniurb.it
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
Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social Technology reporter at the Guardian, in Melbourne, Australia. Tech, infosec, FOI, politics, media 🌈 (he/him) https://linktr.ee/joshtayl0r
Taylor Hardwick @darthtayrah.bsky.social Postdoc @RMIT on gender, games and kids’ play cultures 👾
Freeplay board🤘DiGRAA board ⭐️ silly little guy 🤠 she/her 🌿
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
Francesco Bailo @francescobailo.bsky.social I am a Lecturer in Data Analytics in the Social Sciences at the University of Sydney where I am also deputy director of Centre for AI, Trust and Governance. francescobailo.net
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Mathieu O'Neil @mathieuon.bsky.social Professor of communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal country • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council • Civic information literacy for schools • Political economy of digital commons • https://dcpc.info/actions/
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy | cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
Intercultural Practice with a focus on Digital Cultures @TUC @digitalculture-tuc.bsky.social Junior professorship Intercultural Practice with a focus on Digital Cultures @TU Chemnitz led by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yolanda López García. Researching (post)digital cultures, migration, interculturality, social imaginaries, coloniality. 🌐mytuc.org/vnht
Anna Schjøtt @annaschjoett.bsky.social Technological Anthropology PhD working at University of Amsterdam on knowledge production in AI development and use in the media sector with a focus on politics and ethics.
assia @assiaw.bsky.social phd candidate reading about automated face processing / identification 🤖 université paris-saclay • STS/sociology • they/them
Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social Researching communication, brand and visibility in creative industries; queer representation in mainstream media | Lecturer Public Relations at RMIT
Karen Boyle @profkarenboyle.bsky.social Feminist Media Studies, Head of Humanities University of Strathclyde.
Amy A. Hasinoff @amy-adele.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication
online harm | gender & sexuality | transformative justice | she/her 🏳️🌈
www.amyhasinoff.com
Exprsso @exprsso.bsky.social I’ve gone dark in solidarity with resisters.
🚫DMs and 🚫MAGA - I’ll block. | Mom, and Dog Mom, Information Security, Photographer, Artist, Writer, and Prompt engineer - it’s good to follow your passion!
💙 Democracy 💙
Prof Rhonda Wilson RN CMHN PhD @rhondawilsonmhn.bsky.social Professor Mental Health Nursing #RMIT University | President #ACMHN | #MentalHealthNurse | #MHNurse | #DigitalHealth | #FirstNations | #Menopause | Wiradjuri yinaa on Darkinjung Land, Central Coast, Australia | Spain, Europe | https://drrhondawilson.com/
Helena Song, PhD @ai-disability.bsky.social AI for Disability and Inclusion
AI Accessibility, Sustainability, and Creativity
AI for Good
errbufferoverfl @errbufferoverfl.bsky.social reluctant security engineer • they/them • enthusiastic zinester & artist • located in Berrin, South Australia • disabled • local cryptid • future subsistence farmer
Amelia Johns @ameliajohns.bsky.social I am an Associate Professor at UTS (she/her). I research youth, social media and messaging| digital activism| digital citizenship| misinformation and platform regulation. I live on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people.
Patrik Wikstrom @pwik.bsky.social Professor of Computational Communication at @qutdmrc.bsky.social, QUT, Brisbane, Australia. I research how technology shape digital culture. #recommendersystems #responsibleAI #music #tiktok
Sora Park @skpark.bsky.social 🇰🇷🇦🇺
Media researcher, Professorial Research Fellow, News & Media Research Centre, U of Canberra
Uncle Joe @sydseter.com Co-leader OWASP Cornucopia. If you like what we do for open source, visit our code repository https://github.com/OWASP/cornucopia and give us a star ⭐
🌈 «Difference is of the essence of humanity» 🦄 – John Hume
#appsec #owasp #cornucopia #threatmodeling
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
Qingyue Sun @qingyuesun.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Coastal Carolina University | Drexel Purdue & LSE alumni
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5566-781X
Anthony McCosker @amccosker.bsky.social Professor in Aus, on the verge of working it all out. Leading a research institute called SIRI. Researching digital, data and AI capabilities.
JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social Sociologist of emergent tech. Dog content enthusiast. https://www.jennyldavis.com/
Dr Liss (Melissa Brunner) @lissbee.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, ABI Communication Lab, The University of Sydney | Convenor, Digital Health & Informatics Network (DHIN) | Associate Editor, Brain Impairment | Super interested in all things 🧠📱 🗣️ 📝🖼️ #bskySPEECHIES | Kuring-gai/Bundjalung Country
@pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social 
Dr. Mel Rozalia @drmelissameade.bsky.social Ethnographies of inequality, digital media + tech, labor, environment, economic decline, collective memory, identity.
Abel Guerra @abelguerra.bsky.social PhD student the London School of Economics | Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths University | platforms, labour, datafication, infrastructures, knowledge and urban space | (he/him/ele) 🏳️⚧️🇧🇷
DIGSUM @digsum.bsky.social Centre for Digital Social Research at Umeå University
digsum.org
Mon Rodriguez-Amat @monrodriguez.bsky.social Videogames.
Researcher, Analyst.
Governance, Policy, and Industry.
European Audiovisual Observatory.
Council of Europe.
My posts, my opinion.
Academia. PhD.
Communication- Space-Time-Tech, Culture. Politics & Follies.
Resistance against Empires.
Brita Ytre-Arne @britaytrearne.bsky.social Media studies professor, University of Bergen. News avoidance, technology in everyday life, media and climate change, qualitative methods. New OA book October 2026: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/too-much-news
Giovanna Mascheroni @giovannamas.bsky.social Media sociologist researching digital media, data & AI in children's lives. Dog lover (Eng. Springer Spaniel) TwitterRefugee. Projects: http://www.eukidsonline.net/, https://yskills.eu/, https://datachildfutures.it/
Also on @giovannamas@aoir.social
Göran Bolin @goranbolin.eurosky.social Media & Communications professor who teaches and writes on digital culture, information management, AI and data value at Södertörn University
sh.se/mkv
Sophie Bishop @sophiebishop.bsky.social She/her
Studying influencers & ‘influencer creep’ in creative industries
Associate Professor in Media & Communication, University of Leeds
Pre order Influencer Creep now: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/influencer-creep/paper
Kate Miltner @katemiltner.bsky.social Lecturer (Asst. Prof) in Data, AI & Society @ The University of Sheffield Information School. Member of the UK Young Academy.
katemiltner.com
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
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social The LSE Department of Media and Communications. World-leading research http://bit.ly/39QSDVA and teaching excellence http://bit.ly/2Y5xPV2 #LSEMedia #partofLSE
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here:
https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/
MeCCSA @meccsa.bsky.social Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association
www.meccsa.org.uk
Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social Department of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies @GoldsmithsUoL
#2 in 🇬🇧 2023 QS world rankings
Student/staff work
Free public events
Annette Markham @annettemarkham.bsky.social Social researcher focused on AI futures literacies, data/digital disruptions, algorithmic identity, human machine communication. Chair Professor at Utrecht University
A bit obsessed about methodology
More at https://annettemarkham.com
Fan Yang @fanyang.bsky.social Research fellow at melbourne law school node of ARC centre of excellence for automated decision-making society (adm+s)
Study tech, information, migration, and labour
web: fanyang.fan
based in Naarm
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies,
@appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
Ben Lyall 💾 @benlyall.bsky.social 👨💻 Digital sociologist
🔴 RMIT / Lecturer, Digital Communication
💬 Digital civic lives / data cultures / wearables
👣 On unceded Bunurong & Wurundjeri lands
➖ Em—dash enthusiast / Nintendo apologist
Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social Political Sociologist - citizen engagement, digital politics, young people, future of work, advocacy, & popular culture.
But prefers dogs, coffee, chocolate
From Sydney 🇦🇺 now living in Glasgow 🏴
Belinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social Snr Lecturer digital media Swinburne Uni, chicken whisperer, researcher. Smells books. Maybe we can build a new thing here 🌱
The Upside Down: https://twitter.com/manjusrii
Michael Richardson @richardsonma.bsky.social Associate Professor. Drones, AI, war, culture, affect, witnessing. UNSW. Media Futures Hub. ADMS Centre. He/him. Nonhuman Witnessing with @dukepress.bsky.social https://t.ly/cQW5N
Edward Hurcombe @eddyhurc.bsky.social Academic @ RMIT. Researches: digi journalism, digi cultures, platforms, mis/disinfo. (he/him)
Diana Bossio @dbossio.bsky.social Associate Professor, Digital Communication at RMIT University.
Research about journalism, social media and older people’s digital participation.
She/her
Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social Postdoc Research Fellow
Deakin University // ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child digitalchild.org.au
nicholas carah @nnniccc.bsky.social avid reader
Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country // President @aussts.bsky.social
Kyle Moore @kylejmoore.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media at Swinburne University
Researching mobile media and technology (games, AR, maps)
Overwhelmed and under caffeinated
Kaarina Nikunen @kaarinan.bsky.social Professor of Media and Communication Research
Tampere University
I write about datafication and social justice, emotions, affect & traces of humanity in the digital world. Also on migration, hate and the far-right.
Book: Media Solidarities (SAGE 2019)
Yongjian Groenendijk-Li @yjlgroenendijk.bsky.social Lecturer | Ph.D Candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam🏳️🌈 🇳🇱 | Researching on #digitalmedia, #place, #mobilities, #mobilemedia #home, #ageing, #migration, #TikTok. More here: yongjian.nl
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam on Data Bodies, Critical AI in Health Decision-making | Ethics & Politics of AI systems, Platforms, Political Economy | she/her | 🔗 https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/u/d.luitse/d.luitse.html
Sonja Petrovic @sonjapetrovicc.bsky.social Lecturer / Researcher (Media & Comms)
The University of Melbourne
drsonjapetrovic.com
Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social academic, researcher of the internet, writer, traveler...
STS, Critical Internet Studies, Critical University Studies, Critical Data Studies, Critical Theory, Interpretive methods, etc. #AoIR ista and leftist like Will Rogers
The Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies @dgtl-culturesuq.bsky.social https://hass.uq.edu.au/centre-digital-cultures-societies
Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social Amnesty Media Award 2014. Cryptoparty. Anti-Robodebt campaigner. Digital rights. Mutant network node herder. Completing a Master of Social Work. Devouring entropy https://www.patreon.com/asherwolf
fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social Urban geographer and digital media scholar @PoliMi | Associate editor AI & Society
Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social clinical psychologist, associate prof studying HIV prevention and sexual health in LGBTQ teens. cofounder prep4teens.com
Benjamin Hanckel @benhanckel.bsky.social Sociologist at Western Sydney University. Researching: youth studies, health & wellbeing, digital media, gender & sexuality.
He/Him 🏳️🌈
Brady Robards @bradyjay.bsky.social sociologist of the internets
in Naarm/Melbourne 🌈 he/him
—> bradyrobards.com
Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social I research social media, platform studies, and digital intimacies.
My book, OnlyFans, comes out in October 2026 https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=onlyfans--9781509567188
earvsc.bsky.social @earvsc.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow & Senior Lecturer at Monash University. Book: (Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media (OUP). Into digital migration, im/mobilities, ageing, migration brokerage, ethnography. More here: https://t.co/nz3pFN4Ppj
Michael Dezuanni @dezuanni.bsky.social Program Leader: Creating Better Digital Futures, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. 
Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies
University of Sydney
Gadigal Land
ἀφροδισία φάρμακον
Lucinda Nelson @lucinda-nelson.bsky.social 👩🏼💻 Lecturer and PhD candidate | QUT Law @qutdmrc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au
📚 law, tech, violence against women
🏳️🌈 no terfs 🏳️⚧️
Susanna Paasonen @susannapaasonen.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku with random interests https://susannapaasonen.org/
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social social media researcher (esp visuality, sex, small p-politics, wellbeing) professor at Tallinn University, BFM in 🇪🇪, currently working on TRAVIS project on trust and visuality.
https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
Brooke Erin Duffy @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social social media researcher and author
associate professor at Cornell University
platforms, power, and the creator economy
www.brookeduffy.com
Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social 30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.