Paul Roquet @inqualia.bsky.social other spatial mediations | proquet.mit.edu
Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. 🇺🇸EN/🇩🇪DE ♂
Interview/conference inquiries to pr@obsidian.net
Dan Gardner @dangphd.bsky.social Lecturer at Robert Gordon Uni. I study inequitable interactions, interfaces, and infrastructures, often through co-design. "Boring Things" scholar. My book, Thresholds of Digital Gameplay, open access @ MIT Press. See more at my https://dang.page
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
Graham Smith @grahamsmith.bsky.social Studio manager/producer @suspicious.dev. Co-founder @jank.cool. Previously: RPS, PC Gamer, Crate & Crowbar, Eurogamer, Dicebreaker.
Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social I write stories about the games industry. Formerly at 1UP and Polygon. Now working on @designroom.site.
Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social Bespoke critical deep dives. SHELVED BY GENRE. JUST KING THINGS. HOMESTUCK MADE THIS WORLD. GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES. other stuff. @ckunzelman.bsky.social @ztul.bsky.social and Danni too. www.rangedtouch.com
Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social CTO of Technology & Society at Google, working on fundamental AI research and exploring the nature and origins of intelligence.
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
Helen Rumbelow @helenrumbelow.bsky.social Feature writer and interviewer at The Times
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
GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social The world's leading games industry website. Got something to tell us? Email news@gamesindustry.biz
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social Philosopher of technology | Professor at Philosophy Department University of Vienna | Author of AI Ethics, Why AI Undermines Democracy, and Artificial Religion | member UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI | https://coeckelbergh.net
James Lin @jlinphd.bsky.social https://jameslin.name/
Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social Chinese Computing & IT + Where Research Begins: http://bookshop.org/shop/wrb Father of 2 #firstgen Stanford Historian, Guggenheim Fellow, Songwriter, LOC Kluge Chair
Ashley @professorashley.bsky.social 
The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
https://www.theparisreview.org/
https://theparisreview.substack.com/
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GMTK
🍓 GMTK Game Jam: http://gmtk.itch.io
🔠 Word Play: http://s.team/a/3586660/
🧲 Mind Over Magnet: http://s.team/a/2685900/
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer.
13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, 26.2🏃♂️✅
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor of AI & Society at Binghamton University (SUNY) - Civics of Technology Board Member - Luddite Praxis - Dad Life - he/him
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social Brazilian living in Tokyo. Editor of the CRPG Book, a free book on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games: https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/
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/
DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social Envisioning an equitable digital future. Housed within @umichdigital.bsky.social.
PIs: @lnakamura.bsky.social, Rayvon Fouché, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & @steelecat717.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/thedisconetwork
Olga Goriunova @olgagoriunova.bsky.social Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Cultural theorist, working across computation, philosophy and the arts.
Zahid R Chaudhary @zahidrc.bsky.social 
Ken Cheng @kenchengceo.bsky.social CEO, the biggest brain on LinkedIn
Contestant on ITV's #GeniusGame
https://linktr.ee/kencheng
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com Neurospicy disabled trans girl, Ph.Dyke
Writes with @drtanenbaumii.bsky.social, @catblackard.bsky.social, & @jessicamudd.bsky.social
EggPrimeDirective.com
Music—Books—Games—Poetry MothMother.com
Ink—Art CauldronFireStudios.com
Theory TessTanen.com
Kylie Jarrett @kylzjarrett.bsky.social All the social medias; still nothing to say.
Also on Masto at same name
Editor: Dialogues on Digital Society
Co-editor: Sage Handbook of Digital Labour (2025)
Author: Digital Labor (2022); Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2016)
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share 
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
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
ryan m. milner @rmmilner.bsky.social communication professor. aging meme scholar. charleston, sc usa. he/him
Zizi Papacharissi @zizip.bsky.social UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication + Poli Sci, Head of COMM@UIC Books: After Democracy; Affective Publics; A Private Sphere; A Networked Self series
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
Rachel Plotnick @rachelplotnick.bsky.social Associate Prof, IU Media School. Hist of tech, interfaces, wearables, media tech and everyday life. Books: Power Button (MIT) bit.ly/2xMlmsr and License to Spill (MIT, out now!) https://shorturl.at/Yl1DP
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.
Jon Peterson @increment.bsky.social Author of game histories, mostly wargames and role-playing games. Playing at the World, Elusive Shift, Game Wizards, Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana, Making of OD&D, Heroes’ Feast, etc. 
Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net How does tech empower and frustrate creators—writers, programmers, media makers—and how do we keep their work alive in the long run? UMaine Professor of New Media, Director of Digital Curation; former Guggenheim Curator of Media Art https://jonippolito.net
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.
Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social Professor of visual culture @ NTNU Trondheim | Media, Data, Museums | Author of Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization @ MIT Press 2023 | Campuslivet (akademisk nyhetsbrev på norsk): campuslivet.substack.com
Alex Custodio @alexcustodio.com PhD candidate studying videogame history at Concordia University. My dissertation focuses on the Game Boy’s afterlives, including hacks, mods, and emulation. Pixel artist and cross-stitcher. They/them.
Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com Professor in HCI @ USYD, CEO @ Ludolio. Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com Tech reporter, tech historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts podcast. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com
Melanie Swalwell @melswal.bsky.social Prof of Digital Media Heritage, Swinburne University. #AusEAASI Project Lead. 🖤💛❤️ ally, living and working on Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung lands.
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social DH Prof @URichmond. Exploring computer vision and visual culture. Ideas for Computational Humanities Research Journal? Please share!
Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/ On now: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/tega-sam-exhibition
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
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
Jim Malazita @jmalazita.bsky.social Associate Prof of Games & Experiential Media at RPI. STS scholar. Author of "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" from the MIT Press. DiGRA Board Member.
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
Laura Forlano @laura4lano.bsky.social Writer. Design Researcher. Professor @NU_CAMD Type 1D. Design, Tech and Radical Futures. Noodle Fanatic, Laser Cut Fashionista and Latin Alternative Rocker.
Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
David M. Berry @berrydm.bsky.social Professor currently researching AI, algorithms, software and the university in a digital age. Part of a research team that recently rediscovered the original Joseph Weizenbaum ELIZA source code. 
Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social AI and Games Researcher at NYU. Head of AI at Nof1.
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Digital Media, Georgia Tech, graduate of Bx Science HS, author "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" (MIT Press updated edition 2017) . Current book in progress:"Digital Delusions" .
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)
Macs Smith @macssmith.bsky.social Lecturer in French and Francophone Culture, SELCS, UCL.
Paris and the Parasite, MIT Press http://bit.ly/2G5BwnU
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social game designer 
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
Richard Lemarchand @rich-lem.bsky.social Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin @astridensslin.bsky.social Professor for the Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at University of Regensburg
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Katherine Isbister @kcisbister.bsky.social HCI and Games researcher, author of How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design, and Playful Wearables (Jan 2024--https://tinyurl.com/4z9mjxrm) 
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
Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
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
Jacque(line) Wernimont @wernimont.bsky.social Northern Woods dwelling nerd who thinks about how we turn people into numbers. Currently working on history of eugenics, health data, and death certificates. Into fibers, sports, and not falling over. Wrote Numbered Lives (MIT)
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
Antero Garcia @anterobot.bsky.social Associate Professor at Stanford University. NCTE President Elect. Education. Speculative Imagination. Healing. Dad of twins. he/him/his
lacuenta.substack.com
Andrei Zanescu @andreizanescu.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro @Concordia
Blockbuster & Cultural Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows
Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press)
www.andreizanescu.com
Aaron Trammell @aarontram.bsky.social Anyone who ever had a heart, they wouldn't turn around and break it.
Anyone who every played a part, they wouldn't turn around and hate it.
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
Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social yoquinto.com
MIT AgeLab
Books:
* Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn
* Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global Aging
Kohut @kohut.bsky.social rhymes with donut | author, Speaking Out, The Smart Mission, Compelling People — Georgetown U Press, MIT Press, Penguin | lecturer, Columbia | comms whisperer | words + music | Oxford comma | curse of the easily amused | http://www.matthewkohut.com
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Patsy @patsybaud.bsky.social Archivist, DH, reader, feminist, skier, resister, water.
@markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social 
John Bell @novomancy.bsky.social Director, DREAM Studio. DH & XR @ Dartmouth College. Digital Curation @ UMaine. Art & code @ WWW. #10print
Phill Penix-Tadsen @penixtadsen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Spanish and Game Studies & Esports at the University of Delaware
Author of 'Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America' + Editor of 'Video Games and the Global South'
https://sites.udel.edu/ptpt
Peter McDonald @pdmcdonald.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education, UW-Madison. Play scholar, potter, and dog friend.
Author of 📖The Impossible Reversal https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916220/the-impossible-reversal/ and 📖Run and Jump https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547390/run-and-jump/
Alex Monea @alexmonea.bsky.social Assoc Prof @georgemasonu.bsky.social | Author: The Digital Closet (https://bit.ly/digitalcloset) | Focus: content moderation, platform governance, data ethics | Views my own | he/him
Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social Boardgame enthusiast, podcaster, books: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, Universe Explained with a Cookie games: Versailles 1919 and Super Skill Pinball. He/him
https://open.substack.com/pub/gametek