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.
Ofcom @ofcom.bsky.social Official account for Ofcom, the UK’s independent communications regulator.
ofcom.org.uk
Dazed @dazeddigital.com Where pop culture meets the underground » dazeddigital.com
Find your creative community. Join Dazed Club for free » https://apple.co/3UN2NQl
Hannah Lewis @hannahjlewis.bsky.social Freedom and unfreedom in work, leisure and citizenship. People who move & resistance to precarity. Policy & practice responses to 'modern slavery', refugee settlement and migrant youth inclusion. Sociology Senior Lecturer, Uni of Sheffield. 🇪🇭 Sahara Libre
Nik John @ilovejazzmusic.bsky.social Internet scholar at University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk
Former Prez of @aoir.bsky.social
Pessimist
Sarah Manavis @sarahmanavis.bsky.social american author of TELL ME ABOUT MYSELF (2027) on the rise and impact of psychotherapy, HarperCollins (UK) + Simon & Schuster (US). writer at the Observer + elsewhere
sarahmanavis.com / she/her
Alison Harvey @digitalpromises.bsky.social Professor of Communications, Glendon College, York University
Dr Robyn Muir @drrobynmuir.bsky.social Lecturer in Media & Communication at University of Surrey researching Disney Princess Phenomenon and Influencer Culture 👑 Founder @DisNet 🏰 Founder
@IJDisneyStudies Views own 🌻
Lucy Morgan @lucymorgan.bsky.social Purpose Editor & Deputy Website Editor at GLAMOUR UK
Views are my own.
Sign our petition to Stop Image-Based Abuse here: https://www.change.org/p/deepfake-sexual-abuse-is-not-porn-demand-action-to-stop-image-based-abuse
Amy Stevens @amystevens.bsky.social Sociologist/Criminologist
Researching surveillance, resistance, encryption, human rights, law enforcement, and tech
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
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary social & behavioral science research & fellowship in service of generating knowledge, illuminating understandings, building fields, informing policy discourse, & creating an enduring scholarly community like no other | casbs.stanford.edu
Nicolette Little @nicolettelittle.bsky.social New book 📕: From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada (UBC Press, 2026)
Feminist media activism, tech-facilitated violence, & memory @UAlberta
Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social By day a researcher fighting for a better life for the traumatised, by night asleep. Currently writing about a Victorian VIP #CSE scandal. Co-convenor of the BSA Global Histories and Sociology Study Group. she/her
Paul Hodkinson @paulhodkinson.bsky.social Prof of Sociology at University of Surrey - fathers, masculinities, youth, digital media...
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.
Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social Supporting children growing up in a digital world. Find out more at digitalchild.org.au
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.
Frances Howard @drfranceshoward.bsky.social Associate Professor of Youth Research at Nottingham Trent University, Deputy Director of the Centre for Policy, Citizenship & Society, Editor Youth & Policy. Researching youth work and the arts
Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com The world’s most trusted flight tracker.
Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social Kids media researcher and critic. Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University.
Have brain - will travel.
Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com Learning Programs Manager, Western Sydney University Library | PhD, Active Researcher | she/her | using this account to keep a record of what I read 📚
Research: mis/dis info, social media
www.oliviainwood.com | ORCID: 0000-0001-6678-888X
Shaoying Z. @sy26.bsky.social PhD student, sociological studies, TUoS
Alex Leavitt, PhD (they/them) @alexleavitt.bsky.social Principal researcher for Trust & Safety @Roblox & Visiting Fellow @CHAI_Berkeley. 🏳️🌈🐈⬛🏳️⚧️ Ex-@Meta, PhD @USCAnnenberg. 日本語でOK!
Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social (she/her) teacher/lecturer + media & cultural researcher in education, youth studies, digital cultures, social media, wellbeing, health education + mental health / working @ Faculty of Education, UniMelb, Naarm / knitting, sewing, making lists, dancing / 
Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Platform Studies at Aarhus University
ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
Jonathon Hutchinson @dhutchman.bsky.social Associate Professor Media & Communication @USyd. Researching: intermediation studies, internet & technology, Vietnam, young people and media, social & public media 🎓📽📲.
Liam Voice @voicefrom.bsky.social The closest thing there is to a voice of reason.
Lecturer in Digital Media. Thinking about #DigitalCulture #Posthumanism #AnimalStudies #Technology #Philosophy
#NFFC fan. Fascinated by octopuses🐙
🐘: @voice@hcommons.social
🌐: https://www.drliamvoice.co.uk
Nicolas Suzor @nicsuzor.bsky.social Law prof, working to make tech more fair. Future Fellow @ QUT Digital Media Research Centre; Chief Investigator @admscentre.org.au; Member @ Oversight Board.
He/him. All views are my own.
https://nic.suzor.net
Young Futures @youngfutures.bsky.social We're on a mission to make it easier to grow up in the digital world. Learn more at youngfutures.org.
ProfJSG @profjsg.bsky.social Professor. Constitution hugger. Worried for democracy.
Amy Jordan @abjordan.bsky.social Scholarly focus: children, adolescents and media|| Academic home: Rutgers University || Grew up in Mass but now a Philly Girl.
Vikki Katz 🎗️ @vikkikatz.bsky.social Communication Prof @Chapman U | Editor, Journal of Children & Media | Studies kids, tech, digital inequality, political polarization & civil discourse | Parenting, dogs, travel, great food | 🇿🇦 to 🇺🇸
Cecilia Yuxi Zhou @ceciliazhou.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Education University of Hong Kong. Researcher on adolescent digital wellbeing, digital parenting, media literacy and digital citizenship education
Journal of Media Psychology @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social Journal of Media Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering media psychology. Edited by @bowmanspartan.bsky.social (S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications)
https://www.hogrefe.com/eu/journal/journal-of-media-psychology
Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social Scientist, runner, Canadian still trying to figure out how to live in the US.
Psychology Prof at UCI, who sometimes writes about why we should trust science and avoid panic to really help our kids.
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
Jessica Taylor Piotrowski @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social Professor of Communication in the Digital Society at University of Amsterdam | Youth & Media Scholar | ally 🏳️🌈 | ❤️ teaching, research, running, dark chocolate, & sunshine
Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social Professor, ESG UQAM, Montreal
Algorithmic resistance at work, algorithmic imaginaries, new ways of working, invisible work.
Français/English
Ongoing research project: https://workaround.uqam.ca/en/home/
Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social Dir. of Global Partnerships, Inst. for Information, the Internet & Democracy, NEU | Union of Concerned Scientists 2024 Defender of Science |
Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/
https://expertvoicestogether.org/
https://independenttechresearch.org/
Olivier Driessens @odriessens.bsky.social Media Sociologist; Associate Prof in Media and Communication, Centre for Tracking and Society, University of Copenhagen
Media, tech & social change, continuity, digital futures, sustainability
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)
César Albarrán-Torres @calbarrantorres.bsky.social Digital media and screen studies academic. Dad. Lab owner. Drinks coffee. 
Hannah Lattimer @hannahlattimer.bsky.social Social manager at Samaritans, currently on mat leave 🐣
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
James Meese @jammh.bsky.social Media and communications researcher. Interested in telecommunications, news media, personalisation, and recommendation.
Latest book is 'Digital Platforms and the Press': https://intellectdiscover.com/content/books/9781789388336
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
miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social Lecturer in Film and Media, University of Leeds. I primarily research popular feminism in superhero films, TV & comic books. Leeds UCU Rep 🇩🇪🇬🇧 she/her
Women in Marvel Films https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-in-marvel-films.html
Alex Turvy @alexturvy.bsky.social Internet culture researcher | PhD Candidate in Sociology | alexturvy.com
Daniela Jaramillo-Dent @danijaradent.bsky.social Senior Research and Teaching Associate
at the Media Change and Innovation Division at the Department of Media and Communication Research at the University of Zurich. Internet scholar focusing on diaspora and inequality.
Moa Eriksson Krutrök @moaerikssonkrut.bsky.social PhD | Assoc Prof Media & Comms Umeå University | Digital media research | Crisis and memes | Editor JDSR | Humlab | DIGSUM | Weird double last name 💣
Roland Paulsen @rolandpaulsen.bsky.social Associate professor of sociology and senior lecturer at Lund University
https://www.dn.se/av/roland-paulsen/
https://www.rolandpaulsen.org
Katie Higgins @katiehiggins.bsky.social Lecturer, School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield
Book reviews editor, The British Journal of Sociology
Co-convenor, BSA Sociology of Elites Study Group / Elite Studies Working Group
Prof Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social war and media; conflict photography; veterans and the media; political communication; visual comm (she/her). Co-Editor @MWC_Journal ; co-convenor PSA Media and Politics group
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Michelle Lipinski @michellelipinski.bsky.social Senior editor @ucpress.bsky.social. Finicky reader. (She/her)
Bernhard Rieder @riederb.bsky.social amsterdam univ; lisboa; history & politics of software; mechanology; platforms; digital methods; en/fr/de/nl/pt; 
Data School (Utrecht University) @dataschool.nl We do not preach in lecture halls, we engage in the field -
Investigating & shaping the digital society since 2013.
#DigitalMethods #DataEthics #AIethics #ResponsibleAI #ActionResearch
dataschool.nl at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
Digital & Social Media UTS @utsdsm.bsky.social Digital & Social Media /
School of Communication /
University of Technology Sydney
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)
Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social Social / cultural / political / media analysis
Prof @Goldsmiths @MediaComGold.bsky.social
📕📗: Left Feminisms, Care Manifesto, Against Meritocracy, Politics of Heritage
#firstgen
All views socially & culturally constructed.
Debbie Ging @debbieging.bsky.social Professor of Digital Media and Gender at DCU
Francesca Sobande @francescasobande.bsky.social 🌌✨
Helen Wood @tellynelly.bsky.social professor of media and cultural studies, researcher ReCARETV. reality TV, class, politics, care. Mum and diplomat.
Carrie Rentschler @carrierentschler.bsky.social Feminist media studies, STS, digital culture, social movements, diabetes and technology, McGill Professor
Plus: cats, snacks, drums
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
Karen Boyle @profkarenboyle.bsky.social Feminist Media Studies, Head of Humanities University of Strathclyde.
Jason Okundaye @jaseokundaye.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian and assistant opinion editor
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández @ariadnamf.bsky.social Associate Professor at University College Dublin
Social media cultures, platform governance, online harms, and algorithmic systems.
Opinions are my own. She/her.
Meryl Alper @merylalper.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication Studies @ Northeastern. Technology, kids, disability, mental health. BOOKS: Digital Youth with Disabilities (MIT 2014) Giving Voice (MIT 2017), Kids Across the Spectrums (MIT 2023) https://bit.ly/kidsacrossthespectrums
Elisa Serafinelli, Ph.D @eliserafinelli.bsky.social SL in Digital Media and Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University with a strong passion for emerging visual technologies.
🍝🍕🍷🤌
Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com Prof, Media and Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been dubbed “that hybrid media guy.” More active on LinkedIn these days.
andrewchadwick.com
Occasional posts on music.
Jessica Pinkett @jessicapinkett.bsky.social Researching and writing about media and internet culture.
International Journal of Cultural Studies @ijcs-journal.bsky.social International peer-reviewed journal dedicated to global research on cultural practices, processes, texts, infrastructures, and identities.
journals.sagepub.com/home/ics
Jessica Vitak @vitak.bsky.social She/her. Professor at University of Maryland's iSchool. Former director of HCIL. Steering Committee Chair-Elect for CSCW. Research: privacy, surveillance, data ethics. https://jessicavitak.com
Come for the academic expertise. Stay for the cookie content.
Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social Professor of Higher Education and Fellow of Linacre College, University of Oxford | Editor, British Journal of Sociology of Education
Paul Byron @paulibyron.bsky.social Social media researcher, Gadigal country (aka Sydney)
Researching friendship, care, LGBTQ+ peer support, young people, mental health, porn literacies, hook-up apps.
https://profiles.uts.edu.au/paul.byron 
Nina Vindum Rasmussen @ninavindum.bsky.social Digital Media Scholar. Currently writing a book on screen production in a streaming era for The MIT Press. She/her.
Dr Maria Tomlinson @drmariatomlinson.bsky.social Lecturer in Public Communication and Gender
Researches impact of health communication on social inequalities
Mariatomlinson.co.uk
Sofia P. Caldeira @sofiapcaldeira.bsky.social I get paid to look at Instagram // Social media, feminisms, self-representation // Researcher @cicant_lusofona // @DCCEcrea chair // she/her
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies @participations.bsky.social Interdisciplinary, independent and open access journal focused on all forms of audience research and reception studies.
NEW ISSUE: November 2025: https://www.participations.org
Jonathan Corpus Ong @joncong.bsky.social Professor of Global Digital Media and Director, GloTechLab.net at UMass Amherst. #CarnegieFellows #OracleOng 🔮
Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social Media Studies @uvahumanities.bsky.social · 📚 Author, Platforms (Polity) · 📦 NWO Veni: ‘AI Power’ · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 👥 @appstudies.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 🔗 fernandovandervlist.nl
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Dr. Steven Buckley @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media Sociology. PhD in Journalism and US media. Researching digital streaming culture, political communication and authenticity.
Sharif Mowlabocus @sharifm.bsky.social Queer researcher who researches queer things at Fordham University. NYC-based. Cyclist. Running hard and fast away from X. #Academicsky
Helen Thornham @thornhambot.bsky.social Prof. @ UoL. Farmer. Feminist
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 🏳️⚧️
Isabel Sykes @isabel-sykes.bsky.social AHRC-funded PhD student in Sociology at Brunel, University of London. Based in West Yorkshire. Current research in class, domestic labour, and social media. (She/Her)
Sara M. Grimes, PhD @smgrimes.bsky.social Wolfe Chair in Scientific + Technological Literacy & Professor at McGill University. I research kids + tech + play/games/creativity, advocate for children’s rights in policy/design. Author of Digital Playgrounds (2021) and Kidfluenced (underway).
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. 
Nancy Thumim @nancyt.bsky.social I teach, research and write about media, audiences, representation, and everyday life. I work at the University of Leeds. Here sporadically.
Susanna Paasonen @susannapaasonen.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku with random interests https://susannapaasonen.org/
Media and Communication @ University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social 🎓 School of Media and Communication | We cannot fully understand modern societies without understanding media and communication | https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media | linkedin.com/company/school-of-media-and-communication🎓
Stefanie Duguay @dugstef.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Director of the Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab (digslab.net). Posts and opinions are my own.
Zoë Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social 🤓 Feminist Media Scholar | Digital Ethnographer | Internet Culture Enthusiast
🌟 Postdoc at Microsoft's Social Media Collective
💖 Co-Founder: The Digital Ethnography Collective & The Content Creator Scholars Network @weareccsn.bsky.social
💻 www.zoeglatt.com
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/