aleesha rodriguez

@striphas.bsky.social

Chair of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder | Co-editor, Cultural Studies | Author, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (https://tinyurl.com/p8ad6suw) | Opinions my own

@digitaldang.bsky.social

Researcher of automated media and platform informality. Currently researching phone farming in Southeast Asia. Based in Melbourne, Australia www.dangnguyen.digital

@sivav.bsky.social

Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Supervises VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.

@davekarpf.bsky.social

Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens. Davekarpf.substack.com

@ckatzenbach.bsky.social

Professor for Media and Communication @ZeMKI.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social // Director @pgmt.bsky.social and MA Digital Media and Society // platform governance, (generative) AI, hype, regulation, tech discourses, norms

@arc-tracker.bsky.social

Part human, part bot, 100% UNOFFICIAL. I track Australian Research Council grant outcomes. Bot checks outcomes announcements each min. DMs open. FAQ: https://tinyurl.com/ARC-Tracker-FAQ

@andreizanescu.bsky.social

PT Faculty in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro Postdoc @Concordia Blockbuster Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows Also Magic: The Gathering + Cultural Resonance Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press) www.andreizanescu.com

@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

@jessmaddox.bsky.social

University of Alabama social media professor. Author, “The Internet is for Cats” (Rutgers University Press). Thoughts mine. 👇🏻👇🏻 Subscribe to my free Substack newsletter on all things social media! https://bythewaysocial.substack.com

@bloggeronpole.bsky.social

💻 Innovation fellow at the Centre for Digital Citizens📱Platform governance researcher 💃🏻 #poledance performer 🍑 Blogger, award-winning activist 🇮🇹 LDNer (she/her) 🧛🏻‍♀️ Thinking about Buffy like it’s the Roman Empire. https://bloggeronpole.com/all-my-links/

@elinorcarmi.bsky.social

🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City, University of London, UK. She/her. https://elinorcarmi.com/ Working on data politics/feminist data/data literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.

@tomdivon.bsky.social

Social Media Explorer 🦆 PhDing; Communication; HebrewU Founding Member @weareccsn.bsky.social 🤳🏽 Content Creators 🧲 Audiovisual Memes 🧨 Algos and Hate 📵 Tech Appropriation 👩🏽‍🎤 TikTok Cultures

@krystenstein.bsky.social

#firstgen phd asst prof UC blue ash social media + reality TV representation + identity production + political economy mental health + wellness https://krystenstein.com/

@timhighfield.bsky.social

Internet researcher and Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.

@safiyanoble.bsky.social

Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. Writer, researcher, professor. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com

@cfiesler.bsky.social

information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff) kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey) though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things she/her

@aramsinn.bsky.social

SFF/Nonfiction Author Media Prof at American U Bassist/Producer (jazz, reggae, worldbeat) 💙📚THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA 💿 OUT OF OUR CELLS: Songs by Incarcerated Musicians in DC sinnreich.com https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/ linktree.com/wassako

@ubiquity75.xyz

Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta used it to train its LLM. Professor, researcher, author, VP AoIR, synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady. “This heaven gives me migraine.”

@datasociety.bsky.social

Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.

@nickseaver.website

anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.

@merbroussard.bsky.social

Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com

@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.

@tamaleaver.bsky.social

🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin Uni (Boorloo/Perth West Australia); 🌏 Past Prez @AoIR.bsky.social; 🔎 @digitalchildau.bsky.social (AI & Datafication); 🐘 @tama@aoir.social; he/him. [Views mine; RT/❤️/etc ≠ endorsement]

@katemiltner.bsky.social

Lecturer (Asst. Prof) in Data, AI & Society @ The University of Sheffield Information School. Member of the UK Young Academy. katemiltner.com

@kylzjarrett.bsky.social

All the social medias; still nothing to say. Also on Masto and the Bad Place at same name Editor: Dialogues on Digital Society Author: Digital Labor (2022); Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2016)

@ludludlud.bsky.social

Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social ✨digital tech & everyday life, experiences of liveness (whatever that means), scrolling nonsense, moods & vibes ✨ ludmilalupinacci.com

@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

@harrytdyer.bsky.social

Digital sociologist, interested in identity, social media, & LGBTQ youth. Course Director of BA Education suite at UEA. Editor of Digital Culture and Education You can find other papers I've written here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=770gzPq

@robyncaplan.bsky.social

Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom. I make bad jokes sometimes.

@alicetiara.bsky.social

Studies social media & society, far-right disinfo. Dir of Research, Data & Society. 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

@steelecat717.bsky.social

Author - Digital Black Feminism Associate Professor @UMD I wonder if I'll ever get to talk about my reality shows here 😔

@elenamaris.bsky.social

Asst. Professor: Politics of Platforms & AI at University of Illinois at Chicago | Views mine

@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

@histoftech.bsky.social

Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi

@socialmedialab.ca

Academic Research Lab in Toronto: SocialMediaLab.ca |Skeets by @philipmai.com re: the politics of technology, social media, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, & propaganda | PoliDashboard.org, DeepfakesTracker.org, ConflictMisinfo.org & Communalytic.org.

@jwyg.bsky.social

🐨 https://jonathangray.org/ 🌱 director @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social + reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london + cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social 🫧 feminist STS, data studies, digital methods, internet studies, poetic computation

@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

@adriennemassanari.bsky.social

Assoc Prof@AmericanU. 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.

@adrishaw.bsky.social

Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive, professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.

@lnakamura.bsky.social

Researcher and prof. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. New book on women of color and the internet in the pipe. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.

@emmalbriant.bsky.social

International Expert on #Propaganda; Visiting Assoc Prof, University of Notre Dame; Fellow, Bard College, US; Associate @ U of Cambridge, UK; Owner Maven of Persuasion LLC; Speaker; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕

@cjpersaud.bsky.social

Research Scientist at Intel Labs doing Responsible AI and STS stuff. PhD from USC Annenberg. LA queer artist/nightlife entity/food enjoyer otherwise. 🤔 🤷🏾‍♂️ platforms, creators, queer media, pornography, digital intimacies, and internet culture

@joncong.bsky.social

Professor of Global Digital Media and Director, GloTechLab.net at UMass Amherst. #CarnegieFellows #OracleOng 🔮

@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/

@grohmannrafael.bsky.social

Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing

@meredithmeredith.bsky.social

President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute

@alondra.bsky.social

Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab

@ruha9.bsky.social

✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com

@zephoria.bsky.social

STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io

@emilymbender.bsky.social

Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender