@sayshatim.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut opinions mine. he/him
@nieborg.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Media Studies @UofT • Books: Platforms & Cultural Production (Polity) • Mainstreaming & Game Journalism (MIT Press) • Toronto/Amsterdam
@julieychen.bsky.social
Assistant Prof., ICCIT & iSchool, UofT Editor, Platforms and Society Study digital labor, platforms, and data work for AI
@maraferreri.bsky.social
Senior researcher in Urban & Housing Geography / Editor @radicalhousing.bsky.social / PI 'EnactDECOM' (ERC CoG) / housing decommodification / spatial justice /
@roapejournal.bsky.social
Since 1974 the Review of African Political Economy has provided radical analysis of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change. Check out our longer bio at https://roape.net/about-roape/
@chaykak.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
@marcusjpower.bsky.social
Professor of Human Geography @ Durham University. The geopolitics-development nexus | China-Africa relations | South-South flows | energy & infrastructural geographies https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marcus-power/
@hptsociety.bsky.social
The Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) is dedicated to the study of how we think about technology in all its facets. #philtech #histtech
@platformsnsociety.bsky.social
Platforms & Society hosts critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization, examining their impacts on and embeddedness in economies, cultures, and institutions around the world.
@blakeplease.bsky.social
senior lecturer in communication at hebrew university | researching platforms + cultural production + participatory governance | they/them
@prakritidasgupta.bsky.social
PhD researcher at UCC, Ireland. All views are personal. I am researching platform work.
@cyberlyra.bsky.social
Princeton Sociology Prof; ethnographer of NASA; tech policy; digitalSTS; ethics and critical technical practice; mobile Linux. Conscientious objector to personal data economy. https://janet.vertesi.com https://www.optoutproject.net @cyberlyra@hachyderm.io
@bshestakofsky.bsky.social
Sociology at Penn | AI@Wharton | Center on Digital Culture and Society | Author of Behind the Startup: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/behind-the-startup/paper
@kiddingthecity.bsky.social
Senior Researcher @ the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute IN3 UOC Barcelona: platform citizenship / the Internet / smart cities / software geographies / urban governance Book (2021) Citizens in the Smart City kiddingthecity.org
@joshkirshner.bsky.social
Senior lecturer (associate prof) in geography and urban studies | energy, planning, urban climate, landscape, extraction frontiers, decarbonization-development dilemmas | known to frequent the Uni of York, UK
@al-jazeera-english.bsky.social
#AlJazeeraEnglish, we focus on people and events that affect people's lives. We bring topics to light that often go under-reported, listening to all sides of the story and giving a 'voice to the voiceless.' #newstoday
@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
Your eye on the ground. Independent Middle East and North Africa news. https://middleeasteye.net Unofficial account. Automated post via RSS. Maintained by @danni.id
@acc-uct.bsky.social
ACC is an interdisciplinary hub at the University of Cape Town with a mandate to conduct meaningful research on how to understand, recast and address pressing urban crises.
@actunifreiburg.bsky.social
Scientific center for Transregional, Reciprocal African Studies and Societal Exchange at the University of Freiburg. https://act.uni-freiburg.de/en
@lauisilva.bsky.social
Postdoc at PSE - Urban Sociology, Spatial Inequalities, Neighbourhood Studies, Infrastructures.
@cpern.bsky.social
The Critical Political Economy Research Network of the ESA Subscribe here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=POLITICAL-ECONOMY-RN Website: https://criticalpoliticaleconomy.net/
@andreamariucci.bsky.social
PhD Student, Asian and Media Studies! Started out with games, now I work on media theory, computing, infrastructure, and Japan—some anthropology here and there. I would love to go more in detail, but I would end up confused about what I do
@benjaminkirby.bsky.social
Assistant Professor researching religious politics, (de)globalisation, infrastructure, urban life, Islam, Dar es Salaam, immersion, ethnography. https://www.religion.uni-bayreuth.de/en/team/benjamin-kirby/index.php
@rhaplord.bsky.social
Finance | History | Trance Patreon http://patreon.com/isaacsamuel64 Substack https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/
@gfkb.bsky.social
Digital Development, Cities, Political Economy of Development in Africa, Worldmaking after Empire, Congolese Politics Header Cred - Monsengo Shula
@kagiso.bsky.social
Tswana | sucked into a bagel | reluctant anthropologist-in-training | 🏳️🌈 Queer (he/him) 📍South Africa
@bwesigye.bsky.social
Nyanja born and raised living in Los Angeles. Assistant Professor of Africana Studies. Afro-nationalist.
@emmaelinor.bsky.social
Historian of 20th-century political activism; writes/rants about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; live on Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö. http://www.emmalundin.co.uk https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
@wmwilliams.bsky.social
Researching @ AfricaCenter.org forced displacement & migration | environment & security | VEOs
@ohiounivpress.bsky.social
The oldest scholarly press in Ohio, specializing in African studies, Appalachian studies, regional guidebooks, and literary fiction. Learn more at ohioswallow.com
@thejah.bsky.social
The Journal of African History (JAH) publishes articles and book reviews ranging widely over the African past, from ancient times to the present. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history
@historianmkalb.bsky.social
Historian, writing about intersections of colonial, environmental, and African history; author of "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (2022, open access); worried about our planet; www.martinkalb.com
@yguichaoua.bsky.social
Political Violence • Sahel Politics • Editorial Board of afriquexxi.info • Chronique Sahel dans Libé • Public appearances and interventions in media: https://bit.ly/2J4mT5I • FR & ENG
@afrlib.bsky.social
We support the research & teaching activities of the Centre of African Studies at Cambridge. Open 9-5, Mon-Fri. Find out more: linktr.ee/afrlib Run by Jenni & Ben.
@rheinze.bsky.social
Historian, German Historical Institute Paris, Dept. of African History Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas. Mastodon: @rheinze@todon.eu @rheinze@hcommons.social HCommons: @rheinze
@ingridhk.bsky.social
Political economy, decolonizing economics. ingridhk.com
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things. https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
@ritodhi.bsky.social
Feminist father, wannabe farmer, itinerant scholar interested in masculinity, political ecology, climate justice, STS, Agrarian Futures in South Asia, Pacific and Latin America
@rogerjburrows.bsky.social
Bristol & Melbourne. Sociology. Geography. Urban Studies. Digital Culture. Prof at University of Bristol, School of Policy Studies & Hon Prof Fellow, Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne & Adjunct Prof, Social Sciences, University of Adelaide.
@trebors2025.bsky.social
Prof at The New School | Founder, Platform Cooperativism Consortium + Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy | Author, OWN THIS! (2023) + UBER-WORKED & UNDERPAID (2016) | Faculty Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center | Advocate for Digital Labor Rights |
@parinstitute.bsky.social
PARI is an African research institute affiliated to the University of Johannesburg and Wits University, providing new and original social science research, advocacy and implementation support for South Africa, the global South and beyond.
@urbanizationist.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Policy, Melbourne, posting/following mostly academically on housing, transport, planning, infrastructure, energy, governance, geography, and climate. If I followed you it is probably via a starter pack (not personal). Also @ X, 🐘, 🪡
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; professor @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
@nielsvdoorn.bsky.social
Associate Professor: University of Amsterdam. Editor: Platforms & Society. Book-in-the-making: The Platform Fix.
@eunicenyandat.bsky.social
#Leftie ...Cat Lover 💙 Loves to Travel...Signed up for the Disruption Era #CreativeEra #TechEnthusiate #ProdManager