Bryan Pfaffenberger
Bio: https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/bryan-pfaffenberger
Retired but not yet expired scholar of STS | Anthropology of Technology | History of technology | Sri Lanka Studies| technological dramas theory
@adamegriff.bsky.social
- Curator, Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com) - Author, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023) - Lecturer in WGSS @ Gonzaga University - Collects your old technology junk and cats.
@xiaochang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech recognition, and related data practices; general tomfoolery.
@samfranz.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, History & Sociology of Science @ University of Pennsylvania
@maisugimoto.bsky.social
Historian of Computing, Japan. Associate prof. at Kansai University in Osaka.
@lanalanalana.bsky.social
New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA
@shreeharsh.bsky.social
Continuing Lecturer, UC-Berkeley. I study AI, algorithms, organizations, work, labor, and expertise. Writing a book about MOOCs, data, and educational expertise. Website: https://shreeharshkelkar.net Substack: https://computingandsociety.substack.com/
@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
@miriamposner.com
Assoc. prof. at UCLA Information Studies, ask me about supply chain tech! Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. www.miriamposner.com
@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
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@melissabaker.bsky.social
Asst prof at UTEP. Political psychology and political communication. Studying mental health, cognition, emotions, info behavior, & social media.
@annejonas.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ UM-Flint CIT. Studying digital technologies, schools, community, and power through qualitative and design-based research methods. Previously at MSU, UC Berkeley, Barnard, and Brown. she/her 🏳️🌈
@marielgm.bsky.social
40% thinker, 60% doer. 100% altermundista. Sociotechnical researcher on privacy and surveillance, trust and safety at MIT HASTS, Data + Feminism, Berkman Klein. I love creative uses of media and tech in the public interest. Cambridge, MA/Ciudad de México.
@jjoque.bsky.social
visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
@alexmonea.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @ George Mason U | Author: The Digital Closet (https://bit.ly/digitalcloset) | Focus: content moderation, platform governance, data ethics | Views my own | he/him
@linzhang.bsky.social
Critical Innovation Studies, Pro@UNH; Author of The Labor of Reinvention (Columbia UP, 2023). Working on a book about transnational biotech https://linzhangweb.org/
@zizilizizi.bsky.social
✨ 1st gen college student ➡️ digital culture researcher 👩🏻🏫 A cinephile teaching film and media studies ✍🏼 Digital Media, Influencer Cultures
@alexahagerty.bsky.social
Meditative anthropologist, author of Still Life With Bones, a New York Book Review Editors' choice, named one of the Best Books 2023 by The New Yorker, BookPage, and FT readers. Researching & writing on human rights, tech, resistance, and otherwise futures
@aron.ambrosiani.se
Doktorand i teknikhistoria på Chalmers, redaktör för @utstallningskritik.se. PhD student in History of Technology, editor of Swedish museum magazine Utställningskritik. Researching gender and professions in early Swedish computing. aron.ambrosiani.se
@jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University | Economic History, Labor, Inequality https://jamesfeigenbaum.github.io/
@jaivirdi.com
Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Delaware. Deaf & forever a radical Learn more: jaivirdi.com
@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
@katemiltner.bsky.social
Lecturer (Asst. Prof) in Data, AI & Society @ The University of Sheffield Information School. Member of the UK Young Academy. katemiltner.com
@florianhoof.bsky.social
Media theory, media infrastructure & security studies | Author: Angels of Efficiency @oxunipress | Organizer: Harvard-Frankfurt Conference www.aftersurveillance.info | PD & Research Associate @NormativeOrders University Frankfurt
@businesshistoryc.bsky.social
The Business History Conference is a scholarly organization devoted to encouraging all aspects of research, writing, and teaching about business history and about the environment in which businesses operate. https://thebhc.org/
@drnikko.bsky.social
Writing a book on abolition(ist +) tech. (open source) software engineer. I study how racial ideologies influence data structures. Incoming asst prof of data science, currently postdoc @ MIT a very happy trans 🏳️⚧️ (they/them)
@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)
@labortechresearchnetwork.org
We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism. Posts by @kaareeenah.bsky.social
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Historian of science, art, & ideas. Curious about how science & society shape each other? Buy HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY now: https://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-history https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
@bengrosser.bsky.social
Artist, recomposing social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures. Known for works like Demetricator, Computers Watching Movies, and minus.social. Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Harvard, Prof @ UIUC. bengrosser.com
@histoftech.bsky.social
Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi
@patrickmccray.bsky.social
Professor @ UCSB => science + tech + art + environment Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at LoC, 2025-2026 Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 in Cali-rado; public lands in public hands, pls. #146,842 https://www.patrickmccray.com
@karengregory.bsky.social
Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | CAHSS Digital Lead | Critical Data Studies @ EFI Writing: Enchanted Entrepreneurs: Media, Work, and Meaning in the Spiritual Marketplace
@eastasiascitech.bsky.social
Historian of technology, science, and industry @ Harvard. Author of CARBON TECHNOCRACY. Currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China. More about my work here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow
@juliairwin.bsky.social
Historian of US foreign aid, disasters, and international humanitarianism. Author of *Making the World Safe* (OUP ’13) and *Catastrophic Diplomacy* (UNC ’24). Co-editor of *InterConnections: The Global 20th Century* (UNC) and *Journal of Disaster Studies*
@historians.org
The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions. http://historians.org/join
@crystaljjlee.com
Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼 crystaljjlee.com
@epopppp.bsky.social
Professor @ a large Midwestern univ. Wrote a book about economists + policy, one about academic science + policy. Temporarily on the "government is breaking" beat, but I'd rather be posting about public utility debates from 1906. I support 🏳️⚧️ rights.
@joshshepperd.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, University of Colorado Boulder; Director, Library of Congress RPTF; Editor, Resonance Journal; Faculty Advisor, KVCU Radio
@ntnsndr.in
Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
@loriemerson.net
media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
@matthewfacciani.bsky.social
Social Scientist @NotreDame. Studies misinformation, media literacy, & AI. Author of Misguided: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/misguided/9780231555814/ https://matthewfacciani.substack.com www.matthewfacciani.com
@avielroshwald.bsky.social
History Professor. Comparative study of nationalism. Latest book—Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023) https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Occupied-by-Aviel-Roshwald/9781108790826
@edenmedina.bsky.social
Historian of tech @MITPSTS @MIT. Author Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Co-curator Cómo diseñar una revolucón // How to Design a Revolution. #sci #tech #politics #history #data #design #LatinAmerica #humanrights. Views my own.
@kevinbaker.bsky.social
writing at: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com editing at: reboothq.substack.com
@daveparisi.bsky.social
Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1 Mostly reformed goth
@ericara.bsky.social
professor of media, culture, and communication. editor, public culture. organizer, oikos working group on kinship/economy. enthusiast. (@fstflofscholars over yonder)