Civics of Technology
The Civics of Technology (CoT) project aims to empower students and educators to critically inquire into the effects of technologies on their individual and collective lives. Find updates here or by subscribing to our newsletter at civicsoftechnology.org.
@yungau.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ Geography, University of Oxford Abolition/coloniality/mapping supply chain of surveillance/surv tech legislation twitter.com/a_yung_ mastodon: @yung.scholar.social
@petramolnar.com
#Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
@tjmcintyre.com
I'm an associate professor of law at University College Dublin specialising in technology law (mostly privacy/data protection/cybercrime/fundamental rights generally), consultant solicitor with FP Logue LLP, and chair of Digital Rights Ireland.
@anavaldi.bsky.social
Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the oii.ox.ac.uk | Investigating the environmental impacts of AI | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Fellow at UCL IAS https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/ana-valdivia
@bcnewell.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Oregon. Author of "Police Visibility": https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382909/police-visibility | Dialogue Editor, Surveillance & Society | Co-Director, Surveillance Studies Network (SSN)
@wewatchwatchers.bsky.social
@radleybalko.bsky.social
Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow. Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Forthcoming book: The Defenders (Spring 2026) Substack: radleybalko.substack.com Signal: radleybalko.52
@tynedaile.bsky.social
ARC DECRA Fellow: literary studies | digital humanities | surveillance | President, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: https://aa-dh.org/ | current project: surveilit.com | everything else: tynedaile.com
@whotargets.me
On political ads, transparency and what's right for democracy. Go to https://whotargets.me/download to get involved, check out https://trends.whotargets.me for data on >100k digital political advertisers. Newsletter: fulldisclosure.whotargets.me
@matthiasleese.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. of Technology and Governance @ethz.ch ¦ PI @curateproject.bsky.social ¦ Editor-in-chief @jird-jour.bsky.social https://matthiasleese.com
@xotoxot.bsky.social
Visiting Professor Karlstad University. Associate professor Radboud University Nijmegen. Privacy Engineering Boffin. Author of "Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths. Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design", MIT Press, 2021. Posts in English and Dutch
@lighthousereports.com
Radically collaborative journalism. Working with the world’s leading media on deeply reported, public interest investigations. http://bit.ly/LHR-newsletter
@dianamiranda.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Criminology (University of Stirling). Surveillance, Biometrics, Tech (and Tea). EU citizen 🇵🇹🏴🇪🇺
@thenexusofprivacy.net
A newsletter about technology, justice, equity, and strategy -- including privacy, AI, and social networks
@eff.org
We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at https://eff.org/social. https://eff.org
@normative.bsky.social
He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
@juliaangwin.com
Investigative journalist. New York Times Contributing Opinion Writer. Founder, Proof News, The Markup. Priors: ProPublica, WSJ. Fellow at Harvard Shorenstein Center. Signal: Julia.368 Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
@oddletters.bsky.social
politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere. enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press writing - https://oddletters.com/ stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch i curse a lot he/they
@profferguson.bsky.social
Law Prof. AUWCL, Tech & Justice. Author: “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
@privacymatters.bsky.social
Advocate for privacy and broader human rights impacted by data. Love nothing better than a hike in the hills. Embracing ゆとり Profile pic from 1st UK lockdown 2020. Did it for a charity helping bereaved children & their families. Raised £1200
@lilianedwards.bsky.social
Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , [email protected]
@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
@robkitchin.bsky.social
Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/ Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
@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
@philipdisalvo.bsky.social
Senior researcher and lecturer @ Uni St. Gallen | hacking/journalism, leaks, surveillance, black boxes | journalist | DIG Festival board | previously Media LSE, IMeG USI | views my own | Zürich
@cearadau.bsky.social
everything 'politics out of security', professor of international politics, Algorithmic reason: The new government of self and other (2022)
@olovsebastian.bsky.social
Associate Professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University. Co-editor/chair of 'New Intelligence Studies'. Critical & sociological analyses of intelligence, defence, and military education.
@bellingcat.com
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
@attackerman.bsky.social
Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo, IRON MAN for Marvel. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com Signal: attackerman.81
@survstudiesnet.bsky.social
The global network for surveillance studies research. Surveillance & Society journal https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society, conferences, workshops, mentoring, prizes & more. Join us here: https://surveillance-studies.net
@jathansadowski.com
senior lecturer at Monash /// co-host of This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + (climate) risk governance /// new book on the political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
@carissaveliz.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Author of #PrivacyIsPower (An Economist Book of the Year). Keynote Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
@biella.bsky.social
Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
@susansegfault.bsky.social
Queer criminologist, Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Author of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. Chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Researching power and harm in digital infrastructure. Pfp Jamie Buchan
@andreramiro.bsky.social
surveillance&privacy policy analyst. fellow @stanfordpacs. phd cand. @uni-hamburg.de. former fellow researcher @weizenbauminstitut and @@hiigberlin as @humboldt-foundation fellow. Lavits member. consultant.
@lutzid.bsky.social
Professor at BI Norwegian Business School & Co-Director of the Nordic Centre for Internet & Society. Research on privacy, digital inequality, AI & emerging tech. Check out my Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KI9IybAAAAAJ&hl=en
@dralinawernick.bsky.social
Research Group Lead: Law, AI and Society CZS Institute for AI and Law Cluster of Excellence for Machine Learning in Science The University of Tübingen In-betweening: law, technology, society, convergence, dumplings, perfumes, Finland, Tübingen, Bavaria
@marijkeroosen.bsky.social
Feminist | STS scholar | welfare and penal surveillance | digital welfare state MSCActions postdoc @OsloMet Board member Dutch Journal for Gender Studies She/her
@kingjen.bsky.social
Expert of data privacy, algo manipulation (dark patterns), & artificial intelligence. Privacy & Data Policy Fellow, Stanford HAI. Outdoors fanatic and nuts enough to swim in the SF bay. I bleed blue & gold (Berkeley I-School). Former trust & safety Yahoo!
@socialhack.bsky.social
Digital Rights are Human Rights. Net Neutrality. eID. Executive Director epicenter.works, VP EDRi, Fellow @StanfordCIS (he/him)
@samanthamcaleese.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Critical Criminology. Structural stigma, criminal records, prisoner re-entry, non-profits, qualitative research methods. DM Qs about pardons/record suspensions.
@algosoc.org
'Public Values in the Algorithmic Society' (AlgoSoc) is an interdisciplinary research program dedicated to a societal perspective on automated decision making AlgoSoc.org
@gkafer.bsky.social
Teaching Fellow, Cinema & Media Studies, UChicago • researching surveillance technology and digital culture https://chicago.academia.edu/GaryKafer
@joncinnamon.bsky.social
Assistant Professor. University of British Columbia Okanagan. digital geographies, GIS, health geographies, data studies, surveillance, cities
@cb-hq.bsky.social
Writes about secrecy, transparency, conspiracy and everything in-between. Professor at King's College London.
@barbararlaz.bsky.social
· PhD Researcher VUB, LSTS,MSC Actions fellow in LeADS · smart governments, B2G data sharing, data protection, fund. rights, datafication.
@benjaminhsnyder.bsky.social
I write about technology run amok, capitalism, and other depressing things while also envisioning a world beyond them.
@susser.bsky.social
ethics, politics, and policy in tech faculty, information science @ cornell www.danielsusser.info