David Murphy (He/Him)
Senior Lecturer in Computer Gameplay and Design at The University of Staffordshire. Phd in Communication and Cultural Studies. Research interests include Game Studies, Platform Studies, Community Management and Digital Heritage.
@thevideogamelibrary.org
The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org Over 10,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️ New books added daily. • Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n • Support: https://thevideogamelibrary.substack
@docfarber.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado. Codirector, Gaming SEL Lab. Play theorist. NEW! The Well-Read Game a.co/d/6oAphWV
@tjowens.bsky.social
Chief Research Officer at the American Institute of Physics. Working on the history of science, libraries and archives, and social science research. Fan of bike rides, small dogs, and vegetarian cuisine.
@jzagal.bsky.social
Game scholar, academic, professor at University of Utah's Division of Games Author: Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/jose-p-zagal-23078/ https://www.pillowfort.social/jpzagal Comics
@drtanenbaum.bsky.social
🦋 Moth Mother Music 📖 Ex-Academic(ish)🎓 Professor of Anarchy 🎵 Songwriter and Composer 🎮 Game Designer 📚 Storyteller 🧹 Witch 🪶Poet ♿ Disabled 🌶️ Neurospicy! 🏳️⚧️ Extremely Dangerous Trans Rights Activist https://linktr.ee/MothMother
@tbonini.bsky.social
Associate professor of Sociology of culture and Communication at @unisi. Co-author of Algorithms of Resistance (MIT Press 2024), available in OA, MIT press website
@tltaylor.bsky.social
Not sure I'm ready for another platform but let's see. Theme park play research these days (yup, Disney). tltaylor.com (links to most of my work, inc books, that are OA) & instagram.com/ybikapix (for the fun stuff!)
@jaakkostenros.bsky.social
Scholar of games and play, author or editor of eleven books, into comic books, role-playing games, and art. Website: https://jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/ Email: jaakko.stenros (at) tuni.fi
@vthewanderer.bsky.social
Media Studies, Games scholar, Humanities human Lecturer at TecnoCampus, UPF (Barcelona) Founding member of @DIGRASpain Director de la colección Ludografías. Co-president of the History of Games conference. I also do my own stunts. linktr.ee/vthewanderer
@histoftech.bsky.social
Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi
@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)
@lukestark.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own https://starkcontrast.co/ https://starlingcentre.ca/
@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
@whkchun.bsky.social
new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only. banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
@ginasue.bsky.social
Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@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
@merbroussard.bsky.social
Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. NYU professor. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
@rmmilner.bsky.social
communication professor. aging meme scholar. charleston, sc usa. he/him
@hollykruse.bsky.social
Media studies. Books: –Gender & tech (Polity 2025) –Synthpop, co-editor (Bloomsbury 2025) –Networks & horse racing (MIT Press https://t.ly/CJvI2) –Indie music scenes (Peter Lang https://t.ly/9ACTM) Irish Setters+horse+failed foster dog. Iowan in Tulsa.
@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
@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.
@increment.bsky.social
Author of game histories, mostly wargames and role-playing games. Playing at the World, Elusive Shift, Game Wizards, Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana, Making of OD&D, Heroes’ Feast, etc.
@jonippolito.net
How does tech empower and frustrate creators—writers, programmers, media makers—and how do we keep their work alive in the long run? UMaine Professor of New Media, Director of Digital Curation; former Guggenheim Curator of Media Art https://jonippolito.net
@ckunzelman.bsky.social
critic | games | science fiction. Discussing culture on podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Used to write a lot. Growing things outdoors. Working on books: Assassin’s Creed and Magic: The Gathering.
@lagernina.bsky.social
Professor of visual culture @ NTNU Trondheim | Media, Data, Museums | Author of Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization @ MIT Press 2023 | Campuslivet (akademisk nyhetsbrev på norsk): campuslivet.substack.com
@alexcustodio.com
PhD candidate studying videogame history at Concordia University. My dissertation focuses on the Game Boy’s afterlives, including hacks, mods, and emulation. Pixel artist and cross-stitcher. They/them.
@marcuscarter.com
Professor in HCI @ USYD, Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
@benjedwards.com
Senior AI Reporter, Ars Technica. Tech Historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com
@laurenfklein.bsky.social
Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English at Emory. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka, PI #AIAInetwork.
@nolauren.bsky.social
DH Prof @URichmond. Exploring computer vision and visual culture. Ideas for the Association for Computers & the Humanities @ach.bsky.social and Computational Humanities Research Journal? Please share!
@tega.bsky.social
Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/
@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
@drtvlotz.bsky.social
Reimaginer of media industries and society in digital age | Prof@QUT | Strategy consultant | US expat | Fan of swimming, baked goods & nature | drtvlotz@gmail | amandalotz.com | Mostly writing on LinkedIn, glimmers of also being a human here
@jmalazita.bsky.social
Associate Prof of STS and Game Studies at RPI. Author of "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine"
@n-w-f.bsky.social
UC Santa Cruz professor; Expressive Intelligence Studio co-director; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons coming Fall 2025, in the U Chicago Press Replay series
@laura4lano.bsky.social
Writer. Design Researcher. Professor @NU_CAMD Type 1D. Design, Tech and Radical Futures. Noodle Fanatic, Laser Cut Fashionista and Latin Alternative Rocker.
@allergyphd.bsky.social
STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, faculty NYU Tandon, BISR faculty, she/her CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/ Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
@berrydm.bsky.social
Professor currently researching AI, algorithms, software and the university in a digital age. Part of a research team that recently rediscovered the original Joseph Weizenbaum ELIZA source code.
@janethmurray.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of Digital Media, Georgia Tech, graduate of Bx Science HS, author "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" (MIT Press updated edition 2017) . Views are my own. Current book in progress:"Digital Delusions" .
@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)
@macssmith.bsky.social
Lecturer in French and Francophone Culture, SELCS, UCL. Paris and the Parasite, MIT Press http://bit.ly/2G5BwnU
@brkeogh.bsky.social
Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/ Brisbane, Australia | he/him
@shirachess.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA Current projects: 1. The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse (MIT press, 2026)💫 2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century digital culture (Strange Attractor with RU Sirius)
@rich-lem.bsky.social
Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
@astridensslin.bsky.social
Professor for the Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at University of Regensburg
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Grimdark media, theory of the present, and critical tech, including AI. Better times: letterpress printing and tabletop gaming. Distinguished University Prof., U. of Maryland; speaking only for myself here though. Default content: cats. Pests: blocked.