Icarus Nix
Business background, people focused, queer and witchy Vtuber person with a penchant for video games (FFXIV mostly), science and astronomy. always learning, always curious.
@bialski.bsky.social
digital sociologist, ethnographer, STS scholar, musician. New book out now http://tinyurl.com/4f29px33
@digitaldang.bsky.social
Researcher of automated media and platform informality. Currently researching phone farming in Southeast Asia. Based in Melbourne, Australia www.dangnguyen.digital
@hoytlong.bsky.social
Scholar of Japanese literature, media, cultural analytics. Now working on platforms, television, cultural AI. "The Values in Numbers" (2021). Offline: cooking, ceramics, watercolor. Prof at UChicago (https://ealc.uchicago.edu/people/hoyt-long-phd)
@shawnbender.bsky.social
Anthropologist, Japan and elsewhere | Dickinson College | Researching ag labor & automation | Books: Feeling Machines, Taiko Boom
@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
@zgtcooper.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Film at St. Lawrence University | Affiliate @datasociety.bsky.social (Climate, Technology, and Justice group). Internet infrastructure and sustainability researcher. www.zanegriffintalleycooper.com
@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
@danhf.bsky.social
All-purpose movie guy and media studies scholar @ Utrecht University. Intransigent curmudgeon. Forthcoming: books on the political economy of the Fast & Furious franchise and a minute-by-minute analysis of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
@josemarichal.bsky.social
Pol Sci Prof @ California Lutheran University. Tech, AI and society. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" - Bristol University Press (Sept. 2025). Random culture tweets. https://www.callutheran.edu/faculty/profile.html?id=marichal
@henrikdku.bsky.social
Assistant professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Warwick. Working on the political philosophy of artificial intelligence, public reason, and the digital public sphere. www.henrikdkugelberg.net
@michae.lv
assoc. prof, @UCLLaws.bsky.social, technology, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
@kmuth.bsky.social
Assistant prof of digital humanities @ Durham English, books about work || work about books, she/they, https://krmuth.github.io/
@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
@sarareinis.bsky.social
researching internet culture, algorithms, self-help, spirituality, and assorted rabbit holes that strike my fancy | currently: PhD student at Penn Annenberg
@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
@vivaharehills.bsky.social
Writer of CYBERBOSS (Verso). Co-built Novara Media. Co-host Heart Reacts. Co-StreamArtNetwork. Co-digital gavagai. LTQ contributor 🍸🏳️🌈 http://c-gent.net/ https://shop.novaramedia.com/products/cyberboss
@jinsookkim.bsky.social
Feminist media scholar | Assistant professor, Media Studies, Emory University | Writing a book about digital media, online misogyny, and feminist activism in South Korea | she/her | Views my own www.jinsookkim.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
@zittrain.bsky.social
A small creature who likes to run around in universities. Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
@jesspgh.bsky.social
Comm + media studies professor focused on history, emerging tech, information integrity, telecomm policy, platforms, propaganda, and culture. From Pittsburgh.
@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)
@ktmac.bsky.social
postdoc @ university of copenhagen, "Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies" researching internet histories, web archives, platform temporalities katiemackinnon.xyz
@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. 🐕
@dmulvin.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the LSE. Histories of media and technology. dylanmulvin.com
@migueldobrich.bsky.social
Journalist and educator based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Founder of Dobcast and Amenaza Roboto (@amenazaroboto.bsky.social). 2024 & 2023 Pulitzer Center grantee. Oxford Climate Journalism Network alum. 2018 Tow-Knight Fellow.
@buridan.bsky.social
academic, researcher of the internet, writer, traveler... STS, Critical Internet Studies, Critical University Studies, Critical Data Studies, Critical Theory, Interpretive methods, etc. #AoIR ista and leftist like Will Rogers
@ohalpern.bsky.social
Professor@TU Dresden, historian of science and STS scholar critically engaging AI, cybernetics,infrastructure, environment, and design. https://againstcatastrophe.net https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/ cohost, System Crash: https://systemcrash.info/
@ajescoffery.bsky.social
professor @ Northwestern visiting scholar @ Harvard Berkman Klein jury @ Peabody Awards Media and Data Equity Lab: http://madelab.org researching & developing social media/tech, film, TV & intersectionality Reparative Media on MIT Press Fall 2025
@ritaraley.bsky.social
Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara https://english.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/raley-rita/ // Like everyone, working on critical AI/machine learning; more unusually, focusing on GPT-2
@mortenbay.bsky.social
Media and tech scholar. Teaches at USC Annenberg. Writes stuff for normal people too. Stings in a tribute band. Author of six books, with the latest being 'Mediating Plureality: Technology, Perception, and Ethics in a Divided Democracy'.
@cmcilwain.bsky.social
Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
@drsrivi.bsky.social
SU Newhouse Prof & Endowed Chair 🍊; Editor, Comm Monographs. Director: CODE^SHIFT (Collab for Data Equity, Social Healing, Incl. Futures, & Transformation). Media Literacy, Community Engaged Research, Global Media, Youth. Views my own. See: drsrivi.com
@brookeerinduffy.bsky.social
social media researcher and author associate professor at Cornell University platforms, power, and the creator economy www.brookeduffy.com
@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
@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.
@joshua-neves.bsky.social
underbelly of the digital. Prof @Concordia University books: In/Convenience / Technopharmacology / Underglobalization / Asian Video Cultures
@caddiealford.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Rhetoric & Writing at VCU // critical platform, AI, and media studies + rhetorical theory Co-Director of AI Futures Lab 📕 = Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality First Gen #TeamRhetoric https://caddiealford.com
@notsaved.bsky.social
technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "very good at bad sweaters" paranom.asia
@underground259.bsky.social
Environmental media studies, cinema, architecture, art, weather control. Professor. Recent book: Climatic Media. Views personal
@katbamkapow.bsky.social
over-explainer for fame & fortune, 9-5 academic 💾🌿💽 kb.place 💽🌿💾 doctor of the internet, computer history & lgbtq+ activism, science & technology & critical HIV/AIDS studies. you might know me from video games once: uc irvine now: u of michigan
@jeanburgess.bsky.social
Prof at QUT School of Communication & Digital Media Research Centre; Assoc Director ADM+S Centre. Researching the internet, platforms & automation in society via cultural studies & digital methods. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐶🌄🍽🎤
@rorshock.bsky.social
Mesh networks, media infrastructure, software engineering, ham/CB radio (KD2QGX); Asst Prof The New School, Director of Code as a Liberal Art; “very clear & cool, simple but intricate”; he/him
@martinriedl.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Media @ University of Tennessee, Knoxville | platform governance, digital journalism, dis/misinformation | he/him | 🇪🇺 alien | www.martinriedl.com
@stevierea.bsky.social
Senior Researcher, Critical Internet Studies Institute (@criticalinternet.bsky.social, criticalinternet.org). He/him/his. Views my own; shares, likes, etc. =\= endorsements.
@sjjphd.bsky.social
Prof and researcher. I study race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social Opinions definitely my own
@techwontsave.us
A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com. https://techwontsave.us/
@superwuster.bsky.social
Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Author of "The Curse of Bigness," "The Attention Merchants" Forthcoming book: THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025)
@stucun.bsky.social
Speech science & tech (dysarthria, voice, AAC #Augcomm, #A11Y) University of Sheffield May occasionally contain #stats, #cricket, #everton, and #sfgiants