jake pitre
a very sensitive piece of horse flesh. PhD candidate critiquing tech futures. http://unwantedutopias.substack.com. http://boxd.it/20r7.
@unsurprisinglee.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @UofT, graduate research fellow @ Centre for Culture and Technology; studying us military and militarism, milsim videogames, and the history of computation. she/her 🏳️⚧️
@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
@andrewrbailey.bsky.social
SSHRC postdoc researching/creating videogame archives at the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Lab at Concordia University. Teaching games studies and new media art history at OCAD University. He/him. 📚 https://arbailey2297.github.io
@mathewiantorno.com
📚 PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (Faculty of Information) 🤖 Studies the history, labour, & public impact of retail automation 🍄 Part-time bread baker, mushroom hunter, and game designer 🛰️ mathewiantorno.com
@zizilizizi.bsky.social
✨ 1st gen college student ➡️ digital culture researcher 👩🏻🏫 A cinephile teaching film and media studies ✍🏼 Digital Media, Influencer Cultures
@tanjagrubnic.bsky.social
PhD English. 2022-2023 Fulbright. Incoming 2025-2027 SSHRC Postdoc. Interested in contemp and digital literary culture! Learn more about me at tanjagrubnic.com.
@underground259.bsky.social
Environmental media studies, cinema, architecture, art, weather control. Professor. Recent book: Climatic Media. Views personal
@joshua-neves.bsky.social
underbelly of the digital. Prof @Concordia University books: In/Convenience / Technopharmacology / Underglobalization / Asian Video Cultures
@parismarx.com
i criticize the tech industry 🎙️ @techwontsave.us & @systemcrash.info 📬 https://disconnect.blog 📖 https://roadtonowherebook.com
@adrishaw.bsky.social
Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive, professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
@devonjp.bsky.social
Professor at University of Michigan. Metafuturist. Music nerd. Karaoke enthusiast. Fun at meetings, boring at parties.
@sunhahong.bsky.social
Wrote Technologies of Speculation (NYUP, 2020). Writing Predictions Without Futures. right now: Stanford Humanities Centre Fellow, soon: UNC Chapel Hill.
@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
@mrsbunz.bsky.social
King’s College London. Interested in reading ML as a ‘calculation of meaning’ 🧮📝📚✍️🎨. Creative AI Lab with Serpentine’s Eva Jäger. Left AI ✊
@krystenstein.bsky.social
#firstgen phd asst prof UC blue ash social media + reality TV representation + identity production + political economy mental health + wellness https://krystenstein.com/
@devikanarayan.bsky.social
Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. some other stuff. Sociologist. https://www.devikanarayan.com/
@aswinp.bsky.social
Prof., Annenberg School for Communication @Upenn; focus on media & cultural change in postcolonial & diasporic contexts; Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/aswin-punathambekar-phd
@zizip.bsky.social
UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication + Poli Sci, Head of COMM@UIC Books: After Democracy; Affective Publics; A Private Sphere; A Networked Self series
@princeguma.bsky.social
Researcher | geographies, infrastructures, technologies, politics, lifeworlds
@sophiebishop.bsky.social
She/her Studying influencers & ‘influencer creep’ in creative industries Associate Professor in Media & Communication, University of Leeds Pre order Influencer Creep now: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/influencer-creep/paper
@internetmaggie.com
Porn & Platform Research 💦📚☕💻 PhD Candidate @UofT Faculty of Information | Advisory Board w. ECP/Pornhub | #1 Animorphs Fan www.internetmaggie.com
@thechristinet.bsky.social
✨CEO of peer-reviewed vibes (they/she) ✨Asst Prof (LTA) of Digital Media & Game Studies, U of Toronto Mississauga ✨Researcher of work, play, livestreaming & creator economy ✨PhD(c) U of Toronto iSchool ✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com/
@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
@nsrnicek.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at KCL. New book out in 2025: 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI'.
@posada.website
💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu & SSRC Just Tech Fellow 🎓 Research on #Data + #Work + #Platforms 🌐 https://posada.website/
@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
@katiejwells.bsky.social
i study how labor platforms shape the way we live in cities. geographer. research director @groundwork.bsky.social. new book: DISRUPTING D.C. (Princeton Univ Press 2023) http://katiejwells.net
@melhogan.bsky.social
Critical media scholar interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot 😷🏳️🌈 🎙️ The Data Fix thedatafix.net 📝 Heliotrope heliotropejournal.net
@jessrauchberg.bsky.social
social media + digital culture expert. I write about labor + inequalities in the creator economy. hot takes are my own! www.jessrauchberg.com
@ericara.bsky.social
professor of media, culture, and communication. editor, public culture. organizer, oikos working group on kinship/economy. enthusiast. (@fstflofscholars over yonder)
@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
@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
@nancybaym.bsky.social
30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.
@datasociety.bsky.social
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
@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
@dmgreene.bsky.social
Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
@roopikarisam.bsky.social
Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth, does data & digital humanities things, edits #ReviewsInDH, rides horses 🐴 https://roopikarisam.com
@ubiquity75.xyz
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta used it to train its LLM. Professor, researcher, author, VP AoIR, synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady. “This heaven gives me migraine.”
@elmcitytree.bsky.social
Professor at CUNY, scholar of Blackness, comics, music, & popular culture writ large, leftist & left handed. 🇰🇳 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ I maintain the Blackademics feed, the scholarly side of #Blacksky https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7 Personal account
@gleemie.bsky.social
Professoe, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. These are my opinions, not those of the institution that employs my labor.
@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
@safiyanoble.bsky.social
Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow Writer, researcher, professor. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com
@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
@edwardongwesojr.com
writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel thetechbubble.substack.com
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Journalist @404Media.co Signal: jason.404 // email: [email protected]
@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