Jim Malazita

@friede.bsky.social

Storyteller about storytellers. 18th century to today & beyond. Associate Professor of English Words at Polygon (RIP), LA Review of Books, more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance) www.ecfriedman.com

@rpihass.bsky.social

Official account of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

@philsalv.bsky.social

Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him

@chloeappleby.bsky.social

Award winning Games Curator at Powerhouse Museum Sydney. Board Chair 🪑 at Freeplay. Indie game lover. Pokemon freak. linktr.ee/chloeappleby

@blairapgar.bsky.social

Asst. Prof (LT) @ Elon | Mixed bag Medievalist obsessed w/Matilda of Canossa, video games, virtual reality & 3D models. PhD @ UofYork 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (They/Them)

@maryannefranks.bsky.social

Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.

@tomnullpointer.bsky.social

UK Indie Game Dev - Just released "The Horror At Highrook" A clockwork-card narrative-board game https://store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/The_Horror_at_Highrook/ Previously "Into The Pit", BigRobot, Phd in the digital sublime

@hollynielsen.bsky.social

Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit she/her

@marscardua.bsky.social

🦌 raposabranca.com // raposabranca.itch.io Game poetics+making+rhetoric • Mobilities space/time • A secret third thing •Game dev/educator/scholar •PhD candidate •Artist •Werewolf (/jk)(?) EN / ES / PTBR • they likes/follows aren't endorsements

@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!

@konstantinosd.bsky.social

Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.

@alienmelon.bsky.social

Slovenian gamedev, i make experimental games and software ~Tetrageddon, Everything is going to be OK, Electric Zine Maker… http://tetrageddon.com ✨ http://unicornycopia.com 🌈 nonbinary bi they/them 🏳️‍🌈

@danielvella.bsky.social

Director & Senior Lecturer at Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta // Narrative designer with Mighty Boards (Posthuman Saga, Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan) // Organizing DiGRA 2025 in Malta // Debut novel out 2026!

@femmediastudies.bsky.social

Feminist Media Studies is a transdisciplinary, transnational journal publishing peer-reviewed scholarship + commentary & book reviews. Posts by @krystenstein.bsky.social

@florencesn.bsky.social

Video game archaeologist + game dev// PhD on archaeogaming as game preservation + procgen// Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology they/them 💾 florencesmithnicholls.com

@kadybat.ellen.zone

devrel by day + plural furry rave dog by night ☆ roller coaster sicko, transformers collector, retro gamer ☆ opinions ≠ my employer's ☆ suit @craftycovenco ☆ boston, ma ☆ she/they/pup ☆ 30~ ☆ ΘΔ&🏳️‍⚧️♾️ 💕 jae, lily, kaleido, hoot, faith, ace ellen.zone

@profgillian.bsky.social

digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here: https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/

@daphnek.bsky.social

Director of Program on Platform Regulation, Stanford CPC. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues. I've done this stuff for a long time and am getting kind of cranky about it.

@freya.bsky.social

🎮 indie tech artist 🏗️ I made Shader Forge & Shapes 🌐 working on https://half-edge.xyz 🔥 shader sorceress 📏 math dork 🎥 rare YouTuber/streamer 📡 ex-founder of @NeatCorp my kids: 🥪 @toast.acegikmo.com 🥗 @salad.acegikmo.com 🐈‍⬛ @thor.acegikmo.com

@beccalew.bsky.social

Postdoctoral scholar @ Stanford. I research the history of the right in Silicon Valley and online. Email me at beccalewis@protonmail.com. She/her

@chriskempshall.bsky.social

President @fwwsoc.bsky.social. Public Historian & Author on #FWW allied relations, historical games studies, & #StarWars. Rep'd Justin Nash of Kate Nash Literary Agency. He/him https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall

@matpiscatella.bsky.social

Executive Director & Video Game Industry Analyst at Circana (NPD). Formerly of Activision and Warner Bros Games. I helped get one of your favorite games greenlit.

@toitle.bsky.social

This is my personal social media account. My opinions are my own.

@ethanz.bsky.social

UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.

@pspolygons.bsky.social

Appreciator of early PS aesthetics. Ken Kutaragi fan. Experimenter in re-creating 90s-esque jungle and electronic music. Owner of feedme.design. 🍔

@jparish.bsky.social

Retronauts Co-Host, NES Works Producer, Limited Run Book Guy, and RGB addict. Did not invent the word "Metroidvania." He/him. Header pic by Sonya Yruel.

@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

@gamemakerstoolkit.com

🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GMTK 🍓 GMTK Game Jam: http://gmtk.itch.io 🧲 Mind Over Magnet: http://s.team/a/2685900/

@dvstudies.bsky.social

The Center for Digital Visual Studies (DVS) is an innovative interdisciplinary laboratory exploring the intersection of Computer Science and Art History, a part of the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History – hosted at the UZH (CH)

@brookebennett.bsky.social

AAS - Austin Community College // BA - U Of Arkansas // MA - USC 🤓 ——— future Minnesota PhD student fall 2025 // feminist media studies // see also: horror film, pop culture, & identity // neurodiverse // she/her 🌈🍿🐕🦴🏈👾📚

@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

@rasheedabueideh.bsky.social

Palestinian that wants to make games and tell the stories of his culture. https://www.launchgood.com/1948

@chadtoprak.bsky.social

experimental game designer, independent curator he/him Games Investment Manager @ Screen Australia https://mr-chad.com

@doougle.net

🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust 🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games) at RMIT University 🎙️ Co-host @ https://eggplant.show/ 🌏 Naarm/Melbourne he/him

@mgarrett.bsky.social

I have two books out this year: Feral Class & Furtherfield: 30 Years of Art, Technology, & Eco-social Change. Researcher in Post-digital Culture, academic, artist, writer, curator, activist, techie, PhD co-founder @furtherfield.bsky.social :-)

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

The Academic Audio Library. 26,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. 10 new episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts https://linktr.ee/newbooksnetwork

@whitneytrettien.bsky.social

Penn professor & faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. Author, CUT/COPY/PASTE (2021). Weird old books & book history, thinking about data, craftwork, feminist media histories. Creative/critical. Still a punk.

@katewillaert.bsky.social

(WILL-ert) | Investigating forgotten gaming history | Creator of the greatest Metroid video on Youtube | Asexual, autistic, artistic, 🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) | Linktree: https://katewillaert.com/link-tree

@robhamilton.bsky.social

associate professor of music and media @rpi head, department of arts; games and simulation arts and sciences program https://robertkhamilton.github.io/ composer, researcher, technophile ex: ccrma, smule, peabody, dartmouth

@catacalypto.bsky.social

narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.

@amabel.bsky.social

She/her. "Widely considered one of today’s most innovative game designers." - The New Yorker Board games: https://hollandspiele.com video essays: youtube.com/@hollandspiele Patreon: patreon.com/amabelholland sidekicking: youtube.com/@SBPlaysGames

@producing2power.bsky.social

comm, media industries, platform, social media, and creator studies scholar (aka "creator anthropologist"). In my past life, I spent decades making TV movies and "producing to power".

@juanbeaumont.bsky.social

Cultural, Queer & Game Studies. PhD. Associate Professor (Prof. Contratado Doctor). Webpage: https://t.co/CecoZJEsAZ Recent publications: https://shorturl.at/TKFAB ; https://shorturl.at/Gqj6i ; https://shorturl.at/laRGx ; https://shorturl.at/ZGrl9

@noizangel.bsky.social

aspiring Doctor of D&D, but not how you think @ YorkU • coined 'D&D industrial complex' • STS/Communications • recovering larp burnout • i love pizza and cats noizangel: literally everywhere https://linktr.ee/nicolewinchester she/her/any/all 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈

@benspky.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen

@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org

@thehanopticon.bsky.social

Media Scholar in the Wild | Assistant Prof at Pitzer College | Studying oceans, energy, and tech 🍉

@mojojojosef.bsky.social

he/him/his Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Media, University of Michigan starting 1 January 2025 into baking, biceps, and boba

@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

@cp25atlanta.bsky.social

June 27-29, 2025 at Georgia State University Conference information: https://fmt.gsu.edu/console-ing-passions-conference-2025/ Questions? Email us at consoleingpassions25 AT gmail DOT com