Josh Lauer
Media studies prof | History of communication tech, surveillance & information | Author of CREDITWORTHY, co-editor of SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM IN AMERICA
@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)
@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
@zey.bsky.social
It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
@msteinbrg.bsky.social
Platforms (digital & not), animation, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Super apps! Prof at Concordia University. Director of The Platform Lab. Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
@dg2311.bsky.social
Attorney with background in labor relations and employment disability | Research Manager, Housing Programs at TechEquity. Currently researching algorithmic tenant screening and price-fixing in the rental market. Views my own.
@ellienicnack.bsky.social
@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. 🐕
@azadehakbari.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. Digital Transformation, University of Twente 🇮🇷🇩🇪 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow for the project authoritarian smart cities www.Azadeh-Akbari.com Co-Director @Survstudiesnet.bsky.social Founder @surveillancemw.bsky.social *personal account*
@aram.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy
Writer, professor, musician. The lesser ½ of Dunia & Aram. The lesser ½ of @RASinn. The lesser ⅛ of Comm Studies @ AU. New book from @themitpress: THE SECRET LIFE […] [bridged from https://aoir.social/@aram on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy
Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University. My next book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the […] [bridged from https://aoir.social/@rwg on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@chriskamrath.bsky.social
Teaching writing/rhetoric at PWR. I study political discourse, self-fashioning, distraction, public culture, and media history.
@hedvigorden.bsky.social
Political scientist, Department of Communication, Lund University. Critical Security Studies & Intelligence Studies. New publications: https://tinyurl.com/ycx4hhzc https://tinyurl.com/y8p8a3sz
@elkeschwarz.bsky.social
Professor of Political Theory. Technology, politics, ethics and war are my main preoccupations. Lately also the Apocalypse.
@gemmamilne.bsky.social
Writer, researcher • STS, economic sociology, political economy of deep tech • University of Glasgow & Edinburgh • Author of ‘Smoke & Mirrors’
@ctmccartney.bsky.social
Professor of Law & Criminal Justice interested in INjustice. Focus on #forensics #AI science/tech in criminal justice. Also nuts about Prince, Maneskin, professional cycling, politics, comedy, gigs and more. #academicsky (1st-gen)
@elsabmeuller.bsky.social
PhD-ing in politics, gender and the internet at Goldsmiths 💻 || Researching antifeminist and misogynist politics || Also: Part Time Lecturer at Southampton, and Editor of Millennium Vol. 54 || She/They ✨
@katezambon.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Communication and Global Media Studies at UNH studying media, migration, and nationalism in Germany, Europe, and across the Atlantic. Alum of AnnenbergPenn. Wrote Interrogating Integration https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14405925
@retailhistorian.bsky.social
Visiting Fellow at University of Essex; Editor of History of Retailing and Consumption. Submit here: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rhrc20 Author of From Main Street to Mall (2015) https://www.pennpress.org/9780812224399/from-main-street-to-mall/
@broadstreethockey.com
Covering the Philadelphia Flyers, fostering our fun little community. www.broadstreethockey.com
@bjpeters.bsky.social
Writing on (post-)Soviet AI and #RussHack. (Books: Your Computer is on Fire. Soviet Internet. Digital Keywords.) Media theorist, historian, frisbeeist, parent
@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
@acyn.bsky.social
Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com Clips made with SnapStream Internet Hooligan...
@edmarkey.bsky.social
U.S. Senator fighting for the families and future of Massachusetts. Malden Native, Red Sox Fan, Net Neutrality Defender, co-author of the Green New Deal ( he/him )
@charleswlogan.bsky.social
Learning Sciences PhD Candidate at Northwestern University - Teaching and learning for collective flourishing in schools and beyond by resisting, refusing, repurposing, and reimagining technologies - Dad Life - he/him/his
@torinmonahan.bsky.social
Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Studies surveillance, tech, platforms. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society.
@doctornilz.bsky.social
Soziologe, Ethnologe, Kriminologe, Mediator / Überwachung, Konflikt, Sicherheit, Doping, Ethnographie, Polizei, Mit-Herausgeber kommunikation-gesellschaft.de
@datasociety.bsky.social
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
@wchr.bsky.social
Public-interest researcher at Cracked Labs | Research fellow at Citizen Lab | Vienna, Austria | Tech and society. Tracking, surveillance, data economy, platform power, algorithmic decisions, datafication of work. wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en
@justinhendrix.bsky.social
Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
@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/
@tamigraph.bsky.social
Climate/technology/labor/death researcher in Oakland. AI hater @datasociety.bsky.social I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/ Views mine www.tamarakneese.com
@caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social
Chancellor’s Fellow in Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh | @BRAID research fellow | Human-AI creativity | responsible AI
@ntusikov.bsky.social
She/her. Assoc. prof at York University in Toronto. Crime, law, regulation & tech. All things tech governance, especially internet of things, smart cities, femtech & platform governance. Book: The New Knowledge: Information, Data & Remaking of Global Power
@pipt.bsky.social
Chancellor’s Fellow & BRAID Fellow @EdinburghUni. Critic of Linguistic Capitalism. @Braid_UK 'Writing the Wrongs of AI' (with @edbookfest) http://www.wwai.info #PATM www.pipthornton.com
@christinegrandy.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); forthcoming book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of data usage and online experiences; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
@rosamundevb.bsky.social
assistant prof criminology VUB teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI, research: digital & more-than-human criminology, critical surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
@klangable.bsky.social
Spends too much time talking about privacy, surveillance and digital rights & ethics. Not enough time writing. Associate Professor at Fordham U. in the Bronx Intermittent fiction reader, constant ebook listener, indoor biker, outdoor dog walker
@joedeville.bsky.social
#OpenAccess & #OpenInfrastructure advocate. Professor in #STS at Lancaster University. Managing Director at Open Book Collective. Trustee/Editor at Mattering Press. Heading up the @copim.bluesky.social Open Book Futures project
@klonick.bsky.social
Law professor & journalist researching internet law, online speech governance, AI. Dallying in consumer protection. For sporadic writings on these things see: https://klonick.substack.com/ For more info and full bio see: www.kateklonick.com
@kjhealy.co
Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick. https://kieranhealy.org / https://theordinalsociety.com
@sarahbrayne.bsky.social
Sociology Professor at Stanford | Author of Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing | Founding Director of the Texas Prison Education Initiative
@ahepp.bsky.social
Professor of media and communications at ZeMKI and Commfigurations, Uni Bremen, on #mediatization, #datafication, #pioneercommunities, #pioneerjournalism, #ComAI, #AI, #digitalfutures.
@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
@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
@tainab.bsky.social
@ethanz.bsky.social
UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
@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
@bzelizer.bsky.social
Raymond Williams Professor of Communication @asc.upenn.edu & Director @ascmediarisk.org