Katie Hoovestol

@vodmovies.bsky.social

An academic project dedicated to studying the impact of SVOD platforms (e.g. Netflix, Prime Video, etc.) on the global film industry. AKA Chris Meir, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

@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

@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

@bloggeronpole.bsky.social

💻 Innovation fellow at the Centre for Digital Citizens📱Platform governance researcher 💃🏻 #poledance performer 🍑 Blogger, award-winning activist 🇮🇹 LDNer (she/her) 🧛🏻‍♀️ Thinking about Buffy like it’s the Roman Empire. https://bloggeronpole.com/all-my-links/

@harrytdyer.bsky.social

Digital sociologist, interested in identity, social media, & LGBTQ youth. Course Director of BA Education suite at UEA. Editor of Digital Culture and Education You can find other papers I've written here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=770gzPq

@drbrandonharris.bsky.social

Husband + cat dad + Prof in AL studying: twitch, gaming, platforms, media industries, labor, & content creators one unhinged study at a time.

@sarareinis.bsky.social

researching internet culture, algorithms, self-help, spirituality, and assorted rabbit holes that strike my fancy | currently: PhD student at Penn Annenberg

@samcabbuag.bsky.social

Donut lover 🍩 | PhD candidate in Sociology at HKBU | Asst Prof of Sociology, UP Diliman | digital sociology, influencer cultures, digital cultures, social media platforms

@elinorcarmi.bsky.social

🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City, University of London, UK. She/her. https://elinorcarmi.com/ Working on data politics/feminist data/data literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.

@pranavm.bsky.social

@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

@wellactually.bsky.social

rhetoric sun. media rising. gender moon. PhD candidate, recovering marketer, and award-winning drag king. thinking about neoliberalism & gender performance in consumer culture. they/them.

@carabyrd.bsky.social

Assistant professor of practice at the Edward R. Murrow College of Comm. Research in the intersection of women’s sport, social media & branding.Cofounder of Starting Line 1928. #commsky

@persephone.blue

🔥 ludoarsonist 🕹️ media scholar 🎮 game maker AP of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. Dir. @ https://darcmode.org + https://triptable.top. 🔍 trans play 🏳️‍⚧️ TRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨ 🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io

@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/

@timhighfield.bsky.social

Internet researcher and Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.

@errolsalamon.bsky.social

Program Director, MSc in Media Management & Senior Lecturer in Media Production, University of @Stir.ac.uk | Research: work, labour, and organizations in digital journalism and media industries | PI: Creator Labour project | https://linktr.ee/errolsalamon

@drgyopophd.bsky.social

Green-Cheeked Conure and Pug Dad; Begrudgingly-Tolerated Cat Step Dad | Asian/American Media Histories of Race, Culture, and Empire | Asst. Prof., Loyola University Chicago School of Communication Opinions are my own and not my institution's.

@yaseminbeykont.bsky.social

Visiting Asst. Prof. At Marist University, PhD from Penn State, UWM & Istanbul Bilgi University alum, memes + critical advertising + political economy + popular culture, she/her yaseminbeykont.com

@thekatestewart.bsky.social

📍AL | Assistant Prof of PR at JSU 👩🏼‍🏫 Ph.D. from USC, B.A. + M.A. from Auburn 👩🏼‍🎓 #WarEagle | #swiftie 🫶🏼 social media researcher 🤳🏼

@mariahlwellman.bsky.social

Professor & researcher | writing a book on social media influencers and the wellness industry

@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

@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

@dfreelon.bsky.social

Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. & Presidential Prof. of Communication @AnnenbergPenn. If you can't tell the difference between what's true and what you wish were true, take your business elsewhere.

@robyncaplan.bsky.social

Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom. I make bad jokes sometimes.

@cfiesler.bsky.social

information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff) kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey) though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things she/her

@dkreiss.bsky.social

Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.

@alicetiara.bsky.social

Studies social media & society, far-right disinfo. Dir of Research, Data & Society. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org

@shannimcg.bsky.social

Professor at UNC. Principal investigator at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, data, news. BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533

@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

@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.”

@docdre.distributedblackness.net

Ignore my late night posts. Award winning author! I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf …and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf Openly Black. Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr* andrebrock.academia.edu

@datasociety.bsky.social

Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.

@snurb.info

Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media. He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺 🕸️ snurb.info 🐘 @[email protected] ⛔ @snurb_dot_info

@meredithdclark.bsky.social

I escaped the Upside Down, but I still visit

@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

@beccalew.bsky.social

Postdoctoral scholar @ Stanford. I research the history of the right in Silicon Valley and online. Email me at [email protected]. She/her

@sivav.bsky.social

Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Supervises VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.

@nickseaver.website

anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.

@davidarditi.bsky.social

Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism

@merbroussard.bsky.social

Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com

@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.

@evianeleidig.com

Expert in reactionary politics, online harms & platform governance | The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization 📚 💻 evianeleidig.com

@labortechresearchnetwork.org

We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism. Posts by @kaareeenah.bsky.social

@ysabel.bsky.social

• qualitative social science academic researching tech + young identities • new book out with @ucpress: THE KIDS ARE ONLINE https://tinyurl.com/jv33yjaf • words in @guardian @WIRED @WSJ @glamour • she/her find me @ ysabelgerrard.net/home

@jessienyc.bsky.social

Writer. Professor. Queer. Latest book: #NiceWhiteLadies.

@tamaleaver.bsky.social

🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin Uni (Boorloo/Perth West Australia); 🌏 Past Prez @AoIR.bsky.social; 🔎 @digitalchildau.bsky.social (AI & Datafication); 🐘 @[email protected]; he/him. [Views mine; RT/❤️/etc ≠ endorsement]

@katemiltner.bsky.social

Lecturer (Asst. Prof) in Data, AI & Society @ The University of Sheffield Information School. Member of the UK Young Academy. katemiltner.com

@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/

@steelecat717.bsky.social

Author - Digital Black Feminism Associate Professor @UMD I wonder if I'll ever get to talk about my reality shows here 😔