Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy
Our organization examines how media and emerging technologies shape democracy. We’re housed at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, and led by Taylor Owen.
@petermacleod.bsky.social
Principal, MASS LBP | Helping people shape the policies that shape their lives | Citizens’ Assemblies + Democratic Innovation | DEMOCRACY’S SECOND ACT coming Fall 2025
@meo-cdmrn.bsky.social
The Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO) and the Canadian Digital Media Research Network (CDMRN)
@e-belliveau.bsky.social
Climate / energy transition / political ecology person. Still trying to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Program Manager @EnvironmentalDefence.ca - views my own
@citizenslobbyca.bsky.social
Empowering citizens to advocate for pollution pricing, climate-aligned finance, and fossil fuel ad truth. Building a liveable world since September 2010. canada.citizensclimatelobby.org
@jayrosen.bsky.social
I teach journalism at NYU, critique the press, try to suggest reforms. PressThink is the name of my subject and my site.
@jessicajohnson.bsky.social
Senior fellow at the Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy @mcgillu.bsky.social. Literary journalism professor @uoft.bsky.social. Former EIC @thewalrusca.bsky.social. I post here about writing, journalism and books.
@spitfirenews.com
A newsletter from @kattenbarge.bsky.social about internet culture, politics, and media. Subscribe today for free!
@xinhan.bsky.social
Asst. Prof @Montana State U |development, governance, Human-AI-Nature interactions, digital tech, resilience, crisis mgmt #interdisciplinary #community https://sites.google.com/view/xinhan
@mathieulavigne.bsky.social
Political scientist studying social media, misinformation & elections at Dartmouth College
@abridgman.bsky.social
Political scientist @McGill studying online political participation, misinformation, and the information ecosystem. Director of the Media Ecosystem Observatory
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
@biella.bsky.social
Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
@vivekdotca.bsky.social
Associate Professor & Director of the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic at the University of Colorado Law School. Working at the intersection of law, technology, and human rights.
@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)
@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
@ginasue.bsky.social
Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@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 🏳️🌈
@willoremus.com
Covering online speech and tech policy for @washingtonpost.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky. Subscribe to the Tech Brief if you feel like it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/tech-brief/ Signal: willoremus.24
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@fcatatsfu.bsky.social
The Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology comprises five schools and programs at the intersection of media, art, culture and technology. http://www.sfu.ca/fcat
@carinaalbrecht.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ SFU's School of Communication | Digital Democracies Institute
@underground259.bsky.social
Environmental media studies, cinema, architecture, art, weather control. Professor. Recent book: Climatic Media. Views personal
@jonathansterne.bsky.social
sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats -- Montreal https://sterneworks.org
@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
@dugstef.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Director of the Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality (DIGS) Lab (digslab.net). Posts and opinions are my own.
@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
@merylalper.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Communication Studies @ Northeastern. Technology, kids, disability, mental health. BOOKS: Digital Youth with Disabilities (MIT 2014) Giving Voice (MIT 2017), Kids Across the Spectrums (MIT 2023) https://bit.ly/kidsacrossthespectrums
@stokel.bsky.social
Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide @stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
@policyr.bsky.social
Journal for internet studies. Interdisciplinary & open access. Published by @hiigberlin.bsky.social & @cais-research.bsky.social in cooperation with @create-glasgow.bsky.social @cis-cnrs.bsky.social IN3 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social & Skytte Institute UT
@emilybell.bsky.social
Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
@gorwa.ca
Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) https://academic.oup.com/book/56385
@ethanz.bsky.social
UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
@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.
@davekarpf.bsky.social
Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens. Davekarpf.substack.com
@jvh.bsky.social
(he/him) antifascist, law prof in Amsterdam (IViR); platform regulation, law and digital infrastructure, quantum technology, fundamental rights. @ivir-uva.bsky.social
@ninajankowicz.com
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org 🙅🏻♀️ Author, disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse. 😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
@gabbymiller.bsky.social
Reporter for Politico’s Morning Tech Fmrly: Tech Policy Press, Tow Center
@sarahkwiley.bsky.social
Currently fighting for a transparent information economy @CheckMyAds.org Tech and media policy at the intersection of 1A, monetization, and competition. Lawyer sometimes. Adrenaline junkie always. Would rather be trail running.
@smw.bsky.social
Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
@zamaan.bsky.social
Campaigns at @accountabletech.bsky.social, Co-Chair at @designitforus.bsky.social. Alum: @ausis.bsky.social, Real Facebook Oversight Board, @markey.senate.gov, @casten.house.gov. YNWA | 🇺🇸🇬🇧 | he/him | opinions my own
@marietjeschaake.bsky.social
Technology Policy at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🇪🇺 Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
@yaeleisenstat.bsky.social
Been called alarmist, a Cassandra & “someone with the resume of a 70 yr old man”. Pro-dog & pro-democracy. Working on tech accountability to safeguard democracy in the digital age at Cybersecurity for Democracy. Personal website: www.yaeleisenstat.com
@heiditworek.bsky.social
Prof @ UBC. Canada Research Chair in history and policy of communications. Director @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social Co-editor of Journal of Global History. Senior fellow @ Centre for International Governance Innovation
@noupside.bsky.social
✍🏼Studies influence, propaganda, adversarial abuse @Georgetown. Writes @Lawfare, The Atlantic. 📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality — on influencers, online crowds, &bespoke realities (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻♀️ Twitter Files supervillain
@davidakaye.bsky.social
californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair. go bears!
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
@hypervisible.bsky.social
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
@victorpickard.bsky.social
Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.