Noah Wardrip-Fruin
UC Santa Cruz professor; Expressive Intelligence Studio co-director; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons coming Fall 2025, in the U Chicago Press Replay series
@francesryan.bsky.social
Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? and Crippled. E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
@meredithbak.bsky.social
Asso. Prof. of Childhood Studies Film History | Toys | Media Archaeology www.meredithabak.com https://ninthletter.com/journal/volume-21-issue-01/
@sethgiddings.bsky.social
Out now: Toy Theory: technology and imagination in play (MIT) Professor of Ludic Technologies, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton https://www.microethology.net Living with motor neurone disease #mnd #als
@alexmonea.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @ George Mason U | Author: The Digital Closet (https://bit.ly/digitalcloset) | Focus: content moderation, platform governance, data ethics | Views my own | he/him
@penixtadsen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Spanish, Chair of Game Studies & Esports at the University of Delaware Author of 'Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America' + Editor of 'Video Games and the Global South' https://sites.udel.edu/ptpt
@novomancy.bsky.social
Director, DEV Studio. DH & XR @ Dartmouth College. Digital Curation @ UMaine. Art & code @ WWW. #10print
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social
Go read: * Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn * Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global Aging
@wernimont.bsky.social
Northern Woods dwelling nerd who thinks about how we turn people into numbers. Currently working on history of eugenics, health data, and death certificates. Into fibers, sports, and not falling over. Wrote Numbered Lives (MIT)
@nannathylstrup.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
@lagernina.bsky.social
Professor of visual culture @ NTNU Trondheim | Media, Data, Museums | Author of Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization @ MIT Press 2023 | Campuslivet (akademisk nyhetsbrev på norsk): campuslivet.substack.com
@jonippolito.net
How does tech empower and frustrate creators—writers, programmers, media makers—and how do we keep their work alive in the long run? UMaine Professor of New Media, Director of Digital Curation; former Guggenheim Curator of Media Art https://jonippolito.net
@rachelplotnick.bsky.social
Associate Prof, IU Media School. Hist of tech, interfaces, wearables, media tech and everyday life. Books: Power Button (MIT) bit.ly/2xMlmsr and License to Spill (MIT, out now!) https://shorturl.at/Yl1DP
@hollykruse.bsky.social
Media studies. Books: –Gender & tech (Polity 2025) –Synthpop, co-editor (Bloomsbury 2025) –Networks & horse racing (MIT Press https://t.ly/CJvI2) –Indie music scenes (Peter Lang https://t.ly/9ACTM) Irish Setters+horse+failed foster dog. Iowan in Tulsa.
@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!
@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/
@vthewanderer.bsky.social
Media Studies, Games scholar, Humanities human Lecturer at TecnoCampus, UPF (Barcelona) Founding member of @DIGRASpain Director de la colección Ludografías. Co-president of the History of Games conference. I also do my own stunts. linktr.ee/vthewanderer
@tbonini.bsky.social
Associate professor of Sociology of culture and Communication at @unisi. Co-author of Algorithms of Resistance (MIT Press 2024), available in OA, MIT press website
@docfarber.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado. Codirector, Gaming SEL Lab. Play theorist. NEW! The Well-Read Game a.co/d/6oAphWV
@epikt.bsky.social
Critic in residency at the Institute of Impure Science. He/him. Failure wizard. Views not those of my employer except by accident.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
The University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the United States and a distinguished publisher of trade and scholarly books and journals. Refining minds since 1891!
@astrokatie.com
Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr. Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
@elinorem.bsky.social
@jefforkin.bsky.social
Cofounder @ Bitpart.ai. Ex: Drift, Giant Otter, Monolith, Sierra. AI Lead for FEAR and NOLF2. MIT Media Lab alum
@vjumamel.bsky.social
Socially conscious cyborg with a data body. Digital artist, author, programmer, and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara https://vjumamel.com
@geoffreylong.bsky.social
Storyteller, scholar, consultant. Loving son, husband and father. Kindhearted mischief-maker.
@lackingceremony.bsky.social
I'm a queer game designer hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan. I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
@lucasnfe.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais AI & Creativity, Music and Games https://www.dcc.ufmg.br/~lferreira
@mattviglione.bsky.social
I make games at SomaSim. I help run the Chicago Game Lab. I live in Chicago. Go Sox.
@jorisdormans.bsky.social
Game designer. Lead dev for Unexplored, Unexplored 2, and an undisclosed secret project. Also dabbles with board game design. Teaches game studies, generative narratology, and game design at Leiden University.
@recardona.bsky.social
🇵🇷 Asst. Prof. of AI, CogSci, Interactive Narrative, Game Design, & VR in the Division of Games at the University of Utah. He/They.
@laramartin.net
Applying and improving #NLP/#AI but in a safe way. Teaching computers to tell stories, play D&D, and help people talk (accessibility). Assistant Prof in CSEE @ UMBC. 🏳️🌈♿ https://laramartin.net
@jurie.bsky.social
Game developer since 1991. Into interactive storytelling, procedural content generation, game AI. Dutch immigrant in Toronto. Ex-demo scene.
@toadyone.bsky.social
@unormal.bsky.social
A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. 🏆Deloitte Fast 500 🏆Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies 🏆IGF Narrative. 🚀Hugo nominated Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM
@borut.bsky.social
Game Architect E-Line Media Past: Never Alone 2, Weird West. Prey (2017), Skulls of the Shogun...
@christophsalge.bsky.social
Maker of Artificial Intelligence, Player of Games, Citizen of the World, Student of Philosophy, Writer of Pretentious Lists. Reader in AI in Games at the University of Hertfordshire.
@nicolelazzaro.bsky.social
XR Hall of Fame | Designed 1st iPhone Game | 4 Keys 2 Fun. Unlocking human potential through play. Developer of Follow the White Rabbit Tales an XR mystery adventure you play in the real world with your real friends. Now soft launched on 🍎 Vision Pro!
@autumnsburg.bsky.social
He/Him. PCG Person -- @ CD Projekt Red, formerly a professor at Cal Poly Pomona
@markriedl.bsky.social
AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Associate Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
@craigreynolds.bsky.social
Unaffiliated researcher, retired software guy. Interested in computational models of natural complexity, especially collective motion and camouflage coevolution. Graphics, animation, evolutionary computation. https://www.red3d.com/cwr/
@justusrobertson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor IGM at RIT. AI for games and storytelling.
@camillahawth.bsky.social
Associate Prof @SociologyatUCSC & @cresucsc. Author of Contesting Race and Citizenship (Cornell UP) and co-editor of The Black Mediterranean (Palgrave Macmillan) and The Black Geographic (Duke UP).