Shira Chess (she/her)
Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Current projects:
1. The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century digital culture (Strange Attractor with RU Sirius)
@doctorblahblahtv.bsky.social
@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.
@athenshelpers.bsky.social
Connecting volunteers to progressive and inclusive community organizations in Athens, GA. Mutual Aid is how we survive and thrive.
@wytang.bsky.social
Erasmus Rotterdam University - Lecturer Communications Ph.D. - sexual harassment in online video games
@mestarivaraani.bsky.social
Jack of all trades, master of science. Veteran game master. Fake engineer boy. Not a doctor; don’t let the white coat fool you.
@adamkinzinger.bsky.social
Former US Congressman, Proud RINO, husband, and military man. Fighting the MAGA brain worms daily! Adamkinzinger.komi.io Adamkinzinger.substack.com
@annaressman.bsky.social
privacy, security, doom. Frequently sincere posting. Header image is one of my photos of the old Chicago Sun-Times building being dismantled. She/her. Antiracist.
@sturkle.bsky.social
Writer, thinker, mom, MIT professor & humanistic voice of caution about tech. My memoir, The Empathy Diaries, called "an instant classic" by the NY Times.
@theondrakguy.bsky.social
Cultural intelligence, OSINT & digital policy ¦ human-digital flows; digital narratology; semantic threats; cognitohazards; extremism ¦ PhD on horror; creepypasta; digital fictions & how they shape our collective online experience.
@jakeorlowitz.bsky.social
Internet Citizen, Founder of the #Wikipedia Library, #1Lib1Ref, and the Wikimedia Consultants Network. Lead at #WikiBlueprint Consulting. Seeker of well people and sane societies. Project2029.me #resist
@scholarslab.bsky.social
UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more 💜🏳️🌈 People > projects. 📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
@cogitatiomac.bsky.social
Media and Communication is a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of research in communication. 2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 (Q1) https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication
@hashleytag.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Clemson University, studying health communication, cancer prevention, and sexual violence prevention.
@hmontembeault.bsky.social
Professor in Game Studies at UQAT-MTL. Co-host of Profil Ludique, a game analysis & theory podcast. Research focus: game design, noise theory, and glitch art.
@paleofuture.bsky.social
Tech reporter @Gizmodo.com. I’ve been writing about the history of futurism @Paleofuture.com since 2007. Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com Signal: mattnovak.11
@gabrielletj.bsky.social
Professor and researcher in game studies School of media, Université du Québec à Montréal
@ellietomsett.bsky.social
Comedy academic. Author of Stand Up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms (2023), co-founder of Mixed Bill research network. Book reviews editor for Comedy Studies. Views/cats my own. She/her
@poppywilde.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication at Birmingham City University. Author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities. Researcher in #posthumanism #posthuman #subjectivity #digital #cultures #media #games #gamestudies #zombies.
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
@hannaroine.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Digital Culture @ University of Bergen | Leader of the research project Imagine, Democracy! Narrative Fiction as a Tool for Imagining Democracy in Finland @ Tampere University | Lover of cats, RPGs, progressive rock & vegetarian food
@sotamaa.bsky.social
proper grumpy professor // creative labour scholar // football enthusiast // middle-aged soulboy // tampere män
@applecider.bsky.social
your neighborhood feminist crank // freelance media critic // Community mod for @Aftermath.site // game photographer // appleciderwitch on twitter (she/they) av: @pugcrumbs.bsky.social #overwatch #gamephotography https://muckrack.com/appleciderwitch
@dieworkwear.bsky.social
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. If you have a style question, search: https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
@drcrankie.bsky.social
▫️associate chair, VCU sociology▪️interested in the mediation of subcultural space ((from pastel QAnon to leftist movement work))▪️united campus workers VCU chapter chair ▪️free palestine 🇵🇸 🌀https://billion-worlds.com/
@emmawestecott.bsky.social
@moryan.bsky.social
writer. critic. gardener. cailleach na luatha 🦋 moryan.com 💚 linktr.ee/maureenryan 🚀 I wrote a book about Hollywood titled Burn It Down. I’m also a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. More on all that at the links above 🌸🔥
@drstephaniedean.bsky.social
Hi, I’m Dr. Stephanie Dean—your guide to fearless podcasting! I help bold thinkers and change-makers amplify their voices and turn their messages into movements.
@secret-terror.bsky.social
Print culture, libraries, religion, science fiction, comics, PKD, Coptic language. "The Saucerian: UFOs, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker" out April 22, 2025 from MIT Press
@t3dy.bsky.social
No honest game is entirely lacking in the capacity to instruct. -Cusanus. I host Esoteric Beat and created PKD Tarot.
@sparkl3bot.bsky.social
@stevenmarsh.bsky.social
Writer, editor, gamer, optimist. Unexpect the expected. Posts and opinions are my own. — he/him/his
@thatkevinmcelroy.bsky.social
I write, rant, cook, and make music. Terrestrial radio refugee currently using my voice to get into (and out of) trouble on a daily basis. The artist formerly known as KMac_Rants on Twitter/X. No unsolicited DM’s please.
@levesque-chris.bsky.social
"Loquacious history bastard." PhD in military history, adjunct professor of history, archivist. Focus on atrocities in Vietnam, Cold War culture, & religion.
@ongs-hat.com
Slate, Gizmodo, BBC, Audible, etc. Substack at http://josephmatheny.substack.com More writing at https://josephmatheny.com/portfolio/writing/
@professorashley.bsky.social
U of U professor, author, mom, cosplayer, RPG nerd. Posts are mine and not my employer's.
@halavais.bsky.social
flâneur, bricoleur, professor of wisdom, master of none, seeker of autonomy
@archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@frodoelhobit.bsky.social
🌸 Any pronouns. I study ancient people, Paganism and the Internet. I like cozy and spooky stuff. La bio está en inglés pa hacerme el chulo. 🌸 My website: https://hortus.neocities.org/
@arsonade.bsky.social
M.A. philosophy, MPH Healthcare Data Scientist. He/Him. Philosophy, public health, stats, data science, scifi, art, TTRPGs, game design, and comics. I mostly just repost when I learn something