Teemu Helenius
Doctoral researcher at the University of Turku.
My PhD project examines how platforms and their affordances are used in the digital labor of online sex work. The research is currently funded by the KONE Foundation.
https://linktr.ee/aosw_phd_teemu
@liisameri.bsky.social
Kirjallisuustieteilijä & penkkiurheiluentusiasti. Tutkimuksellisesti kiinnostaa traumafiktio, intersektionaalisuus ja identiteetti. 28 | Turku | FM | she&they ☀️🌈🌲🧙🏻🐉
@kasteselmi.bsky.social
Intersektionaalinen genderhapattaja. VTM, @polhistoriaturku.bsky.social. ❤️🔥
@jenmadelene.bsky.social
Professor of Gender Studies at Södertörn University and Uppsala University. Researcher of digital sexual cultures, queer stuff, audio porn and pleasure.
@dicktwitch.bsky.social
Film-maker and audio producer 🎥 Bisexual 💖💜💙 Leather 💙🖤 Kinkster ⛓️ https://soundcloud.com/thebodylistens | https://www.instagram.com/richard_twitch_
@redico.eu
ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond. Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
@carlosrivas.bsky.social
Sociologist | Exploring social & cultural themes through digital data sources | También en español.
@producing2power.bsky.social
comm, media industries, platform, social media, and creator studies scholar (aka "creator anthropologist"). In my past life, I spent decades making TV movies and "producing to power".
@fansplaining.bsky.social
The podcast—and publication!—by, for, and about fandom. Writing on fan culture published once a month, with 250+ eps of the podcast (currently on hiatus) in our back catalog! fansplaining.com // patreon.com/fansplaining // https://ko-fi.com/fansplaining
@fanhackers.transformativeworks.org
Fanhackers is a project of the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) to make fan studies scholarship more accessible. We blog about research, maintain a fan studies bibliography, and more.
@participations.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary, independent and open access journal focused on all forms of audience research and reception studies. NEW ISSUE: November 2024: https://www.participations.org
@arturoarriagada.bsky.social
Associate Professor | Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile) | Researching how platforms and AI affect work at Fairwork (OII) | Millennium Center on the Evolution of Work (M-NEW) | COES | Cultura Social Media Lab. https://sites.google.com/view/arturoarriagada
@gretchenmcc.bsky.social
Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.bsky.social, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics. she/her 🌈 Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦 gretchenmcculloch.com
@smw.bsky.social
Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@adriennemassanari.bsky.social
Assoc Prof@AmericanU. New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets. She/her/hers.
@emeliamay.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Notre Dame studying online communities & social media ✨ previously at @uwischool.bsky.social, @socialfutureslab.bsky.social, & UW CIP and intern with Adobe Research
@sophiebishop.bsky.social
She/her Studying influencers & ‘influencer creep’ in creative industries Associate Professor in Media & Communication, University of Leeds Pre order Influencer Creep now: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/influencer-creep/paper
@kylzjarrett.bsky.social
All the social medias; still nothing to say. Also on Masto and the Bad Place at same name Editor: Dialogues on Digital Society Author: Digital Labor (2022); Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2016)
@thechristinet.bsky.social
✨CEO of peer-reviewed vibes (they/she) ✨Asst Prof (LTA) of Digital Media & Game Studies, U of Toronto Mississauga ✨Researcher of work, play, livestreaming & creator economy ✨PhD(c) U of Toronto iSchool ✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com/
@tamaleaver.bsky.social
🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin Uni (Boorloo/Perth West Australia); 🌏 Past Prez @AoIR.bsky.social; 🔎 @digitalchildau.bsky.social (AI & Datafication); 🐘 @tama@aoir.social; he/him. [Views mine; RT/❤️/etc ≠ endorsement]
@labortechresearchnetwork.org
We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism. Posts by @kaareeenah.bsky.social
@datasociety.bsky.social
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
@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.
@fanstudies.bsky.social
Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012. https://fanstudies.org/
@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.”
@robyncaplan.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom. I make bad jokes sometimes.
@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/
@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
@jeanburgess.bsky.social
Prof at QUT School of Comm & Digital Media Research Centre, Australia; Assoc Director ADM+S Centre. Researching the internet, platforms & tech in society via cultural studies & digital methods. Culture > information🏳️🌈🐶🌄🍽🎤
@tpoell.bsky.social
Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html
@katha.bsky.social
ARC Future Fellow, & Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, Swinburne University of Technology. Currently researching the intersections of sexualities, genders, data, tech & sexual health.
@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!
@susannapaasonen.bsky.social
Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku with random interests https://susannapaasonen.org/
@kattiid.bsky.social
social media researcher (esp visuality, sex, small p-politics, wellbeing) professor at Tallinn University, BFM in 🇪🇪, currently working on TRAVIS project on trust and visuality. https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
@zoeglatt.bsky.social
🤓 Feminist Media Scholar | Digital Ethnographer | Internet Culture Enthusiast 🌟 Postdoc at Microsoft's Social Media Collective 💖 Co-Founder: The Digital Ethnography Collective & The Content Creator Scholars Network @weareccsn.bsky.social 💻 www.zoeglatt.com
@stucun.bsky.social
Speech science & tech (dysarthria, voice, AAC #Augcomm, #A11Y) University of Sheffield May occasionally contain #stats, #cricket, #everton, and #sfgiants
@seedwards.bsky.social
PhD candidate, UW-Madison Department of Communication Arts (Media and Cultural Studies). Usually thinking about nation branding+influencers+platforms. Former research intern, Microsoft Research-New England, Social Media Collective. She/her. seedwards.com
@ysabel.bsky.social
qualitative social science academic researching tech + young identities | new book out w/@ucpress: THE KIDS ARE ONLINE | words in @guardian @WIRED @WSJ | she/her find me @ ysabelgerrard.net/home
@brookeerinduffy.bsky.social
social media researcher and author associate professor at Cornell University platforms, power, and the creator economy www.brookeduffy.com
@jessrauchberg.bsky.social
social media + digital culture expert. I write about labor + inequalities in the creator economy. hot takes are my own! www.jessrauchberg.com
@jessmaddox.bsky.social
University of Alabama social media professor. Author, “The Internet is for Cats” (Rutgers University Press). Thoughts mine. 👇🏻👇🏻 Subscribe to my free Substack newsletter on all things social media! https://bythewaysocial.substack.com
@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
@socialmedialab.ca
Academic Research Lab in Toronto: SocialMediaLab.ca |Skeets by @philipmai.com re: the politics of technology, social media, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, & propaganda | PoliDashboard.org, DeepfakesTracker.org, ConflictMisinfo.org & Communalytic.org.
@icsjournal.bsky.social
Social Media; Communication Studies; Cyberculture; Sociology; Political Communication; Internet Studies. Published by Routledge. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rics20
@davidleyphd.bsky.social
Shrink, author, sex and psychology expert witness. Black belt in BJJ, Burner, beer and bourbon enthusiast. Oh. And Dad jokes. Sorry.
@maditaoeming.bsky.social
public porn scholar, sex educator, pleasure activist, author of »PORNO« (Rowohlt 2023)
@melissagiragrant.com
staff writer, The New Republic // A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (Little, Brown) out in 2026 // PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso) // member, NewsGuild of NY » email: melissa@melissagira.com » press releases/lists: mggrant@tnr.com » Signal: melissagira.01 (link below)
@gustavoturner.bsky.social
Writer + Photographer. Joined the circus. Los Angeles. https://linktr.ee/gustavoturnerx
@swsolidarity.bsky.social
💙updates on policies impacting sex workers 💙highlighting local and national campaigns 💙sharing educational resources This isn’t just about staying informed—it’s about building collective power. Telegram 🎁 https://t.me/+1L6zLvrryMQ1NWQ5