Christine H. Tran
✨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/
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Canadian Critical Comms & Media Studies
For want of a smart thinkers who are from, research within, or converse with Canadian communication & media studies 🇨🇦
@breadbae.bsky.social
FKA eatwithnia | #eattolearn I don’t eat peas or beans | Food is political | typos are seasoning | food selfies got me into a phd program | intersection of food policy & culture Can take the girl out of Brooklyn but you can’t take the Brooklyn out of me
@zuluagas.bsky.social
PhD in Civil Engineering @UofT • Sustainability in the built environment, circular economy, and infrastructure systems 🏗🛣️ • Toronto, ON 🇨🇴🇨🇦 • he/him/él
@masseycollege.bsky.social
Massey College. Where people and ideas intersect. Events and Links: https://linktr.ee/masseycollege
@juliesetele.bsky.social
Former sociologist, current librarian, occasional zinester. Reproductive justice, prison abolition, books (especially romance novels), cats, and women’s soccer (Gotham, Chelsea, USWNT). Free Palestine. Land Back. Black Lives Matter. They/them.
@helenrottier.bsky.social
PhD in Disability Studies. Disabled Dis-Epistemologies and Knowledge Production. Opinions are my own. she/her
@thelibgamer.bsky.social
Past President of ALA’s GameRT. Librarian with diverse experience in public and academic libraries. I am now working for the Indiana State Library and living in Southern IN.
@jessicacalarco.bsky.social
Sociologist studying families, schools, privilege, power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, Atlantic. Author of HOLDING IT TOGETHER | QUALITATIVE LITERACY | FIELD GUIDE TO GRAD SCHOOL "Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women" www.jessicacalarco.com
@cherrypoppunk.bsky.social
lambda poetry fellow 👸 disney and nintendo scholar 🏰 edits at IHLR, JCMS 📝 perpetually sleepy 💤 she/her 🏳️⚧️ jennessahester.com
@jesspgh.bsky.social
Comm + media studies professor focused on history, emerging tech, information integrity, telecomm policy, platforms, propaganda, and culture. From Pittsburgh.
@alyssamerc.bsky.social
your favorite game journo’s favorite game journo twitch.tv/alyssamerc on monday/wednesday/friday https://linktr.ee/AlyssaMerc bylines at rolling stone, kotaku, jezebel, jalopnik, digital trends, gamesradar, sfx
@shaheenk.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Uni of Alabama JCM. Media Technology. Health Communication. Social Media
@saraventure.bsky.social
I was your friendly, neighbourhood rhetoric and game studies diva. Now I’m not sure what’s going on. I'm into critical pedagogy, rhetorical genre studies, open ed, and trusting my students.
@jaymcastello.bsky.social
freelance culture writer 🍏 book & game editor ☕ narrative designer 🎲 short (& long) fiction author 📚 ace attorney podcast host @turnaboutbreakdown.bsky.social 🌈 basically if it involves words i'll do it 🌙 jaycastello.com 🦢 they/she
@katmabu.bsky.social
Running for Congress (IL-09) because we deserve Democrats who actually do something | katforillinois.com
@alexross73.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UBC's School of Information. Political Economist & Media Theorist. Mi'kmaw (Millbrook First Nation).
@honorbrabazon.bsky.social
Prof at SJU. Law, social movements, neoliberalism, universities, theory. Views here are my own.
@jadeyuliu.bsky.social
writer, dreamer | she/她 | 3L @ allard law | editorial assistant @ prism international | poems @ jadeyliu.weebly.com | cognitive metaphor enthusiast!
@drlauralevy.bsky.social
🔬 Games User Researcher, Amazon Games 🎓 PhD human factors psych 🐝 Previous Georgia Tech Research Scientist 👾 #GUR #HCI 🤷🏻♀️ John McCain put my first game on his "naughty list" 💬 my own thoughts/opinions 🇺🇸🇨🇱🇸🇪
@murderxbryan.bsky.social
Host of Guys, a podcast about guys https://sites.libsyn.com/458346 the PODKast and the Sunday night stream! CEO of guys Twitch.tv/MurderXBryan Patreon.com/GuysPodcast
@nicklutsko.bsky.social
star of snl / grimlin 3: dawn of desmond / shrek 5 / rightful owner of muppet ip / singer as well
@ludopolitics.bsky.social
He/they. I teach about Game Design, Technoscience, & East Asia at CMU. Belatedly joining this thing to keep up with my creative & academic communities (comments my own).
@nobyrne.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick. President of the Canadian Law and Society Association. Witness to Yesterday podcaster. Proud dog mom.
@jyg-gu.bsky.social
Digital cultures researcher. Assistant professor at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
@courtneyblamey.bsky.social
professional overthinker PhD Candidate @ Concordia University | GAMERella Co-Director critical design; values/meaning; emotional game design she/her courtneyblamey.com
@laade.bsky.social
PhD candidate at University of Luxembourg 🇱🇺 | consumer protection, platform governance & social media commerce | affilitations @humanadserc @stanfordlaw TTLF |laura.aade@uni.lu
@chugelmann.bsky.social
communication & culture PhD interested in the design of identity and community in games | .flac, not .mp3 | he/him | chugelmann.com
@katecrawford.bsky.social
Professor, researcher, author of Atlas of AI. Latest work: Calculating Empires ~ www.calculatingempires.com
@profjay.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Game Studies. GPD MA in Game Studies. Brock University, dept. of Digital Humanities.
@respectthecows.bsky.social
PhD Candidate researching trans media histories. Hier ist's richtig! https://concordia.academia.edu/ChristopherWolff
@haimson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. he/him
@emae.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at UIUC School of Information Sciences. Researching web archives, digital curation, digital preservation, data + infrastructure studies.
@nickttaylor.bsky.social
Media professor at York U in Toronto. Happy to be here. Grounds of Gaming is out from University of Indiana Press. It's about the places in which we play games, and who is and is not allowed. https://iupress.org/9780253071231/the-grounds-of-gaming/
@vannessa.bsky.social
Toronto-based writer, organizer, collaborator. Long-term relationship, now divorced from the book publishing industry. Now offering 1:1 Pottery Wheel Throwing Classes in Toronto: forms.gle/jzQt7HSoyEEPkFxHA
@nathandueck.bsky.social
Noted Indoorsman; Purveyor of Olde Shtick; Hackonteur. Author of NATHAN RUSSEL DUECK (1979- ), a memoir of mortifying episodes (Turnstone). he/him
@criminalsimpsons.com
dissin' your fly girl yoinkin' your memes (not the guy from twitter)
@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social
Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
@ben-scholl.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication. Game Studies and Esports Researcher 🖥️ benscholl.com
@kercoby.bsky.social
SFF writer—Solarpunk Mag, Fantasy Mag, THIS Mag. @SFWA. CEO @augursociety. Founder/Publisher of Augur Magazine & Tales & Feathers Magazine. Fairy tales, anime, D&D.
@nicolehaldoupis.bsky.social
Writer of Tiny Ruins (Radiant Press) Managing editor at Paragon Press (MUNL) 🎸 HAGS & True Trash www.nicolehaldoupis.ca
@dearkestrel.bsky.social
Author of 4 Poetry collections.. A Translation of Ghazal Mosadeq's "Andarznama" forthcoming with @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social Late 2025. 5th Poetry Collection "A Book of Interruptions" forthcoming with @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social Fall 2025
@brimwats.com
they/m | brimwats.com | PhD (ABD) • Homosaurus HistSex.org CritCat.org Q+TMDC • past: #HistSex #HistBook #dh • now: Vanier Scholar@UBC working GLAMS & how they describe marginalized folks & 🔎 information's histories, identity in sociotechnical systems
@stefyboisvert.bsky.social
Professeure à l'École des médias, UQAM Critical Media/TV/Gender/Screen/Cultural Studies Codirectrice du LaboPop - Laboratoire sur la culture de grande consommation et la culture médiatique au Québec
@florencesn.bsky.social
Video game archaeologist + game dev// PhD on archaeogaming as game preservation + procgen// Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology they/them 💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
@brookebennett.bsky.social
AAS - Austin Community College // BA - U Of Arkansas // MA - USC 🤓 ——— future Minnesota PhD student fall 2025 // feminist media studies // see also: horror film, pop culture, & identity // neurodiverse // she/her 🌈🍿🐕🦴🏈👾📚