Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network
Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network, established and chaired by Dr Liang Ge (UCL)
@liangge11.bsky.social
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@annaleen.bsky.social
bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd latest books: Stories Are Weapons, The Terraformers bylines: New Scientist, Washington Post, etc. pod: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com pronouns: they/them all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
@edwardongwesojr.com
writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel thetechbubble.substack.com
@restofworld.org
We’re a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West. For the latest updates subscribe to our newsletter here: https://restofworld.org/newsletters/global/
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; professor @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
@zey.bsky.social
It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
@docdre.distributedblackness.net
Ignore my late night posts. Award winning author! I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf …and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf Openly Black. Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr* andrebrock.academia.edu
@histoftech.bsky.social
Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi
@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
@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
@gleemie.bsky.social
Prof UCSD Comm, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, TWC SD, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker.
@elmcitytree.bsky.social
Professor at CUNY, scholar of Blackness, comics, music, & popular culture writ large, leftist & left handed. 🇰🇳 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ I maintain the Blackademics feed, the scholarly side of #Blacksky https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7 Personal account
@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.”
@roopikarisam.bsky.social
Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth, does data & digital humanities things, edits #ReviewsInDH, rides horses 🐴 https://roopikarisam.com
@merbroussard.bsky.social
Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
@dfreelon.bsky.social
Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. & Presidential Prof. of Communication @AnnenbergPenn. If you can't tell the difference between what's true and what you wish were true, take your business elsewhere.
@smw.bsky.social
Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things. https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
@dmgreene.bsky.social
Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
@miriamposner.com
Assoc. prof. at UCLA Information Studies, ask me about supply chain tech! Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. www.miriamposner.com
@nickseaver.website
anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
@datasociety.bsky.social
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Grimdark media, theory of the present, and critical tech, including AI. Better times: letterpress printing and tabletop gaming. Distinguished University Prof., U. of Maryland; speaking only for myself here though. Default content: cats. Pests: blocked.
@biella.bsky.social
Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
@brkeogh.bsky.social
Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/ Brisbane, Australia | he/him
@daveparisi.bsky.social
Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1 Mostly reformed goth
@jathansadowski.com
senior lecturer at Monash /// co-host of This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + (climate) risk governance /// new book on the political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
@ubisurv.net
David Murakami Wood (DMW) Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance & Security Studies Director, CSS/Lab, uOttawa Co-editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment https://ubisurv.net
@labortechresearchnetwork.org
We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism. Posts by @kaareeenah.bsky.social
@ericara.bsky.social
professor of media, culture, and communication. editor, public culture. organizer, oikos working group on kinship/economy. enthusiast. (@fstflofscholars over yonder)
@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
@robkitchin.bsky.social
Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/ Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
@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
@katiejwells.bsky.social
i study how labor platforms shape the way we live in cities. geographer. research director @groundwork.bsky.social. new book: DISRUPTING D.C. (Princeton Univ Press 2023) http://katiejwells.net
@jjoque.bsky.social
visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
@ranjodhdhaliwal.com
Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS. Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere. VP, @litsciarts.org 📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF. ☭. Not a professional account.
@alanyliu.bsky.social
I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/
@berthac.bsky.social
Fan, celebrity & cultural studies academic. Co-Editor-in-Chief Popular Communication. Fan Studies Network board. Senior lecturer in media & cultural studies @ NUS, Singapore. Opinions my own. She/her
@posada.website
💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu & SSRC Just Tech Fellow 🎓 Research on #Data + #Work + #Platforms 🌐 https://posada.website/
@tamaleaver.bsky.social
🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin Uni (Boorloo/Perth West Australia); 🌏 Past Prez @AoIR.bsky.social; 🔎 @digitalchildau.bsky.social (AI & Datafication); 🐘 @[email protected]; he/him. [Views mine; RT/❤️/etc ≠ endorsement]
@nsrnicek.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at KCL. New book out in 2025: 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI'.
@grohmannrafael.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
@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/
@amoorelouise.bsky.social
Professor of Political Geography Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics Author Politics of Possibility https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics-of-possibility & Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
@aadh.bsky.social
The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Inc (aaDH): A community strengthening digital humanities research in Australia & Aotearoa (New Zealand) | https://aa-dh.org/ | Our 2025 conference: dha25.org
@alt254.bsky.social
Media artist, game designer, electronic musician, and Associate Professor at UC Davis. Wrote Metagaming w/ @chouxsalad. http://linktr.ee/patricklemieux
@malahern.bsky.social
Collector of errors, glitches, and misprints. Researching 🤖 🎨 🏭 🎞️ 📽️ 📰 📺 and more. Professing at UW (Seattle)
@internetmaggie.com
Porn & Platform Research 💦📚☕💻 PhD Candidate @UofT Faculty of Information | Advisory Board w. ECP/Pornhub | #1 Animorphs Fan www.internetmaggie.com