University Strategic Plan Bot

@sparklebliss.bsky.social

Experience design, video game history, writing. Prof and associate dean @ Illinois Tech. Books: Coin-Operated Americans (Minnesota), Brenda Laurel (Bloomsbury), Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum).

@hannahhamad.bsky.social

Feminist media studies academic. Reads, runs, remains. Forthcoming book: ‘Film, Feminism and Rape Culture in the Yorkshire Ripper Years’ (London: BFI)

@kellimarshall.bsky.social

Chicago and movies, one tour at a time: chicagomovietours.com and (new!) chimovietours.bsky.social. Transplant from Louisiana. Ph.D. Hardcore Gene Kelly fan.

@mishmz.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Media Studies

@flyingmooncat.bsky.social

Professional book pusher, freelance writer, recovering academic. Media history, feminism, cats, and crafts.

@annafroula.bsky.social

Childless Cat/Dog Lady, 💙 mountains, shaker of hands with Stephen Colbert

@dukepress.bsky.social

Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.

@kwissoker.bsky.social

Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.

@yaellevy.bsky.social

TV scholar, author of 'Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound,' senior lecturer TAU https://telaviv.academia.edu/YaelLevy

@caradickason.bsky.social

Lecturer in Communication at Johns Hopkins. Research on surveillance, technology, and women’s TV. #FirstGen she/her/hers.

@dearstefania.bsky.social

media studies scholar. motha. friend. wrote a book on Teen TV (2021, Routledge). still working on that book on women showrunners.

@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

@drfangirlphd.bsky.social

Fangirl 🥰 Therapist 🦄 Fandom & Mental Health Research 🦸🏻‍♀️ @TheFangirlBiz Podcast 🎤 Views mine 🌈 Posts aren’t advice 💜 Kindness has a spine 🌊

@drrossgarner.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer @Cardiff JOMEC. Co-Investigator of media.cymru media tourism research. Co-editor of Popular Communication journal. Ask me about #Pokemon #JurassicPark and #Dinosaurs More information at: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/garnerrp1

@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.

@jamesrendell.bsky.social

Lecturer in Creative Industries at University of South Wales. Researching media audiences, horror, film & TV, inclusivity & diversity. FHEA. He/Him. Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror out now https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726320/transmedia-terrors-in

@fanvidcrit.bsky.social

Mother, scholarfan, remix vidder. Associate Prof of Film & Media Culture and Middlebury College. She/they https://criticalcommons.org/user/Lstein/media

@suzannerblack.bsky.social

Into Contemporary Literature, Digital Humanities & Fan Studies. Postdoctoral Researcher, CoSTAR Foresight Lab, University of Edinburgh; views my own. she/her

@areum.bsky.social

👩🏻‍🏫Researches & teaches Korean film, pop culture, theatre & performance at ASU 📚Beyond the Sewol (U of Hawaii Press, Sep 2025) & K-pop Fandom (U of Michigan Press, Feb 2026) forthcoming 📧areumjeong@gmail.com

@danielcavicchi.bsky.social

Professor, Rhode Island School of Design. Fan studies, popular music studies, sound studies, American studies. Views are my own. https://www.risd.edu/academics/history-philosophy-and-social-sciences/faculty/daniel-cavicchi

@fangirlresearch.bsky.social

Final year fan studies PhD student studying fangirls @ University of Huddersfield, girlhoods, popular music, fan activism, celebrity etc Uni of Leeds and Emerson College alum, from LA now cozying up in the Yorkshire countryside. Queer autistic disabled

@butnocigar.bsky.social

Academic, knitter, video game player. Into popular culture, digital media, labor, and creativity. Known to make a video essay now and then.

@kte75.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at Northumbria University. Co-Investigator, AHRC Youth & Horror network. Co-editor of Hidden Horror Histories book series. Lover of horror and British cinema, cats and strong tea. She/her.

@ikax.bsky.social

I'm an education-focussed academic at the University of Melbourne, based in English & Theatre Studies. Talk to me about pedagogy of kindness, decolonising curriculum, safe and inclusive classrooms, and critical edtech. Views mine not my employer’s

@rebeccahlamford.bsky.social

Aroace PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham exploring representations of asexuality on television and their impacts on asexual communities 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

@darioll.bsky.social

Writer, podcaster, educator. Contact: drdario22@gmail.com Podcast: https://patreon.com/cinematologists Substack: https://substack.com/@dariollinares

@britaytrearne.bsky.social

Media studies professor, University of Bergen. News avoidance, technology in everyday life, media and climate change, qualitative methods. OA book: Media Use in Digital Everyday Life. https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781802623833

@hugginscooper.bsky.social

Horror maven. Thanatologist. SCBWI regional organiser NE. ‘Writing Know-How’ Editor for SCBWI. Creative Writing lecturer at Falmouth. Author. She/her, ADHD. Views all mine...mine I say!

@justcode.bsky.social

Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE

@jdoona.bsky.social

Senior lecturer & director of studies media and communication studies, Lund University. Work on cultural citizenship in popular, internet and fan culture; satire/humour/comedy engagement and audiences; and whatever other ways I can research civic silliness

@jainamarguerrero.bsky.social

Tenure-track Lecturer in fandom, transmedia and media literacy at @upfbarcelona.bsky.social, TV series geek and pizza enthusiast. My shenanigans are my own.

@ptklein.com

Film historian and cultural critic. Radically optimistic. Writing about why we watch movies at www.howtoreadmovies.com. He/Him/His.

@homer-network.bsky.social

International network of researchers interested in understanding cinema-going, exhibition, and reception, from a multidisciplinary perspective. Web: https://homernetwork.org/

@briony.bsky.social

Feminist academic and ECR. Lecturer in Sociology @ University of Manchester. Author of Feminist Fandom (2024). Interested in youth, gender, digital/pop culture, platforms + anti/feminisms. She/her. https://linktr.ee/brionyhannell

@susiebeckham.bsky.social

Temporality in Pre-Raphaelite art and visual culture + studying the evolution of the term “Pre-Raphaelite” from 1848 to today + Pre-Raphaelite fandom and semiotics. Postdoc Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, University of York.

@emmamcdoofus.bsky.social

Lecturer at School of Performance & Cultural Industries (Leeds Uni); adhd; she/they; interested in how we make sense of/through our cultural experiences (esp theatre); preferred mode of communication - gifs; also dogs

@matt-hills.bsky.social

Independent scholar, former Professor of Fandom Studies, life-long Doctor Who fan, lover of genre fiction (especially SF and crime), frequently astonished reader of contemporary political commentary

@adewaard.bsky.social

Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (UC Press, 2024) andrewdewaard.com | ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media | cultcap.org | macrolab.ucsd.edu

@itstv.bsky.social

PhD Candidate @ UT-Austin. Media industries, finance, US TV history. Yankees fan, from Boston.

@lucimarz.bsky.social

Hollywood historian. Technology, media industries, labor, craft. Program Coordinator of Cinema and Media Studies@ USC. Hollywood Unions (Rutgers, 2025), Engineering Hollywood (Oxford, 2021)

@skadiloist.bsky.social

Max Kade Visiting Prof in German Univ of Notre Dame, Spring 2025 / Assistant Prof Production Cultures in AV Media Industries at Filmuni Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, focus on film festivals, screen industries, DH, gender*queer & sustainability. #FFRN co-founder

@tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social

Professor of TV. Brewer of cold. Boston University. Texan in Connecticut. Author of The Television Code. Writing about death and TV. Co-editing The Cocktail Lover’s Guide to TV History. Will eat any sugary treat you give me.

@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

@kthoov.bsky.social

m.a. in media studies from UT Austin; working in industry audience research audiences, media industries, streaming, teen tv. uga grad 🐶

@lizjevans.bsky.social

Professor of Screen Cultures at Uni of Nottingham. Writing about audiences, media industries, technologies, & transmedia while mum to two future superheroines. Co-Editor of ‘Participations’.

@joshbraun.bsky.social

Associate Professor at UMass Amherst studying the civic impacts of media distribution. I work in our Journalism Department and also co-edit the Distribution Matters series for The MIT Press. Opinions mine. Mastodon: @josh@sciences.social

@petecant.bsky.social

Assistant Professor · Communication · Tulane University Look, I made a hat: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/staging-a-comeback/9781978827813/

@iheartfatapollo.bsky.social

Fangirl, Associate Professor of media studies at UT Austin, author of "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019) and a bunch of other stuff. Posts aren't endorsements, mind your own cartwheels, etc. etc.

@moschneids.bsky.social

TV Historian. she/her Out now from University of Texas Press: Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama & Midcentury American Culture https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329276/