Archives & Oral History-Methods, Experiences, Uses
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@babbageinstitute.bsky.social
@sebastianranderath.bsky.social
PhD Research Associate and Lecturer, Digital Media Culture, University of Bonn | Researching Media and Labour, Focus on Resistance, Surveillance and Planning | he/him
@mxmcadam.bsky.social
Executive Editor for Humanities and History of STM at Johns Hopkins University Press
@tamigraph.bsky.social
Climate/technology/labor/death researcher in Oakland. AI hater @datasociety.bsky.social I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/ Views mine www.tamarakneese.com
@followlori.bsky.social
Strategic Advisor Green Screen Coalition • PhD Communications UFRJ (Brasil) • Former Senior Fellow AI @Mozilla • Climate Justice • Public Interest Technologist & Ecological Stewardship • Espírito Santo / Brasília https://olink.ai/eco-midia
@archivistkelsey.bsky.social
(she/her) Digital Archivist at Northwestern University Libraries
@archivesofit.bsky.social
Charity capturing the stories of tech pioneers & inspiring future #STEM leaders. Online archive of oral history interviews with tech leaders from 1950s to today & free computing curriculum resources for teachers. #HistTech #EduSky #TeamCompSci #CSed
@joshlauer.bsky.social
Media studies prof | History of communication tech, surveillance & information | Author of CREDITWORTHY, co-editor of SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM IN AMERICA
@aberehrlich.bsky.social
Digital Historian @ UniPaderborn & @ ZZF Potsdam; Exploring Bluesky for scientific reasons #digitalgeschichte | Kaffee | Beachvolleyball Instagram: @objektiver
@ericara.bsky.social
professor of media, culture, and communication. editor, public culture. organizer, oikos working group on kinship/economy. enthusiast. (@fstflofscholars over yonder)
@olamichalec.bsky.social
The absolute pinnacle of British engineering • unprofessional account of a Bristol Uni STSish researcher interested in energy innovations, cyber security and stem lords • cover by https://disect.me/
@sarahlamdan.bsky.social
Librarian & lawyer. Wrote Data Cartels (Stanford University Press, 2022). Creative non-fiction at Sarah Lawrence. Kicking cancer where it counts. This account is personal - opinions are my own.
@miriamposner.com
Asst. prof. at UCLA Information Studies, ask me about supply chain tech! Labor, data, DH, etc. www.miriamposner.com
@kevinbaker.bsky.social
writing at: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com editing at: reboothq.substack.com
@murmz.bsky.social
Prof, FIMS-Western-Ontario. American + Canadian Cruising the Library (Fordham), “A Peculiar Satisfaction”: Jefferson in the History of Libraries, Archives & Museums (under contract) Surveillance & Security in the “Empire of Liberty” (in review) She/her 🌈
@shelleytrower.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus (Roehampton) now novel writing (ACE funded) & working with libraries (SWRLS) in Cornwall. Preoccupations incl. sound, trauma, memory, life stories, silence collectivism, environmental crisis & see e.g. https://linktr.ee/shelleytrower
@shirleene.bsky.social
Historian, Author & Curator. Bridging academia & the GLAM sector. Oral history Always. Former @AMEquality Board Director & Co-Convenor, NSW. President Pride History Group NSW. Gadigal land. Opinions mine. She/her
@velocitygravity.bsky.social
Lecturer in Digital Work, UoStirling. Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real. Associate Editor: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. It/ve/vem👾
@aaronmendonplasek.bsky.social
@calculatedvalues.bsky.social
Scholar of sophisters, economists, and calculators. Program in STS + HASTS PhD Program at MIT. Author of CALCULATED VALUES (Harvard UP 2018). "TILT" (2005) fan account.
@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
@fatmaoncel.bsky.social
Faculty Member at Bahçeşehir University Affiliated Researcher at Stanford University Ottoman History, Digital Humanities
@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.
@cperold.bsky.social
Asst Prof @cumediastudies. Research: labor, computer history, U.S. empire in Latin America. PhD @mccNYU. Member @ucwcolorado.
@umartin.bsky.social
Knows a lot about Ada Lovelace's science. University of Edinburgh and Wadham College Oxford and Oxford Maths.
@babintsevak.bsky.social
Historian of the mind, computing, artificial intelligence, and labor in the Cold War Soviet Union and the US. Asst Prof at Purdue. PhD from UPenn.
@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.
@nescioquid.bsky.social
“How Data Happened” with Chris Wiggins available now! Historian of science, AI/ML computing, sigint, and technology, Princeton
@jacobgaboury.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him) Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021) Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing https://jacobgaboury.com
@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
@dcbrock.bsky.social
Works at the Computer History Museum, but everything here is solely my fault.
@teaselmuir.bsky.social
Historian of Science + Technology | Curator of the Apollo Collection at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
@ccmmody.bsky.social
historian of science, technology, energy & environment @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social; http://nanobubbles.hypotheses.org; http://managingscarcity.com; The Squares http://mitpress.mit.edu/978026254361. Mody is my surname; "mo" as in "mosasaur."
@eastasiascitech.bsky.social
Historian of technology, science, and industry @ Harvard. Author of CARBON TECHNOCRACY. Currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China. More about my work here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow
@mysdick.bsky.social
Historian of math, computing, and the mind. Assistant Prof. of Communication at SFU. Co-editor of Abstractions and Embodiments. PhD from Harvard. Likes cats, writes pysanky eggs, working on a comic book about AI ✨
@histoftech.bsky.social
Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi
@historians.org
The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions. http://historians.org/join
@patrickmccray.bsky.social
Professor @ UCSB => I write history stuff about science + tech + art + environment Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 living in Cali-rado; public lands in public hands, pls. #146,842 https://www.patrickmccray.com
@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
@loriemerson.net
media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
@edenmedina.bsky.social
Historian of tech @MITPSTS @MIT. Author Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Co-curator Cómo diseñar una revolucón // How to Design a Revolution. #sci #tech #politics #history #data #design #LatinAmerica #humanrights. Views my own.
@joshshepperd.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, University of Colorado; Director, Library of Congress RPTF; Editor, Resonance Journal; Faculty Advisor, KVCU Radio
@labortechresearchnetwork.org
We are an interdisciplinary group of over 650 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism. Posts by @kaareeenah.bsky.social
@lainenooney.bsky.social
💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU 🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org 🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal https://linktr.ee/lainenooney they/them
@bhgross144.bsky.social
VP for Research & Scholarship, Linda Hall Library (ret.); Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
@babbageinstitute.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research center & leading archives in computing, software & networking. Symposia ("Just Code" "Automation by Design" etc.), publishing, editorial leadership, oral history, archives (320+ diverse collections). https://www.cse.umn.edu/cbi