Cáit Murphy's Starter Pack
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@caitmurphy.bsky.social
@ethanz.bsky.social
UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
@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
@ibogost.bsky.social
Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Writer at The Atlantic. https://linktr.ee/ibogost
@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
@mayascade.bsky.social
always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com 💌: [email protected] + soon: incoming president / owner of milestone films. film curator + writer + curious about the world. based in los angeles.
@safiyanoble.bsky.social
Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow Writer, researcher, professor. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com
@footage.bsky.social
Experimental archivist and librarian. Writes about useful radio. Makes archival events for noisy audiences. No film left unscanned. Lives and works in San Francisco, on Ohlone land.
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things. https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
@labuzamovies.com
Researcher, IATSE Local 600. Historian/Scholar of media industries law. Maker of delicious foods, baseball enjoyer (Twins Daily contributor) plabuza @ gmail. www.labuzamovies.com
@jennpozner.bsky.social
Media critic, journalist, anti-racist feminist Author: Reality Bites Back **Media literacy graphic novel coming soon! Founder: Women In Media & News Speaker: DM to book keynotes/workshops Commentary:ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/VICE Comedy nerd Brooklyn She/Her
@horrornonna.com
Your horror nonna ▾ professor/critic/programmer/author of 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR, CINEMA COVEN, GIALLO CANVAS, RAPE-REVENGE FILMS, FOUND FOOTAGE HORROR FILMS, MASKS IN HORROR, MS 45, SUSPIRIA etc▾ Naarm/Australia ▾ she/her https://linktr.ee/suspirialex
@scottpb.bsky.social
writer of books • founder of magazines • teacher of University of Michigan students • learner of things • listener of tracks • viewer of flicks • tired of everything
@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
@sivav.bsky.social
Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Supervises VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
@joshshepperd.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, University of Colorado Boulder; Director, Library of Congress RPTF; Editor, Resonance Journal; Faculty Advisor, KVCU Radio
@roopikarisam.bsky.social
Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth, does data & digital humanities things, edits #ReviewsInDH, rides horses 🐴 https://roopikarisam.com
@ckunzelman.bsky.social
critic | games | science fiction. Discussing culture on podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Used to write a lot. Growing things outdoors. Working on books: Assassin’s Creed and Magic: The Gathering.
@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.
@eryk.bsky.social
Situationist Cybernetics, Artist/Researcher, anti-AI AI artist. Aim to be kind. Researcher, AI Pedagogies, metaLab (at) Harvard University; Visiting Prof. in Humanities, Computing & Design @ Rochester Institute of Technology. cyberneticforests.com
@ptklein.com
Film historian and cultural critic. Radically optimistic. Writing about why we watch movies at www.howtoreadmovies.com. He/Him/His.
@matthiasellis.com
wandering academic, currently teaching film/media/theory at Portland State cinejourneys guide @cinejourneys.bsky.social writing www.historiesofthepresent.com podcast @tpnwicmfp.bsky.social
@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
@memles.bsky.social
Media Scholar at Old Dominion University and Editor-in-Chief of TV criticism newsletter Episodic Medium
@alixhui.bsky.social
Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
@bildoperationen.bsky.social
Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture @digitalculturesandarts.ch https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
@pjmaciak.bsky.social
TV Critic @ The New Republic // DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) // teaching @ Wash U in STL // https://linktr.ee/phillip.maciak 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
@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
@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
@sjjphd.bsky.social
Prof and researcher. I study race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social Opinions definitely my own
@cinementalist.bsky.social
Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.
@hermioneclone.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Co-Chief Diversity Officer at SUNY Canton. YA series books, C19AmLit, WWI, fandom. Queer (pan/demi) Wiccan. 🏳️🌈📚☕ Views my own, not employer's. https://linktr.ee/emilyhamiltonhoney
@eszter.com
Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024) Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U eszter.com
@jmittell.bsky.social
Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
@alexwest.bsky.social
Genre film critic and author. Co-host of the Faculty of Horror podcast. She/her.
@benspky.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
@violetlucca.bsky.social
Film critic. Author of DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS (Jan ‘25). My writing about film has appeared in the NYT, Art in America, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and elsewhere. NYFCC member https://linktr.ee/violetvlucca
@jesperjuul.bsky.social
Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels. New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64 https://jesperjuul.net
@davidarditi.bsky.social
Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism
@caroltypes.bsky.social
Cinema, brasilcalíptico, basquete. “A Europa é indefensável”, Aimé Césaire. A exaustão q habita em mim saúda a exaustão q habita em você. Ela/dela. Sites: https://foradequadro.com/ https://caroltypes.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/carol__almeida
@elizabethalsop.bsky.social
CUNY prof, culture writer, tough cookie. Author of ELAINE MAY (University of Illinois Press, 2025): https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088582
@hennefem.bsky.social
Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
@chrisbecker.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Film, Television, and Theatre and the Sport, Media, & Culture Minor at University of Notre Dame. Working on a local TV history project: https://sites.nd.edu/boc-project/
@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
@llamasjr.bsky.social
global media professor at @asc.upenn.edu associate directing at @annenbergcargc.bsky.social author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01 español incluído.
@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
@dangolding.com
Professor and Chair of Media Comms at Swinburne University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm). dangolding.com
@davidhendy.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster, Prof. Emeritus University of Sussex. 'The BBC: A People's History' (2022). 'Noise: A Human History', BBC Radio 4 (2013). Rep: Caroline Dawnay, United Agents https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/david-hendy/
@danhf.bsky.social
All-purpose movie guy and media studies scholar @ Utrecht University. Intransigent curmudgeon. Forthcoming: books on the political economy of the Fast & Furious franchise and a minute-by-minute analysis of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
@jeremydauber.bsky.social
Professor at Columbia; writer of books; poster of thoughts about movies, books, comics, music, other stuff. AMERICAN SCARY out now!
@caitmurphy.bsky.social
PhD @Film, TCD. Thesis on “the caméra-stylo in the social media era”. Early career researcher @Trinity Long Room Hub. Funded by the Provost’s PhD Project Award. Claire Denis|synthetic media|desktop documentary|Wes Anderson TikTok trend|Instagram