Online Community Researchers
Folks researching online communities (and adjacent research areas).
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@jeremydfoote.com
@andresmh.com
Director of Princeton HCI. Faculty at Princeton Computer Science. Board member at Crisis Text Line. https://andresmh.com Skeptical about Bluesky 🤔
@s0hw.bsky.social
postdoc @princetoncitp.bsky.social i study community governance of digital technologies (esp platforms), thinking about how everyday people can + should shape the governance of technologies. https://www.sohyeonhwang.com/
@kumarde.bsky.social
I'm a faculty member in Computer Science & Engineering @UCSD, a playwright, a composer, and a lyricist.
@zarine.net
phd candidate @cip.uw.edu, @communitydata.science, & @uw-hcde.bsky.social. I study how to govern digital information goods under attack. zarine.net
@snehanarayan.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carleton College. Very into dogs, bikes, and pedagogy.
@carl.cx
Computational social scientist studying decentralized social networks. PhD Candidate at Northwestern with @communitydata.science (ABD!) Interested in land use, Chicago, and #Rstats 🤓🏳️🌈🦞
@foucaultwelles.bsky.social
Professor of Communication, trying not to be evil Ass. Dean, #HashtagActivism co-author, mom to teenagers and cats. Appreciates novelty socks and cat memes.
@asbruckman.bsky.social
I study online communities, content moderation, and social movements.
@nilou.bsky.social
hci+ai, social computing co-founder/cpo @Across AI prof @UC Berkeley gif whisperer | 🐱🐱 mom 👩🏻🏫 niloufar.org 👩🏻💻 across.ai | https://bsky.app/profile/across-ai.bsky.social
@aaronshaw.bsky.social
Usually professoring, parenting, running, etc. Social science and design of digital public goods in online communities. Northwestern University, Chicagoland. https://communitydata.science
@nickmvincent.bsky.social
Studying people and computers (https://www.nickmvincent.com/) Blogging about data and steering AI (https://dataleverage.substack.com/)
@shugars.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Communication @ Rutgers University. Computational social science, political communication, civic studies. First gen. They/them
@emmaspiro.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the UW iSchool, Co-Founder UW Center for an Informed Public | PhD in Sociology from UC Irvine | Research: social networks, sociology, information integrity & computational social science.
@drmann.bsky.social
Purdue University assistant professor of sociology. Duke University sociology PhD. Science, knowledge, and politics.
@informor.bsky.social
Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
@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.
@alicetiara.bsky.social
Studies social media & society, far-right disinfo. Dir of Research, Data & Society. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
@mako.cc
@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.
@estellesmithphd.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, CS, Colorado School of Mines. Online spiritual care, social computing, online governance, Human-AI Interaction: http://bit.ly/sacredtech. CSCW, CHI, TOCHI, etc. 👩🏼💻 Community Chair for #CSCW2025🇳🇴 https://estellesmithphd.com
@groceryheist.cc
https://tebluntuhis.cc Computational social scientist with a foot in HCI. Main social media is @groceryheist@social.coop Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Information.
@chrisbail.bsky.social
Duke Professor directing https://scai.duke.edu, https://sicss.io & https://polarizationlab.com. Author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
@brianckeegan.com
{Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist at @cuboulder.info High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science. Born at 345ppm. https://www.brianckeegan.com/ Signal: brianckeegan.26
@aaronclauset.bsky.social
NO KINGS. NO NAZIS. FUND SCIENCE. Professor of Computer Science @ BioFrontiers Institute at University of Colorado, Boulder and External Faculty @ Santa Fe Institute orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3529-8746
@ryanjgallag.com
Applied scientist trying to make the internet a little better. PhD. Platform manipulation, deceptive behaviors, disinformation, networks, fingerstyle guitar. I use my hair to express myself. He/they
@jeffreybigham.com
Professor of HCII and LTI at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. jeffreybigham.com
@eegilbert.org
Professor at Michigan. On sabbatical at the Berkman Klein Center. http://eegilbert.org
@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
@ethanz.bsky.social
UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
@axz.bsky.social
Professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social social.cs.washington.edu
@katestarbird.bsky.social
Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer. #RageAgainstTheBullshitMachine
@jeremydfoote.com
Computational social scientist; assistant professor @ Purdue; I study how people self-organize in online communities and how we can make them work better.