Media Theory
Conceptual, speculative, and intellectual history approaches to media theory research
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@joshshepperd.bsky.social
@therourke.net
the machine is the garden Goldsmiths based digital media theory art • currently researching AI slop and aphantasia • machinemachine.net
@oddletters.bsky.social
politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere. enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press writing - https://oddletters.com/ stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch i curse a lot he/they
@sunhahong.bsky.social
Wrote Technologies of Speculation (NYUP, 2020). Writing Predictions Without Futures. right now: Stanford Humanities Centre Fellow, soon: UNC Chapel Hill.
@ethanplaut.bsky.social
Research: Disconnection, tech refusal & beautiful, broken media. Sometime coder & dusty journo. Now Aotearoa NZ, always Chicago, formerly Stanford, SF, Phnom Penh, Fukui. Silence when I can. Music when I can't. Tangata Tiriti, Jew, he/him. ethanplaut.com
@zimtmaedchen.bsky.social
Fabric manipulator. Renaissance woman. Early Modern girl. Enthusiastic dilettante. Mom. Reader. Listener. PhD. AuDHD. Faceblind. Gaimanite. Baker. Maker. Fan. It's all a blur. She/her.
@aaronhunter.bsky.social
Movie doctor: Trinity College Dublin Women and New Hollywood, Polly Platt, Hal Ashby he/him, dad, drummer
@sristovska.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Media Studies (courtesy appointment in Law) at CU Boulder. Studies video evidence, generative AI, justice, and human rights. Author of Seeing Human Rights (MIT Press, 2021)
@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
@rgrusin.bsky.social
Walker of woods, lover of forests, friendly with trees. Theorist of mediation. Arboreal nonhumanist. Zayde. Recovering academic.
@bernarddionysius.bsky.social
teacher, writer, curator media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
@msteinbrg.bsky.social
Platforms (digital & not), animation, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Super apps! Prof at Concordia University. Director of The Platform Lab. Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
@isanchezprado.bsky.social
Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs. Occasional Words: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
@colinburnett.bsky.social
Program director & assoc. prof. of Film & Media Studies at WashU, assoc. editor of Journal of Cinema & Media Studies (JCMS), author of The Invention of Robert Bresson (2017), finishing up a new book, Serial Bonds: The Shape of 007 Stories.
@briancreech.bsky.social
Professor and Chair, Lehigh University Department of Journalism and Communication
@mattjord.bsky.social
Writes about media, sound, technology & democracy Book:`Danger Sound Klaxon: The Horn that Changed History' https://tinyurl.com/47k7hft5 Director: newsliteracy.psu.edu Exec Producer doc series: huminfocus.psu.edu
@akanaphenix.bsky.social
Award-Winning Author of "The Empire Wars" Film/TV Agents: CAA Future Filmmaker University: Harvard/MIT 📚 2000s kid #filmsky #booksky
@dannagal.bsky.social
Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone. WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
@giuliaevolvi.bsky.social
Marie Curie fellow with project MERGE - on digital religion, social movements, and gender - at University of Bologna 🇮🇹 and University of Colorado Boulder 🇺🇲. She/her. Website: https://giuliaevolvi.com/
@ajbauer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Journalism at University of Alabama. PhD in American Studies from NYU. Researching conservative news and right-wing media. News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX). He/him.
@gatsbea.bsky.social
sensitive comrade | taga ilog hanggang dagat assntprof @ unc-ch music/american studies cultural history of the atomic age, screen media, opera
@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
@hankg.bsky.social
phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
@ghahahan.bsky.social
Stanford PhD candy thinking abt CG & AI through animation aesthetics; film critic on asian/diaspora cinema; GALECA secretary; 🍅 & 🍉 https://art.stanford.edu/people/grace-han 📍NYC
@leilagermano.bsky.social
Trabalho falando e ouvindo falar. contato@hojetempodcast.com
@mdno.bsky.social
scholar of art/cinema/media https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
@tvdoc.bsky.social
🏳️🌈(He)📺 Broadcast historian focusing on marginalized histories/media policy, TV Lamp collector, Media Studies Prof. 👵 Golden Girls book coming soon! University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. 🌈
@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
@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
@jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social
Media theory, art history professor Books: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912543/endless-intervals/ https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517902261/elements-of-a-philosophy-of-technology/ Surplus data: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/2022/48/
@mattseybold.bsky.social
Resident Scholar @ Center For Mark Twain Studies | Host, The American Vandal Podcast | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies @ Elmira College | Lit & Econ
@aschrock.bsky.social
Academic Editor & Writing Coach at https://www.indeliblevoice.com ・Communication and/or technology researcher・Author of "Politics Recoded" (MIT Press 2024) 🤖・Foodie 🍲・Nature boi 🌲・Cancer caregiver 🎗️・They/he・All links at https://bio.site/aure
@vanishasukdeo.bsky.social
B.A., LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D., lawyer and Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Author of 4 books. Focusing on corporate law, workers' rights and climate. Next book 2026.
@fuchsflrn.bsky.social
literature, media, phil at Princeton German / projects: theory films . pre-Grimm folklore . early modern personal devices / books: “Civic Storytelling“ ZoneBooks . “Hans Blumenberg Reader” CornellUP . “Affordances of Short Forms” CG / fuchsflorian.com
@davidcecchetto.bsky.social
Digital theory and sound studies prof (yorku); past pres SLSA; quasi-practicing (non)musician. -Co-edit Proximities book series (UMinn) -Author: Humanesis: Sound and Posthumanism (UMinn); Listening in the Afterlife of Data (Duke), and others
@bleudeciel.bsky.social
The Cinema of Extractions (2025), Media Climates (2022), In the Studio (2020), Studios Before the System (2015) Writing about Art, Media, Energy, Environment. Next book: oil, gas, and media culture in France+empire Caltech Professor of Visual Culture
@scottrichmond.me
Director, Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Experimental media aesthetics, history of computing, theory and technology geekery of various kinds.
@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
@goblemark.bsky.social
Modernism and media studies at UC Berkeley. Mediocre film photographer. Excellent baseball fan. Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.
@joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social
phd candidate at university of toronto's cinema studies institute | contract instructor for bishop's university | living in montréal marx, labour, cinema, aesthetics
@drshawna.bsky.social
Writer. Professional people watcher. Messy cook. Pilot. Puzzler. Communication researcher and professor studying organizing. She/Her. Represented by Bookends Literary. www.drmalviniredden.com
@baykurt.bsky.social
media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://glotechlab.net/
@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
@martinlj.bsky.social
Film historian and urbanist. Co-president of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema. Coming attractions include A Teaching Companion to Silent Cinema (Rutgers) and a history of advertising film. Assoc. Prof. at UNC-Chapel Hill
@jmbean.bsky.social
assoc prof @ UW CMS, editor Feminist Media Histories, lover of tea, pickleball addict, collector of (filmic) junk
@videotroph.bsky.social
@profchander.bsky.social
@rcolesworthy.bsky.social
Acquisitions editor (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
@michaelmirer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor studying sports-related media and journalistic professionalism at UW-Milwaukee. Aspiring boat guy.
@ehayot.bsky.social
Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history. Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.
@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.
@lankee.bsky.social
She/They Tired. Arsenal fan. Gender dissident. Academic Librarian. Queer AF. Iranian American. Older than I appear.
@robinmanley.bsky.social
phd candidate @ berkeley rhetoric // editor in chief @ qui parle // history of cybernetic sciences, post-kantian philosophy, media theory
@ericara.bsky.social
professor of media, culture, and communication. editor, public culture. organizer, oikos working group on kinship/economy. enthusiast. (@fstflofscholars over yonder)
@vivaharehills.bsky.social
Writer of CYBERBOSS (Verso). Co-built Novara Media. Co-host Heart Reacts. Co-StreamArtNetwork. Co-digital gavagai. LTQ contributor 🍸🏳️🌈 http://c-gent.net/ https://shop.novaramedia.com/products/cyberboss
@atg-dbp.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Culture & Media @ The New School. Living at the crossroads of Media Theory, Black Horror / Zombie Movies, and AI / Digital Culture.
@p8ja.bsky.social
Professor of English + Film & Media at Amherst College, Author of The Documentary Audit (Columbia 2025 *coming soon*) Immediations (Duke 2017) and co-editor of Thinking with an Accent (UC Press 2023)
@therealbtc.bsky.social
🇺🇸 & 🇱🇺 • Husband and Dad of 3 • Academic Org Executive (OB, Leadership, Negotiation, & Conflict Mgmt) • Fantasy Football Junkie • Jacksonville Univ. DBA '25 (Org. Behavior) • Research Interests: Leadership, AI, & Self-Concept
@ericdienstfrey.bsky.social
Film/Media/Comm/Sound Studies @ UC & UA. Author of MAKING STEREO FIT https://www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/ Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Stephen King, and Taylor Swift. "The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza
@jennblaylock.bsky.social
assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her
@ritaraley.bsky.social
Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara https://english.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/raley-rita/ // Like everyone, working on critical AI/machine learning; more unusually, focusing on GPT-2
@synenko.bsky.social
Assistant Prof & GPD in the Dept. of Cultural Studies at Trent U, and co-Editor of Media Theory meejatheory.bsky.social Comp art, space, cities & memory. joshuasynenko.com
@caddiealford.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Rhetoric & Writing at VCU // critical platform, AI, and media studies + rhetorical theory Co-Director of AI Futures Lab 📕 = Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality First Gen #TeamRhetoric https://caddiealford.com
@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
@rorshock.bsky.social
Mesh networks, media infrastructure, software engineering, ham/CB radio (KD2QGX); Asst Prof The New School, Director of Code as a Liberal Art; “very clear & cool, simple but intricate”; he/him
@ntnsndr.in
Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
@whkchun.bsky.social
new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only. banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
@vinzenzhediger.bsky.social
Film scholar @ Goethe Uni Frankfurt. Research: http://konfigurationen-des-films.de http://ceditraa.net https://age-c.eu/ Editor of https://meson.press/series-page/configurations-of-film/ https://www.aup.nl/en/series/film-theory-in-media-history
@schalkewins.bsky.social
researching the photobook & history/theory of photography as an art historian & permanent research fellow at @kwi-essen.bsky.social. whistling at the gap between reading & writing. https://linktr.ee/schalkewins
@gaborhalasz.bsky.social
ARD-Korrespondent. Im Hauptstadtstudio. Von 2012-2016 in Südasien. Privater Account. Meine Meinung.
@laurensmith.bsky.social
Professor, Rowan University | Research Director - Center for Sports Comm & Social Impact | Researching effects of narratives & portrayals of gender, race, & social issues in sport | Triathlete | Ironman x 3 | Traveling the 🌎 w/ Kenny Smith | War Eagle
@carvalhais.org
Design, music, art + computation. Professor at fba.up.pt; also running @cronicaelectronica.org, http://at-c.org and @xCoAx.org. Author of Art and Computation (V2_) and Artificial Aesthetics (U.Porto). carvalhais.org
@machineagency.bsky.social
Artist Teaching at University of Porto (FEUP) PhD in Digital Design Author: Algorithm, Image, Art, 2024 https://rosemary-lee.com/algorithm-image-art
@alexandraboutros.bsky.social
associate prof | communication and cultural studies | wilfrid laurier university | pop culture | pop music | critical race theory | media, religion, and identity |
@melisser3.bsky.social
film AND media studies?! in this economy?! // childfree catlady // climber of Inside Rocks // reader of Novels // bassist // knitter // shitpost appreciator
@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
@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/
@elizabethalsop.bsky.social
CUNY prof, culture writer, author of ELAINE MAY (2025): https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088582
@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).
@cinementalist.bsky.social
Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.
@frazbelina.bsky.social
I write about TV. Words at many places including The Daily Beast, Elle, Marie Claire, IGN, The Playlist, Backstage Magazine, and more. Talking about costumes, fashion and Felicity’s hair.
@scmstudies.bsky.social
The Official Blue Sky account for SCMS https://www.cmstudies.org/
@dfoerster.bsky.social
senior research associate @ UChicago. studies phenomenology of digital and environmental media. Book: https://meson.press/books/aesthetic-experience-of-metabolic-processes/ Web: https://dfoerster.org
@thescont.bsky.social
Music professor (ethnomusicology and etc.) at USC’s Thornton School of Music. I research at the intersections of oral traditions and digital technologies. Focus: Irish music; jazz; soundscapes; digital humanities; media and identity. Projects posted below.
@mutanttheorist.bsky.social
Lecturer of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. Researcher of Mutant Theory and monstrous bodies.
@floriansprenger.bsky.social
Medienwissenschaft/RUB/Roboter/Situiertheit/Environments/Virtualität/Fotografie/Fahrrad/Berlin/Bochum
@zaborowski.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer (Assoc Prof) at King's College London. Media, audiences, popular music, virtual idols, migration, Japan, brewing, wrestling, board games, stuff no one else finds funny.
@heidi-colthup.bsky.social
When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her #WIASN #WalkingSimulators
@zachuncorked.bsky.social
Somm & Wine Educator in Oregon. I love History, Travel, Science, Nature, Books, Movies, Music, and other nerdy stuff. Happily Married Cat Dad Anti-MAGA and Pro Democracy💙💙 You’ll Never Walk Alone #RCTID #LFC #BillsMafia #Sabres
@silentrecord.bsky.social
Métis | Communication & Culture PhD Candidate @yorkuniversity | Infoscape Lab | Institute for Research on Digital Literacies | Media, Sound, Surveillance, Indigenous Studies | Otipemisiwak lii Shansoon The Politics of Media Scarcity (2024) out now.
@annamuenchrath.bsky.social
Academic studying 20-21 C. World Lit and Book/Media History. Books: Making World Literature (UMass Press) and Selling Books With Algorithms (Cambridge UP) Opinions Mine