Media Theory
Conceptual, speculative, and intellectual history approaches to media theory research
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@joshshepperd.bsky.social
@hadar2l.bsky.social
Lecturer at The DAN Department of Communication Tel Aviv University Media Theory & History / Sound Studies / Voice & AI https://www.hadarlevylandesberg.com/
@derivativ.bsky.social
Philosopher and fugitive planner Lisbon NOVA University www.thesphere.as Anarchiving.thesphere.as
@dhartipemauj.bsky.social
@analogadjacent.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Media, University of Leicester. Own views, albeit in a deeply mediated world.
@tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social
Comm, Media & Tech Studies + empire, capital, state, power, politics, energy, environment, work, war, play, ed, left-right activism https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/research/researcher-profiles/dr.-tanner-mirrlees.php
@mbfazi.bsky.social
Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018). University page https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
@johanm.bsky.social
PhD Student @ CornellCIS Founder, https://mutua.nyc Partner, https://zangsmicha.love Studio, https://michalove.studio Substack: https://thelastwave.substack.com/ About: https://micha.love
@themedievaldrk.bsky.social
manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532 For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
@analoguefutures.bsky.social
Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Concordia University. Director, Raah Lab. Author: Video Culture in India : The Analog Era, OUP Press. past; 80's media history; present; SVOD platforms, migration. Good scrambled eggs maker
@beckfni.bsky.social
Medienwissenschaft, -philosophie & -anthropologie am GRAMA @Bauhaus-Universität Weimar; aktuell: Augmented Reality. Ansonsten: Kappes. Berlin | Weimar
@rakeshsengupta.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto. Film and media studies. He/him.
@helenexeter.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, Uni of Exeter, UK. Research: #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines. #FilmSky https://bit.ly/3AVLwgf
@rheinze.bsky.social
Historian, German Historical Institute Paris, Dept. of African History Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas. Mastodon: @rheinze@todon.eu @rheinze@hcommons.social HCommons: @rheinze
@danbrownefilm.bsky.social
Filmmaker + multimedia artist | Facilitating interdisciplinary AI research @ University of Toronto | Comcult PhD | Parent | he/him
@dominicpettman.bsky.social
Media Theory / Posthumanities (NYC) Extimacy Coordinator www.dominicpettman.com
@sconce.bsky.social
University Content Provider Insufferable Popular Aesthete Rodent Enthusiast
@dannno0o.bsky.social
🥝 PhD candidate. My research draws on the philosophy of technology to understand how simulation and mimesis function as a part of AI’s technical architecture, user interface and political economy. wishing I was as cool as Bob Dylan in the ‘60s. He/him.🇵🇸
@hagured.bsky.social
Japanese media studies, digital studies, and STS @MSU. Author, ‘The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan’ (UMich, 2023) http://press.umich.edu/12233973. Motivational speaker on dystopias and the end of days.
@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.
@bildoperationen.bsky.social
Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture @digitalculturesandarts.ch https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
@underground259.bsky.social
Environmental media studies, cinema, architecture, art, weather control. Professor. Recent book: Climatic Media. Views personal
@yaseminbeykont.bsky.social
Visiting Asst. Prof. At Marist University, PhD from Penn State, UWM & Istanbul Bilgi University alum, memes + critical advertising + political economy + popular culture, she/her yaseminbeykont.com
@sjjphd.bsky.social
I study race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social Opinions definitely my own
@joshuamoss.bsky.social
Film professor. Author. Screenwriter. Muse. Vonnegut Lover. Nice Jewish Boy. Ph.D. in Critical Studies. Associate Professor and Chair of the Media Arts, Design, and Technology department at Cal State, Chico.
@kvancleaf.bsky.social
Senior lecturer at Fordham. Digital tech studies. NYC. Writing on fashion & theory at: substack.com/@karamary
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers. 18th century to today & beyond. Associate Professor of English Words at Polygon, LA Review of Books, more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance) www.ecfriedman.com
@dbellingradt.bsky.social
Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I do enjoy my work | 🐘 https://historians.social/@dbellingradt | linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
@danrosen.xyz
Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, web platforms, and livestreaming. PhD/Annenberg Endowed Fellow @ USC Cinema & Media Studies (he/him) danrosen.xyz
@nicolestewart.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Director of the Digital Media & Everyday Life Lab in Texas (she/her). 🇨🇦 platform studies / communication technologies / digital media + cultures
@dralant.bsky.social
📚 2025 Books HQ @kinowords.bsky.social Alum: @OXFORDdeptofED.bsky.social 'We must be still and still moving.' T. S. Elliot. 🇮🇪~🇩🇪~🇿🇦~🇬🇧~🇧🇬~🇪🇺 @ Linktr.ee/dralant
@rushkoff.com
I write and think about media, technology, and society. Survival of the Richest, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human - which is also a podcast. https://rushkoff.com
@camilligal.bsky.social
Lecturer in the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania researching and publishing on queer game studies, embodied rhetorics, and the “post-digital.” Wife and parent, proud queer woman, leftist Christian. chloeannamilligan.com
@sydneyforde.bsky.social
PhD from @bellisariograded.bsky.social SSHRC doctoral fellow | @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social fellow | @miccenter.bsky.social affiliate | Political Economy of Comm | Critical Theory | Media Policy | https://www.sydneyforde.com/
@emilyceleste.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UCDavis | border & migration studies | environmental humanities | c20/21 Mexican, Central American & Latinx lit. | chihuahuense + tapatía.
@patfio.bsky.social
writer, critic, and theorist; games and literature; lecturer in media arts and design at the university of chicago; he/him/his; www.patf.io
@jonathansterne.bsky.social
sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats -- Montreal https://sterneworks.org
@thisblue.bsky.social
Los Angeles since 2003. Media Studies, Critical Finance; power ballads; history of this wild city Find me at michellechihara.com
@mediareformuk.bsky.social
We campaign for a more independent, accountable & democratic media, where diversity, ethical journalism & public good come before the private gain of a few media moguls. Join the movement to fix the UK's broken media system: mediareform.org.uk
@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
@striphas.bsky.social
Chair of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder | Co-editor, Cultural Studies | Author, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (https://tinyurl.com/p8ad6suw) | Opinions my own
@nathanjurgenson.com
author, The Social Photo (Verso) former Snap; former Real Life magazine; former/future Theorizing the Web conference los angeles
@poww.bsky.social
Assistant Professor | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University. Trans media studies | Trans histories of glitches, electronic art, software, video games, and networked & computational media. https://linktr.ee/whitpow
@leni.bsky.social
‘One manʼs feminist garbage is another womanʼs feminist treasure.’ – Lauren Mayberry Marxist media scholar, researching intellectual property in digital capitalism. Proofreading, translating en⇆de, taking photos. Singing in @anomic.bond (www.anomic.bond).
@paulocepeda.bsky.social
Journalist immersed in journalism & digital communication teaching processes
@jfarkas.bsky.social
Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
@inqualia.bsky.social
other spatial mediations | media studies & japan studies | books: ambient media, the immersive enclosure | proquet.mit.edu
@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
@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.
@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
@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
@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.
@floriansprenger.bsky.social
Medienwissenschaft/RUB/Roboter/Situiertheit/Environments/Virtualität/Fotografie/Fahrrad/Berlin/Bochum
@mutanttheorist.bsky.social
Lecturer of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. Researcher of Mutant Theory and monstrous bodies.
@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.
@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
@scmstudies.bsky.social
The Official Blue Sky account for SCMS https://www.cmstudies.org/
@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.
@cinementalist.bsky.social
Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.
@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).
@elizabethalsop.bsky.social
CUNY prof, culture writer, author of ELAINE MAY (2025): https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088582
@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/
@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
@melisser3.bsky.social
film AND media studies?! in this economy?! // childfree catlady // climber of Inside Rocks // reader of Novels // bassist // knitter // shitpost appreciator
@aramsinn.bsky.social
SFF/Nonfiction Author Media Prof at American U Bassist/Producer (jazz, reggae, worldbeat) 💙📚THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA 💿 OUT OF OUR CELLS: Songs by Incarcerated Musicians in DC sinnreich.com https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/ linktree.com/wassako
@alexandraboutros.bsky.social
associate prof | communication and cultural studies | wilfrid laurier university | pop culture | pop music | critical race theory | media, religion, and identity |
@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
@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
@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
@gaborhalasz.bsky.social
ARD-Korrespondent. Im Hauptstadtstudio. Von 2012-2016 in Südasien. Privater Account. Meine Meinung.
@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
@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
@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
@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!
@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.
@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
@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
@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
@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
@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
@jennblaylock.bsky.social
assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her
@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
@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
@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)
@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.
@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
@ericara.bsky.social
professor of media, culture, and communication. editor, public culture. organizer, oikos working group on kinship/economy. enthusiast. (@fstflofscholars over yonder)
@robinmanley.bsky.social
phd candidate @ berkeley rhetoric // editor in chief @ qui parle // history of cybernetic sciences, post-kantian philosophy, media theory
@lankee.bsky.social
She/They Tired. Arsenal fan. Gender dissident. Academic Librarian. Queer AF. Iranian American. Older than I appear.
@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.
@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.
@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
@michaelmirer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor studying sports-related media and journalistic professionalism at UW-Milwaukee. Aspiring boat guy.
@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.