Media Theory
Conceptual, speculative, and intellectual history approaches to media theory research
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@joshshepperd.bsky.social
@profchander.bsky.social
@videotroph.bsky.social
@jmbean.bsky.social
assoc prof @ UW CMS, editor Feminist Media Histories, lover of tea, pickleball addict, collector of (filmic) junk
@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
@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
@baykurt.bsky.social
media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://glotechlab.net/
@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
@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
@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.
@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
@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.
@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
@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
@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
@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.
@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
@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
@jesspgh.bsky.social
Comm + media studies professor focused on history, emerging tech, information integrity, telecomm policy, platforms, propaganda, and culture. From Pittsburgh.
@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/
@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
@brianfauteux.bsky.social
Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board. Music in Orbit coming soon: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
@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
@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. 🌈
@mdno.bsky.social
scholar of art/cinema/media https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
@leilagermano.bsky.social
Trabalho falando e ouvindo falar. contato@hojetempodcast.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
@hankg.bsky.social
phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.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
@gatsbea.bsky.social
sensitive comrade | taga ilog hanggang dagat assntprof @ unc-ch music/american studies cultural history of the atomic age, screen media, opera
@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.
@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/
@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
@akanaphenix.bsky.social
Award-Winning Author of "The Empire Wars" Film/TV Agents: CAA Future Filmmaker University: Harvard/MIT 📚 2000s kid #filmsky #booksky
@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
@briancreech.bsky.social
Professor and Chair, Lehigh University Department of Journalism and Communication
@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.
@isanchezprado.bsky.social
Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs. Occasional Words: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
@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.
@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
@bernarddionysius.bsky.social
teacher, writer, curator media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
@rgrusin.bsky.social
Walker of woods, lover of forests, friendly with trees. Theorist of mediation. Arboreal nonhumanist. Zayde. Recovering academic.
@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
@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)
@joshshepperd.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, University of Colorado; Director, Library of Congress RPTF; Editor, Resonance Journal; Faculty Advisor, KVCU Radio