Media Theory 2
Conceptual, speculative, and intellectual history approaches to media theory
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@joshshepperd.bsky.social
@matthewfjohnson.bsky.social
Director of Education for MediaSmarts, Canada's centre for digital media literacy. He/him. Open to correction.
@themisterlibrary.bsky.social
'25 SLJ Librarian of the Year 🎉 '24 LJ Mover & Shaker 🎉 '23 Nat’l Media Literacy Teacher 🎉 '22 KY Librarian of the Year 🎉 Second City Alum 🎉 Co-Owner of nimcoinc.com 🎉 Book out Oct '25 linktr.ee/misterlibrary #Skybrarians #TLSky #EduSky #BookSky
@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).
@ariana33141.bsky.social
anthropologist (Cuba/SoFL/LatAm - PhD UChicago), art & social engagement, local politics, urban & media studies, writer/editor, media & comm consultant, research assoc at FIU. Barcelona-native/ based in miami beach. loves dominoes and ice skating
@tahneeroksman.bsky.social
Associate professor of writing, literature, and journalism; writes about comics, Jewish lit and culture, feminism, for NPR and others; some books on some things; Brooklyn, NY. Illustration by L. Finck. More at tahneeroksman.com
@johnpaulstadler.bsky.social
Area pervert and pie taster; gay; film and media scholar —> mostly queer and porn-centric research.
@erinmcel.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Geography at University of Washington https://www.erinmcelroy.net; Anti-Eviction Mapping Project https://antievictionmap.com/; Silicon Valley Imperialism https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism
@prconway.bsky.social
Researching critique, conspiracism, climate, and the geopolitics of big tech. https://philiprconway.net/ He/him.
@jimbomed.bsky.social
Professor of Film and Media, Aberystwyth University | Broadcasting history, media policy and regulation, documentary film history | Dad | Arweinydd Addoliad @eglwysfair.bsky.social
@abigailshupe.bsky.social
Music theory assoc professor.📍Fort Collins 📖 *War & Death in the Music of George Crumb* (Routledge 2023). Now studying music, 9/11, GWOT, & memory. Open water & masters swimming. Sighthounds. Episcopalian. Originally from IN. She/her
@annarosestamm.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Indiana University | STS - Broadcast History - Cultural Geography - Local/National Histories | annarosestamm.net
@huntressleine.bsky.social
Kids media researcher and critic. Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University; RA with DEFI Cambridge; media reviews editor for Adaptation at OUP
@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
@shanedenson.bsky.social
Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
@wilmcmillen.bsky.social
Spent years in the video store trenches. Now I use my wisdom for trivia night. Minnesota by way of DC by way of Wichita Kansas Current Events: Future writer of “Dirty Harry Chokes On A Bagel” Currently watching thru every Looney Tunes release
@joesherwood.bsky.social
Broadcast TV News vet, Actor, Photographer, Private Pilot, Hubby Dad, Curious mind. DFW. Texas Tech student, again: B.S. Leadership Studies; SMU alumnus, Theatre. F1 tifoso, learning Italian, beginner violinist.
@jackrataty.bsky.social
Is this thing on? Naval Academy Graduate. Would have been a republican if they hadn't embraced the antichrist.
@annahm.bsky.social
Professor of Intersectional Humanities, Director of Arts & Humanities Institute, Maynooth University 🇮🇪
@pcbryan.bsky.social
Have PhD, will travel. Americanist by training, fan/media studies by trade. Scholar of fan studies, adaptation, Disney, comics - happy to talk intersections of translation/gender/disability. First book out; next book soon. He / him.
@onlyplaywizards.com
📖UC Merced writing professor & TTRPG Educator 🚀 @AbraxasPrecipic.bsky.social #TheExpanse #RPG 👕 @CauldronNTower.bsky.social 📚Academic Librarian 🎼Vinyl collector 📝Dysgraphic linktr.ee/onlyplaywizards
@jboisvere.bsky.social
Science fiction lit., film, and games scholar. PhD CUNY Graduate Center CompLit, teaching at NYU Liberal Studies. Ecocriticism, (New) Materialism, Narratology, Affect Theory. Postanthropoceneposting.com
@bluffkonto.bsky.social
@allagmatic.bsky.social
Academic worker. Occasionally writes about Gilbert Simondon. Likes post-bop for some reason.
@annapr.bsky.social
Climate Alarm Clock podcast host (https://the-climate-alarm-clock.captivate.fm/) Sanctuary Runner (www.sanctuaryrunners.ie). https://notherenotanywhere.com/ #LoveDonegal #ClimateActionNow
@njorlando.bsky.social
I heard this is the place to be. Ph.D. Candidate 🐊 Film and media studies
@christopherali.bsky.social
Pioneers Chair & Professor in Telecommunications @ Penn State Bellisario College of Communications. Researcher of all things broadband. Author of Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity. Husband, dog dad, Murder She Wrote groupie. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
@freetrialcanceler.bsky.social
oh hi | he/they | media scholar | educator | hockey fan | musician | cat person | friendly neighborhood socialist | hot take enthusiast | nc
@scopeland.bsky.social
Queer Feminist researcher. Podcasts-radio-media-theory. Assistant professor, University of Groningen. Co-director, Amplify Podcast Network. {she/they} 🏳️🌈🎙️
@andrask.bsky.social
early modernist and book historian, curious about shorthand, epigraphy, catalogs and other media. also sociology of cold war translations, history of media studies, … and Uwe Johnson.
@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/
@michellelauraflood.bsky.social
Scholarship on feminist media, celebrity, digital cultures, & anything pop culture. | assistant prof of practice @ St. John Fisher University | opinions are my own | #FirstGen, 🏳️🌈 | she/her
@drmelissameade.bsky.social
Ethnographies of inequality, digital media + tech, labor, environment, economic decline, collective trauma + memory, identity. Assistant professor of communication.
@asalvati.bsky.social
Adjunct professor of media and communications at Drew University. Podcaster. Historian.
@louiseerika1.bsky.social
Studying PhD in Law at University of Limerick, research areas: surveillance, technology, human rights, psychology and media discourse. BSc (criminology & psych), LLB, MA (Human Rights)
@sayshatim.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut opinions mine. he/him
@mmvty.bsky.social
poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
@rosieoverell.bsky.social
⛧°｡⋆༺ rosie ༻⋆｡°⛧ Media / Film / Comms @ Otago Aotearoa NZ Lacan | ikebana | grindcore | feminism
@iamdylanlewis.bsky.social
¶PhD in C17-18 book history & bibliography ¶Anglo-German print & typography ¶queer media history ¶video game, arthouse cinema, & public transit enjoyer ¶Librarian-in-training ¶ 🇺🇸🇩🇪🏳️🌈 He/Him 📍Texan in DC https://linktr.ee/iamdylanlewis
@sebgiessmann.bsky.social
Media History | Theory | STS @UniSiegen @mediaofcoop. Formerly Cultural Techniques | History of Knowledge @ HU Berlin New Book @mitpress.bsky.social: The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832 Toots: https://mastodon.social/@sebgiessmann
@henrysilke.bsky.social
Dr. Henry Silke, Associate Professor, Journalism, University of Limerick IRL. All views are an ideological construct, but in this case mine.
@marcelonoah.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University – Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Cultures; Sound, Media, Technology; Poetry, Songwriting, Avant-gardes | Posts in English, Portuguese & Spanish
@mbaysa.bsky.social
Religion, Media Technologies, and Early America, teaching at the University of Vermont, PHD in American Religions from Princeton University
@nevrasland.bsky.social
Phd candidate, studying political economy, populism, macroeconomics, monetary policy, international relations, politics, finance https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/140036297?ref=nav_mybooks%20%20%20https://bsky.app/profile/nevrasland.bsky.social
@jonothingeb.bsky.social
Postdoc at UofT, Institute for Hist & Phil of Sci & Tech, 20th C literature and science, viruses, evolutionary theory, deconstruction, libraryofbabel.info. Author: Virality Vitality (https://sunypress.edu/Books/V/Virality-Vitality)
@evahallama.bsky.social
history, sound studies, psychoanalysis | SONIME "Sonic Memories. Audio Letters in Times of Migration and Mobility"
@brandonwhawk.bsky.social
Professor of English at Rhode Island College (views my own). I’m a nerd for medieval things, biblical apocrypha, Star Wars, LotR, & Magic (TCG). He/him. “Read some fucking apocrypha.” https://linktr.ee/brandonwhawk
@claudiamellado.bsky.social
Professor of Journalism @pucvperiodismo 🇨🇱 Profesor Titular Periodismo PUCV | Journalism studies, JRPproject, journalistic cultures, comparative research
@profjohnellis.bsky.social
TV and British film. Editor of View. Chair of Learning on Screen. Emeritus prof at Royal Holloway. Allotment holder and occasional birdwatcher. Once a TV producer at www.largedoorltd.com
@lauragattis.bsky.social
Doctoral candidate studying climate change, sci comm, and mining communication 🌎 ⛏️ -
@superdoodle.bsky.social
FSL teacher, University Professor, Canadian. I believe in Democracy, fair play, and respect. Does that make me a progressive? No DM’s. Enseignant de FLS, prof. universitaire, Québécois. Démocratie, fair-play et respect… ça fait de moi un progressiste?
@saranahmed.bsky.social
Writer and independent feminist scholar Queer person of colour #FreePalestine
@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
@annettemarkham.bsky.social
Social researcher focused on AI futures literacies, data/digital disruptions, algorithmic identity, human machine communication. Chair Professor at Utrecht University A bit obsessed about methodology More at https://annettemarkham.com
@kaarinan.bsky.social
Professor of Media and Communication Research Tampere University I write about datafication and social justice, emotions, affect & traces of humanity in the digital world. Also on migration, hate and the far-right. Book: Media Solidarities (SAGE 2019)
@katiidoll.bsky.social
27 | vintage & lolita fashion | herbivore | eunos roadster owner~ ⳾*⑅*✿⑅*✿⑅*✿⑅*✿⑅*✿⑅*✿⑅*✿⑅*✿⑅*✿⑅*✿⑅*⳾
@verlook.bsky.social
Visual studies / photography / media anthropology Co-author of Visual Studies (Routledge, 2015) *Visual Studies Lab / **co-org Helsinki Photomedia
@somabasu.com
Journalist turned researcher, teacher, fact-checker. 📚 Affect, digital politics, violence, imaginations, & pervasive game cultures. 🛠️ (Sensory) Ethnography, CDA-DHA, PAR PhDing: Tampere Uni 🇫🇮 Project: Muslims in India (Columbia, Princeton, Science Po)
@rhetorica.bsky.social
I teach and research media and rhetoric and affect. Avid gardener. Chicken owner. Professor. Part time gamer
@kriskel.bsky.social
postcolonialist/anglophonist, digital humanist, dog-walkist, and so on-ist // she/her // employed@cwru writing program
@itjustsaysm.bsky.social
Prof & Provost, @ProvManitoba. Scholar: media, music, Barthes, Bowie, Morrissey & U2. Views are my own.
@suerobinsonuw.bsky.social
Journalism researcher, teacher at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Former journalist. Publisher of Madison Commons, a community-based, student-powered SJMC news site. Book author about …what else? Journalism
@zgtcooper.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Film at St. Lawrence University | Affiliate @datasociety.bsky.social (Climate, Technology, and Justice group). Internet infrastructure and sustainability researcher. www.zanegriffintalleycooper.com
@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
@fauxneem.bsky.social
comparative literature, film and visual culture, middle east studies / literary, cinematic, philosophical, and bibliographic voyeurism / cats, donkeys, dogs, bunny rabbits, fuzzy creatures
@cheeflo.bsky.social
Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
@jeffpreston.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Disability Studies @ King’s University College. Combobulating students since 2014. Interested in | 🎥 media representation | 💻 technoculture | ♿️ accessibility
@kylebarnett.bsky.social
Media studies professor. Participant observer. Itinerant Hoosier. Author, Record Cultures (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2020). Faculty adviser/occasional DJ, Bellarmine Radio. https://www.kylesbarnett.org/
@katycoduto.bsky.social
Assistant professor of media science @ Boston U. Researching sexting, swiping, + other online behaviors. Usually watching horror movies. kdcoduto.com
@dappydoo.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of the Highlands and Islands. Mercury Music Prize nomination Producer/Engineer Isobel Campbell Mark Lanegan. BBC Sessions in Scotland. https://www.discogs.com/artist/409074-Dave-Paterson
@nonwayne.bsky.social
Literary critic in a library. Scholarly publishing, egoism, manifestos, and modernism. My book, The Ego Made Manifest, is available from Bloomsbury. Views my own and mostly on the other one. https://x.com/NonwayneWayne?t=8_wAuQkxi3mzXY2lgoWUbQ&s=09
@willthewordguy.bsky.social
Media historian/dog/human dad/husband/flawed Christian/hiker/dancer
@laurah.bsky.social
Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: Girls Will Be Boys (2016). she/her (white cis queer)
@citiless.bsky.social
Asst Professor, Colonialism Studies and Environmental Humanities, Dartmouth. Get *Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities* from DUP: https://www.dukeupress.edu/against-extraction
@oliviastowell.bsky.social
theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
@micheleplott.bsky.social
Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
@thehanopticon.bsky.social
Media Scholar in the Wild | Assistant Prof at Pitzer College | Studying oceans, energy, and tech 🍉
@historyonfilm.bsky.social
The History on Film Podcast is an award-winning series that looks at the intersections of history, film and media studies, and more. Our goal is to make the educational parts entertaining and the entertaining parts educational. New episodes Mondays!
@djomeara.bsky.social
PhD under examination | Researching television production culture & gender and sexuality; public relations in creative industries | Lecturer: PR, Comms, Screen, Media Studies | Board Member MQFF
@jennychambles.bsky.social
Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Senior Lecturer in Film & Media. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. Certified DISCO DIVA (IYKYK). I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.
@simongandrew.bsky.social
Historian of media, pop culture, the Middle East. Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
@jenmhessler.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society Views my own
@shannagilkeson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Digital Media, Cinema and Journalism at Eastern Michigan University. Fan studies scholar. Chair of Star Trek Studies and Fan Studies subject areas at MPCA. Post may be fannish, scholarly, or full of cats. Opinions are my own.
@ptklein.com
Film historian and cultural critic. Radically optimistic. Writing about why we watch movies at www.howtoreadmovies.com. He/Him/His.
@justcode.bsky.social
Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
@danbrownefilm.bsky.social
Filmmaker + multimedia artist | Facilitating interdisciplinary AI research @ University of Toronto | Comcult PhD | Parent | he/him
@robinmanley.bsky.social
phd candidate @ berkeley rhetoric // editor in chief @ qui parle // history of cybernetic sciences, post-kantian philosophy, media theory
@madelineandraia.bsky.social
Weird geeky broken chick. Is 37, 🇨🇦, and v socialist + agnostic. AuDHD, white, she/her, queer AF. About 50% Angrily Queer Socialist Hissing by volume. As seen on the Light Blue Hellsite.
@schanzenini.bsky.social
AIS steht für unsere AnwohnerInitiative Schanzenviertel - kein Ballermann in der Schanze! #StreetArt 📸 #Photography #urbanspaces
@lyrwar.bsky.social
PC Gaymer & D&D enthusiast. #Critter PhD Candidate (Media Studies) with a focus on the relationship between gamers and avatars. Insta: @lyrwar (mostly bread tbh) Discord: lyrwar Pronouns are he/him
@sheribiesen.bsky.social
Cinema Professor. Film History. Jazz. Books: Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style. Blackout: World War II & Origins of Film Noir. Film Censorship. Music in the Shadows📚 https://noirbooks.blogspot.com https://SheriChinenBiesen.blogspot.com
@voicesbend.bsky.social
Only the Void Stands Between Us out now on Silver Current Records | The Fact of Resonance @FordhamPress | editor at The Faulkner Journal | Former President of the New School AAUP https://linktr.ee/juliebethnapolin
@becimay.bsky.social
Senior lecturer, Cymraes. Author of Granular Modernlsm (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (Forthcoming from OUP, 2025).
@1789jam.bsky.social
French/Global History, 1500-1850 at #Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, Vote Blue...& Shoes! User #396,109 :) Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City. Immune compromised, still wear a mask. Where's the #skiing community
@snelsonus.bsky.social
Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art and left-handed art historian who sees lots of shiny objects. All views are my own.