Automation & Software Studies
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@anitachan.bsky.social
Scholar, Speaker, Educator Author, Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech & Our Fight for an Independent Future Director, Community Data Clinic, communitydata.illinois.edu anitachan.org
@mediacomgold.bsky.social
Department of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies @GoldsmithsUoL #2 in 🇬🇧 2023 QS world rankings Student/staff work Free public events
@inquiline.bsky.social
Media, envirotech, infrastructure prof. Gloomy in SoCal. Pres of USC- #AAUP ✊🏻 🛢️🏖️📙 Latest book is OIL BEACH http://tinyurl.com/OilBch Also wrote 〰️📻 LOW POWER TO THE PEOPLE | HACKING DIVERSITY 🕸️🌈 Personal acct. Posts ≠ endorsements. Typos
@krystalkauffman.bsky.social
Activist * Lead Organizer - Turkopticon * Research Fellow - Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute * Rising Stars in AI Ethics 2024 * Tech Crunch Women in AI 2024 * All opinions are my own
@sunhahong.bsky.social
Wrote Technologies of Speculation (NYUP, 2020). Writing Predictions Without Futures. right now: Stanford Humanities Centre Fellow, soon: UNC Chapel Hill.
@leev.bsky.social
I do technology studies, make the Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded The Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
@robkitchin.bsky.social
Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/ Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
@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
@schock.cc
Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
@alexhanna.bsky.social
Director of Research, DAIR Roller derby athlete https://alex-hanna.com Book: thecon.ai Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k 🇪🇬⚧ She/هي 📸 @willtoft.bsky.social Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
@historyworkshop.org.uk
// Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ // || enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ || \\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
@honghongtinn.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine & Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota https://amazon.com/author/honghongtinn
@paidipaty.bsky.social
Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Comparative Political Economy, Kings College London
@pelithehistorian.bsky.social
Curator of the Pavek museum of electronic communication near Minneapolis
@kelsiemvn.bsky.social
Social scientist - BlockScience, RMIT University, BlockchainGov kelsien.github.io
@veenadubal.bsky.social
Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Precarity • Race General Counsel AAUP Sam's sister ❤️
@samplereality.bsky.social
Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies at Davidson College. Maker of @mobydickatsea.bsky.social and @clipart.bsky.social. Teaches, researches, and practices computational creativity. Other things I've made: https://samplereality.itch.io
@maidino.bsky.social
Historian of technology, science, and the welfare state. Occasional maker of policy about those things.
@raewalker.bsky.social
Tired trans nurse who studies A.I. & power AAAS Invention Ambassador They/them, probably a 🐉 #NurseSky #STS no longer a FAAN Views always my own as a private citizen & not my employer’s (wild that I have to state this)
@myrnamoretti.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | Instructor @ OCAD | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker 📹💾
@lchen2024.bsky.social
JD/PhD, UToronto historian of post-1500 Chinese law/politics/culture/intl relations; law & empire & postcolonial studies. Author of "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics”.
@ectaiuos.bsky.social
Research Group Ethics and Critical Theories of AI @ University of Osnabrück // Led by Prof. Rainer Mühlhoff https://bsky.app/profile/rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social 👉find us here: https://www.ikw.uni-osnabrueck.de/forschung/ethik_der_ki/ueberblick.html
@jpietruska.bsky.social
Historian | Forecasting, risk, futures, catastrophe, data | Author, Looking Forward: Prediction & Uncertainty in Modern America http://goo.gl/fwo6Hj | Assoc prof, Rutgers | C19/20 US culture, sci & tech, capitalism | Opinions my own | jamiepietruska.org
@adamquinn.bsky.social
History PhD candidate @ University of Oregon and union member (AFT 3544). Writing a labor & environmental history of the computer industry. Comms & organizing with EWOC.
@rekakrizmanics.bsky.social
Historian, PhD. Akad. Rätin a.Z./Asst. Prof. @unibielefeld Writing a book on women│global│solidarity│state socialism. Posts on events, lit, job calls, and ongoing research. Parttime feminist killjoy, fulltime foodie. Runner, biker, overthinker.
@ubisurv.net
David Murakami Wood (DMW) Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance & Security Studies Director, CSS/Lab, uOttawa Co-editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment https://ubisurv.net
@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.
@clancyny.bsky.social
Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian.
@bengrosser.bsky.social
Artist, recomposing social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures. Known for works like Demetricator, Computers Watching Movies, and minus.social. Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Harvard, Prof @ UIUC. bengrosser.com
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Historian of science, art, & ideas. Curious about how science & society shape each other? Preorder HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY now: https://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-history https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
@labortechresearchnetwork.org
We are an interdisciplinary group of over 650 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism. Posts by @kaareeenah.bsky.social
@nannathylstrup.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
@sthv.bsky.social
ST&HV is a journal that publishes cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sth
@drnikko.bsky.social
Writing a book on abolition(ist +) tech. (open source) software engineer. I study how racial ideologies influence data structures. Incoming asst prof of data science, currently postdoc @ MIT a very happy trans 🏳️⚧️ (they/them)
@businesshistoryc.bsky.social
The Business History Conference is a scholarly organization devoted to encouraging all aspects of research, writing, and teaching about business history and about the environment in which businesses operate. https://thebhc.org/
@florianhoof.bsky.social
Media theory, media infrastructure & security studies | Author: Angels of Efficiency @oxunipress | Organizer: Harvard-Frankfurt Conference www.aftersurveillance.info | PD & Research Associate @NormativeOrders University Frankfurt
@katemiltner.bsky.social
Lecturer (Asst. Prof) in Data, AI & Society @ The University of Sheffield Information School. Member of the UK Young Academy. katemiltner.com
@4sweb.bsky.social
We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting Sept 3 - 6, 2025.
@annamillsoer.bsky.social
Writer, community college writing teacher, obsessed with AI in education, #OER advocate, author of HowArgumentsWork.org. annarmills.com
@shothisttech.bsky.social
The Society for the History of Technology (since 1958) is dedicated to the historical study of technology, its relations with politics, economics, labor, business, the environment, public policy, science, and arts. Organizes Annual member meetings and more
@jwyg.bsky.social
🐨 https://jonathangray.org/ 🌱 director @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social + reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london + cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social 🫧 feminist STS, data studies, digital methods, internet studies, poetic computation
@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.
@jaivirdi.com
Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Delaware. Deaf & forever a radical Learn more: jaivirdi.com
@matthewfacciani.bsky.social
Social Scientist @NotreDame. Studies misinformation, media literacy, & AI. Author of Misguided: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/misguided/9780231555814/ https://matthewfacciani.substack.com www.matthewfacciani.com
@historians.org
The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions. http://historians.org/join
@jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University | Economic History, Labor, Inequality https://jamesfeigenbaum.github.io/
@aron.ambrosiani.se
Doktorand i teknikhistoria på Chalmers, redaktör för @utstallningskritik.se. PhD student in History of Technology, editor of Swedish museum magazine Utställningskritik. Researching gender and professions in early Swedish computing. aron.ambrosiani.se
@alexahagerty.bsky.social
Meditative anthropologist, author of Still Life With Bones, a New York Book Review Editors' choice, named one of the Best Books 2023 by The New Yorker, BookPage, and FT readers. Researching & writing on human rights, tech, resistance, and otherwise futures
@joshlauer.bsky.social
Media studies prof | History of communication tech, surveillance & information | Author of CREDITWORTHY, co-editor of SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM IN AMERICA
@zizilizizi.bsky.social
✨ 1st gen college student ➡️ digital culture researcher 👩🏻🏫 A cinephile teaching film and media studies ✍🏼 Critical Digital Studies, Influencer Cultures, Labor & Infrastructure, Identity Formation 🌱 Migraines, CPTSD http://www.zizili.net
@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
@velocitygravity.bsky.social
Lecturer in Digital Work, UoStirling. Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real. Associate Editor: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. It/ve/vem👾
@linzhang.bsky.social
Critical Innovation Studies, Pro@UNH; Author of The Labor of Reinvention (Columbia UP, 2023). Working on a book about transnational biotech https://linzhangweb.org/
@ccmmody.bsky.social
historian of science, technology, energy & environment @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social; http://nanobubbles.hypotheses.org; http://managingscarcity.com; The Squares http://mitpress.mit.edu/978026254361. Mody is my surname; "mo" as in "mosasaur."
@alexmonea.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @ George Mason U | Author: The Digital Closet (https://bit.ly/digitalcloset) | Focus: content moderation, platform governance, data ethics | Views my own | he/him
@uncleduncan.bsky.social
Here from @Lumpendata on X | Government(ality) | Policy | Information | STS | Archives | Art | fmr Safra Network Fellow @HarvardEthics | PhD and now Adjunct @KUSPAA
@calculatedvalues.bsky.social
Scholar of sophisters, economists, and calculators. Program in STS + HASTS PhD Program at MIT. Author of CALCULATED VALUES (Harvard UP 2018). "TILT" (2005) fan account.
@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
@marielgm.bsky.social
40% thinker, 60% doer. 100% altermundista. Sociotechnical researcher on privacy and surveillance, trust and safety at MIT HASTS, Data + Feminism, Berkman Klein. I love creative uses of media and tech in the public interest. Cambridge, MA/Ciudad de México.
@annejonas.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ UM-Flint CIT. Studying digital technologies, schools, community, and power through qualitative and design-based research methods. Previously at MSU, UC Berkeley, Barnard, and Brown. she/her 🏳️🌈
@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.
@kevinbaker.bsky.social
writing at: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com editing at: reboothq.substack.com
@melissabaker.bsky.social
Asst prof at UTEP. Political psychology and political communication. Studying mental health, cognition, emotions, info behavior, & social media.
@eastasiascitech.bsky.social
Historian of technology, science, and industry @ Harvard. Author of CARBON TECHNOCRACY. Currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China. More about my work here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow
@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
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@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.
@ruha9.bsky.social
✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
@crystaljjlee.com
Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼 crystaljjlee.com
@miriamposner.com
Asst. prof. at UCLA Information Studies, ask me about supply chain tech! Labor, data, DH, etc. www.miriamposner.com
@joshshepperd.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, University of Colorado; Director, Library of Congress RPTF; Editor, Resonance Journal; Faculty Advisor, KVCU Radio
@jasminefolz.bsky.social
Anthropologist interested in work & technology generally, FOSS in India particularly. Research associate in human computer systems at university of Manchester. Co-editor anthropologyofwork.bsky.social She/Her/Dr.
@babintsevak.bsky.social
Historian of the mind, computing, artificial intelligence, and labor in the Cold War Soviet Union and the US. Asst Prof at Purdue. PhD from UPenn.
@rachelplotnick.bsky.social
Associate Prof, IU Media School. Hist of tech, interfaces, wearables, media tech and everyday life. Books: Power Button (MIT) bit.ly/2xMlmsr and License to Spill (MIT, out now!) https://shorturl.at/Yl1DP
@shreeharsh.bsky.social
Continuing Lecturer, UC-Berkeley. I study AI, algorithms, organizations, work, labor, and expertise. Writing a book about MOOCs, data, and educational expertise. Website: https://shreeharshkelkar.net Substack: https://computingandsociety.substack.com/
@lanalanalana.bsky.social
New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Uniquely qualified to write this book about scams because I grew up in Florida and / Associate Professor UVA
@maisugimoto.bsky.social
Historian of Computing, Japan. Associate prof. at Kansai University in Osaka.
@xiaochang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech recognition, and related data practices; general tomfoolery.
@adamegriff.bsky.social
- Curator, Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com) - Author, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023) - Lecturer in WGSS @ Gonzaga University - Collects your old technology junk and cats.
@dcbrock.bsky.social
Works at the Computer History Museum, but everything here is solely my fault.
@aberehrlich.bsky.social
Digital Historian @ UniPaderborn & @ ZZF Potsdam; Exploring Bluesky for scientific reasons #digitalgeschichte | Kaffee | Beachvolleyball Instagram: @objektiver
@murmz.bsky.social
Prof, FIMS-Western-Ontario. American + Canadian Cruising the Library (Fordham), “A Peculiar Satisfaction”: Jefferson in the History of Libraries, Archives & Museums (under contract) Surveillance & Security in the “Empire of Liberty” (in review) She/her 🌈
@bernarddionysius.bsky.social
teacher, writer, curator media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
@olamichalec.bsky.social
The absolute pinnacle of British engineering • unprofessional account of a Bristol Uni STSish researcher interested in energy innovations, cyber security and stem lords • cover by https://disect.me/
@mxmcadam.bsky.social
Executive Editor for Humanities and History of STM at Johns Hopkins University Press
@teaselmuir.bsky.social
Historian of Science + Technology | Curator of the Apollo Collection at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
@jeddobson.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Author of The Birth of Computer Vision (Minnesota), Critical Digital Humanities (Illinois), and co-author of Moonbit (punctum) and Perceptron (punctum). American Literature, ML/AI/DH
@andrewlea.bsky.social
physician-historian at brigham & women's hospital / harvard medical school. book: DIGITIZING DIAGNOSIS (jhu press), order: https://bit.ly/diagnosis-lea. working on next book, AID TO THOUGHT, a history of the peripheral brain in medicine.
@jameshodges.net
human scholar with phd (digital archives) • assistant professor in california (remote from new york) • www.jameshodges.net
@baykurt.bsky.social
media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://glotechlab.net/
@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