Automation & Software Studies
Interdisciplinary humanities, social science, arts, and information scholars of the digital world. Sharing networks, sources, archives, & ideas in critical automation & software studies. Comment to join...
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@justcode.bsky.social
@karengregory.bsky.social
Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | CAHSS Digital Lead | Critical Data Studies @ EFI Writing: Enchanted Entrepreneurs: Media, Work, and Meaning in the Spiritual Marketplace
@patrickmccray.bsky.social
Professor @ UCSB => I write history stuff about science + tech + art + environment Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 living in Cali-rado; public lands in public hands, pls. #146,842 https://www.patrickmccray.com
@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
@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
@bhgross144.bsky.social
VP for Research & Scholarship, Linda Hall Library (ret.); Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
@lmesseri.bsky.social
anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
@edenmedina.bsky.social
Historian of tech @MITPSTS @MIT. Author Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Co-curator Cómo diseñar una revolucón // How to Design a Revolution. #sci #tech #politics #history #data #design #LatinAmerica #humanrights. Views my own.
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
phd student in us history • former newsroom software engineer & data journalist • she/her • chicago smbsimon.github.io
@sarahlamdan.bsky.social
Librarian & lawyer. Wrote Data Cartels (Stanford University Press, 2022). Creative non-fiction at Sarah Lawrence. Kicking cancer where it counts. This account is personal - opinions are my own.
@ericara.bsky.social
professor of media, culture, and communication. editor, public culture. organizer, oikos working group on kinship/economy. enthusiast. (@fstflofscholars over yonder)
@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
@lainenooney.bsky.social
💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU 🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org 🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal https://linktr.ee/lainenooney they/them
@tamigraph.bsky.social
Climate/technology/labor/death researcher in Oakland. AI hater @datasociety.bsky.social I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/ Views mine www.tamarakneese.com
@gleemie.bsky.social
Prof UCSD Comm, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, TWC SD, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker.
@epopppp.bsky.social
Professor @ a large Midwestern univ. Wrote a book about economists + policy, one about academic science + policy. Temporarily on the "government is breaking" beat, but I'd rather be posting about public utility debates from 1906. I support 🏳️⚧️ rights.
@nescioquid.bsky.social
“How Data Happened” with Chris Wiggins available now! Historian of science, AI/ML computing, sigint, and technology, Princeton
@mysdick.bsky.social
Historian of math, computing, and the mind. Assistant Prof. of Communication at SFU. Co-editor of Abstractions and Embodiments. PhD from Harvard. Likes cats, writes pysanky eggs, working on a comic book about AI ✨
@devikanarayan.bsky.social
Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. some other stuff. Sociologist. https://www.devikanarayan.com/
@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
@histoftech.bsky.social
Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi
@cperold.bsky.social
Asst Prof @cumediastudies. Research: labor, computer history, U.S. empire in Latin America. PhD @mccNYU. Member @ucwcolorado.
@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