Public interest technology starter pack
Folks working on public interest technology, critical data studies, and related fields.
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@merbroussard.bsky.social
@rcalo.bsky.social
I am a law professor and information scientist at the University of Washington. I have a book coming out next year about law and technology that I hope you read. 💙
@aselbst.bsky.social
UCLA Law Prof. Focused on law, tech, and justice; posting not necessarily related. He/him. http://ssrn.com/author=1328346
@emilytav.bsky.social
Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist. Teaching + researching at Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy. Co-Curator of an oral history of the origin of the US Digital Service // ex: @usds @whitehouse @ashoka
@triketora.com
founder & ceo @blockpartyapp.com: helping you deep clean your socials and live a better online life harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.
@ameliaivance.bsky.social
Child & student privacy geek, founder of @pipcprivacy.bsky.social, teach privacy and data protection at William & Mary Law School. Mostly sharing news on privacy, tech, civil rights, & things that make me smile.
@ameliawb.bsky.social
Artist Banks Family Chair of AI and the Arts at the University of Florida, Digital Worlds Institute. Founder: AI Climate Justice Lab. Seneca-Cayuga Nation.
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
@themarkup.org
Challenging technology to serve the public good. Send tips: http://mrkup.org/tips. Subscribe: http://mrkup.org/klaxon. Support: http://mrkup.org/donate.
@nyupit-alliance.bsky.social
A global center of thought leadership on the responsible and ethical creation, use, and governance of technology in society
@shobitap.org
Science & #tech politics and #policy incl patents. Author: next book on politics of inclusive innovation/tech for equity. #STS scholar. Prof & Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Pgm, U of Michigan. The Received Wisdom podcast. shobitap.org
@sivav.bsky.social
Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Supervises VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
@danrosen.xyz
Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, web platforms, and livestreaming. PhD/Annenberg Endowed Fellow @ USC Cinema & Media Studies (he/him) danrosen.xyz
@michae.lv
assoc. prof, @UCLLaws.bsky.social, technology, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
@mmitchell.bsky.social
Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse. Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
@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
@littlewow.online
Director at Library Futures, a project of NYU Law Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. MPA, MLIS. Words at Flaming Hydra and other places sometimes. she/her
@iris-meredith.bsky.social
Software engineer, trans advocate and general nuisance. Blogs at https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/posts. Support my writing: https://www.patreon.com/c/IrisMeredithandherblog https://en.liberapay.com/iris_meredith/
@cybdetective.bsky.social
Every day I write about #osint (Open Source Intelligence) tools and techniques. Also little bit about forensics and other cybersecurity related themes
@the-citizens.bsky.social
We expose Big Tech's harm to democracy. Independent Sage, The Real Facebook Oversight Board. Visit: linktr.ee/thecitizens Join us at: https://dispatch.the-citizens.com https://citizensreunited.substack.com
@ronythebikeczar.bsky.social
Bike Urbanism Food Systems Data Coffee Tea Bread Cat Chicago Former Coastal Elite Person ronythebikeczar.substack.com
@giannella.bsky.social
Associate Research Professor at Georgetown Better Government Lab: 1) Evidence-based implementation for safety net programs 2) Open source tools for data sharing in public services. Founded and led Data Science team at Code for America.
@mezbreeze.bsky.social
An OG digital artist/writer. Creates in Mezangelle: http://anthology.rhizome.org/mez-breeze. Permaculturalist. Narrative Designer + Developer. Blurrings + imaginings: https://www.patreon.com/mezbreeze + https://mezbreeze.itch.io/
@przemyslslaw.bsky.social
CS faculty at University College Dublin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: responsible AI, social media, news media, computational social science, applied NLP, open-world AI RT≠endorsement, RT=interesting read More: https://przemyslslaw.github.io
@sayash.bsky.social
CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI. Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
@randomwalker.bsky.social
Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/ BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/ cohost, System Crash: https://systemcrash.info/
@justdoeat.bsky.social
Managing Director @ The Moynihan Center, CCNY moynihancenter.ccny.cuny.edu Prev: Director @ SSRC, just-tech.ssrc.org | mediawell.ssrc.org #media #technology #politics #propaganda #disinformation #censorship #surveillance #publicservice
@claesdevreese.bsky.social
Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || EDMO || Algosoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff || 🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
@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
@lnakamura.bsky.social
Researcher and prof. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. New book on women of color and the internet in the pipe. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
@johnfitzg.bsky.social
digital evolution • charities • change • digital strategy • tech for good • fixing the plumbing • responsible AI • Scotland • feed may contain bikes and sailing
@hankg.bsky.social
phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
@marielza.bsky.social
Retired UNESCO Dir for Digital Inclusion, Policies & Transformation. Chair, UN University, eGov Institute. UNESCO Women in STEM Committee Some pottery and cyanotyping Profile picture is of my face and torso Banner is a picture I took of a light garden
@tynedaile.bsky.social
ARC DECRA Fellow: literary studies | digital humanities | surveillance | President, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: https://aa-dh.org/ | current project: surveilit.com | everything else: tynedaile.com
@miriamposner.com
Asst. prof. at UCLA Information Studies, ask me about supply chain tech! Labor, data, DH, etc. www.miriamposner.com
@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
@laurenmarietta.bsky.social
still chasing the high that was space tw*tter circa 2018 💔 year 4 phd studying advocacy technology at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social formerly ACLU-MA 🗽, STScI 🛰️ laurenmarietta.github.io
@craigsilverman.bsky.social
Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer. I write the free Digital Investigations newsletter and edited the Verification Handbook series. Previously: ProPublica, BuzzFeed News. https://digitalinvestigations.substack.com/ https://craigsilverman.ca
@joe.germuska.com
Chief Nerd @ Northwestern University Knight Lab • Project lead @ Census Reporter • Board Member @ City Bureau • Information Design • Digital Journalism • Civic Technology Signal: JoeGermuska.53
@chadtopaz.bsky.social
Data science + math for social justice at QSIDE Institute, Williams College, CU Boulder. Violist, yogi, husband, dad to human & dogs. 🏳️🌈 Homepage: www.chadtopaz.com Nonprofit: www.qsideinstitute.org
@dwillis.bsky.social
I teach data journalism at the University of Maryland, run OpenElections. Fan of WBB & test cricket. Posting obscure things about campaign finance, Congress & elections. https://github.com/dwillis https://thescoop.org
@profjsg.bsky.social
Prof in the iSchool at Syracuse. I study political campaigns and disinformation on social media. Author of Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age. Methods agnostic (data science to critical analysis)
@jeremylittau.com
I'm not like a regular media sociologist. I'm a cool media sociologist. • Associate Prof Journalism & Comm @LehighU • Near-term futurism scholarship on digital media, internet culture, and society • Exvie wanderer • M-I-Z • http://jeremylittau.substack.com
@nitasha.bsky.social
technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10
@friedler.net
CS prof at Haverford, former tech policy at OSTP, research on fairness, accountability, and transparency of ML, @facct.bsky.social co-founder Also at: sorelle@mastodon.social 🦣 (formerly @kdphd 🐦) sorelle.friedler.net
@geomblog.bsky.social
Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
@suryamattu.com
Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com Previously: @princetoncitp.bsky.social @umwallacehouse.bsky.social 21-22 Fellow @themarkup.org @propublica.org
@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/
@jatucker.bsky.social
Politics Prof, NYU; Director @NYUJordanCenter for Adv Study of #Russia; Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics @CSMaP_NYU (http://csmapnyu.org); long suffering NY Mets fan; @j_a_tucker on other platforms; he/him
@victorpickard.bsky.social
Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
@davekarpf.bsky.social
Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens. Davekarpf.substack.com
@ginasue.bsky.social
Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@mrose.ink
Grumpy feminist lawyer. Giant nerd. SFF, horror, romance writer with ADHD. Senior Policy Counsel, Public Knowledge. Copyright, tech, music, AI, fandom. I talk about stuff. She/her 🏳️🌈 日本語でもOK
@shengokai.bsky.social
Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist. Assistant Professor @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
Read threads Asst. Professor of Philosophy & Data Sci. Degrees in: Science, Technology, & Society; Philosophy; Religious Studies Working on: Algorithms, "AI," Human Knowledge & Values, Marginalized Lived Experiences, Occult Beliefs, Pop Culture He/Him/His
@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
@muckrock.com
The easy way to request and share public records, making government more transparent and democracies more informed. Learn more: https://www.muckrock.com/
@lucyparsonslabs.com
Chicago-based collaboration between data scientists, transparency activists, artists, & technologists that sheds light on the intersection of digital rights and on-the-streets issues. https://linktr.ee/lucyparsonslabs
@bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com
A twitch streamer who writes about #FOIA, policing and technology. I help run @lucyparsonslabs.com & give advice to @ddosecrets.com
@kevinbaker.bsky.social
writing at: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com editing at: reboothq.substack.com
@derekeder.com
Civic tech builder in Chicago. Partner @ DataMade, President Emeritus @ Chi Hack Night. Democratizing power through technology. he/him
@allafarce.bsky.social
Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
@rebeccawilliams.info
writer/lawyer/artist whose work investigates how data & technology affect power; she/her Privacy @ACLU.org, Board @MuckRock.com; https://linksofrebecca.glitch.me/, rebecca.411 @Signal.org
@biancawylie.com
@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
@clancyny.bsky.social
Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian.
@datasociety.bsky.social
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
@marinanitze.bsky.social
Co-author, Hack Your Bureaucracy & Crisis Engineering. Crisis engineer at Layer Aleph. Listmaker at TaskTackler. Former CTO of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
@tumshie.me
Tech / gov / design / occasional snark. Usually found queuing for coffee ☕️ Digital for public good ✊ CIO @rds-scotland.bsky.social Chair @cfgsocial.bsky.social ✍️ Sign up to my newsletter: https://tumshie.ghost.io
@tomski.com
Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
@sarahtgold.bsky.social
CEO @projectsbyif.bsky.social founder, designer, advisor, Mum, “rebel with the right cause”, expecting more from computers… https://projectsbyif.com https://sarah.gold
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Internet person. Community tech, careful innovation, trying to make progressive tech policy happen. https://carefultrouble.net https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
@tega.bsky.social
Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/
@serife.bsky.social
Artist investigating AI, power, and belief at IcarusSalon.com, on boards of Gray Area & Tech Inquiry, affiliate of ORCAA & Kidd Lab UC Berkeley. Educating via ArtificialLifeCoach.com on Insta and Tiktok.
@wells.bsky.social
critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan. catch me staffing at anime cons! pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️
@chrishwiggins.bsky.social
.edu: associate professor @columbia; .org: cofounder @hackNY; .com: chief data scientist @nytimes; books: http://amzn.to/3J1tFnr
@gregmepstein.bsky.social
Humanist Chaplain @Harvard/@MIT. NYT bestseller Good Without God. New multi-award-winner TECH AGNOSTIC: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, & Why it Desperately Needs a Reformation @MITPress @PenguinRandom https://tinyurl.com/282sze6v
@informor.bsky.social
Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
@lukestark.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own https://starkcontrast.co/ https://starlingcentre.ca/
@criticalai-journal.bsky.social
Critical AI's 2nd issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue/2/1! Follow us here or @mastodon.social - we are transitioning away from the other place... Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu Our website: https://criticalai.org/
@sashamtl.bsky.social
Climate & AI Lead @HuggingFace, TED speaker, WiML board member, TIME AI 100 (She/her/Dr/🦋)
@brianckeegan.com
{Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist at @cuboulder.info High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science. Born at 345ppm. https://www.brianckeegan.com/ Signal: brianckeegan.26
@natematias.bsky.social
I work with communities on citizen science for safer, fairer, more understanding Internet. Founder: Citizens & Technology Lab. Assistant Prof in Communication at Cornell · Guatemalan-American. @natematias@social.coop natematias.com citizensandtech.org
@khari.bsky.social
proud dad, snack enthusiast, tech reporter at CalMatters/The Markup, formerly at WIRED and VentureBeat Fellow, Karsh Digital Technology for Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia SPJ board member http://www.kharijohnson.com 📍Oakland, CA
@mike.tig.as
🤔 • priors: technologist at FTC, hacker-journalist at @propublica.org, contrib at @torproject.org (Onion Browser for iOS), TabulaPDF • he/him • [personal acct] 🌐: https://mike.tig.as/
@shannimcg.bsky.social
Professor at UNC. Principal investigator at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, data, news. BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
@hmason.bsky.social
Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things. NYC
@cfiesler.bsky.social
information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff) kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey) though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things she/her
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
Technology + democracy. Visit https://techpolicy.press Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
@rajiinio.bsky.social
AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
@jeremybowers.com
Global CTO, POLITICO. Ex Washington Post, New York Times, NPR. Fond of #TheSqueezle, #TheGiblette, Becky Bowers too. There will be food, cocktail and wine pictures here.