Internet Culture and Other Stuff
Some people who are thinking and writing about and making Internet culture - with a slight bias towards some less followed favourites
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@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
@mviktoro.bsky.social
just wants to avoid dystopia. Talks about tech, #aiethics, human rights, #UBI, crafts, memes, #booksky 🇧🇬🇨🇦 she/her | views my own
@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
@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
@georgiaiacovou.com
I write about technology politics. Please read Horrific/Terrific for anti-capitalist analyses of tech & society https://www.horrific-terrific.tech/ I also produce Computer Says Maybe: https://www.saysmaybe.com/podcast georgiaiacovou.com
@thewhynotlab.com
Advocate for reshaping the digitalisation of work & workers | Founder of The Why Not Lab Ethics of AI, workplace data & AI governance, data rights. FRSA, member of OECD & UNESCO expert groups on A.I. Trade unionist. Live in 🇩🇰, work 🌏 www.thewhynotlab.com
@marthasadie.bsky.social
Digital producer/consultant/product manager/mentor/user researcher/game mechanic. Eclectic. Nature nerd. Proto yoga studies scholar. Isle of Wight. Old Internet Person (the title of my newsletter) www.marthahenson.com
@ahmetasabanci.com
Critical futurist, writer, technologist, generalist, philosopher of Weird and Deadly Interesting. Also runs @tuhaf.studio Posts in ENG and TUR ahmetasabanci.com https://ahmetasabanci.com/now/ tuhafgelecek.com newslabturkey.org
@savasavasava.bsky.social
academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in tkaronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab. www.screeningsurveillance.com amuse|muse|use|us|u pfp: me drinking coffee from guillotine mug banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9 iykyk
@dama-yanthy.bsky.social
Fond of the metric system. Investing in impact-driven startups @bgventures.bsky.social
@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.
@annadent.bsky.social
Research and policy adviser - www.abdconsultancy.co.uk Futures of work & employment support, digital welfare state, ethical tech and AI etc. Fellow https://connectedbydata.org/, associate https://rocketsciencelab.co.uk/
@lilianedwards.bsky.social
Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
@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.
@justinhendrix.bsky.social
Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
@jarkman.bsky.social
Roboticist, maker, software engineer. Making giant joyful soft robots with Air Giants. Also @jarkman@chaos.social
@infovore.bsky.social
standing at the intersection of the liberal arts and technology, spinning a GOLF SALE sign
@natbuckley.bsky.social
Designer, they/them YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@natbuckley Old school website: https://natbuckley.co.uk
@dracos.co.uk
I help people report broken street lights, find out their bin day, plan train travel, manage an orchestra, locate the nearest postbox, research old theatre productions, keep time in a choir, and occasionally play board games | https://dracos.co.uk
@couldrynick.bsky.social
I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
@mrchrisadams.bsky.social
Science & justice. Also: coffee, cities, UX & code. Aghast at all the typos in my tweets. I'm an organiser at climateAction.tech, and I work at the Green Web Foundation. He/Him. @mrchrisadams on most of the social networks
@emfcamp.bsky.social
A weekend of geekery in an internet-connected field. Returning in summer 2024. Website: emfcamp.org Fediverse: @emf@emfcamp.org Twitter: twitter.com/emfcamp
@sharonodea.com
Consulting, writing and speaking on comms, collaboration & future of work. Cofounder Lithos Partners, DWXS and 300 Seconds. Gym bore. Takes too many photos of Amsterdam.
@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
@thatdocphoenix.com
That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
@elinorcarmi.bsky.social
🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City, University of London, UK. She/her. https://elinorcarmi.com/ Working on data politics/feminist data/data literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
@yvonnezlam.bsky.social
I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
@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
@kanarinka.bsky.social
Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
@hadleybeeman.bsky.social
Architect for #openstandards & the Web. Tech policy. Co-founder of 300Seconds. Data & security geek. Active in NHS, UK gov & W3C. @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
@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 🏳️🌈
@simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy
Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […] [bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@drkatedevlin.bsky.social
Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Come for the sex robots; stay for the eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
@oliviasolon.bsky.social
Covering tech at Bloomberg from London Signal: @oliviasolon.13 Email: osolon2@bloomberg.net
@marietjeschaake.bsky.social
Technology Policy at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🇪🇺 Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@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 🏳️🌈
@404media.co
it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@peterkwells.com
BlackpoolFC, books, tech, people, policy & delivery, realist. Hopes to make stuff work for everyone. https://peterkwells.com
@abpowell.bsky.social
Assoc Prof at LSE | Teaches MSc in Data & Society | Feminist research praxis | AI policy making | Undoing Optimization: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300223804/ Current work on health, care and environment from NHS tech to Rewilding the Night
@mildlydiverting.bsky.social
Artist, drawing tutor, digital producer. Not entirely sure who she is any more.
@wesleygoatley.bsky.social
Critical artist + researcher. Analysing AI's impact on climate, art, and technopolitics. PhD in critical tech & art. Programme Director of Interaction Design and Visual Communication at University of the Arts London. http://lnk.bio/wesleygoatley
@smithsam.bsky.social
Believes in better data with informed privacy for all. Day job @medconfidential amongst other things. he/him http://is.gd/samblog 🧘♂️ #FILDI Cambridge
@docmattmoudi.bsky.social
📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks Head of the Silicon Valley Initiative@ Amnesty Tech. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Views=own
@wstronge.bsky.social
Director of @autonomy-institute.bsky.social Website: autonomy.work Co-author, with Helen Hester, of Post-work (2025) and, with Kyle Lewis, of Overtime (2021) https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-9781350089976/
@yasminibison.bsky.social
Senior Policy Advisor at JRF (@jrf-uk.bsky.social) focusing on communities, place + technology she/her Views my own.
@williamcb.bsky.social
Journalist, newspaper magnate, student of classification. Curiously optimistic. DMs open "Technology & Democracy" newsletter https://bit.ly/3AELZDu Foundations of AI https://bit.ly/3WiYJab Law https://bit.ly/40YL1fU "Research Fortnight" https://bit.ly/4i0
@jamesbridle.bsky.social
Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
@louhicky.bsky.social
Incoming Wellcome's Early Career Award. Research Associate with Minderoo Centre for Democracy and Technology, University of Cambridge.
@rufflemuffin.bsky.social
Filmmaker / Directing #section28film Founder: anthrobricolage.com Director: @theschoolofgood DR of Design, once ran @wearesnook Made cycling easier with @cycle_hack GOOD Magazine #100 Board member at @lomondtrossachs She/they
@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
@annapendergrast.bsky.social
Writing about tech, data and infrastructure + their impacts on people and planet. Occasional posts about buildings and food. I live in Aotearoa New Zealand.
@mayameme.bsky.social
Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG Outside cat; but more of a dog person really. bodyofwork.in
@jessrmorley.bsky.social
100% health data nerd & OG swiftie. PhD Oxford Internet Institute. Previously Director of Policy Oxford Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Currently postdoctoral research associate Yale Digital Ethics Center.
@gsvoss.bsky.social
Big machines. Politics/technology/art/writing. Author: SYSTEMS ULTRA: MAKING SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD (Verso 2024). linktr.ee/gsvoss
@worklesshard.bsky.social
Run @whotargets.me and am a Partner @jointogether.online. Used to play drums in Fridge. Live in Cork, from London.
@jayowens.bsky.social
I’m Head of Audience at @lrb.co.uk and I write about environmental politics. ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023) 🔗 https://JayOwens.me 📧 https://disturbances.ghost.io/ 📙 https://hachette.co.uk/titles/jay-owens/dust/9781529362
@badaude.bsky.social
does things with words joannawalsh.ie writer/artist/msca postdoctoral fellow
@minxmarple.bsky.social
a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • makes things that desire gets snagged on • moon gardener
@kellypendergrast.bsky.social
technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes writing: kellypendergrast.com working: antistaticpartners.com
@ndkane.bsky.social
Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Advisory board, Society for Computers and Law. Curator - Design and Disability, opening June 2025. she/they ndkane.com IM SORRY ILL FIX IT
@richardpope.org
I wrote a book on public services: https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/ It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
@anabrandusescu.bsky.social
Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing in human geography on AI governance, political power, and privatization. I examine scale in public sector governance of AI, including chatbots. she/her | Waterloo/Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
@tigershungry.co.uk
Creative director and playful curator. Rethinking exhibitions & experiential design. Studio lead at http://goodafternoon.uk you might also recognise me from W/Mild Rumpus, the V&A, a party in a shared google doc & the grannies
@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
@hollygramazio.bsky.social
Writing, games, etc. Adelaide, London. My novel “The Husbands” is out now. book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly website: http://hollygramazio.net ig: https://www.instagram.com/holly_gramazio/ pic by Diana Patient
@biancawylie.com
@peteetchells.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology and Science Communication | Award-winning science writer | Screen Time | Social Media | Smartphones | Video games | https://linktr.ee/unlockedbook
@orbenamy.bsky.social
tech + teens + better science @ http://digitalmentalhealth.group // Group Leader, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge // Fellow + Director of Studies, St. John's College // 📸 marcus ginns
@dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20. I am, ashamedly, a curator now too Digital Curator @ National Museum of AfAm History and Culture but all opinions my own, not my employer's www.dorothy-berry.com
@cmcilwain.bsky.social
Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
@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
@gaiamarcus.bsky.social
- Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society - Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG - Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
@jonty.bsky.social
Also http://chaos.social/@jonty Previously http://twitter.com/jonty Always http://jonty.co.uk
@jenitennison.com
Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI. Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets. www.jenitennison.com
@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
@debcha.bsky.social
Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.
@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
@mariafarrell.bsky.social
Irish writer and keynote speaker: let's rewild the internet! Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her http://www.mariafarrell.com https://buttondown.email/MariaFarrell
@dmgreene.bsky.social
Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
@yassmin.bsky.social
Writer of books, articles, television. Social advocate. Former engineer. Interested in society, politics, culture, technology, how to live meaningful lives and build just societies. Weekly newsletter yassmin.substack.com. @yassmin_a on most other socials
@crystaljjlee.com
Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼 crystaljjlee.com
@v21.bsky.social
hello again made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use also i have a website: v21.io
@lifewinning.com
writer, artist, geographer in crisis. had a beautiful dog for 5 1/2 years. https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. lifewinning.com is past work. wares.lifewinning.com for drawings.
@carolinesinders.bsky.social
Human rights centered design, art, and policy https://www.convocation.design/ New Orleans and London
@hetanshah.bsky.social
Chief Executive, The British Academy Chair, Our World in Data Board, National Audit Office Visiting Professor, Kings College London Fellow, Birkbeck College Advisory board, Resolution Foundation; Bennett Institute; UCL Policy Lab My own views
@safiyanoble.bsky.social
Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. Writer, researcher, professor. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com
@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.
@harkaway.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter. Mutinous mutterer. Husband of much better person. Father of similar. New Cal Sounder novel SLEEPER BEACH is OUT NOW. UK pb Karla’s Choice coming May 22nd. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. (He/him) www.linktr.ee/harkaway
@naomialderman.bsky.social
I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
@merbroussard.bsky.social
Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. NYU professor. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com