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- 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.
renoproject.org is a website documenting the history of Lucasfilm's Habitat, Fujitsu WorldsAway and all of their related 1990's & 2000's virtual worlds
#VirtualWorlds #WorldsAway #LucasfilmHabitat #Fujitsu #Dreamscape #ClubCaribe #C64 #retro #FMTOWNS
Articles, essays, papers, artworks and news stories on digital media, digital culture, and media arts - also mirrored at: criticaldigitalmedia.tumblr.com
by @therourke.net (also see @additivism.org)
Senior Lecturer in Digital Media & Culture at The University of Manchester and Co-Director of The Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media; queer and transnational perspectives; first generation; he/him
Geography Postdoc in Finance and Big Tech at VUB, Brussels. PhD in Information Studies from UCLA. Writing โCircuits of Finance: NASDAQ and the making of the global market.โ Platforms | Information Infrastructure | AI | Sustainability | Uneven Geographies
#PhD researcher at #ANU Cybernetics, investigating bias in #speech and #voice #tech, with a focus on #data & #ML. Leads R&D at @mozdatacollective.bsky.social
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
https://linktr.ee/kathyreid
EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY
in select theaters April 17
Aspiring adult and media scholar. Ph.D. in Internet Studies. ๐ณ๐ฟ Pฤkehฤ, currently based in Boorloo Perth. ๐จ Living in the frenzy of feeling. ๐
๐ก Website rachelberryman.com
๐ฆ Co-founder darcmode.org
๐ฑ Member ierlab.com
PhD candidate at (ANU) School of Sociology researching trans & gender diverse people's expectations & desires for Palliative & End-of-Life care & experiences pall. care clinicians may have had working w/ TGD+ people.
On unceded Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Cultures @ University of Sydney | Dating app researcher | Author of ๐๐ค๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐๐จ ๐ค๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ผ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ | ๐ญ๐ฐ
๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ๐ค Academic (RMIT University/ADM+S)
๐๐ผ๏ธ๐คณ Researches visual communication & digital media
โ๏ธ๐๐ Vice Chair of the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division
๐ Online elsewhere at: https://linktr.ee/tjthomson
Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
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
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
tracking: media power โข big tech โข platform surveillance
defending: privacy โข digital rights โข sanity
starring: you and me, two clowns trying to outstare the panopticon ๐ง
assistant professor in information, university of michigan. i have big intellectual feelings about language and technology.
https://tisjune.github.io/
she/her
Film Director. We Met in Virtual Reality on HBO max | The Reality of Hope on The New Yorker, DOC+ | Virtually Speaking on YT | Co-curator of #RaindanceImmersive
he / him
Postdoctoral Researcher in Game Studies and Design @ Carleton University. Trying my best to read critical theories. He/Him. Committed to my lifelong duty of no original tweet. https://normand-1024.github.io/
De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him
We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
associate professor at Oxford ยท UKRI future leaders fellow ยท i study how data and algorithms shape societies ยท AI fairness, accountability and transparency ยท algorithm auditing ยท photographer, keen ๐ด๐ป ยท they/them ยท https://rocher.lc (views my own)
The world's longest-running festival celebrating the art and culture of independent games and playful media. Established in 2004.
freeplay.net.au
Science and Technology Studies | Biolegality | Postcolonial Science Studies | Southeast Asia -- and wannabe skateboarder ...
Researching communication, brand and visibility in creative industries; queer representation in mainstream media | Lecturer Public Relations at RMIT | Board Member MQFF
Research Fellow in AI and News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate & PhD, Oxford Internet Institute | Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College | AI, news, (mis)info, democracy | My views etcโฆ
https://www.felixsimon.net/
Director of the Australian Internet Observatory at RMIT University and ADM+S
Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education (JQTSIE) is housed at Virginia Commonwealth University and highlights scholarship queer and trans studies in education. It is a fee-free open-access journal. www.jqtsie.com
๐ Assistant Professor in Cultural AI, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
๐ Governance of AI Infrastructure
๐ www.fabianlferrari.com
I am a Lecturer in Data Analytics in the Social Sciences at the University of Sydney where I am also deputy director of Centre for AI, Trust and Governance. francescobailo.net
(she/they) ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ต๐ช
โ PhD(c) and Sessional Instructor @ McMaster
โ Coordinating Digital Scholarship @ scds.ca
โ Researching power and precarity on platforms
โ Digital Harms, Queer Theory, Platform Studies, Critical Data, Digital Scholarship
โ alexiscarlota.ca
DIZH bridge professorship
University of Zurich
Zurich University of the Arts
digitalculturesandarts.ch
software reporter @ WIRED. message me on Signal: reece_rogers.01
Prison geographer. Nasty, brutish, and short. I help edit some stuff at @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and you should read it.
Fostering interdisciplinary and engaged scholarship in social studies of science, technology, and medicine across the globe.
Welcome to #VRChat! Create, explore, and socialize in virtual reality.
Join us! https://hello.vrchat.com/
Experiments, research and insights in media, technology and user experience from inside ACMI, Melbourne
@acmimuseum.bsky.social
MUSKISM, co-authored with Quinn Slobodian, comes out in spring 2026: https://bookshop.org/p/books/muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-ben-tarnoff/3d177fb9349a79ff
observer, writer, researcher between man and machine
Linguist by day, foodie by night (or the other way around?).
Guest Professor in English Linguistics @FU Berlin, PI of DFG Project on Carnivalesque Consumption Online
http://www.sofia-ruediger.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-8052
๐ฅ PhD candidate thinking critically about how AI systems simulate and imitate language in their architectures, interfaces and how all of this feeds the narrative of recreating human intelligence. he/him. ๐ต๐ธ๐ป
Labour and technology researcher. PhD on supermarkets, labour platforms, and on-demand grocery delivery. Union researcher with United Workers Union. Opinions expressed are my own.
Associate Prof of Rhetoric at VCU // critical AI, platform and media studies + rhetorical theory + writing pedagogies // Co-Director of AI Futures Lab // ๐ = Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality // First Gen // #TeamRhetoric
https://caddiealford.com
Lecturer in Anthropology at ANU.
Researching urban nature-based solutions, agroforestry science, audit cultures, and Nous UniForum data (themes that are more interconnected than youโd thinkโฆ).
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/tim-mclellan
Associate Professor of Public Policy. Focus on the role of emotions in the policy process, including moral panic agenda-setting, LGBTQ+ politics, and human-shark interactions. Opinions are my own. https://linktr.ee/chris.pepin
Independent Game Developer โ Made One Night Stand and VIDEOVERSE | IGF | Indie Cup | Previous EA Chillingo | Brit residing in Germany | Invisibly disabled | She/They ๐ค๐ฉถ๐ค๐
www.kinmoku.games
Lecturer, Roman History, Royal Holloway; social conflict, riots, methodology buff; chair of the Gramsci Research Network; editor Menelique; he/him, bi๐ณ๏ธโ๐, ADHD; Marxist glasses with intersectional shades ๐; MINOTAUR
PhD candidate at RMIT University and ADM+s
PhD candidate at the DMRC and ADM+S researching independent fact checking and genAI.
Interested in technology, political accountability, and information integrity
Lover of folk music in all forms, and also skramz
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Research fellow in inclusive AI ~ Swinburne University ~ ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) |Here for the bots๐คAI companions| chameleon aesthetic
Global community and decentralized research & design lab for alternative, critical & creative perspectives on AI ๐ธ๐ชท๐๐ #SlowAI
-> https://aixdesign.co/
Digital & Social Media /
School of Communication /
University of Technology Sydney
Technology + democracy.
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Professor, Dept of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath | Editor, ST&HV @sthv.bsky.social | Honorary, Burnet Institute & UNSW | STS, health, drugs, outbreak science, viral elimination, planetary change, evidence | @contemporarycriticalthought.org
Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Critical Medical Humanities researcher at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW | she/her
Interdisciplinary research engine and STS (Science and Technology Studies) network @DeakinUniversity
Prof at Australian National University studying how science, tech, + inequality affect the governance of health + wellbeing. New(est) book: VIOLENT IMPACTS: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/violent-impacts/paper
katehenne.com
Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
environmental anthropology & STS ~ interested in environmental management/knowledges/values ~ research fellow at @admscentre.org.au working on ADM, ecosystems & multispecies relationships
PhD candidate and researcher @ Australian National University. Studying the practices of Artificial Intelligence research and development. Living and working in Melbourne, on Wurundjeri Country. #ResponsibleAI #STS
medical anthropologist | global health | trans studies | author of The Made-Up State | Asia and Pacific Health @KirbyInstitute I FIAS Fellow Institut d'รฉtudes avancรฉes de Paris & Affiliate Oxford Anthropology 24-25
Robot personalities & relationships | cute and conversational AI | energy demand at home | everyday futures | digital sociologist & professor @Monash Emerging Technologies Research Lab in Faculty of IT | Director Research @Monash Energy Institute
Associate Professor. Drones, AI, war, culture, affect, witnessing. UNSW. Media Futures Hub. ADMS Centre. He/him. Nonhuman Witnessing with @dukepress.bsky.social https://t.ly/cQW5N
ARC Future Fellow โ Monash University /// co-host โ This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Postdoctoral research fellow at Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney. Anthropology, STS and gender studies. Living and working on unceded Gadigal lands. From Adelaide/Kaurna country. She/her
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney // environmental humanities, STS, feminist theory // geologic ontologies; human-microbial relations; the anthropocene; materialities of toxicity, pollution and waste
Anthropology lecturer at Monash University. Research on social dynamics of climate change and transition
PhD candidate @Monash Emerging Tech Research Lab studying DEI in Tech ๐ค ๐ป | Sociology โจ | STS ๐พ | Feminist Epistemologies ๐| DEI futures ๐ฎ
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Lives in Narrm / Melbourne, comes from Aotearoa / New Zealand, works in Anthropology @ Deakin University | Editor of Science, Technology, & Human Values aka @sthv.bsky.social | timneale.me
Anthropology/STS/genomics/colonialism. Deputy Director @Deakin_ADI. Past President @4sWeb. New book out with DUP #hauntingbiology surname pron. Koval
Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University. Health sociologist with a focus on alcohol and other drugs.
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/a2farrugia
New Melburnian, old New Yorker. ANU anthropology PhD, sometime-designer, always Mets fan. Posting on anthro, STS, economics, history, design, SE Asia (especially Indonesia), writing, birds, baseball.
Anthro, STS. Nourishment, bodies, cities, stories (2025: noise!) South African in Melbourne/ Naarm.
anthropologist | research fellow at Monash @_CEVAW | STS | gender, tech & society | new book on feminism & witchcraft coming out October
https://www.emmaquilty.com/
A network for science and technology studies (STS) scholars in Australia and New Zealand
ARC Future Fellow, & Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, Swinburne University of Technology. Currently researching the intersections of sexualities, genders, data, tech & sexual health.
Experimental school supporting study in art, code, hardware + critical theory. A place for unlearning and learning.
Spring 2026: Applications open โโ
โ https://sfpc.study/links
Asst. Prof of Sociology and Gender/Sexuality Studies
Follow me for thoughts about (a)sexuality, gender, and society
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it/she
investigative journalist, hacktivist, dj, award losing musician and many other things
signal: @nyancrimew.01
im THAT fucker, look me up on wikipedia
some posts may be by ryan
https://maia.crimew.gay
An Australian daily technology newsletter written by @cameronwilson.bsky.social
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I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
Museums|music|media|monsters|mayhem - https://linktr.ee/sebchan
Comm, Media & Tech Studies + empire, capital, state, power, politics, energy, environment, work, war, play, ed, left-right activism https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/research/researcher-profiles/dr.-tanner-mirrlees.php
The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. A hub for transformative research initiatives on the relationship between humans and technology. utm.utoronto.ca/iccit
๐ PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (iSchool + ICCIT)
๐ค Studies the history, labour, & public impact of retail automation
๐ฐ๏ธ mathewiantorno.com
sociology of education + digital | Monash University | research interests: automation, AI, datafication, digital degrowth | host of 'Education Technology Society' podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1301377
Situationist Cybernetics. Researching AI & Culture at the University of Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute, Rome). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
i criticize the tech industry
๐๏ธ @techwontsave.us
๐ฌ https://disconnect.blog
๐ https://roadtonowherebook.com
Algorithmic Artist, Writer & Speaker ยท Researching queerness, gender, data & AI ยท dansk/english ยท she/they ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
https://ada-ada-ada.art
https://patreon.com/ada_ada_ada
Social media researcher, Gadigal country (aka Sydney)
Researching friendship, care, LGBTQ+ peer support, young people, mental health, porn literacies, hook-up apps.
https://profiles.uts.edu.au/paul.byron
PhD Student at Monash University researching online misogyny and internet forums that discuss experiences of singleness. Gender theory nerd.
