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/
Lecturer (Asst. Prof) in Data, AI & Society @ The University of Sheffield Information School. Member of the UK Young Academy.
katemiltner.com
UX Research @YouTube / HCI / Games / Politics + Law / Books / Birds. Opinions my own. @MIT alum. Previously @twitch, @yahoo, @zynga.
40% thinker, 60% doer. 100% altermundista. Sociotechnical researcher on data, privacy, and surveillance at MIT HASTS, Data + Feminism, Berkman Klein. I love creative uses of media and tech in the public interest. Cambridge, MA/Ciudad de México.
Law Professor @ Cardozo Law. Innovation and Entrepreneurship. IP and Business Law.
Principal researcher for Trust & Safety @Roblox & Visiting Fellow @CHAI_Berkeley. 🏳️🌈🐈⬛🏳️⚧️ Ex-@Meta, PhD @USCAnnenberg. 日本語でOK!
Assoc Prof of Media Studies & Anthropology at the University of Virginia. Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. Anthropology of Tech/STS Books: Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press); Favela Digital (GSA)🇧🇷🇺🇸
https://linktr.ee/davidnemer
Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
A quarterly magazine that believes public sociology can be both approachable and applicable! Edited by Amin Ghaziani, Seth Abrutyn, and Letta Page, with incoming editors David Grazian and Elena G. van Stee.
contexts.org
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
hobby bread baker, cyclist, snowboarder, runner, speculative fiction fan (send book recommendations!). Also: lead communications at Microsoft, USMC veteran, Oregon Duck fan. Personal stuff at https:/www.fxshaw.com
Pre-order: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (6/30 HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
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.
Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
Professor of Communication, trying not to be evil Ass. Dean, #HashtagActivism co-author, mom to teenagers and cats. Appreciates novelty socks and cat memes.
Climber, biker, cocktailer, polyglot, vagabond. Ex EIC WIRED & MIT Technology Review, now writing about the future of democracy at https://futurepolis.substack.com. NYC/SF. He/him/Sir.
I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about
Views are mine alone.
Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
Prof and researcher. Race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social
Preorder my latest: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-second-sight-sarah-j-jackson
Opinions definitely my own
Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Associate Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. 🏳️⚧️ he/him
Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
Privacy & data ethics scholar. Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
Canadian critical media studies scholar interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot 😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Partner & daddy living in wonderful Edinburgh.
Muddling through with ideas from #FeministTechnoscience #STS #MultiSpeciesRelations #HCI #ReparativeAI
Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
Not sure I'm ready for another platform but let's see.
Theme park play research these days (yup, Disney).
tltaylor.com (links to most of my work, inc books) & instagram.com/ybikapix (for the fun stuff!)
science and tech book editor
Assistant prof of comparative media studies @MIT, researching the rise of right-wing politics in Silicon Valley and online. Email me at beccalewis@protonmail.com.
Science & tech politics/policy incl patents. Author: next book on politics of inclusive innovation/tech for equity. #STS scholar. Prof & Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, U of Michigan. Expert Voices columnist, Science. shobitap.org
Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
✍🏽 • 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
They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. Proud Philly resident. More at kendraalbert.com
"Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." - Ursula K. LeGuin
Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
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
Investigative data journalist
Bloomberg News
"CTRL + F" and find out
https://inspectelement.org
I am a law professor and information scientist at the University of Washington. I have a new book about law and technology that I hope you read. 💙
International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) - An international organization of data professionals to support research and teaching in social sciences and beyond.
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.
Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
professor and director, esc.umich.edu
Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams
🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Associate Professor at the LSE. Histories of media and technology.
dylanmulvin.com
computational social scientist
Writer. Professor of Law. Director, A.I. and the Future of Work Program, Author of The Quantified Worker. Order here: https://a.co/d/bfdTUj5 #AI #Ethics #Law
#Chocophile
#Filmophile
#Igbophile
#Francophile (mostly)
#Bibliophile
#musicophile
#Afrofuturist
Associate Professor, Dept of Communication, Cornell University. Bit partial to information ecosystems.
Law/tech, surveillance, work, truckers. Faculty Cornell Information Science, Cornell Law / Fellow @NewAmerica / Data Driven: http://tinyurl.com/57v559mv / www.karen-levy.net
Assoc. Prof UCSD Comm, Affiliate: Science Studies, Ethnic Studies, Urban Studies. Author of Disruptive Fixation (PUP). Working on a book about housing, labor, and urban development in Silicon Valley. 2020-21 member of the IAS.
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
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Queer researcher who researches queer things at Fordham University. NYC-based. Cyclist. Running hard and fast away from X. #Academicsky
Postdoc at MSR, soon a prof at UW HCDE, got my PhD at Cornell IS. I think about power, privacy, and participation in HCI, security and AI.
Sociology Professor at Stanford
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
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.
The University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the United States and a distinguished publisher of trade and scholarly books and journals. Refining minds since 1891!
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
Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.*
Care, Tech, Culture, Inequality. Check out The Last Human Job re the "scaling up" of humane work @PrincetonUPress. Johns Hopkins sociologist
Learning about moral economies, researching media histories, imagining post-platform futures. Also, helping with moderation on aoir.social and professoring in Media […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@kdriscoll, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Tech Policy (University of Maryland & George Washington). data scientist. anti-monopolist. consumer advocate. former hill staffer.
She/her. Professor at University of Maryland's iSchool. Director of the HCIL. General Chair for CSCW 2025. Research: privacy, surveillance, data ethics. https://jessicavitak.com
Come for the academic expertise. Stay for the cookie content.
researcher, teacher, writer
associate professor of media and communication at UNH
privacy, surveillance, media and technology industries
Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich
William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024)
Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U
eszter.com
Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Offchain Labs. Emeritus Professor of Computer Science & Public Affairs at Princeton. Formerly: Deputy US CTO at White House. Currently: husband, dad, concerned American.
Research Scientist @DeepMind | Previously @OSFellows & @hrdag. RT != endorsements. Opinions Mine. Pronouns: he/him
Associate Professor, CMU. Researcher, Google. Evaluation and design of information retrieval and recommendation systems, including their societal impacts.
Law & Technology researcher. Executive Director @yaleisp.bsky.social. Lecturer & Research Scholar, Yale Law School. Posts are personal.
Official presence of Science, Knowledge and Technology (SKAT) Section, A Section of the American Sociological Association
Learn more: http://asaskat.com
HCI research scientist @ Sony AI in Barcelona. ethical AI, identity, technological harm. Previous: CU Boulder, UMBC, Microsoft Research Fellow. posts my own.
https://www.morgan-klaus.com/
Professor at Penn, Amazon Scholar at AWS. Interested in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, game theory, privacy, fairness, and most of the intersections therein
Human-centered AI #HCAI, NLP & ML. Director TRAILS (Trustworthy AI in Law & Society) and AIM (AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland). Formerly Microsoft Research NYC. Fun: 🧗🧑🍳🧘⛷️🏕️. he/him.
Ethical/Responsible AI. Rigor in AI. Grumpy eastern european in north america. Lovingly nitpicky.
Youth and technology researcher. Senior Fellow, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. Affiliate, Data & Society. Parent and step-parent to 4, six if you count the cats.
dog/cat mom, likes to play outdoors, serial hobbyist, comms job in tech
Digital anthropologist, occasional Chief Storyteller for Microsoft, AI tinkerer. British cultural envoy in Redmond, LFC fan. Novice snowboarder....novice at life.
Head of Product for Developer Division @Microsoft
@Code @VisualStudio @TypeScript @dotnet @JavaAtMicrosoft @Azure @AzureDevOps @OpenAtMicrosoft Engineering
New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA
