Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
senior counsel, Brennan Center for Justice. interested in all the ways money in tech helps and hurts. he/him, 🇸🇬 in 🇺🇸
Blonde Bombsite. Sex Historian. Author of A Curious History of Sex & Harlot, Whores, & Hackabouts. Host of Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. Consider this your fair dos warning. https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Author of Chivalry and Courtesy, How to Live Like a Monk, and Life in Medieval Europe. Creator and host of The Medieval Podcast. Professional nerd. she/her.
danielecybulskie.com
http://ko-fi.com/5MinMedievalist
That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Corruptress of protocols; trust & safety tech; open-source contributor; Independent Contractor; Chronic Illness
You've probably used tech I've contributed to. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 🇩🇪
I'm on the Fediverse: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem (this account is bridged too!)
The Rust Foundation is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to stewarding the Rust programming language and its global community. rustfoundation.org
A speculative technology magazine.
Pitch us at: editors@emptysetmag.com
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Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
Librarian @ datasociety.net | Organizer @ datarescueproject.org | Cataractophile @ everywhere. Opinions here are my own
anthropologist currently a postdoc at @datasociety.bsky.social & co-chair at @castac.bsky.social | views my own
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🏳️🌈 she/her
they/them | composer | accordionist | electronicsist | professor | parent | autist
David Murakami Wood (DMW)
Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance & Security Studies
Director, CSS/Lab, uOttawa
Co-editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
Applied Anthropologist researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not). Social Systems/Culture. Sometimes write for Fast Company. NYU/ITP alum
Fighting to abolish local & state surveillance.
Policy wonk. Street photographer. Torontonian. Not necessarily in that order.
Interests: privacy, national security, artificial intelligence, accountability, democratic governance.
Posts are mine, not my employer’s.
https://christopher-parsons.com
Sociology Professor at Stanford
Author | Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State (2024)
Assoc Prof of English in Tucson | Surveillance | C20/21 Caribbean and British Lit | GWS
rock scrambler | hawk enthusiast | she/her
Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
Soziologe, Ethnologe, Kriminologe, Mediator / Überwachung, Konflikt, Sicherheit, Doping, Ethnographie, Polizei, Mit-Herausgeber kommunikation-gesellschaft.de
For a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power.
https://privacyinternational.org
Prof. Critical Data & Surveillance Studies @ Goethe University Frankfurt / digital authoritarianism, surveillance, smart cities/
Co-Director @Survstudiesnet.bsky.social /
Founder @surveillancemw.bsky.social
*personal account*
Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Studies surveillance, tech, platforms. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society.
https://www.torinmonahan.com/
Roleplaying nerd with a bad taste in movies and a day job in a Philosophy department. My more professional posts: https://bsky.app/profile/mnagenborg.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy
Urban and digital geographer interested in all things urbanism, digital, gender, housing and ‘smart’.
Media studies prof | History of communication tech, surveillance & information | Author of CREDITWORTHY, co-editor of SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM IN AMERICA
Sociologist/Criminologist
Researching surveillance, resistance, encryption, human rights, law enforcement, and tech
Research Fellow @ Geography, University of Oxford
Abolition/coloniality/mapping supply chain of surveillance/surv tech legislation
twitter.com/a_yung_
mastodon: @yung.scholar.social
#Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Materiality of AI" (2027, Bristol University Press) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic accountability and environmental impacts
Petrone Fellow and Associate Professor, University of Oregon. Author of "Police Visibility": https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382909/police-visibility | Dialogue Editor, Surveillance & Society | Co-Director, Surveillance Studies Network (SSN)
Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
Assist. Prof. of Technology and Governance @ethz.ch ¦ PI @curateproject.bsky.social ¦ Editor-in-chief @jird-jour.bsky.social
https://matthiasleese.com
Visiting Professor Karlstad University. Associate professor Radboud University Nijmegen. Privacy Engineering Boffin.
Author of "Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths. Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design", MIT Press, 2021.
Posts in English and Dutch
Senior Lecturer in Criminology (University of Stirling). Surveillance, Biometrics, Tech (and Tea). EU citizen 🇵🇹🏴🇪🇺
A newsletter about technology, justice, equity, and strategy -- including privacy, AI, and social networks. Posts by @jdp23.thenexus.today
He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
Advocate for privacy and broader human rights impacted by data.
Love nothing better than a hike in the hills. Embracing Yutori ゆとり over on @yutoriwalking.bsky.social
Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
everything 'politics out of security', professor of international politics, Algorithmic reason: The new government of self and other (2022)
Associate Professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University. Co-editor/chair of 'New Intelligence Studies'. Critical & sociological analyses of intelligence, defence, and military education.
Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
The global network for surveillance studies research. Surveillance & Society journal https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society, conferences, workshops, mentoring, prizes & more. Join us here: https://surveillance-studies.net
ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – 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
Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Criminologist and author of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. Chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Researching power and harm in digital infrastructure. Pfp Jamie Buchan
surveillance&privacy policy analyst. fellow @stanfordpacs. phd cand. @uni-hamburg.de. former fellow researcher @weizenbauminstitut and @@hiigberlin as @humboldt-foundation fellow. Lavits member. consultant.
Professor at BI Norwegian Business School & Co-Director of the Nordic Centre for Internet & Society. Research on privacy, digital inequality, AI & emerging tech. Check out my Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KI9IybAAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Group Lead: Law, AI and Society
CZS Institute for AI and Law
Cluster of Excellence for Machine Learning in Science
The University of Tübingen
In-betweening: law, technology, society, convergence, dumplings, perfumes, Finland, Tübingen, Bavaria
Feminist | STS scholar | welfare and penal surveillance | digital welfare state
Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral resesarcher @ Oslo Metropolitan University
Assistant Professor, Critical Criminology. Structural stigma, criminal records, prisoner re-entry, non-profits, qualitative research methods. DM Qs about pardons/record suspensions.
'Public Values in the Algorithmic Society' (AlgoSoc) is an interdisciplinary research program dedicated to a societal perspective on automated decision making
AlgoSoc.org
Teaching Fellow, Cinema & Media Studies, UChicago • researching surveillance technology and digital culture
https://chicago.academia.edu/GaryKafer
Associate Professor, University of British Columbia Okanagan. digital geographies, visual methods, data studies, GIS, cities
Writes about secrecy, transparency, conspiracy and everything in-between. Professor at King's College London.
· PhD Researcher VUB, LSTS,MSC Actions fellow in LeADS · smart governments, B2G data sharing, data protection, fund. rights, datafication.
I write about technology run amok, capitalism, and other depressing things while also envisioning a world beyond them.
STS scholar interested in Autonomous Weapon Systems, Surveillance Technologies, Governmentality;
Paderborn University; he/him
else: Cycling, Jazz, Dogs
anthropologist in maastricht interested in intersections of tech and sustainability in food and mineral supply chains
book! https://nyupress.org/9781479822027/unsustainable/
Media Studies @uvahumanities.bsky.social · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 📦 NWO Veni: ‘AI Power’ · 👥 @appstudies.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 🔗 fernandovandervlist.nl
Professor em estudos urbanos (PUCPR) . Coordenador do jararacalab.org . Editor Associado da scielo.br/urbe . Membro-fundador da lavits.org . Conta pessoal, minhas opiniões.
Here to discuss AI policy/data governance from the lens of a sociologist. PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Author of 'Predictive Policing and the Construction of the Criminal', Aug 2023, Palgrave Macmillan.
Editor in chief @Erev Rav | Founder & Director @Institute for Positive Technology | Urban Digital Citizenship, Surveillance Studies, Art, Design PhD | Jerusalemite
Prof. Dr. Information Systems | love & teach Digital Tech | Digital Transformation, Tech Market, Digital Ethics, Future of Education | Serendipity | 🚴♀️⛵️📚
⚖️ Senior Fellow @citizenlab.ca | fmr @cippic.bsky.social | fmr @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social
👩🏻💻 Tech & human rights lawyer @ tekhnoslaw.ca
🎓 LLM @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social | JD @UVicLaw
🤸🏻♀️ Capoeirista
Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Author of DATA EMPIRE (Harper & Torva, July 2026), Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com
Researcher in security studies at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
Assistant Professor of American Studies. Contemporary lit and culture, US imperialism, gender, technology, digital media
assoc prof at uic
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is available at https://www.ucpress.edu/books/indefensible-spaces/paper
www.rahimkurwa.com
scholar of risk & refusal | independent advisor on digital rights, tech & climate justice | postdoc on AIDEMOCRACY at Goldsmiths, University of London | ex research lead at Engine Room | https://beckykazansky.net/about/
Law Prof at UC Davis Law; co-host of the 99pi Breakdown of the Constitution https://99percentinvisible.org/book-club/
Non-practicing optimist.
Senior Editorial Project Manager, Global Advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation | Global politics and emerging technologies (Dr. rer. pol.) | Opinions are my own
Professor, Media Culture @CUNY CSI // Middle Eastern Studies @CUNY Graduate Center.
All things global communication, geopolitics, popular culture, surveillance, censorship, Middle East, Turkey, and food.
Senior Lecturer in Technology Law & HCI, U of Edinburgh. Director of Regulation + Design Lab; Co-Director CRISP + SCRIPT. Tech Law, HCI, IoT, AI, Design, Privacy, Cybersec, Surveillance, Sustainability, Metal, Guitars, Sci Fi, photography, campervans.
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Posts en/in Spanglish:
Tecnólogue, trabajadore social. Creo en la justicia transformativa, el apoyo mutuo y la organización comunitaria.
Technologist, social worker. I believe in transformative justice, mutual aid, and community organizing.
Prof @ University of Southampton ~ Surveillance, tech, rights, security, criminology. Musician & @SxSW performing artist
Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Data Governance at UVA
About me: https://sixfouronea.net/
Project: http://digitalsovereigntyobservatory.org
Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network aims to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include non-Northern / Western discourses and practices.
https://surveillance-majority-world.net
Law Prof/Social Scientist | Osgoode Hall Law School | PhD Oii@Oxford (Balliol) | Fellow/Affiliate: CitizenLab, BKCHarvard, CCRInitiative | twitter.com/@jon_penney | mastodon.social/@penney | jonpenney.com | Law, technology, and human rights
PhD. MSIS. Performing arts librarian. I research choreographies of surveillance.
Journalist interested in #surveillance | Contributor: @wired.com | @ftm.eu | Covers 🇬🇷 for @rsf.org | Researcher: @deakinuniversity.bsky.social | 2026 Fellow @techpolicypress.bsky.social
☏ Signal: vas.99
http://vaspanagiotopoulos.com
Infosec person focused on harm reduction in technology; fmr tech, data science and T&S research at https://io.stanford.edu & https://tsjournal.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0947-5921
Also music things + open data.
Sociologist of #AI • University of Virginia Faculty • Series Editor University of California Press • Tech Editor Public Books • Fellow NYU IKP & UVA DTD • Host of Co-Opting AI Series • Director Sloane Lab • monasloane.org
A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Dad/husband. Public servant. Broadband and digital inclusion leader. Advocate for ethics in AI. Basement rockstar. Opinions are my own.
Brooklyn-based comms leader and advisor with experience across tech governance, immigration advocacy, advocating for the end of mass incarceration, and media. This feed reflects my opinions only.
Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford https://tinyurl.com/3rkmbmsf
Humboldt Professor of Technology & Regulation, Hasso Plattner Institute https://tinyurl.com/47rkrt6c
Governance of Emerging Technologies
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.
dsa40collaboratory.eu | joint project by the @europeannewschool.bsky.social and the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
data & implementation at the Oversight Board | formerly academics + researchers at CrowdTangle / Meta | fellow at the Integrity Institute and Atlantic Council’s DFRLab | advisor at Connect Humanity, a fund for digital equity
DE/EN. 📍 Potsdam / Berlin
coordination of @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social, various research at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
among other things: http://zusammenfuergleichstellung.de
Senior Resident Fellow, Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative. Weekly newsletter: www.digitalpolitics.co
you're in her DMs, I made her Germ DM 🔌
ceo and cofounder of @germnetwork.com 🌱 san franciscan today, chicagoan 4eva
lately writing at https://rhosf.leaflet.pub
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