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Internet scholar at University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk
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North America's first student-led collective studying and showcasing nostalgia. Based in Montréal, Canada.
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Interdisciplinary Research Centre Addressing Group-Based Hate and Hostility. Values-driven impact-focused research. Advancing Europe's values of human dignity, equality and the rule of law from its Western edge.
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A design-led research lab at Lancaster University
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Into Contemporary Literature, Digital Humanities & Fan Studies.
Postdoctoral Researcher, CoSTAR Foresight Lab, University of Edinburgh; views my own.
she/her
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Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media - London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
Associate Professor of Media, University of Leicester. Own views, albeit in a deeply mediated world.
She/Her | Cultural History of the Internet in Australia | PhD Student Monash University | Outdated Tech Enthusiast
We are an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research in Sociology committed to public facing, theoretically strong, empirically oriented research. https://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/
MSc in Digital Anthropology, fandom, sexuality, platform ecologies, thinking with technology
Post-doc in polarisation, populism, fandom, identity and all the feels with @snurb at QUT DMRC.
🇩🇰 in 🇦🇺, residing on Turrbal and Yugara country.
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Plant🪴dad. Once and future cat person.
he/him
Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University.
My latest book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle […]
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"End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
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A trans led project for platforming trans voices. Co-founded by
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We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
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Independent research & policy recommendations for the UK's creative industries. Led by Newcastle University Business School with the RSA and funded by AHRC. https://pec.ac.uk/
The official account for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs. Check out our website for details & to register for the next meeting. #YouthAPPG
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An interdisciplinary research centre at University of Cambridge exploring the nature, ethics and impact of artificial intelligence (AI).
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We are one of four Schools in the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester.
Gender & Education Association (charity: 1159145)
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Manchester Histories is an award-winning charity that works collaboratively to reveal, share and celebrate Greater Manchester’s diverse histories and heritage.
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Associate Professor of Media and Digital Cultutes, University of East Anglia
LLM trained on being alive and doing things
sociology of media gender politics tech conspiracies 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Academic, historian, degenerate
I research the radical right, fascists, and reactionary nonsense about sexual and gendered deviance.
✨Independent✨ scholar (unemployed). UK-based.
LSE Fellow interested in the intersection between AI/Technology and security, especially in the relationship between algorithmic bias, the global far right and information warfare.
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researcher + teacher in culture, digital media, and feminism
~~ Currently on a writing sabbatical ~~ Director of IPPR North in Manchester. Economist focused on people’s lived experience. Regional policy. Views my own.
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Promoting public education and championing the vulnerable since 1890. Part of @UoMhums.bsky.social at @manchester.ac.uk.
Researching racism, anti-racism and ethnic, racial and religious inequalities.
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Highly interdisciplinary University of Manchester network of over 2200+ researchers across 30 disciplines and the whole range of digital research.
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Gerontologist: ageing and the lifecourse, wellbeing in later life, social policy for an ageing society. Especially pensions, social care, financing later life.
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Senior Lecturer - University of Manchester. Also based at Manchester Museum & Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity. Co-founder of The Riz Test.
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Own views
Professor in #PublicSociology at Lancaster University & Chief Executive of @thesociologicalreview.org
Research: migration and citizenship in EU, Panama 🇵🇦and UK
Brexitbritsabroad.org
migzen.net
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Sociologist. Ethnography, cities, practices of belonging, walking. Research consultancy, evaluation and training.
Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Class. Working on class, cities, evictions and gentrification. Trade unionist, Living Rent member, part of the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive collective and editor at The Sociological Review
Prof of Psychology, Security and Trust in @criminologyuom.bsky.social University of Manchester UK. Research on tech and crime, also human performance in extreme environments. Posting occasionally about either or both.
Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX): The Extreme Right, Hate Crime, and Political Violence, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, @uio.no
English Lit PhD student @ UoLiverpool: contemporary trauma literature and theory, online reading communities and affects 💫 amateur internet archaeologist 🔎 writer: Refinery29, VICE, i Paper, Dazed
Actress & Writer. Currently playing Sophie in BLINK https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/blink-df19
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Associate Professor of Communications, Glendon College, York University
Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network (TransDI), Chair: Dr Liang Ge (Univ of Manchester) @liangge11.bsky.social
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Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | CAHSS Digital Lead | Critical Data Studies @ EFI
Writing: Enchanted Entrepreneurs: Media, Work, and Meaning in the Spiritual Marketplace
postdoc @ university of copenhagen, "Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies"
researching internet histories, web archives, platform temporalities
katiemackinnon.xyz
Lecturer in Media and Communication researching the intersections of feminism, postfeminism, and popular culture
PhD candidate in Sociology @University of Cambridge | researching intimacy, culture, and inequality | https://simone-schneider.github.io
teaching fellow, ucd ics | phd, lse media & comms | reactionary political influencers and their social media audiences | views my own
Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology @ University of Cambridge; researching tech workers, digital economy, class, and culture
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Professor of Sociology at U.C. Santa Barbara
Studies gender, sexuality, violence, activism, and surveys
Author of Unlivable Lives https://www.ucpress.edu/books/unlivable-lives/paper
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Associate professor in media and communication at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). I study media industries, platforms, creators, fans, and television. Project leader of GLOBAL NATIVES.
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Senior editor @ucpress.bsky.social. Finicky reader. (She/her)
Director of Flow(2024) and Away(2019)
Freedom and unfreedom in work, leisure and citizenship. People who move & resistance to precarity. Policy & practice responses to 'modern slavery', refugee settlement and migrant youth inclusion. Sociology Senior Lecturer, Uni of Sheffield. 🇪🇭 Sahara Libre
Social anthropologist specializing in the intersection of social movements, protests, feminist mobilisations, gender, culture and politics.
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Media and Communication is a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of research in communication.
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phd-ing @ university of leeds, uk | disnet exec member | bodies, space, disney + the everyday hypermediated environment ✨ | she/her
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/pgr/5805/charlotte-durham
Critical media studies, gender studies
Author of Mainstreaming Gays (2023), Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (2022), and other stuff:
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I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
PhDing in Bath • Researching anti-populism • 'Moral panic breeds goose-stepping, can't just stand by rubbernecking' • he/him
Prof of Political & Social Theory @ UEA: regularly a political theorist, often a political analyst, always a rhetorician. Sometimes I teach people how to make political speeches; usually they are happy about it. Mostly I study Reactionary Digital Politics.
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PhD researcher at @imh-uob.bsky.social | Investigating the social determinants of youth suicide | MGS ESRC DTP Joint studentship with @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
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Birmingham, UK | he/him 🏳️🌈
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I research the social function of celebrity. Special interests: famous women in popular music, celebrity feminism, immoral celebrity and monstrous celebrity.
Dedicated to fostering basic & applied research on affect and emotion defined across a diversity of fields. See our website for #AffectScience2025 details!
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🎵 Popular music & media fandom lecturer @ JOMEC, Cardiff University
🏴 From Caerphilly, Wales
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Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
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