Professor at School of Communication and Arts (ECA-USP), São Paulo, Brasil. Communication and digital culture, with focus in free culture/knowledge, artificial intelligence, technopolitics, critical plataform studies and digital counterculture. Free culture/software/knowledge activist. Publisher of @baixacultura

Professor of Digital Culture and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen.

Admin of aoir.social, which means I must enjoy Internet Cats.

Currently run by @rwg (he/him)

This account follows other admins, and it boosts posts by aoir.social members (images boosted only if they have alt text)

Banner image from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, photo by hageatama: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cats_%288224186812%29.jpg

Ph.D. candidate researching the use of fame-enhancing bots on Instagram, located @GRAMA @bauhausuniversity interested in #mediaecology #culturaltechniques #socialmediastudies #platformstudies

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)
Queensland University of Technology

I study young people and digital cultures

Lecturer, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Gonzaga University. My work is at the intersection of web history, LGBTQ studies, feminist STS, and digital humanities. Author of The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet; founder and curator of the Queer Digital History Project (http://queerdigital.com). Collects cats and old technology.

Danish in Australia.
PostDoc researching polarisation, partisanship, populism and other things with P with @snurb in lovely Meanjin/Brisbane (unceeded Turrbal and Yugara lands) in @qutdmrc
Also #fanstudies and #fanvids, affect on your screens and in your ears - audiovisual music and all the feels.
Once and future cat person. Queer and multilingual. SFF nerd, RPG player. He/Him.

Learning about moral economies, researching media histories, imagining post-platform futures. Also, helping with moderation on aoir.social and professoring in Media Studies at the University of Virginia. (he/him)

This account is now archived. You can find me at @scroeser

Researcher, teacher, and activist when I can manage it, but mostly a dorky mama covered in hummus. Living on Noongar Boodja (in western australia). Incredibly enthusiastic about bicycles, including cargo bikes and slow bicycling. Μαθαίνω Ελληνικά.

PhD candidate at Indiana University's Media School. Research interests include alternative social media, internet history, and the various politics of online safety, security and privacy.

Video editor, videographer, graphic design and wannabe motion graphics artist. I sometimes play in punk bands. Jack of all media trades, master of none.
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Liberation and abolition for all means the internet too.
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Writer, professor, musician.

🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
🌏 Past President, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
🔬 ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child
➡️ Views mine; clicked, starred, bookmarked things aren't necessarily endorsements.
➡️ he/him

AJ Escoffery is the Margaret Walker Alexander Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. His research focuses on the political economy of legacy and new media, cultural studies and community-based research. He published his first book, Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television (NYU Press, 2018), and is currently writing his second book, Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal our Culture (MIT Press, forthcoming).

Associate Professor in Media Studies and Production at Temple University
https://adrienneshaw.com/
Founder of the LGBTQ Game Archive
https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/
She/her

Cover photo image from Shannon Downey's 2022 Craftivism exhibit at the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia: https://www.libertymuseum.org/show-item/craftivism/

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 for Democratic Social Media" was published by Oxford University Press late 2025.

Been on the fediverse since 2017. I'm now helping run AoIR.social

he/him

Trans rights are human rights. I boost #BlackMastodon and #MutualAid posts. I also call for alt text for accessibility.

Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino - Principal investigator https://mine.uniurb.it - WP4 leader at https://www.veraai.eu/ - Leading developer http://www.coornet.org

Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.

He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺

🕸️ snurb.info
🦋 @snurb.info
⛔ @snurb_dot_info