He is author of the widely cited 2010 essay, “The Politics of ‘Platforms’”, and his current work investigates how social media platforms and other algorithmic information systems shape public discourse.

Tarleton is co-founder of the blog Culture Digitally, co-editor of Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society (MIT, 2014), and author of Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media (Yale, 2018).

Tarleton Gillespie is a Senior Principal Researcher at @msftresearch.bsky.social New England and an affiliated Associate Professor at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. He is also author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT, 2007).

In her capacity as information law expert, Natali regularly advices the @ec.europa.eu, @europarl.europa.eu, @coe.int, OSCE, @unesco.org, and national governments, regulators and civil society organisations.

Natali co-founded the @aimediademlab.bsky.social and is a founder and Principal Investigator of the Research Priority Area Information and Communication in the DataSociety (ICDS). Her research focuses on how AI and ADS are changing democratic societies and the implications for law and governance.

Natali is Professor of Information Law and Digital Technology at the University of Amsterdam, with a special focus on AI. She is a board member at the @ivir-uva.bsky.social and one of the leaders of the Human (e) AI’ Research Priority Area.

Sarah is author of Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP, 2019).

Informed by feminist STS perspectives, she is keenly interested in the way power, geopolitics and economics play out on and via the internet, reproducing global inequities and social injustice.

She is the faculty director and co-founder of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2), co-director of the Minderoo Initiative on Technology & Power, and a research associate of the @oii.ox.ac.uk‬.

Sarah T. Roberts is a full professor at UCLA (Gender Studies, Information Studies, Labor Studies), specializing in Internet and social media policy, infrastructure, politics and culture, and the intersection of media, technology and society.

Thomas is co-author of Platforms and Cultural Production (Polity, 2022) and The Platform Society (OUP, 2018). Finally, he is a member of the editorial board of Social Media + Society, Digital Journalism, Platforms & Society, Journal of Digital Social Research, and Communication and the Public.

Leveraging social media data and digital methods, Thomas has studied how the use of digital platforms is affecting the mobilization, organization, and communication of protest around the globe. He has built a conceptual framework to analyze how platforms and AI are reshaping the cultural industries.

Thomas Poell is Professor of Data, Culture & Institutions at the University of Amsterdam. He is program director MA Media Studies, co-founder of the Research Priority Area on Global Digital Cultures, and faculty lead for the national Human(e) AI & the Datafied Society sector plan.