Welcome to the #IFM, Interactive Film and Media Annual #Conference, where innovation, collaboration, and exploration converge at the intersection of storytelling and technology.

Media archivist. Exiled Californian. Abolish everything. Avi is Jennifer Connelly from Dark City. Banner is a room of vintage TVs. he/they/any/all

Media nerd, gaymer, teacher, critic, theorist. Associate Professor of Film/Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, Montréal. Author of "Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender" and a bunch of other stuff.

social media researcher and author associate professor at Cornell University platforms, power, and the creator economy www.brookeduffy.com

Hosts Colin MacCormack, Elijah Fleming (@ecfleming.bsky.social) & Christie Vogler (@voguearchaeology.bsky.social) break down modern media depicting ancient Greece, Rome and the wider ancient world. Learn more here: https://linktr.ee/movieswedig

Media industries professor who writes about labor, globalization, and business. Latest book: Mobile Hollywood Brisbane (🇦🇺) by way of Chicago, Austin, Santa Barbara (🇺🇸). Mostly scrolling.

Assoc Prof of Film at Georgia Tech. Writes/reads about ecocrit, joy, cinephilia, time, kids, trees, justice, music(als). Clumsy but earnest yogi, pianist, gardener. “My heart is moved by all I cannot save" (Adrienne Rich) www.kristimckim.com (she/her)

Author of Animated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts, out now from University of Texas Press. Reseach interests include animation, classic Hollywood, stardom, & home video/streaming. Lecturer at UAL. Views my own.

I am a lecturer in Film and Digital Media. My research publications span across: Film, Television, Video Gaming, Digital Performance and Video Essaying. https://vimeo.com/user107379730 https://criticalcommons.org/user/DanOB1/media

The Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association is a regional branch of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Find us at The University of Iowa October 3-5, 2025. Submissions opening early 2025. mpcaaca.org

Media studies researcher, Penn State professor, past and future television blogger. Book 📖: SOCIAL TV: MULTI-SCREEN CONTENT AND EPHEMERAL CULTURE Newsletter 📰: TV PLUS

Lecture in Digital Film and Television at the University of Bristol. Co-director of the Bristol Digital Game Lab. Leading the development of a game exploring postnatal depression for new fathers linktr.ee/mikesamuel

Cinephile, vegan, collage artist, ex-academic, 80s music lover, passionate thrifter and news junkie.

Media critic, journalist, anti-racist feminist *Author: IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S MEDIA (media literacy graphic novel); REALITY BITES BACK *Founder: Women In Media & News *Speaker: DM for TV/talks/workshops *Pundit: ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/VICE *Comedy nerd She/Her

Helping scholars write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚 Tips at newsletter.manuscriptworks.com & in THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK and MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK (Princeton UP) Courses + free resources at manuscriptworks.com Knitter, 2X Jeopardy! champ 🤓

Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies, University of California, Irvine. Research on stardom, film history, childhood and media.

Prof., Annenberg School for Communication @Upenn; focus on media & cultural change in postcolonial & diasporic contexts; Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/aswin-punathambekar-phd

Film nerd, history nerd, nerd-nerd. Overworked adjunct. Mom to 1 human and 1 cat. Author of Comic Venus: Women & Comedy in American Silent Film

writer, curator, cat lady, flowers