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Adrienne Shaw

@adrishaw.bsky.social
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Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.

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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I got my first physical mail delivery and email this week, and I love. The fact that I almost missed both because most email/mail I get is spam/junk made the double take and delight at it being a thing I wanted all the better.
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Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Kudos to Ideas on Fire authors Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp.bsky.social, Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social, and Jonathan Gray on the release of Planet Digital: A Global Digital Cultures Reader. 🎊 The book is out now from @nyupress.bsky.social. nyupress.org/978147983518... #IoFAuthors
Cover of Planet Digital, with a series of twelve pixelated cursor icons, each featuring a flag from a different country
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 12/07/2026
Netflix is thinking of doing "always on" channels (i.e. TV) which means they'll then do some form of "television playing videos of music" which means they'll then speedrun "recording industry are bastards" followed by "put reality shows on the channel playing videos of music" followed by "cancel it"
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 10/07/2026
hello! im looking for anyone who would like to be interviewed for my 'What I Do' series, where i detail just what, exactly, people in the video game industry do for a living aftermath.site/tag/what-i-do/ only this one has a catch: i'd love to hear from someone who hates their job, or parts of it
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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🚨🚨🚨 we're sweetening the deal w/ a FREE ROMchip videogames/video games hat (dealers choice) for anyone who can track down either a playable copy of this game or substantial corroborating historical materials (packaging, reviews, references in business articles, information on the developers, etc).
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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 08/07/2026
Prof. @aswinp.bsky.social discusses "Planet Digital," a new volume edited by Punathambekar, @adrishaw.bsky.social (Ph.D. '10), and Jonathan Gray, that explores how culture, infrastructure, and power shape global media. Read more: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
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“Planet Digital” Maps Power, Culture, and Connectivity in Global Media
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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Now available on the New Books Network: @aswinp.bsky.social, @adrishaw.bsky.social, and Jonathan Gray on Planet Digital: A Global Media Cultures Reader. newbooksnetwork.com/planet-digital
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Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw and Jonathan Gray eds., "Planet Digital: A Global Media Cultures Reader" (NYU Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
been talking to current and former employees of microsoft-owned studios all day, and the prognosis is grim: zenimax, bethesda, obsidian, id, and activision have all taken big hits, while blizzard seemingly remains safe... for now. but how long that, or anything, lasts is anyone's guess
“It was already excruciating [to wait] over the long weekend—which made it impossible to relax,” one current Blizzard employee told Aftermath. “Now we have it indefinitely, and nobody knows who it will hit.”

“I’ve worked in roofing, construction, insulation, house building, glass factories, pallet shops, group homes for disabled and violent adults, gas stations, food service, customer service, and jobs involving gas meters,” said a current Activision employee. “Out of every industry I’ve worked in, I have never struggled financially or mentally as hard as I have working here.”
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Found in the classifieds section of The Advocate across a few issues from 1983 if that helps @romchip.bsky.social @textfiles.com @lainenooney.bsky.social
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 04/07/2026
The easy search turfs out pretty quick, even though VAPOR PALACE is such a unique paring of words. I found 6 issues of Gay Community News have this ad, which implies, at least, it was probably selling a handful of copies. If this gets found, it's the new "oldest LGBTQ" videogame.
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 04/07/2026
I could only find one citation so far - this ad in Gay Community News, 1983.
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 04/07/2026
OK, let's start the search. Adrienne Shaw is on the lookout for two titles of early LGBTQ software that predate Caper in the Castro. One is called VAPOR PALACE. The other features Tom of Finland art but has no discovered name yet. The search is on - if you know more details or... have a copy? ping.
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Peabody Awards @peabodyawards.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“Life is a dream. A career is a series of moments mostly out of our control. All you usually remember is the feeling and the people. And if you're lucky, the feeling is usually love.” 💖 🏆 Amy Poehler accepting the Peabody Career Achievement Award.
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LGBTQ Game Archive @lgbtqgamearchive.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Just came across this new to us likely queer game from 1983. Anyone have any information about it? This advertisement was in The Advocate classifieds section.
Vintage mail-order advertisement for a computer game called 'Vapor Palace,' priced at $24.95 postpaid, with the tagline 'Hot Time at the Baths.' The ad features a stylized illustration of a muscular male figure in a towel standing in a doorway. Below is the publisher logo 'Bananasoft' with a banana graphic. The ad lists compatible systems: Timex 1000, TRS-80 III, Apple II, IBM PC, and VIC-20, each shown with their respective cassette or floppy disk format. Text notes the game requires 16K RAM minimum. Ordering information includes a PO Box address in Seattle, WA, a note that WA residents must add sales tax, and a delivery estimate of two to six weeks."
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
merveilles.town/@zoy/1167938...
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Dr Zoyander Street (@zoy@merveilles.town)
One day left to buy my limited edition Dreamcast! I'm selling this to help me pay for a new mobility aid so that I can get out of my flat independently again. https://ebay.io/m/zSDIRF #retrogaming...
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In this panel, scholars from five different countries explore how racism, colonialism, & industrial legacies shape digital popular culture. 🗓️ 8 June 2026, 15:00 SAST 📍#ICA26, 1.64 CTICC1, Lev 1 @nyupress.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social @aswinp.bsky.social @adrishaw.bsky.social
Planet Digital
A Global Media Cultures Reader
Edited by Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw & Jonathan Gray
08 June 2026, 15:00
Digital Ambivalence: Race, Empire, and Participation in Global Digital Culture
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
For those attending #ica26 I will be on one panel tomorrow and moderating another. Please stop by! Navigating Flawed Research Frameworks, APIs and AI Tools- a Conversation on What We Can Do to Avoid Misidentifying and Excluding Research Data and ICA Authors
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
If you are headed to #ica26 I have discovered in the conference app that only one of my panels lists me when you search by "speaker". The second panel is later that same day at 3pm. I'm moderating, but the panelists aren't showing up under speakers in the app either (they do in the online program).
Digital Ambivalence: race, empire and participation in global digital culture. Monday, June 8, 3-4:15pm 1.64 CTICC1
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Years in the making, Planet Digital: A Global Media Cultures Reader, co-edited by myself, @aswinp.bsky.social , and Jonathan Gray is real! 30% Discount code: PLDIG30 Order here: nyupress.org/978147983516... Or here: MNGBookshop.co.uk
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Planet Digital
Explores how digitalization has transformed global media entertainment and the making of popular culturesIn the three decades since the rise of the global in...
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 19/05/2026
After his partner died of AIDS-related complications, David Bohnett used the insurance payout to launch GeoCities - what became one of the internet’s earliest queer communities
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Geocities: a cautionary tale of how Trans+ history can be deleted with one click
Geocities, a gay owned start up, was one of the first to give people tools to make their own web pages - when Yahoo deleted it, queer and Trans+ archives were lost
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/04/2026
75% of 1980s video games tracked by the LGBTQ Video Game Archive are preserved & accessible in some form. 25% are still at risk or unavailable. Preservation isn’t automatic. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE 📖 Download: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta...
Pixel-art style infographic showing a white pie chart in drag on a gray background. Large text reads “75%.” Smaller text states that 75% of video games from the 1980s tracked by the LGBTQ Video Game Archive are preserved and accessible in some form through the Internet Archive. Caption reads “Vanishing Culture.”
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Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Earning tenure is like winning a pie-eating contest at a county fair—where the prize is more pie. 🥧 We work hard to get to this moment, but we don’t always prepare ourselves for what follows. Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social digs into this tenure-as-pie metaphor: ideasonfire.net/tenure-and-t...
Ferris wheel with sun shining behind it. Text reads: Can you have your pie and eat it too? Tenure and the county fair, with the Ideas on Fire logo.
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
One of the most enjoyable professional obligations I have is serving on the Immersive/Interactive Board of Jurors for the @peabodyawards.bsky.social. Check out this year's nominees!
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 26/03/2026
Let's cook the joke vegetarian food from Alison Bechdel's Dykes To Watch Out For aftermath.site/dykes-to-watch...
A panel from Dykes To Watch Out For
Sydney: Revelatory. I don't get this mortification of the flesh thing. No meat, no sugar, no whipped cream. Do you have a hair shirt under the stripes?
Mo: Hey, don't talk to me about mortifying the flesh. You know what all that dairy is doing to your arteries?
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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Today's discussion is about what "culture" even means and what it means to study it So we're reading @adrishaw.bsky.social's "Video games as cultural studies other" Early on she asks: "Why is it so hard for us to think about video games as part of popular media culture more broadly?"
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Share and signal boost c.org/ZKCgZfYnvs
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Sign the Petition
Refuse to adopt USA hockey's ban on transgender athletes
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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
A note that this was facilitated in many ways by the work of @adrishaw.bsky.social and the LGBTQ Game Archive, which you should also check out lgbtqgamearchive.com/about/about-...
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About (please read first!)
What is the LGBTQ Game Archive? This is a work in progress and a labor of love. We are constantly working on adding content, but since 2016 have decided that we will publish what we have when we fe…
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Gayming Magazine @gaymingmag.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
CALLING ALL INDIE DEVS & PUBLISHERS! We're getting ready for 2026 to be the Year of the Indie and as such are reigniting our Indie Gayming marketing packages. Take a look and let's chat if you're looking to reach LGBTQ+ gamers. gaymingmag.com/indiegayming/
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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
“We should train novices based on the practices of disciplinary experts who have achieved AI fluency in their discipline. Unfortunately, there aren’t any such experts yet.” www.chronicle.com/article/stop...
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Opinion | Stop Pretending You Know How to Teach AI
Colleges are racing to make students ‘fluent.’ One problem: No one knows what that means.
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Seeking help for a student: They would like to secure a press pass for The Wicked Premiere red carpet as a university television station reporter or student content creator. Any advice on how they should go about this?
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Every time, @annaleen@wandering.shop's books are exactly what I need. Automatic Noodle is a perfect stormy Sunday read.
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Carly A. Kocurek @sparklebliss.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Local Chicago news is covering a lot of what is happening. I am not seeing this reported in any detail in national outlets (I assume it might get there eventually) but the harm is being done right now. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/t...
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Tear gas deployed by federal agent in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood
Reports emerged of multiple immigration raids on Friday on Chicago's Northwest Side, including one in which tear gas was deployed by an agent.
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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GLAAD Gaming Announces New Queer Emerging Developers Program | GLAAD
Over the past decade, GLAAD Gaming has worked to improve how the video game industry engages with LGBTQ stories and players. This commitment has included consulting directly with video game studios an...
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
gofund.me/a8386da47
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Donate to Ease the Tragic Ending of A Romance Writer’s Epic Love Story, organized by Heidi McDonald
I was a game writer at the height of my career - author, freq… Heidi McDonald needs your support for Ease the Tragic Ending of A Romance Writer’s Epic Love Story
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 24/09/2025
Even the landlords want their cut from livestreaming. Good example of how streaming relies on a background of domestic labor and social reproduction that is ripe for extracting data and money
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Another reminder that breaking news is news in flux — guide for following breaking news below
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Happy Gritty's birthday to all who celebrate: www.instagram.com/reel/DO-_RHK...
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I had four online meetings today: two zoom, one Teams, one Google Meet. I feel like I need to Skype someone (I know it shutdown, thank you) and maybe have a BlueJeans meeting to unlock some sort of achievement.
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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Have just devoured Jill Lepore's If Then – an amazing book and so well suited to the current moment. So many easter eggs for media/comm folks and an era of the academy now truly unimaginable. So envious of the bookcraft! Thanks @adrishaw.bsky.social for recommending wwnorton.com/books/978163...
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If Then
From the best-selling author of <em>These Truths</em>, an &#8220;exhilarating&#8221; (<em>New York Times Book Review</em>) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era., If Then, How the Simulm...
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Temple University Libraries @temple-libraries.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Thanks for joining us on Bluesky! Stay tuned for resources, event information, and more! 🦉📚 Photo by Betsy Manning
A photo of the entrance to Charles Library at Temple University, with students sitting and walking outside under a modern architectural overhang. The image has a dark red border. Text below reads: "Welcome to Temple Libraries Bluesky! Follow us for library resources, event information, and more!"
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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · 05/08/2025
I wrote an explainer for the impact of payment processor censorship on the LGBTQIA+ community. theconversation.com/thousands-of...
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Thousands of games have been censored from major platforms, with LGBTQIA+ creators caught in the crossfire
Payment processing companies have ceded to pressure from an ‘anti-porn’ group, causing Steam and itch.io to ban tens of thousands of games almost overnight.
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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Just dropped Media 2025, a mini book/limited newsletter publishing experiment hosted on my relaunched site. Media 2025 offers 11 posts (nearly 20,000 words) with state-of-the-moment thinking (behind a one-time charge paywall). I welcome conversation about its ideas! www.amandalotz.com/media-2025-2/
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Media 2025 Explainer
Announcing Media 2025 – an experiment in digital-era publishing that is a cross-between a limited newsletter and a short book. It's 11 posts (10 paywalled – nearly 20,000 words) that provide state-of-...
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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
QGCon occupies a different space than a lot of conferences and that makes its continued existence pretty important, if you have some money to spare.
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...
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Help fund QGCon 2025!
What we needAs you may know, this has been an immensely challenging year for fundraising around the world. QGCon is currently navigating a CAD$12,000 budget shortfall. We hope to raise funds, with you...
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Best blog/essay/think (i.e. short, not necessarily academic) pieces on interactive storytelling (any genre/format)? More looking for big picture writing, not reviews of individual projects.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Hey everybody! I'll see you tomorrow and Saturday at Comic-con! Come say hi! Ask me for an Automatic Noodle sticker!
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
This is funny and the whole mascot reenactment thing isn’t even as good as the guy after holding the sign that says, “this *IS* my wife”
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Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I need a new game. Requirements: PS5 or Steam deck compatible. Good/interesting narrative or approach to storytelling. Main story is under 20 hours (preferably shorter over longer).
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AvantBeetle @avantbeetle.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
🎮🔥 Call for Games! 🔥🎮 I'm curating a show on GAMES AS PROTEST/ACTIVISM and looking for titles that explore resistance, civil disobedience, or political action. Made one? Know one? DM or comment! Lets make some interactive uproar ✊️ More to come soon!
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Californians are debating secession again. The state actually has a long history of attempting to secede, and it's really not pretty. I'm so excited to share my first (but definitely not last) article for @flaminghydra.com!
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