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Sarah Thorne

@sarahthorne.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies @MemorialU -- Game Studies, AI, Critical & Experimental Media, Copyright 👾

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Sarah Stang @sarahstang.bsky.social · 9h

Guess what? Here at Brock we have an MA program in Game Studies! That's right - you can do Game Studies at the graduate level with us! My excellent fellow game scholar @emmavphd.bsky.social also teaches in the program! Attend our info session tomorrow (or in December) to learn more! 🎮📖🎓

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Jean Ketterling @jeanketterling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Excited to share a new 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 for an edited collection on game preservation in Canada, with coeds @michaeliantorno.com and @videogamehistorian.bsky.social. Full details can be found here: gamepreservation.ca/volatile-mem... Deadline is November 15th 2026.

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Call For Papers – GamePreservation.ca

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 09/06/2026

This is a promise

We are gonna get communist GTA before GTA VI graphic. Character art by marmakar.

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Game Workers Conference @gameworkerscon.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Missed Day 1 of the GWC? No problem! The entire stream is still up on our youtube channel: youtu.be/CFF97OjUEtk?... Want to catch up but don't know where to start? Josh Boykin's talk on "Building Intentional Communities, Taking Intentional Actions" is a VIBE and a great way to start off your day

a slide from Josh Boykin's talk, the text on screen says "The work I'm doing matters."

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MUN Faculty Association @munfaculty.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Free parking available in Lot 1A. Online registration link in our bio.

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 13/04/2026

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Robin Whitaker @rgwhitaker.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

What do we stand to lose if Memorial continues to be starved of basic funding? Students' freedom to learn and thrive through a diverse set of pathways to life-changing and world-changing knowledge. #WeAreMUN @munfaculty.bsky.social themuse.ca/letter-fund-...

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LETTER: Fund the Freedom to Learn | The Muse

MUN professor Josh Lepawsky makes the case for funding Memorial University ahead of Budget 2026

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MUN Faculty Association @munfaculty.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

These are the kinds of stories we keep hearing. A course that changed someone’s life. A reason someone stayed in Newfoundland and Labrador. A degree that helped build a career, a business, a future. A hope that the next generation gets the same chance. 1/2 #WeAreMUN

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MUN Faculty Association @munfaculty.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Across Memorial, we are seeing the real impacts of ongoing funding cuts. Programs are changing. Jobs are being lost. Teaching and learning conditions are under pressure. The impacts are not abstract. They affect our classrooms, our colleagues, and our students.1/3 #WeAreMUN

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 07/11/2025

@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund: pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...

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PressProgress: Defend Canadian Journalism

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

🎮 🕹️ Happy National Videogames Day! To celebrate, we've gathered a collection of #OpenAccess MIT Press books on gaming, game design, and streaming that you can read freely and immediately: mitpress.mit.edu/open-access-...

Five books on gaming, streaming, and game design aligned with covers out. Books included: "Intellivision," "Seeing Red," "The Game that Never Ends," "Unboxing Japanese Videogames," and "Streaming by the Rest of Us."

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 08/09/2025

The Democratic Socialism Simulator is basically free this week for Steam's Political Sim Fest. -See what changed since the Great Biden Era Nap! -Gift it to your newly radicalized mom! -Get upset because it doesn't actually simulate socialism! store.steampowered.com/app/1261760/...

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The Games Institute @thegamesinstitute.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This session’s panel included: 🎮 "Adapting the Network Narrative to Videogames through Return of the Obra Dinn”, by Cassandra Barkman 🎮 "Democracy, Desire, and Disappointment: Silent Hill Ascension and Decision Systems in Massively Interactive Narrative Games”, by Sarah Thorne and Burçak Aydınlık

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Sarah Thorne @sarahthorne.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Having a blast at #ICGaN2025!

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