Dr. Jack Murray
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Asst. Professor of Game Design. Sword Nerd. (Secretly a Tekken and Wrestling account) He/They/Any
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Cody Mejeur
5 days ago
Excited to share the CFP for Into the Fog: Essays on Dead By Daylight, under contract with McFarland Press! Hoping to get a wide variety of submissions. Abstracts due July 30! See linked CFP for more details.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1BN5...
#DeadByDaylight
#GameStudies
#Horror
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Just found out I have a substantial chunk of university money to spend by the end of the summer. What are some academic books, preferably in games and/or media studies, that you like? Plug your own books, plug your friends books!
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Matt Seybold
13 days ago
What they are doing is actually amplifying a PR campaign which inaccurately recasts AI resistance movements as based on poetics, rather than resource allocation, cognitive & social costs, extraction & enclosure. People aren't angry because the million-monkey machine can maybe pound out a Macbeth.
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Just found out I have a substantial chunk of university money to spend by the end of the summer. What are some academic books, preferably in games and/or media studies, that you like? Plug your own books, plug your friends books!
13 days ago
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Sneak Peek at my lecture slides for this week
about 1 month ago
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Dan Cox
about 1 month ago
We need extra assistance as part of reviewing for Electronic Literature Collection 5 (
github.com/eliterature/...
). Please contact us (
[email protected]
) if you can read any of the following languages + willing to provide a short review of a work: Swedish Korean Gujarati Norwegian Catalan Tamil
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Bruno Dias
about 2 months ago
[louder, as if that'll improve reception] THE BLUESKY DEVS WOULD BE VERY UPSET BY YOUR JOKES ABOUT VIBE CODING IF THEY COULD LOAD YOUR POSTS
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix
about 2 months ago
This has been restored! Thanks to folks in Mexico who'd made a copy and re-shared it with me... not sure how it got deleted but it's back! Open biblio that anyone can copy/paste and add to (please add anything that fits!) CRITICAL DATA CENTER STUDIES
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Critical Data Center Studies
Critical Data Center Studies Books Amoore, Louise. 2020. Ethics Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others Duke https://www.dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics Bedir, M; Groen. L; Kuijpers. M; S...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14lgTZrcClUCOCY0lPxKOfT-aF-GSrAQItzGUtMQ0Kb0/edit?usp=sharing
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Florence Smith Nicholls
3 months ago
Myself and
@mtrc.bsky.social
are running a workshop on Games and Archaeological Play (GAP) at FDG 2026! Short papers of up to 4 pages are due by April 5th. We are interested in any work that broadly relates to video game archaeology. See the full CFP here:
gapworkshop.org/call-for-pap...
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Everest Pipkin
3 months ago
I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time - Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026.
belltowerhouse.org
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Belltower House Artist Residency
Belltower House Artist Residency is a gift of creative sanctuary in southern New Mexico.
https://belltowerhouse.org/
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Supper Mario Broth
3 months ago
Most of the footage of the famous 2000 "Super Mario 128" tech demo was recorded with handheld cameras by the audience, with the presenter drowning out the game sound. Only 10 seconds of direct feed footage exist, which reveal that the sound was a cacophony of Marios screaming.
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Dan Cox
4 months ago
Did you know the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 5 now has a blog? As we we hit milestones, we will be doing short posts to update what is happening and our next goals. February 2026 Update:
eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/bl...
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The Games and Animation Department at UT Dallas is hiring! A Tenure Track position in Emerging Media (Broadly defined as AR/VR/XR and/or Virtual Production)
jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31115
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The Games and Animation Department at UT Dallas is hiring! A Tenure Track position in Emerging Media (Broadly defined as AR/VR/XR and/or Virtual Production)
jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31115
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Dr. Emily Friedman
4 months ago
Do I know artists who work in an 18th century style of illustration who might take on a modest proposal (so to speak)? (would love to see portfolios)
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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony
4 months ago
The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live! The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...
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The Quiet Year (box set)
The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every a...
https://store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the-quiet-year-box-set
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dr. hazel 🐇
5 months ago
Me: So the Drukhari are the evil elves that need pain and suffering to nourish their souls. Friend: So it’s like Monsters Inc. Me:
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cmrn knzlmn
5 months ago
Today is my birthday and all I’m asking for is for you to support and/or talk about your favorite Ranged Touch show or project!
Patreon.com/rangedtouch
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Dr. Christine H. Tran
5 months ago
GOING BOX MODE 📦 Pleased to share the intro to our CSMC Special Issue on games + Sofia's theory of "container technologies." From solar gaming & trucking sims to hot tub streams & apocalypse bunkers, 13 articles square up for an expanded definition of gaming cultures:
doi.org/10.1080/1529...
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Containing games
Published in Critical Studies in Media Communication (Ahead of Print, 2025)
https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2025.2599286
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Dan Olson
5 months ago
Wolves good. Not a movie or show, just, like, the animal. Wolves. They're pretty cool.
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Ranged Touch
5 months ago
With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT:
rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...
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austin_walker
5 months ago
The list of what we've previously covered on Shelved by Genre is: Book of the New Sun The Earthsea Cycle A Unit on Junji Ito The Herald Mage Trilogy Burning Chrome + The Sprawl Trilogy A Canticle for Leibowitz Dr. Bloodmoney Brown Girl in the Ring A Unit on Alan Moore An array of Hallmark movies
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Lis
5 months ago
Hey, if you’re in the game industry and have a literature degree, would you please comment? We got a family friend over here who insists my having a career in games while holding a literature degree is a one-off aberration and per usual, I’m not letting it go.
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Anastasia Salter
6 months ago
The submissions portal for our next
@eliterature.bsky.social
conference, which will be fully online including performances and a hypertext electronic literature exhibition, is now open at
stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/
- please submit an abstract by January 15th to join us!
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Dan Cox
6 months ago
The deadline for Electronic Literature Collection 5 has been extended from 6 January 2026 to 31 January 2026!
eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/
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Call for Submissions
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
https://eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/
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honor sachs
6 months ago
🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨 Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!)
networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
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University of Colorado - Boulder - Assistant or Associate Professor of History | H-Net
The Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor specializing in Native American history with a focus on the North American West, broadly defined. The successful applicant will have access to funds associated with the Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professorship in Western American History. Specialization is open, but the department particularly encourages applications from scholars whose research focuses on the early American West (pre-1920s) and engages with legal history, the history of women and gender, environmental history, and/or the history of medicine and public health. Scholars with demonstrated commitments to engaging Native American communities and/or supporting Native and Indigenous students are especially encouraged to apply, as are those who bring relevant lived and individual experiences and achievements to this position.
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/university-colorado-boulder-assistant-or-associate-professor-history
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Joanne Freeman
6 months ago
Not speaking about anyone in particular here. Generalizing. But: IM SO FUCKING TIRED OF HEARING “HOW TO FIX EDUCATION” FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT GOES ON IN A CLASSROOM.
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brendan mordheim
6 months ago
Out now: WHALE ROADS The chronicle of a year-long, 30+ player West Marches campaign of Wolves Upon the Coast by
@lukegearing.bsky.social
A 250-page "zine" filled with play summaries, original art, and Referee commentary. Available now, and it's 100% completely free.
sulcata.itch.io/whale-roads
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WHALE ROADS by sulcata | Brendan McLeod
A megazine about Wolves Upon the Coast
https://sulcata.itch.io/whale-roads
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With Harada leaving Tekken and releasing this 30 Minute 30 year tekken retrospective DJ set, I feel like I should get back to this thread.
soundcloud.com/katsuhiro-ha...
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Dan Cox
6 months ago
The call for proposals is posted for the Electronic Literature Organization 2026 conference. It will be hosted fully online July 15-18, 2026 by a team based at the University of Central Florida with collaborators around the world. (Submissions will open soon!)
projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/cfp....
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Call for Proposals - ELO 2026
https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/cfp.html
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cmrn knzlmn
7 months ago
shelved by genre is a good podcast
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Molly Crabapple
7 months ago
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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Submit a Claim
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Michael Iantorno🌱🕹️
7 months ago
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Chris Bratt
7 months ago
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
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The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nOwjeznjI
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brendan mordheim
7 months ago
being a tabletop designer means sometimes you find an Untitled Spreadsheet and inside is just the numbers 1 to 100 in order
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Going to print this out and hang it in my office
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8 months ago
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Rebecca Wingo
8 months ago
It's been a while, but I have exciting news! Our department is hiring a Digital Historian with a specialization in Early America. Help us spread the word by sharing this opportunity within your networks.
#DigitalHistory
#DH
#HigherEdJobs
jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...
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Assistant Professor in Digital and Early American History, Department of History, College of A&S
Assistant Professor in Digital and Early American History, Department of History, College of A&S
https://jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati-Assistant-Professor-in-Digital-and-Early-American-History%2C-Department-of-History%2C-College-of-A&S-OH-45201/1332617100/
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Dan Cox
8 months ago
I am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5.
eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/
I am serving along with
@zachwhalen.bsky.social
,
@elikaortega.bsky.social
, and Dani Spinosa. This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!
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Call for Submissions
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
https://eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/
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Deborah McDowell
8 months ago
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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My TTRPG design hot take is: Let the GM roll dice. Rolling dice is fun. Everyone at the table is allowed to roll dice.
8 months ago
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
8 months ago
Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history. Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.
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cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug
8 months ago
hey y'all!! my artist-sister-friend has created a BEAUTIFUL card deck & dice set rooted in the liberatory practices and guidance of our ancestors. i had a chance to use a proto & want a set real bad, so please support this kickstarter!!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/how...
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How We Be Free: a Black fugitive study kit
Playing cards, dice and dynamic Black study... guided by the legacies and practices of freedom-seeking ancestors.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/howwebefree/how-we-be-free-a-black-fugitive-study-kit
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Went to a Hockey game specifically to cheer for the Zambonis
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tufted titmouse 🐐
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Erik Simpson
8 months ago
Job Alert! Tenure-track, Creative Non-Fiction (broadly conceived), Grinnell College.
joblist.mla.org/job/2000443/...
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Assistant Professor of English: Creative Writing Tenure Track job with Grinnell College | 2000443
Research and teaching interests might include: screenwriting/tv writing, memoir, lyric essay, narrative journalism, graphic storytelling.
https://joblist.mla.org/job/2000443/assistant-professor-of-english-creative-writing-tenure-track/
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Frames
8 months ago
as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.
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Press Start Journal
8 months ago
‼️Call for reviewers‼️ We're looking for three reviewers for an article concerning Pokémon and the deconstruction of the Hero's journey. Please check the attached image for the abstract. (1/2)
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Unwinnable
9 months ago
We reached the 100 new subscribers we needed to unlock a Final Fantasy and politics issue for you folks! We'll start production soon with the goal of publishing it in early 2026. Thank you SO much for all of your help with this drive! We couldn't have done it without you.
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