Representation Matters:
Reframing arguments for diversity in digital games
Adrienne Shaw, Temple University
126 Voorhies Hall
Adrienne Shaw is an assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies and Production at Temple University and a Media and Communications PhD program faculty member. Her primary areas of interest are video games, gaming culture, the video game industry, gender and sexuality, the politics of representation, and qualitative audience research. Her research has been published in Games and Culture, New Media Studies, Ada, Critical Studies in Media and Communication, QED: A journal of queer worldmaking, among other journals and she is the author of several book chapters on game studies. Her book Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture (University of Minnesota Press) was released January 1, 2015.