A new special issue of Critical Studies in Media and Communication I co-edited with Katherine Sender is now available and the articles are potentially of interest to AoIR members (it also features the work of several AoIR members). Articles will be freely available for a limited time: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcsm20/33/1 Contents: Queer technologies: affordances, affect, ambivalence by Adrienne Shaw & Katherine Sender Queen don't compute: reading and casting shade on Facebook's real names policy by Maggie MacAulay & Marcos Daniel Moldes Making a name for yourself: tagging as transgender ontological practice on Tumblr by Avery Dame Aesthetics of queer becoming: Comrade Yue and Chinese community-based documentaries online by Jia Tan Lez takes time: designing lesbian contact in geosocial networking apps by Sarah Murray & Megan Sapnar Ankerson Trans(affective)mediation: feeling our way from paper to digitized zines and back again by Daniel C. Brouwer & Adela C. Licona The queer case of video games: orgasms, Heteronormativity, and video game narrative by Shira Chess Disorienting guitar practice: an alternative archive by Joshua Hochman “I Did It All Online:” Transgender identity and the management of everyday life by Andre Cavalcante Hacking Xena: Technological innovation and queer influence in the production of mainstream television by Elena Maris -- Adrienne Shaw Assistant Professor Temple University Department of Media Studies and Production School of Media and Communication 2020 N. 13th St. Annenberg Hall, room 203A Philadelphia, PA 19122 telephone: 215-204-6201 fax: 215-214-5402 email: adrienne.shaw@temple.edu smc.temple.edu/msp www.adrienneshaw.com Author of: Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 2014 (http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/gaming-at-the-edge) Office Hours: 5-6pm Tuesday-Thursday Email Hours (when I respond to emails): 10am-Noon, Monday-Friday