CFP: swpaca.org "AI & Culture" area invites proposals on anything related to AI as tool, cultural phenomenon, creative force, or subject of scholarship. Submit: swpaca.org/summer-salon/ | Deadline: April 27 Please forward to any you think might be interested. Thanks! #swpaca26
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I had a fabulous time at the Southwest Popular / American Culture Association Conference in Albequerque, NM! Check out my blog post on https://birdenwheel.com/home-page-category/
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#swpaca26 salon c-d
“Something something discourse, something something context”
-Yasheng She
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is CAFFEINATED.
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Pictured: a book called Frightful Harvest: Food, Landscape, and Agriculture in Folk Horror, by Keene Short. The cover is red with a dinner plate in the middle. The book is surrounded by other new titles on pop culture from McFarland Books
spotted a live copy at the book fair at #SWPACA26. surreal.
if you're not in albuquerque and want to read about folk horror, check it out here: mcfarlandbooks.com/product/frig...
Kelly Ancharski presents “DnD as Method, Research as Worldmaking: A Portal for Trans Inquiry”
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Cass Zegura presents “Modularity and Relationality in Trans-Inclusive Character Creation Interfaces”
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Jack Perse presents “Buggy Bodies and Skinless Faces: Repairing and Reinforcing Normativity in "Assassin's Creed Unity"”
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OMG! Today has been such a day of… interesting… game controllers
Earlier: @toskakoshka.bsky.social with the pelvic floor controllers and now: @cmejeur.bsky.social with the breastplate controller
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. @cmejeur.bsky.social presents “Playing the Spoil-Sport: Dysphoria in Embodiment, Interface, and Design Balance”
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Whit Pow presents “A Trans History of Media(tion)”
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Jes Klass presents “Buffoonery, Goonery, and Riggamorris: Competition Design and Production Pivots in "RuPaul’s Drag
Race"”
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Rebekah Shultz Colby presents “Exploring Relational Lines of Flight in "Spiritfarer””
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Rob Watkins presents “Tabletop Rhetoric: Using Tabletop Game Documentation Design to Explore Multimodal Transfer”
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I wish I was old enough to be in the clurrrb dancing when Britney’s album “Britney” was released!
Sometimes one of the songs will come on while I’m out and I goooo FOR IT!
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Carlos Cruz presents “Back to the Future: Exploring the Depiction of Sony’s History in the "Astro" Franchise”
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Laijana Braun presents “Messages from Silent Falls: Exploring Hybrid Experiences in "Alice Is Missing"”
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Zixuan Deng presents “The State of Otome: Assessing the Preservation of Romance Games for Girls in Japan and Beyond”
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Jason Zenor presents “Smurfs, Noobs, and Scrub: Typologies in Contemporary Gaming”
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Tessa Cheshire presents ““Shut Up!” and Watch: Examining the Promotion of “Smosh Summer Games: Class of 2005””
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Richard Colby presents ““I See One Person That Cares”: Reactions to Generative AI in Games”
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Niyayesh Arshadnia presents “Women vs. Perfection: An Analysis of Burke’s Guilt-Redemption Cycle in Online Gaming”
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Delores Phillips presents “Bodies of Garbage in "Cyberpunk 2077"”
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Natalie Neale-Lorell presents “Roll for Anxiety Attack: A Critical Analysis of Disability in "Dimension 20"”
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. @toskakoshka.bsky.social presents Engaging the Core: A Usability Study of Gamified Health as Understood Through PFMT Controllers
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