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This semester, Temple University Libraries\u2019 public programming series <\/span>Beyond the Page<\/span><\/i> has started to unpack that narrative. Women like Adrienne Shaw and Latoya Peterson gave presentations at Temple. Each told their own story, a story that did not necessarily fit into this harassed and driven-out woman paradigm. Adrienne Shaw, an assistant professor of Media Studies and Production at Temple, discussed representation in gaming from the perspectives of the marginalized gamers themselves. She found that their desire for representation in games was more complicated than the dominant narrative. She found that many of the players she interviewed thought of the importance of diverse representation in the 3rd person; something that was important in a general sense, but did not necessarily apply to them. Others said that identifying <\/span>with<\/span><\/i> a character did not always correlate as identifying <\/span>as<\/span><\/i> a character. For example, having a black woman protagonist did not mean that there was automatic identification with the character despite being black women themselves. Identification was tied into various contexts such as gameplay and environment. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thus, the describing and cataloging of LGBT games was dependent on various contexts. Adrienne Shaw described the process of creating the LGBT archive at her workshop. She had the participants break into groups and figure out whether the game character should be categorized as gay. It became quickly apparent that things such as power dynamics, character choice, and gameplay affected the classification of a character.<\/span><\/p>\n
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