Aurelia Brandenburg
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Aurelia Brandenburg
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Historian somewhere between Game Studies, Gender Studies and Digital Humanities. | Doing a PhD about German Games Journalism 1980-2000 @chludens.bsky.social | Board Member @akgwds.bsky.social | http://aureliabrandenburg.de/links | she/her
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I always liked pinned threads, so let's finally do this again: Hi, I'm Aurelia, a historian at the intersection of Game Studies, Gender Studies and history. You can find out more about me on my website, but I'll also start linking some of my work below 👇
aureliabrandenburg.de/publikationen/
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My latest co-authored article with Megan Condis was just published in Games: Research and Practice. And it's open access!

Check out "Rad Dudes, Rude ‘Tude, and the Family, Too: How Nintendo and Sega Advertisements Shaped the Image of Gaming in the 1990s."
Rad Dudes, Rude ‘Tude, and the Family, Too: How Nintendo and Sega Advertisements Shaped the Image of Gaming in the 1990s | Games: Research and Practice
The tale of the console wars of the 1990s, the stodgy, conservative, family-friendly Nintendo consoles waging an advertising war against the rebellious upstarts behind the Sega Genesis, has been told ...
dl.acm.org
January 29, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Dass nicht einfach sofort, wenn Webers Name genannt wird, alle Verfahren eingestellt werden und Redakteure einfach sich dem nächsten Thema widmen, ist einfach auch ein dermassenes institutionelles und professionelles Versagen. Niemand ist weniger glaubwürdig als der.
January 28, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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I hate to tap the sign but again: this is all made to make in-person education and access to knowledge transfer a preserve of the elite. Human education for the few, bots for the many.
We want to make sure tutoring isn't the preserve of a lucky few, but accessible to every child who needs it.

AI can help us do that.

Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
Poorest pupils to be given AI tutors
Bridget Phillipson says tuition would no longer be the preserve of ‘the lucky few’
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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Relive with us the moment when we found the DVD with 33 episodes of Raumschiff @gamestar.de.web.brid.gy #Gamestar
January 28, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Das Schöne daran ist übrigens auch, dass man inzwischen im GameLab quasi blind ins Regal greifen kann und irgendeinen schrägen Schatz findet. (Case in point: Diese Raumschiff GameStar-DVD)
January 28, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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New CfP by @pachuki.bsky.social and me! We'll be editing a special issue at gamevironments and are looking for contributions focused on DIY print publications like fanzines, newsletters and even DIY aspects of commercial gaming magazines. #GameStudies

journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...
Calls for Papers | gamevironments
journals.suub.uni-bremen.de
January 26, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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Was hilft Euch aktuell (einigermaßen) beim Klarkommen?
January 26, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Martenstein, Mario Barth und die Armee der Amazon-Rezensenten

Nichts bringt das Bürgertum so in Wallung wie das befreite Wiehern über geschlechtergerechte Sprache.

Hier habe ich darüber geschrieben.

kulturundkontroverse859.substack.com/p/martenstei...
Martenstein, Mario Barth und die Armee der Amazon-Rezensenten
Über den Triggerpunkt geschlechtergerechter Sprache
kulturundkontroverse859.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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Afaik the availability of part-time work boosts labour force participation, i.e. to many part-time workers, the alternative is not 'work more' but 'don't work'.

That strikes me as a major obstacle to any CDU/CSU plan that hopes to boost productivity by making it harder to work part-time.
January 27, 2026 at 6:38 AM
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A #GameStudies CFP not from one but from two of my favorite colleagues: @pachuki.bsky.social anf @hekabeohnename.bsky.social: CfP by @pachuki.bsky.social focusinh on DIY print publications like fanzines, newsletters etc.
journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...
Calls for Papers | gamevironments
journals.suub.uni-bremen.de
January 26, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Möchte ja auch gern nochmal betonen, dass etliche Branchen existieren, in denen die Leute zwar Vollzeit arbeiten wollen, aber nicht können, weil es – bis auf die Führungsebene natürlich – schlicht keine Vollzeitstellen gibt. Dazu gehört z.B. der Einzelhandel. Oder die Wissenschaft.
January 26, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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Dang, this sounds like an awesome call. Wish I had the time to clear out for it.
New CfP by @pachuki.bsky.social and me! We'll be editing a special issue at gamevironments and are looking for contributions focused on DIY print publications like fanzines, newsletters and even DIY aspects of commercial gaming magazines. #GameStudies

journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...
Calls for Papers | gamevironments
journals.suub.uni-bremen.de
January 26, 2026 at 1:10 PM
New CfP by @pachuki.bsky.social and me! We'll be editing a special issue at gamevironments and are looking for contributions focused on DIY print publications like fanzines, newsletters and even DIY aspects of commercial gaming magazines. #GameStudies

journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...
Calls for Papers | gamevironments
journals.suub.uni-bremen.de
January 26, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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Video games do not cause violence. But we as an industry are clearly not ready to have a conversation about how we've normalized a military fantasy
I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
January 24, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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there‘s a new call by Aurelia Brandenburg and me about gaming zines - please share whereever possible: journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...
#gamestudies
a piece of paper with a drawing of a hairy area on it
ALT: a piece of paper with a drawing of a hairy area on it
media.tenor.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Unser Jubiläumsband „Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele: Debatten, Data & Desiderata“ wird nach und nach auch online veröffentlicht.🖊️

Gestern erschien ein Beitrag von Felix Zimmermann: Die Geschichte des AKGWDS in Debatten: Die Hakenkreuzdebatte.

▶️Lesbar unter: gespielt.hypotheses.org/9341
Die Geschichte des AKGWDS in Debatten: Die Hakenkreuzdebatte
Dieser Text ist ein Beitrag zum Sammelband „Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele: Debatten, Data & Desiderata“, der anlässlich des zehnjährigen Jubiläums des Arbeitskreises herausgegeben wird. Ei...
gespielt.hypotheses.org
January 23, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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besonders Beiträge zu somatischen/körperlichen Krankheiten sind sehr erwünscht 😊
#medicalhumanities
#gamestudies
January 23, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Thanks to @hekabeohnename.bsky.social I was allowed to research a bit the history of the BRAVO for the historical context of our @chludens.bsky.social case study on the #BravoScreenFun
January 23, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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🥳New #medievalsky #earlymodern Open Access Article!

It's about the roles and lives of women in the Alps, including:
- How generic male language in sources hides the presence of women
- ⛏️ Female construction workers building roads across the Alps
-⚖️ A lord turning women into men (legally speaking)
Toil and Trouble: The Labour, Duties and Rights of Women in Alpine Communities in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
How were women perceived and treated in Alpine communities in the late Middle Ages? This study explores this question by using sources ranging from the fourteenth up to the sixteenth century and fr...
www.tandfonline.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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Auch dieser Gaslighting-Effekt, dass permanent so getan wird, als würden wir noch in einer Welt mit irgendwie gültigen Regeln leben.
January 19, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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Unfassbar zermürbend jeden Tag aufzuwachen und sich zu fühlen, als wäre man von einem psychotischen Clown gekidnapped worden, der permanent droht das Nachbarhaus anzuzünden.
January 19, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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Prompting AI to write about a particular thing will never replace me prompting my brain to write about a particular thing and then my brain writing about something completely and utterly different
January 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Die haben sehr gute, von talentierten und professionellen Fotograf*innen gemachte Fotos, die sie klein daneben reproduzieren - ohne Nennung der Fotograf*innen! - und machen daraus geglätteten faken Mist. So kann man Historiker*innen und Frauen gleichzeitig den Mittelfinger zeigen.
Ich mag nicht mehr. Frauen „sichtbar“ machen kann ich mit meiner Forschung, welchen Mehrwert hat denn jetzt hier bitte die KI? Die recycelt doch eh nur. Faschistische Technologie im Einsatz gegen systemische Probleme die durch white supremacy geschaffen wurden.

www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/D...
January 17, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Aber auch da: 60 Jahre alt laut Prompt und extrem glatte Haut... Dass die KI zuallererst "Wunschvorstellungen" einer patriarchalen Gesellschaft produziert, kommt da überhaupt nicht in die Überlegung, geschweige denn Konzeption rein.
January 18, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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Und so offensichtlich auf den consent der Abgebildeten geschissen, Wunschbilder hergestellt, die nichts mit deren Karriere oder fachlicher Arbeit zu tun haben, Klischees und alles maximal schlurig, ohne Rücksicht auf tatsächliche Personen
January 18, 2026 at 9:26 AM