Adrienne Shaw (born 1983) is an American game studies scholar and Associate Professor at Temple University in the Klein College of Media and Communication.
Her first book, Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) received the 2016 Outstanding Book Award from the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association, Warp Zone's 2015 Video Game Librarian Award,[2] and it was listed on the American Library Association's 2016 Rainbow List.
[5][6] Shaw also co-edited, with Katherine Sender, Queer Technologies: Affordances, Affect, Ambivalence (Routledge, 2018) and, with D. Travers Scott, Interventions: Communication Research and Practice (Peter Lang, 2018).
[9] USA Today included Rainbow Arcade on its list of best exhibits in Europe for winter 2019.
[11] As a result of the attention, Shaw and Shira Chess wrote analyses about their experiences in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media and the Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association.