Landrous Shen
@landrous.bsky.social
PhDing at IUB Media School. Cultural journalist, researcher of technological and cultural politics, writing about everything that bothers me.
That one piece of music I will play on my headphones after a long day’s class in any given autumn weather. It has been a process.
When was the last time you put on some headphones, played To All of You by Syd Matters, and pretended you were the main character of some indie film? Do it today! It’s what Max Caulfield would want
Life Is Strange's final episode came out 10 years ago this week, but its most enduring moment will always be the needle drop at the start of its first. @thewillarowe.bsky.social looks at how the game used music to define its characters. www.endlessmode.com/article/life...
October 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
That one piece of music I will play on my headphones after a long day’s class in any given autumn weather. It has been a process.
Weeeeeeeev! Welcome to look at the parasocial media with us at ICA!
I'll present parasocial media, co-authored with @landrous.bsky.social, and talk about the "idols you can meet" media format and the infrastructuring of intimate yet asymmetrical relationships for a @icaptc.bsky.social panel (full paper: doi.org/10.1177/2976... out in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social)
June 9, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Weeeeeeeev! Welcome to look at the parasocial media with us at ICA!
New work out (written in Chinese)! Together with the amazing game designer and scholar @molleindustria.org , we discussed why all games are political, how certain logic of games infect real-time thinking of politicians, and how to make better politics possible with better games. Hold our grounds!
作為一名遊戲記者，使我記憶深刻的還有特朗普對於「玩牌」（playing cards）這一比喻的極度迷戀，以及澤連斯基對此説辭的努力迴避。倘若現實政治是一把 #遊戲 ，那麽從特朗普的視角出發，想必他是贏定了：美國有著軍艦、資金、武器裝備、軍事基地。如果全世界是一把「大富翁」（Monopoly），那麽烏克蘭不過是一個無關緊要的玩家，若無美國對它所借用的資源睜隻眼閉隻眼，它隨時都能出局。
🃏 倘若我們是這把政治「大富翁」中的澤連斯基，我們就一定會輸嗎？點擊連結，了解為何這場關於政治如何被理解為遊戲的辯論對於我們理解美國政治至關重要：https://buff.ly/o530U9A
🃏 倘若我們是這把政治「大富翁」中的澤連斯基，我們就一定會輸嗎？點擊連結，了解為何這場關於政治如何被理解為遊戲的辯論對於我們理解美國政治至關重要：https://buff.ly/o530U9A
遊戲是一場陣地戰 | 端傳媒 Initium Media
如果任何文化形式都不可能避開政治，我們如何守住遊戲這塊陣地？
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June 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
New work out (written in Chinese)! Together with the amazing game designer and scholar @molleindustria.org , we discussed why all games are political, how certain logic of games infect real-time thinking of politicians, and how to make better politics possible with better games. Hold our grounds!
Welcome to look at our publication on the platform of Chinese idol industry—a vibrant space filled with love and imagination that has profoundly shaped my research and thinking over the years! And most importantly, many many thanks to my co-author and my wonderful teacher @blakeplease.bsky.social~~
!!Attention!! people who care about platforms, monetization, parasocial relationships, and/or idols: the exceptionally talented MA student @landrous.bsky.social and I have a paper for you, #openaccess in the fresh new journal Platforms & Society theorizing parasocial media doi.org/10.1177/2976...
December 21, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Welcome to look at our publication on the platform of Chinese idol industry—a vibrant space filled with love and imagination that has profoundly shaped my research and thinking over the years! And most importantly, many many thanks to my co-author and my wonderful teacher @blakeplease.bsky.social~~