How is Pokemon Go Changing Our Relationship with People and Places?
By Nick Mizer and Jared Miracle Pokemon Go, the blockbuster new augmented reality game developed by Niantic, hit the US…
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Get Excited and Buy Things
“If geek culture is defined by “the method of consumption,” then the part of identity that deals with our access to the means of consumption, class, has a defining relationship to geek identity. That relationship is necessarily different from the relatively accidental relationships that geek identity has with race and class.”
Notes From the Field: Is this Skyrim? Déjà vu from a Video Game
Anthropologists go through some unique experiences as they conduct fieldwork. From experimenting with drugs to seeing people who have been…
The Games! They’re Alive!
Living Games, which started in 2014 at the NYU Game Center, is “a conference devoted to discussing all aspects of live action role-playing (larp) theory and practice.”
Shiny! A Geek Anthropologist Newsletter!
Hello amazing TGA readers! At the end of May, we’ll be launching a brand new TGA newsletter.
The Geek Anthropologist 