The Life Well Played – Spot Check 23
by NICK MIZER Spot Check returns! In this episode I talk about the role of conventions in gaming culture, the…
Posts Tagged 'geek culture'
TGA’S 2nd Anniversary: a Journey of Anthropology Blogging
On September 12th, 2012, I decided to act on an idea I had been reflecting upon for a long time:…
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Witches and Modern Women
By Emma Louise Backe Two weeks ago, I published a piece on modern monsters and their meanings within contemporary pop…
Terraforming the Imagination: How to Build a Convincing Fictional Universe
By Emma Louise Backe Fantasy and science fiction writers do it all the time—build a world, sometimes an entire universe,…
THE (FAKE) GEEK GIRL PROJECT / 5: A LIST AND A SURVEY
This is the last installment of this series. You may read the foreword to this series, As Always, it Started With…
The Geek Anthropologist 